Books

  A pair of rare, seemingly unrecorded newspapers in French and English language was published for Belgian and American soldiers in Léopoldville (now Kinshasa) in the Congo in 1961.

[Gunapatha also Guna Patha]   8°, title, 41 pp., originally bound with a string (old manuscript annotations in pencil on the cover, little age-toned and stained, sporadic pages with strong age-toning, small tears andtiny loss of paper in margins, mostly in first and last pages) (#70500).

  [Seyahat Jurnali. İstanbul'dan Bağdat'a ve Hindistan'a. Sene 1300 ila 1304 / Travelogue. From Istanbul to Baghdad and Istanbul. From 1883-1887].   8°, 119 pp. with 12 interleaved black and white plates and one double-page plate, original yellow cloth boards with gilt and black lettering and decoration, later calf spine with gilt lettering, later marbled endpapers (minor foxing, endpapers slightly…

  An unusual book was made at the first anniversary of the German newspaper Deutsche Adria-Zeitung in Triste under the Nazi occupation and was printed days before the Allies and the Partisans took over the city. The introduction was written by an Austrian Nazi politician and Gauleiter, Friedrich Reiner, who was later tried at the Nuremberg trial for war crimes and executed in Yugoslavia…

Two rare lithographs depicting the funeral ceremony of Don Carlos María Isidro Benito de Borbón y Borbón-Parma, pretender to the Spanish throne, who passed away in exile in Trieste.

  8°, [2 pp.], 84 pp., interleaved 15 plates, original covers mounted on modern cloth binding, modern pink endpapers (minor foxing, small holes in inner white margin from old binding with a string, some plates loose, original covers slightly rubbed on the corners, tiny folds in corners, but overall in a good condition).  

  12°, 118 pp., [² pp.] blank, original blue wrappers with lettering, later spine (minor foxing to the wrappers, otherwise in a good condition).  

  A rare Italian report on the travel through the North of Libya by a German explorer Gerhard Rohlfs, written by a lawyer Rizzardo Rizzetto, who in his researches emphasized the importance of Tripolitania for the Italian exploration of Africa, shows an early Italian tendency to colonize the region.   8°. [10 pp.], 125 pp., [3 pp.], original blue wrappers…

8°. 60 pp. with a map, [4 pp.], original wrappers with lettering, later spine (minor staining and foxing, but overall in a good condition).

The very rare first edition of the seminal work on yellow fever in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and one of the most influential French tropical medicine books of the late Enlightenment, featuring perhaps the era’s most detailed and perceptive description of the symptoms of the disease, backed by twelve valuable case studies, by Antoine Poissonnier-Desperrières, a physician who was one of France’s…

  8°,  300 pp. with charts, interleaved colour folding map, contemporary black calf spine with gilt lettering and decoration with black cloth boards (two pages with tiny loss of paper in white margins, old library stamps on the title page, minor staining and foxing, small holes in the binding).  

  An original diary with poetry and accompanying photographs belonged to a German soldier, stationed in the German colony in China before WWI, during the Russo-Japanese War.   

Translation from Chinese of twelve poems and short texts featuring autumn motifs by Richard Wilhelm.

A translation of a Chinese folk tale with a decorative title page and mounted illustrations.

A rare map of Tunisia made by Heinrich Kiepert, the great German cartographer who was the world’s foremost authority on the geography of the Arab World, published the year that France colonized the country; the map features a wealth of topographic, infrastructure, ethnographic and archaeological details, some of which were gleaned from the recent expedition of the German historian Gustav…

A unique manuscript French translation of an unpublished Turkish text with valuable information on Janissaries in the 16th century in Turkey, was written by a French Orentalist and translator Jean-Baptiste Adanson.

  A book on the Ottoman Empire and its relations with Russia, France and the Balkans was written in the year of breakout of a Russo-Turkish war in 1788, and is based on the personal notes of a orientalist Constantin François Volney, later accused by John Adams' administration in the United States of being a French spy. Bound in a decorative contemporary…

  A rare pamphlet in Spanish language represents the latest events of the Russo-Turkish War between 1736-1739, as reported from the Viennese court.

[On a Tragedy of the National Literature and the Writers of Turkestan]   A rare publication on the contemporary Turkestani writers, published in Ottoman alphabet by an extremist nationalistic Turkestani organisation in Berlin, who immigrated after the Soviet annexed their homeland.    8°. 20 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with title in Ottoman and Latin alphabet, 20th…

  A rare publication by a leader of the extremist nationalist Turkestani movement in Berlin Mustafa Shokay, who eventually sided with the Nazis with a goal to unify Turkestan during the WWII, describes the revolutionary year 1917. 8°. 96 pp with black and white portraits, later black cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine, pink endpapers (sporadic small…

  Poetry, accompanied with erotic images, by a Turkish artist Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu. 

