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An extremely rare Nazi report on the state of roads in Germany's former African colonies and the Belgian Congo, made early in World Wat II in preparation for plans for the Third Reich to regain its African empire either by diplomacy or force, being a printed copy of an original typescript labelled as 'Als Manuskript gedruckt' ('Printed as a manuscript'), issued…

8°. 29-35 pp., facing pages marked with the same number, with colour lithographed plates, printed covers, stapled (tiny loss of paper in the lower corners of the last pages, light staining and foxing, otherwise in a good used condition).

The fourth edition of this fundamental work in classical economics.   Two volumes, both 8º, xiii, 498 pp. [8 pp.], 489 pp., [62 pp.], contemporary full calf, dark red morocco spine labels with gold lettering, speckled edges (light scuffing to the corners of the bindings, first and last leaves with light brown glue-staining from the boards in margins, collector’s rubber stamps “Ex-Libris E.…

Pierre Adolphe Capelle (1775 – 1851) Paris: Capelle IX (1800-1801)   16°, original colour engraving, 144 pp. letterpress, pages with uneven margins, original brown wrappers (small folds in corners, little dusty, stamp 8. XI. 1946 in the lower margin of the last page, old tag with a title mounted n the inner side of the front wrapper, loss of paper…

  8°, original cover, [2 pp.], 104 pp., folding map, later brown cloth binding with lettering (minor age-toning, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear board, but overall in a good condition).  

The Artist and The Revolution. An Artist in The Russian Revolution: Notes by an Artist - A text on the role of the art and artists in Russia and the changes of their roles through the revolution was written by a Russian immigrant in Berlin, Georgy Kreskentievich Lukomsky (1884–1952).   12°. 95 pp., original wrapper with lettering (wrappers with light…

  A rare satirical illustrated anti-Fascist-Italy pamphlet, printed for the Greek soldiers during World War II. Large 8°. [64 pp.] with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (Very Good).   Evangelos BITSAXIS - Kostantinos STASINOPOULOS, editors; T. MORAITINI, A.G. POP, K. VARNALI, authors of texts - F. DIMITRIADIS, K. BEZOU, N. KASTANAKI, P. PAVLIDIS, S. POLENAKI, E. TERZOPOULOS, KYRIAZI,…

A rare, unusual separately issued propaganda publication in Croatian language with an extreme anti-Semitic content, was printed in 1939, on the eve of WWII. It is a reprint of a 1906 article by an influential Croatian politician Stjepan Radić (died 1928), who later became a liberal politician and regrated his early writings.   8°: 16 pp., original green wrappers with…

A rare anti-Semitic work in Croatian language was published on the eve of WWII.         8°. X, 221 pp., original wrappers with lettering (old owner's stamp on the first page, tiny tears in the  wrappers, otherwise a good, uncut example).  

Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained.

  A scarce pamphlet in French language is a translation of an Armenian text with the analysis of the current political situation of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. It was written during WWI in Istanbul, shortly after the Armenian genocide, where over 1 million Armenians were murdered, as many more were deported or imprisoned.   8°. 70 pp., [2 pp.],…

  Small 4°, 416 pp., [2 pp.], 146 pp. with black and white photos, maps and reproductions of documents.  

  A rare book in French language, written during World War I, in the time of the Armenian genocide, analyses contemporary situation of the Armenian Church in the Ottoman Empire and in the world.   Large 12°. 96 pp., original green wrappers with lettering (good, uncut example, wrappers with minor staining and tiny tears).  

  8°, 96 pp., original wrappers with lettering (wrappers stained with tiny tears, inside in a good condition with minor staining to the margins).  

  Small 8°, 4 full-page black and white maps, double-page black and white map, 635 pp. with black and white illustrations, original blue cloth with debossed lines on the covers and gilt lettering on the spine (minor foxing and light staining in the upper part of the edge, spine slightly age-toned with minor cracks on the side, but overall in…

  A privately published pre-WWII Slovenian manual on asparagus   Small 8°, 38 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2 pp.], original green card wrappers with lettering, stapled (small blue lines on the cover, two old school-library stamps, crossed with a book-seller’s stamp).  

