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# 46287

BALBERYSZSKI, M. (Mendel) (1894-1966)

[HOLOCAUST; MELBOURNE] Likwidacja getta Wileńskiego

[=Liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto]. Warsawa ; Łodz ; Krakow : [Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna], 1946. Octavo (205 x 145 mm), original grey wrappers lettered in black (sunned at edges); pp. 40; printed on cheap paper which has browned, but in all other respects an excellent copy. A scarce eyewitness account of the liquidation of …

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# 46292

[Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt]

Théatre Sarah Bernhardt : programme [L’Aiglon : drame en six actes et en vers de M. Edmond Rostand]

Paris : Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt, [1900]. Octavo (210 x 130 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers with portrait of Bernhardt in profile; pp. [18], with 3-page fold-out at centre, illustrations, advertisements; upper wrapper with some light foxing and partially remnant decorative blue ribbon, contents very clean, an excellent example. Original programme for Sarah Bernhardt and M. Guitry in …

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# 46396

HASKELL, Arnold (editor)

Memorial exhibition of Russian ballet. Illustrated catalogue

London : The Claridge Gallery, 1930. Octavo, printed wrappers with inlay illustration, portion of original wrap around banner, pp. 58, (6), photographic illustrations by Sasha. A fine, near mint copy. A rare contemporary catalogue of an important exhibition of material relating to the Ballets Russes. As well as many beautiful photographs it includes a list …

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# 46472

[DEFOE, Daniel 1660-1731, attributed]

The History of the Devil, Ancient and Modern.

In two parts. Part First containing, a state of the Devil’s circumstances, from his expulsion out of heaven, to the creation; with remarks on the several mistakes concerning his fall. Part Second containing his more private conduct down to the present times; his government, his appearances, his manner of working, and the tools he works …

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# 41187

WOLF, Josef (1820-1899)

[NATURAL HISTORY] Josef Wolf, animal painter : autograph letter signed, discussing the overpainting of an ornithological photograph. London, June 1870.

Manuscript in ink, 4 pp., octavo bifolium (175 x 110 mm); headed ’59 Berners Street, London, 17 June 1870′, and signed ‘J. Wolf’, the letter is addressed to an anonymous recipient (‘Dear Sir’), informing him that ‘The Photograph of the Great Bustard is in the hands of Mr. Smit’, and promising to let him know …

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# 45940

CLUTTERBUCK, James Bennett

Port Phillip in 1849

London : John W. Parker, 1850. Duodecimo, original gilt-lettered green cloth (expertly rebacked, preserving original spine), folding frontispiece map of the colony with hand coloured outline, pp. [vi]; 166; 6 (advertisements), a few spots of foxing to preliminaries, a very good copy. First and only edition of this account of the early settlement of Port …

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# 46111

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870)

The Works of Charles Dickens. The Pocket Volume Edition.

London : Chapman and Hall, 1880. Thirty volumes bound in fifteen, small octavo (150 x 105 mm); contemporary uniform bindings of half navy calf over marbled papered boards (very lightly rubbed), spines in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting red and brown leather title-pieces lettered in gilt (gleaming and bright); marbled edges and endpapers; bindings …

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# 46532

SWETTENHAM, Sir Frank A. (1850 - 1946)

Vocabulary of the English and Malay languages with notes

Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore & Yokohama : Kelly & Walsh, Volume I : 1909 (eighth edition; Volume II : 1908 (seventh edition). Two volumes, octavo, gilt-lettered blue cloth (a few marks, edges lightly rubbed), blind stamp to half-titles of Pritchard, Bookseller Penang, pp. viii; xxxii; 245; xxii; 170, text in English and Malay in Roman …

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# 46380

BLAGDEN, C. O.

An English-Malay phrase-book

Singapore : Malaya Publishing House, Limited, 1951. Octavo, lettered papered boards (stained and discoloured), sloth spine, pp. 265, edges browned, a very good copy.

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# 46442

INDIAN STATE RAILWAYS

Kashmir. Indian State Railways.

Bombay : Times of India Press, [c.1930]. Tall narrow octavo (250 x 110 mm, folded), colour-illustrated wrappers; 16 double pages (each folds out to 250 x 220 mm); b/w photographic illustrations, large map; contents starting to detach from wrappers, otherwise very good condition. Attractive Indian tourist brochure from the late Raj. The text includes historical …

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# 46443

[Photographer unknown].

View inside the trading post of Oloff & Co. at Lome, Togoland Protectorate, West Africa, c.1890.

Albumen print photograph, 100 x 140 mm, on original card mount, 185 x 220 mm, fully contemporary inscription in ink below the image: ‘T. Oloff & Co. / Factorei / Lome’; a very strong print with excellent clarity, in good condition; the mount is clean and stable. The Togoland Protectorate (Schutzgebiet Togo) was administered by …

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# 46418

GOVERNMENT OF SINGAPORE

Singapore Year Book 1965

Singapore : Government Printing Office, 1965. Octavo, decorated boards, illustrated dutjacket (light edge wear, a coupe of small tears, spine a little sunned), maps to endpapers, pp. [viii]; 360, numerous photographic illustrations, ‘Complimentary’ stamp to preliminary blank, a very good copy.

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# 46338

AMERICAN EXPRESS

Excursions in and around Singapore

Singapore : The American Express Company, Inc., [1920]. Tourist brochure, 180 x 85 mm (folded), four panels, pp. [8], double panel map of Singapore town, a few pen notes, adhesion marks on lower panel where stuck in an album, includes tours of Johore and Penang. A single example recorded on Worldcat (National Library of Singapore).

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# 46340

RICHARDS, William C.

The apostle of Burma : a missionary epic in commemoration of the centennial of the birth of Adoniram Judson [Prospectus]

Boston : Lee and Shepard, 1889. Octavo, self-wrappers, pp. 16, cover illustration, portrait frontispiece, includes a preface, two pages sample from the poem, letters to the publisher. Uncommon prospectus for the book.

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# 46412

WELLS, Charles (1838-1917)

The literature of the Turks. A Turkish chrestomathy, consisting of extracts in Turkish from the best Turkish authors (historians, novelists, dramatists, &c.), with interlinear and free translations in English, biographical and grammatical notes, and facsimiles of ms. letters and documents.

London : Bernard Quaritch, 1891. First edition. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked red cloth, spine lettered in gilt (slightly sun-faded); front pastedown with ex libris of [Lt. Colonel Victor] de Guinzbourg, pp. xix, 275, 4; texts in Turkish in Perso-Arabic script, with parallel translations and editorial notes in English; binding firm, clean throughout, …

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# 46461

[PAAR, Theodor, attributed]

Portraits of Himalayan types, including Nepalese and Tibetan, taken in Darjeeling, 1890s.

Group of 5 (five) albumen print photographs removed from the same late nineteenth-century album, all attributed to the Darjeeling photographer Theodor Paar. I. The Witch at Ghoom. [Caption on mount]. 200 x 150 mm, mounted recto of card mount; very good condition. The subject is believed to have been a Bhutia woman from Tibet, living …

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