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A French translation of Maffei's renowned description of the East and West Indies

MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro. L'Histoire des Indes Orientales et Occidentales ...
Paris, Robert de Ninville, 1665. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. Each volume with a (different) woodcut coat of arms of France and Navarre on the title page. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges. [32], “353” [= 351], [1 blank]; [2], "292" [= 296], [24] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Brazil Caribbean Islands China Church History & Missions Iran / Persia Japan & Far East Latin America Middle America Religion (17th Century) South America Southeast Asia
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Unique collection of Paris fashion photographs from the 1910s, possibly modelled by the famous actress Régina Badet

MANUEL, Henri. [Collection of 33 Paris fashion photographs from the 1910s].
Paris, Henri Manuel, [ca. 1910/20]. 33 albumen prints , 3 oval (ca. 19 x 15 cm) and 30 rectangular (ca. 27 x 16 cm), including 5 duplicates (with tint variations). The faces on two of the photographs are lightly tinted. Each photograph is mounted on a sheet of paper and signed in pencil "Henri Manuel Paris". Three photographs are also signed in the plate. Full description
€ 3,950
Costumes, Fashion & Uniforms France Photography
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Rare oration announcing the latest Portuguese conquests to the newly elected pope

[MANUEL I, king of Portugal, and Diego PACHEGO]. Emanuelis Lusitan. Algarbior. Africae Aethiopiae Arabiae Persiae Indiae reg. invictiss obedientia.
[Rome, Marcello Silber, 1514]. Small 4to (ca. 19.5 x 14 cm). With the woodcut coat of arms of King Manuel I on the title page, surrounded by a woodcut floral border. 19th-century decorative paper with a pattern of green flowers. [1], [1 blank], [14] pp. Full description
€ 75,000
Early Printing - 16th century East Africa Law & Politics North Africa Portugal Southern Africa
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Rare account of the campaigns of the Portuguese in North Africa in the 15th century

MANUEL Y VASCONCELOS, Augustin. Vida de Don Duarte de Meneses, tercero Conde de Viana. Y sucessos notables de Portugal en su tiempo.
Lisbon, Pedro Craesbeeck, 1627. 4to. With 3 woodcut tailpieces and 11 woodcut initials (at least 6 series). Later limp sheepskin parchment, with remnants of ties. [5], 167, [3] ll. Full description
€ 1,650
Bibliography & Biography History / 17th Century Military History (17th Century) North Africa Portugal
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Ca. 9000 Arabic terms and translations

[MANUSCRIPT - ARABIC - DICTIONARY]. [Vocabularium Italico-Arabicum]. Arabic-Italian dictionary.
[Probably Egypt, ca. 1770]. 4to (ca. 17 x 22 cm). Arabic and Italian manuscript on paper, 19 lines per extensum, paginated throughout from right to left. Near-contemporary brown leather with a blind-stamped oriental rosette as a center piece and similar style corner pieces on both boards, a (partial) manuscript title label on the spine. 494 pp. Full description
€ 18,000
Islamic Art, Culture & Science Italy Language & Linguistics Literature Manuscripts & Documents North Africa
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A remarkable manuscript service book for the divine offices on parchment,
with seven eye-catching illustrations

[MANUSCRIPT - SERVICE BOOK - DIVINE OFFICES]. Ordine da osservarsi nell'oratorio di Santa Maria di Passione, circa gli Essercicii Spirituali delle feste cavato dalla Regola maggiore.
[Milan], [18th-century]. Folio (27,5 x 18,5 cm). With 5 full-page and 2 half-page, hand-painted religious illustrations and 9 hand-painted initials on a blue background, heightened with gold and silver. 18th-century gold- and blind-tooled parchment, each board with a blind ornamental centre-piece ornament in a blind-tooled frame, in a larger frame of gold fillets, with a gold flower in each of the 6 spine compartments. [1 blank], [1], 66 pp. Full description
€ 14,000
Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Book of Hours, Missals & Prayerbooks Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Italy Manuscripts & Documents
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Travelling through Germany and Russia in the 19th century

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH]. TROMP, C.H. [Collection of an illustrated manuscript diary, and travel journals, including some views and photographs of Russia and Germany].
[The Netherlands, 1824-1911]. Manuscript on paper in Dutch. Preserved in a card-board box (27 x 23.5 x 7 cm), covered with marbled paper. Full description
€ 3,500
Eastern Europe Germany Manuscripts & Documents Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages Europe
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An intellectual snapshot of pre-Revolutionary France

[MANUSCRIPT - FRENCH]. [18th-century manuscript in French, concerning King Louis XVI and a dictionary of old French].
[France?, second half of the 18th century]. Folio (ca. 36.5 x 23 cm). French manuscript on paper, written in a neat 18th-century hand in brown and black ink, 26-28 lines to the page. Repurposed vellum from a 17th-century manuscript, with the manuscript title "Miscellanea" on the front board and the spine, and 2 pairs of cloth ties. 267, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias France History / 18th Century Language & Linguistics Law & Politics Literature Manuscripts & Documents Religion (18th Century) Science
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