  A very rare and unusually attractive large format WWII Japanese map of Australia, New Guinea and the Eastern Indonesian Archipelago, made in 1942, the year that the Japanese Air force mounted the shocking ‘Bombing of Darwin’, the largest ever attack upon Australia mounted by a foreign power, and just before the Allies endeavoured to take the offensive in New…

A very rare, large format, separately issued map of Australia and Oceania that is perhaps the last great map of the continent to be printed in Ottoman Turkish script, with attractive colours and adorned with the flags of major African states and colonies, published in Istanbul for the Kitabhane-yi Sudi bookshop.   Colour off-set print (Good, some light staining, wear…

  An attractive cartographic ‘Sugoroku’ gameboard commemorating the 1925 Asahi Shinbun Trans-Eurasian flight, a major landmark of early aviation, whereby two Japanese planes flew from their homeland over 16,500 km to tour various European capitals as part of a patriotic PR tour to showcase Japan’s role as world power, printed by the mission’s sponsor, the ‘Asahi Shinbun’, a leading Japanese…

[Overview of Azerbaijani History, Literature and Politics]   A rare, important book with the history and current political situation of the newly founded Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, written by the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Adil Khan Ziatkhan, was presented at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, where the independence of the republic was confirmed internationally.    8°, 101 pp., original…

An attractive book for children in Azeri language, written with Arabic letters, with a humorous story in verses, was published in Baku in 1899. The author was a prominent educator, author and translator Sultan Mecid Ganizade.    8°. Title page, 41 pp., [4 pp.] blank, original pink wrappers with lettering and illustrations, contemporary brown cloth binding with debossed titles in…

The first modern book on geography in Azeri, written by a pioneer of Azeri modern education, Gafur Rashad Alakbar   8°. 117 pp. with black and white illustrations, [1 pp.], later marbled paper wrappers (slightly age-toned, light staining, sporadic old repaired tears in margins, lacking original wrappers, otherwise in a good, clean condition).

[Imperial Ottoman Loan 4% of the Baghdad Railway. Second and Third Series. Contract]   4°, 11 pp. in French, 11 pp. in Ottoman, original tan wrappers with title in French on the front and Ottoman on the rear wrappers (old library stamps, small tears and chips in edges, traces of old paper label on the spine, later spine).  

Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned, tiny tears and chips in margins ) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).

A rare Communist Azeri publication with contribution by various authors on the subject of the modern education was published on the Labour day, May 1st, 1924 to commemorate Lenin, who passed away in January of the same year.   4°. 74 pp with a full page portrait of Lenin, original wrappers with lettering, 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering…

[Nice, March 5, 1868. The Count of Castell, Grand Master of the Court, and the Lieutenant-General, Baron de Jeetze, Aide-de-Camp to his Majesty King Louis I of Bavaria, have the honour to ask you to attend the FUNERE SERVICE which will be held tomorrow, Friday March 6th, at 9 am, at the Cathedral for the rest of the soul of…

Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.

Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.

Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).

  [Tarik-i Refah. Frankli'nin Servet Hakkındaki Nasayihi ve Tercüme-i Hali / The Way to Wealth. Franklin's Commentary on Wealth and ItsTranslation]   A rare Ottoman translation of Franklin’s The Way to Wealth, published in Ottoman language in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1910   8°, 30 pp., [2 pp.], original orange wrappers with lettering (wrappers with a light stain, otherwise in a…

[Bibliography of Publications in the National Liberation War. 1941-45]   The groundbreaking bibliography, listing over 9000 titles of underground publications, issued by the Yugoslav Partisans during WWII, including in North Africa, Italy and in the concentrations camps.                                  4°: [18 pp.] with a full-page portrait…

An important and scarce work on Partisan publications by Vladimir Dedijer, subsequently one of the most internationally esteemed Yugoslav academics, issued in Belgrade shortly after its liberation.   Large 8°: 158 pp. (1 image within text), 1 plate,  1 folding plate, [1] (index), original tan wrappers with printed brown and red cover, stapled, on the first blank page a stamp of…

Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).

  A charming and ephemeral Portuguese lunisolar calendar, which form has survived until today in a modern publication called Borda d'Água, named after the alleged first author of this work.  

A rare Bosnian pan-Turkic anti-Communist pamphlet was published during WWII by a Muslim intellectual Mustafa Busuladžić, who sided with the Croatian pro-Nazi anti-Communist government. The book was used as an evidence against him at his trial for collaboration only days after the end of WWII.   12°. 70 pp. with a portrait and a map, later 20th century blue cloth…

Letters for Mothers or a Guide for Mothers in the Good Nutrition of Children. Third Edition   A rare book in Bulgarian language, published by the American Bible House was printed by Boyaciyan in Istanbul and includes instructions for mothers.   Large 12°. XII, 180 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original green cloth binding with debossed decoration and gilt lettering on…

[Schoolbook for History of the Homeland for 3 Class]   8°. 164 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, original green wrappers with lettering and illustrations (wrappers with light age-toning, foxing and chips, inside with minor foxing and age-toning to first pages, but otherwise a good example).