  8°. 111 pp. with illustrations in text, original illustrated wrappers (minor traces of use, but overall in a good condition, lowe margin cut into the lettering of the cover).  

  A first edition of poetry by one of the founders of the Turkish avant-garde Nâzım Hikmet Ran, inspired by Mayakowsky’s work, accompanied with black and white illustrations by Fikret Muallâ and decorated with blue and black cover design by Ali Suavi.   8°. 116 pp. with black and white illustrations, [12], original printed wrappers, stapled (uncut and unread condition,…

  Possibly the most powerful Hikmet’s revolutionary poem on Mona Lisa falling in love with a Chinese man and starting a rebellion in China after seeing his execution tries to connect various nations in the revolution.   Small 8°. 40 pp with two full page black and white illustrations within text, original illustrated wrappers (pages slightly age-toned, light wear on…

The second edition of Nazim Hikmet’s fine avantgarde poetry book from 1929 was republished with a different cover, made by a poster and book designer Ali Suavi (1910 or 1913-1994), who was more known as an award-winning photographer Suavi Sonar.   8°. 48 pp., original illustrated wrappers (a tiny worm-hole in the outer white margin of the first half of…

Hikmet’s fierce attack on the Nazi Germany   N.B. The image of the book provided here censors out the Nazi symbol of the Swastika from the title page; this has been done pursuant to German laws on the representation of Third Reich symbols; however, such details are clearly present and uncensored on the actual book itself.   8°. 96 pp., inserted…

  A stunning early illustrated aviation magazine in Ottoman script.

  [The Bat and Six More Stories]   12°, 98 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (old signature on the title page, minor staining, especially to the rear wrapper, spine slightly scuffed, otherwise in a good condition).  

A charming unique collection of original drafts, collages, photographs and negatives for book covers and book advertisement, made in the late 1950s by a Turkish illustrator and designer Ayhan Başoğlu, today known for his comics and drawings of heroic figures.

  [Evlâdların Sevenlere Teberrüken Tahsis Kılınan Bebeklere Kitabdır]   8°, 52 pp. with black and white illustrations, [4 pp.], original illustrated wrappers, inserted errata on orange paper (minor staining, wrappers with light stains, soft folds, and tiny tears, a tiny loss of margins on the first pages).  

Turkish revolutionary left-wing 1960s poetry. 8°, 63 pp., illustrated card wrappers, stapled (wrappers slightly stained on the back and around the spine, a small tear in the front upper part close to the spine, two old signatures on the tile page, old signature on the last blank page, last pages with soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).

Turkish left-wing poetry. Signed by the author. 8°, 63 pp., original illustrated card wrappers, signed by the author (minor wear to the wrappers and two light scratches on the cover, old signature on the inside of the back cover, old annotations on the last page with the list of the publications by the same author).

Turkish revolutionary left-wing poetry. 8°, 31 pp., original illustrated card wrappers, stapled (minor wear to the wrappers, small old owner’s stamp on the title page, small annotation on the back page, otherwise in a good condition).

  First Turkish separately published study on the fatherhood   8°, 46 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (repairs on the spine, otherwise in a good condition).

  Signed by the author.

10 issues (of 15), 8°, between 15-18 pp. with black and white illustrations, original colour wrappers (minor staining, uncut and unbound as originally published, small tears, overall in a good condition).

  The first edition of highly popular Turkish poems by Attilâ İlhan, heavily influenced by contemporary French art movement   12°, 109 pp., [3 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (Very Good, unread example with minimal wear to the spine).  

  8°, 48 pp., original purple wrappers with lettering (minor frying to the first pages, tiny tears on the spine, but otherwise in a good condition).  

Small 8°,  50 pp., 12, illustrated card wrappers, signed by the author on the first page (wrappers with a minor wear, otherwise in a good condition).

  The first edition of Turkish Avantgarde poetry by Nazim Hikmet, accompanied with powerful illustrations by a pioneer of Turkish modern art, Abidin Dino (1913-1993)   8°, 79 pp. with a full-page portrait of the author and green illustrations on first pages, original illustrated wrappers (slightly stained, tiny loss of paper on the spine, sporadic tiny tears in margins, old…

8°. 95 pp., original pictorial wrappers, staple bound (worn on the edges, otherwise in a good condition).  

