Books

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

8°. 111 pp., portrait with red printing and lettering in margins, 20th century dark brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (minor foxing, hand-written old price on the inner side of back cover, one white margin trimmed, an old typed title mounted on the title page, otherwise in a good condition).

A documentary report on Haiti by former President François Denys Légitime   Large 8º, [8 pp.], full page portrait on thicker paper, full page view of Port au Prince on thicker paper, XLVI, 422 pp., [4 pp.], double-page colour lithographed map, later binding with red marbled paper boards and cloth spine with lettering, speckled edges (binding slightly rubbed on the…

  An early monograph on Slovenian artist Božidar Jakac in mint condition, from the artist’s library. Signed copy. 

  A scarce catalogue of the first exhibition of Yugoslavian artist in Poland after WWII, made in the month of the Tito-Stalin Split, after which the communication between Yugoslavia and Poland was shut down. From a library of Božidar Jakac. 

  [Pious and Christian Prayers with Other Prayers, First , Given to the Light by Many Precious, Serious, Learned Men, Endowed with Abundant Gifts by the Holy Spirit …]   A rare book of prayers in Czech language, written for the Protestant milieu of Bohemia, was published on the eve of the Battle of White Mountain, that sealed the future…

مىرزا عبد ألوهاب معتمد Mirzâ ‘Abd al-Vahhâb Mo‘tamed al-Dawle Nashât (d. 1244/1828), Author of Text; Hajji Musa, Author of Introduction and Book Catalogue; ‘Ali-Asgar Tafres (fl. 1261 - 1288 / 1844 - 1871), Scribe. Tehran: [s.n.] 1281-82 [1864-1865].   First catalogue of Persian printed and lithographed books Long 4°, [6 pp.], 344 pp., [1 pp.] lithographed text on paper with…

  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.  

  An Ottoman report on Bosnia and Herzegovina, published in the crucial year of 1908, when Austro-Hungary withdrawn from Novi Pazar in exchange for being given permanent sovereignty over Bosnia.   8°, 15 pp., original blue wrappers with lettering (minor water-staining, old annotations on the cover, wrappers with light staining, small tears in margins and old mounted paper label on…

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…

  [Banaluka Sahrası Muharebesi / Battle of Banja Luka Field]   Small 8°, original cover with lettering, [2 pp.] title page, 17 pp., new black cloth binding with gilt lettering and debossed decoration (improvised repairs of paper loss in inner margins, light water staining in margins, sporadic old annotations in pencil, minor staining).