[To New Places and New Tasks. (Through national suffering, social, peace, progress, labor and prosperity. On the occasion of the Feast of the Assumption - 18/1923)]   8°, 31 pp., original wrappers with lettering, stapled (wrappers with light foxing, crudely cut upper margin, internally with light age-toning, otherwise in a good condition).  

A rare book in Bulgarian language, published by the American Bible House was printed by Boyaciyan in Istanbul.   8°. [4 pp.], 277 pp., [3 pp.], original brown cloth with embossed decoration and gilt lettering (spine pale, tiny crack in the hinge of the rear endpapers, otherwise in a good condition with only sporadic light staining inside)

A rare, important history book in Bulgarian language, written by a prominent Bulgarian diplomat,  was printed in Istanbul by a Macedonian Press   8°, [2] title page, XXI, 616 pp., [4 pp.] errata, newer marbled wrappers (uncut example, partly unbound title page with missing upper white corner, some pages lightly stained, old dried moist stains between pages 180-200, otherwise in…

A collection of 10 maps of the Cabo Verde Archipelago, being 9 individual island maps produced between 1922 and 1930 by the special mapping team, the Missão Geográfica de Cabo Verde, being the first maps of the islands predicated upon complete systematic trigonometric surveys; plus, a 1960 official general map of the archipelago featuring extensive manuscript additions of air and…

8°. [10 pp], 225 pp., later brown cloth binding with lettering on the spine (sporadic small repaired tears in margins, light staining an foxing, old written price on the inner side of the rear board, otherwise in a good condition).

A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas)   Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).

  An authoritative composition featuring two maps of Chicago, one centring upon the inner city and the other showcasing the fast-growing suburban areas of the future ‘Chicagoland’, by Rand, McNally & Company, the nationally important Chicago-based map house.   Bi-chrome lithograph (black and green) printed on both sides, folding into original printed tan card wrappers (Very Good, clean, bright and…

8°, 48 pp. with 3 colour illustrations, contemporary red linen boards with mounted original illustrated cover (good used condition, binding little scuffed on the corners).

This exceedingly rare ephemeral propaganda mimeographed magazine for small children was printed by an underground Slovenian partisan press during WWII.      8°. 16 pp. mimeographed text with the illustrations, original illustrated blue wrappers, stapled (soft vertical fold, wrappers with light staining and a small loss of a corner on the rear cover, the crosswords on the last page filled…

  An ephemeral biography of Christopher Columbus in Ottoman language was issued in the series Büyük Adamlar Serisi (Series of Important Men) with Ottoman lettering in the last year before the Atatürk’s reformation of the script in the Republic of Turkey.   8°. 15 pp. with illustrations, illustrated cover, stapled (soft folds, minor staiing, overall in a good condition).  …

IMPRENTA DE LLERAS I COMPAÑÍA, Publisher. Bogotá: Imp. de Lleras i Comp., [1837]. 12° (16 x 11 cm): [1 f. title], 28 pp., title is comprised of contemporarily pasted down printed slip over a larger printed border, full modern tree calf with gilt upon red leather title piece to spine (Good, but some small tears to upper part of leaf…

  A rare translation of Lenin’s texts on the unification and protection of the Muslims in the Soviet Union was published in Tashkent and Samarkand in 1926. Small 4°. 195 pp. with a portrait of Lenin, [5 pp.], 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (minor age-toning, handwritten old price on the inner side of…

A seemingly unrecorded portrait of a Croatian philanthropist, industrialist and nobleman Šandor Alexander Sesvetski (1866-1929) from a prominent Zagreb Jewish family.   Cabinet card with albumen print and lettering in the lower margin and verso, contemporary signature in black ink in the lower right corner 16,4 x 10,7 cm (6.4 x 4.3 inches) (minor staining, corners slightly bumped, overall in…

  8°. 29 pp., [3 pp.] index, original illustrated wrappers (slightly age-toned and stained, minor chips in margins, overall in a good condition).

