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The war on drugs in Egypt: rare illustrated and highly detailed work on drug trafficking in Egypt in the 1930s

CENTRAL NARCOTICS INTELLIGENCE BUREAU - RUSSELL, Thomas Wentworth (or RUSSELL PASHA). Annual report for the year 1932.
Cairo, Government Press, 1933. Imperial 8vo (27 x 18.5 cm). With 14 rotogravure(?) plates, printed in sepia, 1 folding facsimile letter, 2 folding graphs, a plate with 6 pie charts and 1 illustration (also in red) showing schematically a smuggling box. Original publisher's pink paper wrappers, printed letterpress. XVII, [1 blank], 170 pp. (pp. VI and XVIII blank) Full description
€ 8,500
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Contemporary manuscript describing official diplomatic meetings at the court of King Louis XIV,
in a royal binding

[SAINCTOT, Nicolas II de]. [Memoires de Mr. de Sainctot].
[Paris?, ca. 1710]. 2 works, with the first in 2 parts, in 2 volumes. Folio (44 x 30 cm). With 3 drawings of layouts and seating plans of the king's audience room, and 24 copper-engravings of ambassadors and court scenes. With: (2) [AVICE, Henry]. La pompeuse et magnifique ceremonie du sacre du roy Louis XIV.
Paris, Imprimerie d'Edme Martin, 1655.
Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, with the French royal coat-of-arms on the front and back, fleurs-de-lis in the corners and on the spine, the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt and marbled edges, marbled endpapers. 450, [1 blank]; [6], "344" [= 407], [5 blank]; [1], [1 blank], [8], [7], [5 blank] pp. Full description
€ 29,500
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Only copy located of the 1850 Saint Helena almanac, portraying the island at the height of its importance
in transatlantic shipping and the suppression of the slave trade

[SAINT HELENA - ALMANAC]. The Saint Helena almanac and annual register for the year of our lord 1850, ... Containing a detailed account of the public departments and local institutions.
Saint Helena, George Gibb, Government office, [1849]. 8vo. With title-page printed in orange, with the woodcut royal arms of the United Kingdom. Later black half morocco, gold-tooled spine. [126], 37, [3] pp.; plus [3], [1 blank] pp. advertisements Full description
€ 3,500
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To regulate salutations at sea by means of firing shots

[SALUTATION REGULATIONS]. Reglement, ten opzigte van het saluut, waar naar alle zoo vlag-officieren als capiteinen en anderen commandeerende eenige schepen, fregatten, of mindere vaartuigen van oorlog, van den staat, zig zullen hebben te reguleeren. Gearresteert by haar Hoog Mogende resolutie van 6 July 1795. Het eerste jaar der Bataafsche vryheid.
[1795]. 4to. Sewn upon two supports. 4, 8, [4] pp. Full description
€ 650
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Two important 18th-century dissertations on hunting from the University of Tübingen

SAYLER, Johann Wilhelm von (Gottfried Daniel HOFFMANN, praeses). De libera venatione speciatim Suevo-Memmingensi. Auctioritate illustris iureconsultorum ordinis praeside Godofredo Daniele Hoffmanno philosophiae magistro iuris utriusque doctore sacri caesarei palatii comie serenissimi Wurtembergiae ducis consiliario iuris publici et feudalis professore publico ordinario pro licentia summos in utroque iure honores rite capessendi ad diem V. Maii MDCCLIII.
Including: Appendix sive adiuncta dissertationis: Recensio adiunctorum.
Tübingen, Johann Philipp Erhardt, 1753. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to (18.5 x 15.5 cm). Ad 1 with an engraved folding map (18.5 x 27 cm) of Memmingen and the Bosserhard by J.F. Rupf, and with an elaborate woodcut headpiece (with a rising phoenix) and a factotum in the form of a person with shield and spear.
With: KESSEL, Johann Erhard (Stephan Christoph HARPPRECHT VON HARPPRECHTSTEIN, praeses). Sciagraphiam liberae venationis Germanicae imprimis vero Svevicae, vulgo Die freye Purts-Gerechtigkeit favente supremo numine annuente amplissimo Ictorum ordine publicae ventilationi sistit praeses Stephanus Christophorus Harpprecht, U. J.D. Prof. Jur. Extra-ordin. & serenissimi principis Hohen-Zollerensis Consiliarius.
Tübingen, literis Eitelianis [= Johann Konrad Eitel], 1702.
Ad 2 with a woodcut decorated initial and a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments.
Modern brown decorated paper over boards. [2], 70, 20; 24 pp. Full description
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The only Dutch work on the history of the notarial profession,
including the rare plate depicting notarial seals

SCHELLING, Pieter van der. Histori van het notarisschap, behelzende den oorsprong, 't begin, en den voortgang van het notarisschap, kancellierschap, sekretarisschap, griffierschap, klerkschap, enz. byzonder in de Nederlanden, enz. mitsgaders de Engelsche praktyk, ... Als ook ontrent het koopen, aanneemen, en administreeren; en het verkoopen, en transporteeren van Engelsche effecten; onder andere gevolgd in de Nederlanden...
Rotterdam, Philippus en Jakobus Losel, 1745. 8vo. With the title printed in red and black, a folding engraving of notarial seals, and two decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary parchmen. [74], 746, [75], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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A sermon on the dangers of whores and a thinly veiled critique of King George II

[SERMON ON KINGS AND WHORES]. Koninglyke dwaesheid, of het gevaer van de verleidingh der hoeren. Vertoont in een predikaetie uitgesprooken te Oxfordt, ... Uit het Engelsch vertaalt.
Haarlem, Jan van Lee, 1743. 4to. With a woodcut emblematic device on title-page. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. 21, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 950
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Correspondence of the "lord of the naval and commercial conquest of Arabia, Persia and India"

SILVA, Luiz Augusto Rebello da (et al.). Corpo diplomatico Portuguez contendo os actos e relações politicas e diplomaticas de Portugal.
Lisbon, Typographia da Academia Real das Sciencias / Imprensa Nacional, 1862-1959. 15 volumes (final volume in 2 parts). Small folio (22.5 x 28.5 cm). Uniformly bound in half tan sheepskin, decorated paper sides, gold-tooled spines, decorated endpapers, sprinkled edges. Some original publishers printed wrappers bound in. Full description
€ 18,500
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