  An Ottoman propaganda text on the Turkmen tribes, published during World War I, with partly invented historical texts and statistics, written by an infamous fraudster Naci Ismail under an assumed names of foreign scientists.   8°. 533 pp., [3 pp.], original wrappers with lettering (wrappers slightly dusty and soiled with small tears, partly repaired spine, title page slightly age-toned,…

[Album of Monogramms. Contaning 522 Monograms (Two Interlaced Letters) Which are Made Alphabetically in Gothic, Renaissance, 14th-15th Century, Modern and Art Nouveau Styles]   A rare book, representing monograms in 522 combinations of Armenian letters in five various fonts.   Oblong small 4°.[3 pp.] with title, introduction, index and plate with 28 coats of arms, 29 pp. with 522 monograms…

  8°, 146 pp., [2 pp.] blank, contemporary red goat with gilt lettering, contemporary illustrated endpapers, old Ottoman book-seller’s stamp mounted in the lower part of the front cover (binding slightly scuffed, a small chip in the lower part of the front free endpaper, otherwise in a good condition).  

A rare book of the Octoechos and other hymns for Arabic-speaking members of the Greek Orthodox Church, printed early at the Patriarchal Press of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

A rare Ottoman pamphlet on the importance of the carob for the military during World War I.   Small 8°, 4 pp., original brown letters with lettering.  

  A rare Polish book on a Catholic church in Smila, at the time a part of the Russian Empire (today Ukraine), printed in Vilnius.   Small 4°, 1 toned lithographic view and 1 colour lithography, later half claf with marbled paper boards and gilt lettering and decoration on the spine, marbled edges (minor age-toning, foxing and staining, old library…

  An unusual short theatre piece by an underground Partisan theatre group, depicting the first meeting between the Slovenian Partisans and the Soviet Red Army.   8°, [1 p.] title page, 6 pp. mimeographed text, [1 p.] blank page, original paper wrappers with mimeographed cover, stapled (Very Good, tiny tears in margins, with light foxing, old owner’s remark on the…

  A rare pamphlet, printed by a Slovenian underground Partisan press, was made at the occasion of the first Allied flights over the country during WWII. 

  A rare mimeographed illustrated pamphlet, printed by a Slovenian underground Partisan press, was made at the occasion of the first Allied flights over north Yugoslavia during WWII. 

  A mimeographed pamphlet, printed by an underground Slovenian press during WWII includes four short theater plays, based on Soviet originals.

The final wartime issue of the most famous Slovenian Partisan newspaper, ‘Delo’, printed by an underground press in Italian-occupied Ljubljana, with a magnificently illustrated cover, was printed in a secret room in the building of the Fascist police station.   8°. 34 pp., original wrappers with illustrated cover printed in red, stapled (Very Good, staples slightly soiled, slightly stained, tiny…

  A 4-page pamphlet with a full page linocut, made by an underground Slovenian Partisan press, handed out to the resistance fighters on Christmas, 1944   8°, [4 pp.] with a full page linocut (tiny tears in margins, otherwise in a good condition).  

  A rare Polish underground newspaper was published during the WWII by an underground press in Warsaw.

  A selection of original Partisan poetry was printed for the underground theatre events of the resistance.

  A handsome clean example of an exceedingly rare first Ottoman lithographed atlas, made by a pioneer of the Ottoman modern mapmaking, Ali Şeref Paşa in the time of his schooling in Paris. Ali later became the leading Ottoman governmental cartographer and is today known for his last, unfortunately unfinished gargantuan project of wall map of Anatolia in 100 sheets,…

12°. [2] title page, 27 pp., [2], original blue wrappers with printed title, stapled (wrappers with minor foxing, dents and staining, otherwise in a good condition).

  A rare political Communist magazine, printed in Ottoman script, was issued in 1929 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan and includes articles on the industrial development of the country in the 5 years after Lenin’s death.

[The reasons for consideration for the spread of the contagion in the Morea, and Rumelia are becoming ever greater…] Broadside, letterpress on thin laid paper with a watermark, 28 x 19 cm (11 x 7.5 inches).  

  A rare larger pamphlet with a poem by an Austrian nobleman of Jewish origins Leopold von Neuwall was published in Verona for the Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria.

A rare four-page pamphlet with two somehow different solutions on fighting the pandemic of rinderpest (Lues animalium) in South Germany, in 1732.   8°, 4 pp. with a wood-cut on the last page (Very Good, uncut edges with light soiling).  