[2nd Congress of the Antifascist Council of the Yugoslav Liberation]   A rare Croatian WWII underground partisan pamphlet describes the 2nd  Congress of the Antifascist Council of the Yugoslav Liberation (AVNOJ), the most important Partisan event during the war, where Tito was proclaimed Marshall. The date was later celebrated as the Day of the Republic.   8°, 72 pp., original…

  An Ottoman book on dog breeds by a pioneer of the Turkish cynology Cafer Fahri Dikmen (1876  - 1962).   8°, 191 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (slightly stained and aga-toned, old hand-written number on the rear cover, otherwise in a goo condition).  

Colour lithograph, 19,5 x 26 cm (7.6 x 10.3 inches) (soft fold, otherwise in a good condition).

  8°.  26 pp. in English and Ottoman, [1] title page in English, original debossed pink wrappers with lettering in Ottoman and English, stapled (binding with light staining and water staining, staples rusty with the wrappers detached, inside a good clean example).  

  An unusual series of drawings in different styles, depicting Satan and demons in various forms from the traditional 666 and the pentagon through monograms to Hitler and Stalin   8°: [68 pp.] with 35 drawings in colour, recto only, art nouveau black calf with debossed decoration and a clasp, later gilt decoration and manuscript title, art nouveau patterned end…

A particularly handsome example of Stanford’s map of Denmark and Iceland with original brown covers.   Copper engraved map, originally coloured in outline, dissected into 20 sections and mounted upon original linen, folding into original brown cloth covers with publisher’s pastedown label, publisher’s advertisements as front endpaper (Good, clean example), 68 x 55 cm (26.8 x 21.6 inches).

[Protocol for the Reception of Heads of Foreign Mission at the Imperial Court]   8°, [4 pp.], original pink wrappers with lettering (wrappers with tiny folds, but overall in a good condition).   The manual in French language describes the diplomatic rules for foreign ambassadors, ministers, hereditary princes and officials at the Ottoman Imperial court.  

8°, [10 pp.] title page, colour plate and an introduction, 239 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (slightly age-toned and stained, small chips and folds in the corners and margins, old annotations in pencil on the first and last blank paper, wrappers slightly water-stained and tiny loss of paper on the spine, inside overall in a good,…

  8°, 184 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers, later spine (small tears in margins, small patches with loss of text due to glue on three pages replaced with manuscript in pencil, otherwise in a good condition).  

This is the extremely rare first edition of the Italian Navy’s sea chart of stretch of the Somali coast around El Ataleh, some ways up from Mogadishu.          Zincograph (Good, but with noticeable wear along old folds with some toning in upper area), 63 x 59 cm (25 x 23 inches).  

Copper engraving and etching, 39 x 26 cm (15.3 x 10.2 inches) (minor foxing, but overall in a good condition).

An unusual early feminist anti-Hitler publication from 1934 was written by a famous Slovenian / Yugoslavian female writer, who later became a partisan fighter, prisoner of the  Ravensbrück concentration camp and after the war a victim of the new Yugoslav regime.   8°. 96 pp. with black and white title page, original illustrated wrappers (light foxing, mostly to the wrappers…

An unusual work in German language by a retired professor of zoology Alexander von Brandt, searching for the explanation for the female liberation, especially sexual liberation, and feminism through the history, evolution, botanical and zoological examples.   8°. VII, 202 pp. with black and white images, [2pp.], 4 black and white plates, original orange wrappers with lettering (sporadic pages cut…

A religious work in a fine binding from the Fürstenberg library at the Castle Donaueschingen.   Small 8°, [2 pp.] blank, XXIV, 246 pp., [4 pp.], blank, full green calf with blind and gold tooling, spine with raised bands and gold lettering and tooling, original dark red endpapers, gilt edges  (old tiny sporadic annotations in text and drawings (map and…

  A handsome, early 19th century illustrated manuscript pamphlet in French language explaining various methods of fortunetelling.   Small 8°, [96 pp.] manuscript in French with illustrations and charts in black ink, contemporary wall-paper stenciled wrappers with manuscript label in black ink pasted on the front cover, originally bound with a linen string (minor, sporadic staining to the corners of…

  Large 8°, 48 pp., [8 pp.], printed in black grey and red on thick paper, with mounted portrait of Franz Kafka under grey flap and 4 original linocuts in grey and black, original printed wrappers over blank paper boards, 215 numbered example of 296 (unbound as originally published, minor foxing, binding little rubbed with light staining and age-toning).  

