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  A series of 28 Russian lubki showcases the main protagonists of the Caucasian war, battles with the Ottomans, and Cossacks.

A finely executed set of miniature embossed portraits of British luminaries, contained within an interesting envelope, suggesting that the set was posted from India to London in 1891.

  8°, 29 pp., later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).  

  A rare ephemeral Ottoman map of Africa was printed on the back cover of a notebook   8°. [48 pp.] manuscript in pencil on paper with printed stripes, stapled,…

  A very rare lithographed postcard map of the Scutari Vilayet in Ottoman script was made in Istanbul during the Young Turks Regime by a Romanian born publisher Tüccarzâde İbrahim…

  A very rare lithographed postcard map of the Aleppo Vilayet in Ottoman script was made in Istanbul during the Young Turks Regime by a Romanian born publisher Tüccarzâde İbrahim…

Two well-made detailed hand-drawings showcase the temple of Ramses III in Egypt. The sketches come from a collection of drawings, probably made by the same hand, related to the theatre…

  An extremely rare, seemingly unrecorded pamphlet with private home addresses of the nobleman, foreign diplomats and members of the Prussian court, was printed around 1800, probably for heads of…

  A German military map was bound in a highly decorative red binding with gilt embossed royal coat of arms. 

A small separately published copper engraving was made in France in the 18th century to teach the skills of calligraphy, in this case how to draw animals, which were a…

  A highly decorative politically motivated calligraphy darwing in the immediate run-up to the French Revolution, made by the French ‘Master Calligraphers’ during the era, and one of the early…

[Aslan the Abrek. A Story from the Caucasian Mountains. By a German-Russian]   This rare book is the first European, non-Russian, story on a Caucasian abrek (a North Caucasian Christian…