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Highly detailed and very rare issues of annual periodicals on French Polynesia,
mainly concerning Tahiti and Moorea

[FRENCH POLYNESIA - PERIODICAL]. Annuaire des établissements français de l'Océanie et du Protectorat des Iles de la Société et dépendances pour l'année commune 1863.
Papeete, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, August 1863. 2 volumes. Small 8vo. With two original photographs in the 1863 edition, both reproducing maps, one showing the islands Tahiti and Moorea and the other showing archipels which were then under French protectorate. With: Annuaire des établissements français de l'Océanie et du Protectorat des Iles de la Société et dépendances pour l'an 1864 (title on the front wrapper: Annuaire de Taïti pour 1864).Papeete, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, October 1864.
Original publisher's printed wrappers. VIII, 372; [4], LX, 126, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Almanacs France Pacific Islands
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A pamphlet on a critical petition to the States General on appointments and the judicature
by a number of Frisian noblemen and qualified citizens

[FRIESLAND]. Resolutien ende missiven van de Edele Moogende Heeren Staten van Frieslandt, ende dHeeren der selver Gedeputeerden, ter occasie van seeckere Remonstrantie overgegeven aen Haer Ho: Mo: de Staten Generael der vereenighde Nederlanden.
Leeuwarden, Rinnert Sydtses Arumsma, 1678. 4to. With the woodcut coat-of-arms of the States General on the title-page and woodcut initials. Later brown wrappers. 20 pp. Full description
€ 550
Law & Politics
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French commerce via Egypt and the Red Sea before the opening of the Suez Canal

FROMENT, Dominique. Du commerce des Europeens avec les Indes, par la Mer Rouge et par l'Egypte.
Paris, Dugour et Durant, an VII [= 1799]. 8vo. With a very large, folding map showing the fastest route from France to India (via the Mediterranean, Egypt, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean), 7 folding tables, and a woodcut illustration at the head of the first chapter. Contemporary dark blue paper wrappers, protected by a semi-opaque coated paper dust jacket. [2], XIV, 211, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
East Africa Economic History & Trade France India & Sri Lanka North Africa & Egypt
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The natural history, politics and medicine of India and Persia, with a section on Muscat

FRYER (FREYER), John. Negenjaarige reyse door Oostindien en Persien, ... Begonnen met den jaare 1672 en geeyndigt met den jaare 1681.
The Hague, Abraham de Hondt, Jacobus van Ellinkhuysen and Meyndert Uytwerf, 1700. 4to. With engraved frontispiece, engraved author's portrait, 3 folding engraved maps, 7 folding engraved views and other plates, and several woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary vellum. [8], 566, [26] pp. Full description
€ 3,750
Anthropology & Ethnography Faunas & General Zoology Geology India & Sri Lanka Iran / Persia Law & Politics Medicine & Pharmacy (18th Century) Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages Southern Asia West Asia
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The ancient habits of Mexico

GARCIA CUBAS, Antonio. The Rèpublic of Mexico in 1876. A political and ethnographical division of the population, character, habits, costumes and vocations of its inhabitants.
Mexico City, La Enseñanza, 1876. 8vo. With 8 chromolithographed plates, finished by hand, double-page map, and 4 leaves with printed music on both sides. 19th-century red morocco, gold-tooled spine, blind-tooled boards, gold-tooled turin-ins, gilt edges. 130, [12] pp. Full description
€ 950
Anthropology & Ethnography Latin America Law & Politics Mexico Middle America
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Affirming the rights of Emperor Charles V to the Duchy of Gelre and the County of Zutphen

[GELDERLAND]. Het bescheet vanden Keyser Kaerle de vijfde van desen name, uutgegheven inden Rycxdach van Reynsborch Int iaer ons heeren M.D. ende XLI. vanden goeden rechte dat hij heeft tot ten hertochdom van Geldre ende Graefschap van Zutphen, Ende oock de wederlegghinghe, ende wederbescheet van heer Willem hertoch van Cleve te Franckfoort ghedaen Int iaer ons heeren M.D. XXXIX overgeset uiten latijn in duytsche.
Antwerp, Marten Vermeere, [1541]. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Charles V on title-page. 19th-century half calf, brown decorated paper sides. [64] ll. Full description
€ 5,000
Early Printing - 16th century Germany Law & Politics Spain
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The Emperor Charles V rights to Gelderland and Zutphen

[GELDERLAND - CHARLES V]. Assertio juris Imperatoris Caroli huis nominis quinti, in Geldriae Ducatu, & Zutphaniae Comitatu, aedita in Comitijs Ratisbonensibus, anno M.D.XLI. & confutatio oppugnationum Guilielmi Cliviae Ducis, Franckfordiae exhibitarum, anno M.D.XXXIX.
Nuremberg, Johann Petri, [1541]. Large 8vo. With a large ornamental woodcut coat-of-arms of Charles V, 11 woodcut initials with pictorial decoration. 18th-century gold-tooled calf, richly decorated spine. [45], [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 3,900
Early Printing - 16th century Law & Politics
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