Chromolithographs on thick paper. Each sheet: 11 x 15 cm (4.3 x 5.9 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition

A rare ephemeral artefact from the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I, being a mimeographed map made in the field by Ottoman soldiers, depicting the theatre of the Battles of Krithia (Alçitepe), a series of four major altercations fought between British Imperial-French forces and the Turks between April and August 1915.   Mimeograph in purple (Very Good, old vertical centrefold,…

8°, 176 pp. with black and white maps and photographs, original illustrated wrappers (minor staining, tiny tears in margins, tine holes in the inner margins from an old binding, a small stain in the text of pp. 98-101, overall in a good condition).

An incredibly rare pamphlet featuring poetry specifically for boys and young men in the Georgian language, published by the Servites of the Immaculate Conception in Istanbul.   Large 8º, 59 pp., [2 pp.] list of publications, original yellow wrappers with lettering (pages and wrappers partly loose, small tears in margins, otherwise in good condition).  

A poem composed by Georg Friedrich Stauber, a theology student, and Christian Reinhard Steinheil (1708 – 1786), a court official for the occasion of the 8th birthday of Christian IV, the future Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1722 - 1775), from a line of the Bavarian imperial family Wittelsbach, at the time still known as Christian III. As he was married morganatically…

[İncil-i Şerîf. Matta, Markus, Luka, Yuhanna / Sharif Bible. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John]   A translation of the Gospels in Uzbek from 1913.   8°, title page, 359 pp., later green cloth binding with gilt title on the spine, embossed gilt name of the collector on the cover, original “Printed in Leipzig” rubber stamp on the title page verso (minor…

Lithograph printed on two joined sheets 58 x 69 cm (22.8 x 27.2 inches) (minor staining, tiny tears in the margins, overall in a good condition).

[Edict of Restitution of Trade. Verified by Divine Clemency the remission of the Plague [lit. Contagious Disease] which broke out in Transylvania in October 1737…]   Broadside: 44 x 32 cm (17.3 x 12.6 inches), (soft folds, tiny tears, contemporary annotations in brown ink in the lower margins, overall in a good condition).    

  [PEOPLE AND ARMY / INSTITUTION OF THE OFFICERS AND FIGHTERS OF S3 / NO. 1. / ATHENS 10 APR. 1944]   A rare ephemeral newspaper in Greek, printed during WWII by the resistance, the so called Mountain Government, was made for the occasion of secret elections. It was the first time in the history of Greece, that women were…

An unusual, undated Polish edition of Hamlet, published in Lviv and Zlochiv in today’s Ukraine.   12°, 139 pp., old (publisher’s?) brown wrappers (old signature in ink on the title page, tiny folds and tears in white margins, wrappers slightly stained with small cracks around the spine, but otherwise a good condition as published with uneven margins and sporadic loose…

A rare Hebrew – Ottoman Primer, printed in Izmir, Turkey, in 1913 on the eve of WWI.   8°, 32 pp., original wrappers with lettering (wrappers stained and ink-stained, wide margins with small tears and loss of white paper, slightly age-toned, sheets inside in a good clean condition).  

Long small folio, 167 pp. with illustrations and photographs, original black cloth with debossed decoration and lettering (minor water-staining in the lower outer edge, binging lightly scuffed on the corners, otherwise in a good condition).

  Au Boulet Bleu. Coueille Dégraisseur de Paris, a l’honneur de prévenir la haute Noblesse et l’estimable Public de Constantinople qu’il a ouvert un magasin a Dégraissage en face du Palais de Galata-Sérail. Il enlève toutes sortes de taches de n’importe quelle étoffe que ce soit, sans altérer les couleurs; il rêmet les effets a neuf et leur donne leur…

A rare manual for officers is the fifth and the last book, printed in the first Istanbul lithographic press, run by a Frenchmen Henri Cayol on the premises of the Ministry of War for only five years. It was written by the main patron of this new technique, the statesman and admiral Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha.   8°: [6 pp.]…

      Extremely rare – no other examples traced – the authoritative city plan of Hyderabad created in the twilight days of Mir Osman Ali Khan’s transformative rule when the city was one of India’s leaders in urban planning and industrial modernization, the result of over a generation of ultra-advanced, continuously updated surveys made under the direction of the…

  A sophisticated topographical map, of charmingly crude ‘provincial’ printing style, of the strategically key district of Satara, in today’s southwestern Maharashtra, expressly made for the British colonial regime to depict the recent developments in local administration, but to also satisfy important military and infrastructure mandates; created by J.W. Windsor of the Quarter Master General’s Department (Bombay Army), and printed…

  A seemingly unique engineer’s planning map of the Cirebon-Kroya Railway, a vital link that traversed the midriff of Java, connecting the north coast and south coast rail networks, likely made in 1912-3, just before construction was commenced on the project, which was completed in 1917; the map is printed by an unusual blue-tinted photolithographic technique and features the proposed…

  8°. [2] title, 150 pp., [2] blank, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with minor staining, minor water-staining in the margins in the first part, otherwise a seemingly unread copy).