  A rare pamphlet in Ottoman language, made for the 1928 Trade Fair in Vienna and printed in error in Western collation   Oblong small 8°, [8 pp.] with colour and black and white illustrations, stapled (good, used condition).  

  [Hikâye-i Hikemiyye-i Mikromega / A Moralizing Story Micromégas]   A rare Ottoman translation of Voltaite’s science fiction short story Micromégas   8°: 31 pp., original tan wrappers, later spine (wrappers with light staining and foxing, inside in a clean, partly uncut condition with hardly noticeable foxing to the last pages).  

[Report of the Battle, which Took Place on September 20, 1703 at he Plain of Höchstädt Between French and Bavarian Army…]   Large 4°, [4 pp.] letterpress (Very good with uncut edges, margins little age-toned).

  Thoughts on war with examples from the history by a prominent Egyptian military officer and author Ahmad Hamrush.   8°. 78 pp., [2 pp.], illustrated wrappers, later spine (rear wrapper scratched with loss of text, small chips in margins, horizontal tear on the title page, otherwise in an uncut condition).  

[The Ghetto is Fighting. Participation of the Bund in the defense of the Warsaw Ghetto]   Large 12°, 67 pp., original illustrated wrappers (wrappers slightly dusty and stained with small chips and lines in ink and pencil, sporadic annotations in pencil inside).  

  Presented here is a set of 20 issues of the Komunikat Informacyjny, a double-sided broadside bulletin that was intended to quickly deliver news to front line soldersduring the Warsaw Uprising.

  A very rare issue of ‘Warszawa Walczy’ [Warsaw Fights], a large illustrated broadside ‘wall newspaper’ issued by the propaganda bureau of the ‘Armia Krajowa’ [Polish Home Army] during the Warsaw Uprising, one of the most popular works published within the barricaded city to inform both resistance fighters and local residents, an especially fine example in very good condition.  

  A rare pamphlet written on the eve of the Abolition of Slavery, urging that the uniquely high duties on West Indies Rum be lowered and harmonized with the tariffs placed upon other hard spirits made across the British Empire, written by John Innes, a prominent merchant and lobbyist, addressed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

  This anonymous pamphlet mounts a forceful defence of the beleaguered West Indies sugar industry and calls for the imposition of tariffs to protect it from the juggernaut of competition from the East Indies.

  A very rare rhetorical work by Beilby Porteus, the Bishop of London, urging the Crown to provide education to the slaves of the West Indies and to convert them to Christianity.

A unique and vital primary source on the history of what is today the United States Virgin Islands during the critical period of the Napoleonic Wars and the twilight of the West Indies sugar-slave economy, being the original manuscript letter book of William Manning, an English MP, tycoon, slave plantation owner and the Governor of the Bank of England, who…

[Child Rearing. Written by Dr. Serobyan, the specialist in obstetrics and pediatrics, the doctor of the Lady Cromer Hospital and the orphanage of abandoned children in Egypt]   A rare manual in Arabic language on modern Western medical care for babies was published by the Office of the Public Education and written by a medical doctor of the Lady Cromer…

  The first edition of an attractive official guidebook to the Pacific Island territory of Western Samoa, then a mandate ruled by New Zealand, published by the Government Printer in Wellington.

  [Orthodox Christian Prayer Book for the Laity]   A rare pamphlet with prayers in Russian language, printed by the Orthodox Church at the Russian Embassy in Istanbul for the immigrants fleeing the revolution from Odessa.    12°, 42 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with lettering, stapled (minimal age-toning and staining, overall in a good condition, sporadic…

  A second edition of the most popular early translation of Julius Caesar, made by a Croatian writer and translator August Harambašić (1861 – 1911).   12°. 114 pp., original wrappers with lettering, later spine (used condition, cover with a light scratch and a paper stamp in the corner, old owner’s signature on the title page).  

[Bağcılık ve Şarapçılık / Viticulture and Wine Making. Instructions to Ottoman Viticulturists for Improving the Type of Wine They Produce] Istanbul: Düyûn-u Umûmiye-i Osmaniye Varidât-ı Muhassasa İdare-i Merkeziyesi Matbaası 1326 [1910]. 8°, 38 pp., [2 pp.] blank, folding plate, later wrappers with mounted original cover with lettering (minor foxing, age toning and tiny tears in margins, mostly to first and…

