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[EGYPTIAN SURREALISM – POSTCOLONIAL ART HISTORY] Two autograph letters signed by Egyptian Surrealist Georges Henein to Argentine poet and editor Marcos Fingerit.

Henein, Georges.

Cairo, dated November 1948 and March 1949. Two leaves of light blue stock measuring 25.4 × 20.3 cm, with holograph text in blue ink; the first letter 1 p.; the second letter 2 pp. (recto and verso). Old horizontal and vertical creases; light creasing and foxing; else about very good..... More

Price: €1,500.00

[DISCOVERING COMMON ORIGINS – "ORIENTAL" STUDIES AVANT LA LETTRE DURING THE GREAT TURKISH WAR] Insignia Turcica: ex variis superstitionum tenebris, Orientalium Maxime Populorum, Gemina Disquisitione Academica, In Illustri Salana, nunc primum in lucem protracta [Turkish insignia: drawn forth for the first time into the light from the various darknesses of superstitions, especially of the Oriental peoples, by means of a double academic dissertation at the illustrious University of Jena].

Pater, Paul.

Jena: Collegium Musarum Krebsianum, [ca. 1685]. Small quarto (18.6 × 16.3 cm). Spine covered with later strip of decorative paper; [4], 88 pp. with woodcut title vignette, seven small woodcuts, one copper engraving, and two woodcut initials in the text. First and leaf with minor dust-soiling; else very good. First..... More