  A pair of rare ephemeral Iranian pulp magazines with stunning design was published by Mostafa Alamouti, who would become an esteemed journalist, politician and after the Revolution a valuable source of the recent history.  

8°. [4] titles, introduction and illustration, 155 pp., [5 pp.] original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with wear mostly to the spine and minor water staining in the lower part of the back cover, rear sheets with minor water-staining in the lower part, first page with minor foxing, otherwise in a good condition).

  The rare first edition of the first accurate and highly detailed topographical general map of Central and Southern Iraq, Kuwait and Khuzestan (Iran), created by the British War Office, the culmination of three generations of espionage and exploration missions, capped by late breaking discoveries; the authoritative map used by both sides during World War I’s ‘Mesopotamia Campaign’, Britain’s dramatic…

A highly important work on early petroleum history, being the official account of the first scientific geological reconnaissance of Northern Iraq, featuring 10 large, colourful maps that are the first detailed, accurate geological maps of the same region, a work that served as the blueprint for the Turkish Petroleum Company to discover the world’s largest oil field near Kirkuk in…

  8°, [16 pp.], partly stained with small tears, but without loss of text, sporadic small repairs with modern tape on the wrappers, small worm holes, otherwise partly uncut example)  

  8°, 16 pp., original orange wrappers with lettering (small script in black ink on one page, otherwise not filled in and in a good, clean condition).  

  A contemporary detailed report on the Fascist Italian invasion on Abyssinia by a prolific Turkish general, politician and author Kâzim Karabekir.   8°. 438 pp., [6 pp.], interleaved illustrations and maps, 2 folding black and white maps, 1 folding colour map, original wrappers with lettering, bound in recent red half-goat with gold decoration and lettering on the spine, grey…

This chart maps the mouth of the Jubba River in southern Somalia, long a vital lifeline for agriculture and trade.  The chart was made from surveys conducted by Commander Giovatto of the Italian Navy in 1908.    Zincograph (Very Good, some light toning and light wear along old folds), 53 x 61 cm (21 x 24 inches).  

  An exceedingly rare book of poetry by an Ottoman Zionist activist and author Lucien Sciuto, allegedly published by the Masonic Press in Paris.   8°. 32 pp., later wrappers (slightly age-toned and with minor foxing, narrow outer margin, without loss of text).      

  A rare pamphlet in Ottoman language on the Dönme, a group of Sabbatean crypto-Jews in the Ottoman Empire, centered in Thessaloniki. 8°, 32 pp., original wrappers with lettering, later spine (light staining and small tears in margins, but otherwise in a good condition).

  Three exceedingly rare early lithographed books in Sindhi language, bound together, include educational stories in verses and were sponsored by the British to educate the state officials   Three titles bound together in one volume. 8°, [6 pp.] with title pages in English and Sindhi and an introduction, 131 pp. lithographed text in Sindhi, 14 pp. index, 8 pp.…

  8°, 171 pp., original tan wrappers with lettering (deaccessioned library example with sporadic notes and small stamps, minor cracks to the wrappers, otherwise a seemingly unread example).

A Tatar translation of an Azeri tale by a Russian writer Lermontov was published in Kazan in a turbulent year 1918, when the city founded its independent state of Turkic peoples and Volga Germans, was briefly sieged by the Czechoslovakian Legion and was eventually defeated by the Bolsheviks.    8°. 15 pp., trimmed rear original wrapper with lettering mounted with…

A rare pamphlet in Russian and Tatar languages is a new program for the first six years of Muslim primary schools, confirmed by the All-Russian Congress of Muslim Students, an organization, aiming to uniformize the education and culturally unite Tatars in Russia on the eve of the Russian Revolution.   8°, title in Tatar, 55 pp. including 7 pp. in…

[Bulgar Harabeleri hem Burunegi Bulgarları / The Ruins of Bolghar and the Ancient Bulgars]      A rare Tatar publication with an illustrated text on the ruins of the ancient city Bolghar, the capital of Volga Bulgaria from the 8th until 15th century, was printed in Kazan in 1908.                 8°. 44 pp. with black…