  [Biçki Nazariyat ve Kavâidinin Tedrisat-ı İbtidaiye Kısmı / Primary Training Section of the Theory and Rules of Sewing]   A book in Ottoman language with instructions for women on dress-making and utilization of modern sewing machines, written by the first Ottoman seamstress Behire Hakkı.   Small 4°, 202 pp. with black and white illustrations, illustrated boards and black cloth…

  [Biçki Nazariyat ve Kavâidinin Tedrisat-ı Tâliye Kısmı / Secondary Training Section of the Theory and Rules of Sewing]   A book in Ottoman language with instructions for women on dress-making and utilization of modern sewing machines, written by the first Ottoman seamstress Behire Hakkı.   Small 4°, 149 pp. with black and white illustrations, [3 pp.], illustrated boards and…

8°, XXV, 449 pp., dedication by the author to Ernesta Stern, dated October 5, 1892, on the blank page opposite of the title page, contemporary green Morocco binding with gold initials EES on the cover and embossed title in gold on the spine, raised bands, gilt linear turn-ins, contemporary marbled endpapers (the word ninth edition on the cover crossed out…

[Dead and Living Languages in Secondary Education]   A handsome example of a pamphlet on the subject, if dead languages should still be thought at secondary schools, written by Jewish educator Benjamin Levy. From the library of Ernesta Stern with a dedication by the author.   8°, 48 pp. with dedication by the author to Ernesta Stein on the first…

The Estado Novo regime’s conservative and patronizing view towards women in Mozambique. 4°, 16 pp. blue carbon copy of a typescript on yellow paper, printed recto only, yellow front and rear wrapper, lettering on the cover, stapled (rear sheet loose, light staining and foxing) (# 70489).

[Austrian Citizens' Calendar for the Year 1846, a Reading Book Intended for Ongoing Use. Factual Situation and Library Book] Vienna: Pichler’s Witve [i. e. Elisabeth Pichler][1845]. 8°. Lithographed portrait of Franziska Klähr as frontispiece, guard, IV, XXX with interleaved unnumbered printed templates for book-keeping between pp. 1-16, 315 pp. with interleaved 3 lithographed portraits, [8 pp.] index and advertisements, original…

A Slovenian pamphlet, published immediately after World War II, with short stories, poetry and artwork, is dedicated to women of the anti-Fascist movement and praises their effort, which was according to the introduction equal to men’s work.   Large 8°, 32 pp., 8 full-page black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers, stapled (minor foxing to the wrappers, but overall in…

  6 fascicules mimeographed text, all 4°. [1 pp.] title, 5 pp., 8 pp.; 8 pp.; 11 pp.; 7 pp.; 4 pp.; 6 pp., stapled (minor age-toning and foxing, but overall in a good condition).  

An early Polish book, supporting the women’s rights   8°. [4 pp.], 472 pp., contemporary three quarter grey linen binding with marbled boards, hand-written title on the spine, marbled edges (book plate of a Franciscan Library in Krakow with deaccessioned stamps on the inner side of the front board, stamps of the same library on the title page and inside…

Rare - a seminal map used for strategic planning by German commanders during the Sinai and Levant theatre of World War I, a classified work created under the supervision of the orientalist Franz Gustav Taeschner for the German General Staff, it depicts all details necessary to inform broad military movement during one of the most dramatic and surprising campaigns of…

A fascinating and perhaps unparalleled archive that provides highly detailed and authentic insights into Guerilla Warfare Training, which played a vital role in the ultimate Allied victory in the Southwest Pacific Theatre of World War II, a topic often mentioned by historians, but seldom revealed as here; the archive is comprised of 23 elements, mostly lesson plans for specialist courses…

  A very rare, large-format atlas of the sea floor off the western and northwestern coasts of Africa, from Morocco down to Sierra Leone, made by the German Navy during the height of World War II expressly for the use of U-Boats; with 24 plates of highly sophisticated and brightly coloured sea charts predicated upon novel, recent intelligence, it was…

  An illustrated book, printed in Belgrade, gives a report on Serbian soldiers in Africa during WWI.

  A rare ephemeral anti-British, anti-French, anti-Russian and anti-Cossack poster, made during WWI in Ottoman language by the Navy Society   Broadside, 51 x 18 cm (20 x 7 inches) (soft folds, tiny holes, slightly age-toned).  

  A spectacular artefact of the Gallipoli Campaign, being an extremely rare ultra large map of the Cape Hellas-Krithia battle sector issued by T.E. Lawrence’s (later ‘Lawrence of Arabia’) map department at the Intelligence Office in Cairo, predicated upon a recently “captured” Ottoman map that was the first proper survey of this critical military zone; greatly augmented by extensive and…