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Extensive work on Mosaic law, with a section on Arabian horses

MICHAELIS, Johann David. Mosaïsch recht, of de ziel der wetten van Moses; ...
Including: Byvoegsels en verbeteringen op het Mosaïsch recht, ... achter aan eenige byzonderheden over de oudste geschiedenisse der paarden en stoeteryen in Palaestine en de nabuurige landen, in zonderheid Aegypten en Arabien.
Haarlem, Jan van Walré, 1781-1782 (parts 1-2); Jan Bosch, 1774-1776 (parts 3-6), 1778 (part 7). 7 parts in 3 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary, uniform half calf, gold-tooled spines. [12] 346; [14], 464; [10], 259, [1 blank]; [8], 414, [2 blank]; [8], 342; [2], CXXXII, 322, [4]; [6], 210, [2] pp. Full description
€ 750
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A complicated disguise: an author calling himself "NISEMVOLBG472HC58A22W".

[MIGOEN, Jacobus Wilhelmi]. Proeve des nu onlangs uyt-ghegheven drooms, oft t'samenspraack tusschen den coningh van Hispanien ende den Paus van Roomen. Met noch eenen anderen droom, contrarie den voorschreven. Mits gaders eene vermaninghe, aan alle vroome ende ghetrouwe vader-landers, hoe zij haar in dezer tijdt te draghen hebben (...). Beschreven door een lief-hebber aller menschen, maar in sonderheydt den Godt-zoeckeñ ende trou-hertighen in gheboorne dezer vrijer provincien. Door NISEMVOLBG472HC58A22W.
[Gouda, J.W. Migoen, 1607]. 4to. Modern wrappers. Full description
€ 375
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On French-English relations and hostilities early in the French and Indian War:
rare 4to edition with a false Paris imprint

[MOREAU, Jacob-Nicolas]. Lettres d'un François a un Hollandois au sujet des differends survenus entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne, touchant leurs possessions respectives dans l'Amerique Septentrionale.
"Paris" [The Netherlands?], "P. La Rive", 1755. 4to. Early 20th-century half cloth, with the original marbled wrappers bound in. 90 pp. Full description
€ 4,000
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Loans by the UK for major infrastructure development in Jordan

MU'AMMAR, Sayid Ya'coub; B.L. STRACHAN. Exchange of notes concerning an interest-free development loan by the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
London, Her Majestys Stationery Office, 1970. 4to. With the UK coat-of-arms on title-page. Text in English and Arabic in naskh type. Stapled. 8 pp. Full description
€ 450
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Official publications concerning the British and German claim on Angra Pequena (Lüderitz), Namibia

[NAMIBIA - AFRICA]. Angra Pequena. Correspondence respecting the settlement at Angra Pequena, on the S.W. coast of Africa. ... [C.-4190].
With:(2) Copy of a despatch from the Right Honourable the Earl of Derby, K.G., Her Majesty's high commissioner in South Africa, relative to the establishment of a German protectorate at Angra Pequena and along the neighbouring coast. ... [C.-4265].(3) Further correspondence respecting the settlement at Angra Pequena on the south-west coast of Africa (in continuation of [C.-4190] ...) ... [C.-4262].
London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1884. 3 works in 1 volume. Folio. With a folding map in ad 1 and a full-page map in ad 3. Modern blue paper wrappers. X, 60; 13, [1]; X, 75, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 750
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Colourful set of 3 jigsaw puzzles depicting scenes from the life of Napoleon

[NAPOLEON BONAPARTE - PUZZLES]. La veille d'Austerlitz.
With:
(2) La Nuit de Lodi.
(3) Clémence de l'empéreur.
Paris, Ulysse, [1814 or 1815]. Three (from a set of four?) jigsaw puzzles (each 19.5 x 24.5 cm), each comprising an engraved print mounted on thin wood, coloured by a contemporary hand and cut to form a jigsaw puzzle, with an engraved caption and short description below the image. Kept in the original publishers paperboard box covered with green paper, with an etched and engraved sample print for a fourth puzzle (with a caption headed "Équité de l'empereur") mounted on the top, coloured by a contemporary hand and framed with strips of gilt paper embossed with a decorative pattern. Each puzzle with the original pink paper wrap-around slip preserved. Full description
€ 3,000
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For official use only: Royal Navy wartime handbook on Iraq and the Persian Gulf

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DIVISION. [MASON, Kenneth, a.o.]. Iraq and the Persian Gulf. September 1944. B.R. 524 (restricted) geographical handbook series for official use only.
[Oxford,] Naval Intelligence division, 1944. 8vo. With numerous diagrams, reproductions of photographs and (folding) maps, including a loose map in the pocket at the back. Publisher's green cloth. 682 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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