Books

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…

An early and rare German publication on cacti, featuring a handsome hand-coloured frontispiece. Small 8º, copper printed frontispiece with hand colour, X, 98 pp., contemporary simple tan paper binding, bound with contemporary string (little age-toned and stained, tiny chips and holes in white margins, binding with light staining and with abrasions on corners).

  A first separately printed publication of a letter written by the Egyptian prince Mustafa Fazil Pasa to Sultan Abdul Aziz, today considered one of the greatest documents of Turkish liberty, was made in Cairo under the British rule, to support the Young Turks movement in the time of their formation.

  A collection of previously anonymous articles published in Paris, by a Cairo-based Ottoman medical doctor and a supporter of the Young Turks Şerefeddin Mağmûmî   8°. 301 pp., later (1970s) black cloth binding with gilt lettering (minor foxing and staining, imprint from old wrappers mounted on the inner side of endpapers, old price written on the inner side of…

  A translation of an Italian work “On Tyranny” was translated into Ottoman as a propaganda piece at the time of the capitulation of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and published in Cairo to avoid the censorship.   8°. 271 pp. with a portrait, original boards with hand splattered paper and black cloth spine (minimal wear to the cover, but overall…

  A highly important and attractive work on the Eighth Xhosa War (1850-3), a critical conflict in which the British scored a crushing defeat upon the Xhosa, so securing permanent dominance over the Eastern Frontier regions of the Cape Colony, a victory secured by the ‘scorched earth’ offensive launched by Governor George Cathcart from the spring of 1852 to the…

The first edition of the acclaimed Cape Verdean novel by the esteemed author Baltasar Lopes da Silva.   8º, 298 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers, old bookseller’s stamp and a pasted-down book-plate of Alfredo Ribeiro dos Santos on the inner side of the front wrapper (minor foxing, mostly to the wrappers, otherwise in a good condition).

The original proposal for the grand Modernist masterplan to redevelop Caracas, conceived at the hight of the Venezuelan Oil Boom, when the city was one of the fastest growing and most economically vibrant urban areas on earth; illustrated by over a dozen sophisticated thematic maps, this preliminary study of the ‘Plano Regulador’, developed by an all-star international team of urban…

  A rare book of laws for Carinthia, was printed in Graz by a protestant printer Zacharias Bartsch.

  8°. [4 pp.] illustrated advertisements, 247 pp. with black and white illustrations, 7 pp. on tan paper, [16 pp.] illustrated advertisements, original illustrated wrappers, original black sloth spine (wrappers with soft folds and tiny chips, otherwise in a good condition)  

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).

  8°, [8 pp.], 308 pp. lithographed text with some pages with larger folded margins with annotations, as originally published, modern green cloth boards with gilt lettering and debossed decoration, brown calf spine with raised bands and gilt lettering (light foxing, old signature and date in Ottoman on the first page, old scribbles on the last blank page, otherwise in…

[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 soldier) and was published in German language in Jeglava, today in Latvia. 

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 original manuscript of one of the most important official documents relating to the history of art and Protestantism in Styria during the Counterreformation.

  Two seemingly unrecorded Ottoman texts on Chemistry   2 titles in 5 parts, bound together, large 8°. Mimeographed text in two colours with illustrations and hand written additions, 136 pp., 107 pp. (two parts of one title). 351 pp., 148 pp., 28 pp. (three parts of one title). Contemporary green cloth binding, contemporary pink endpapers (minor age-toning and staining,…

[From the Travel through America. The City of Chicago]   An Ottoman translation of Baron Edmond de Mandat-Grancey’s description of Chicago, first published in 1898   8°, 37 pp., later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).

  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…

  A traditional Slovenian didactic children’s poem is accompanied with high quality illustrations by a painter and sculptor Tone Kralj, who is known for his mural paintings with hidden anti-Fascist motifs, made in Slavic churches in Fascist Italy.

  A fine example of a Yugoslav mid-century book design and socialist propaganda for children is joined in a 1961 math primer.

  An unusual Serbian version of a Soviet children’s book in a form of a series of 40 loose photomontages, depicting a story of a boy who flew to visit a human-like family of monkeys, was made to educate children in personal hygiene.

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…

  A fine example of an important and beautifully produced national atlas of chile, featuring 39 maps predicated upon the best scientific sources, made by Enrique Espinoza, who is credited with revolutionizing the study of geography in Chile, published by the venerable Paris firm of Erhard Frères.   Small 4° (27 x 20.5 cm): 2 pp., 39 maps (5 folding;…

  Long 8°, 38 pp., later brown cloth boards with gilt lettering (pp. 28 and 29. bound tightly with tiny glue marks in the text, last pages with trimmed white margins, old hand-written price in the inner side of the rear board, otherwise in a good condition).

  [Nashryat Kerymi: Kıtaylılar / Kerimi’s Publications: The Chinese]   8°. 24 pp., imprints and advertisements from original wrappers mounted on the first and last page, 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (light foxing, hand-written old price on the inner side of back cover, otherwise in a good condition).  

[Tercüme-i Tarih-i Nevâdir-i Çin-i Maçin / Translation of the Stories of History of China and the Greater China]   8°, 70 pp. lithograph, first two pages with gilt margins, later blue cloth boards with brown cloth spine, grey printed endpapers (minor staining overall in a good condition).  

Adolf HAUPT (fl. 1900 – 1933). Tsingdao [Qingdao]: Printed at the Catholic Mission Press, 1927. 8° (19 x 11.5 cm): [13 pp. advertisements, title, preliminaries], 1-48 pp., [16 pp. advertisements on coloured paper], 49-156 pp. (with 82 photographic images imbedded within text), [2 pp.], plus 2 large folding colour lithographed maps on thick paper, bound in original printed boards with…

    8°. 8 pp., 8 pp., with black and white illustrations, original illustrated green wrappers with French and Ottoman title, staple (wrappers with light staining, foxing and old annotations, but otherwise in a good used condition).  

Hekim Ismail Pasha (also Ismail Hakkı Pasha or Hekimbaşı İsmail Efendi, 1807–1880). Istanbul: Henry Cayol 1848. 8°, [4 pp.] lithographed title and two pages in Ottoman, 16 pp. lithographed text in Bulgarian, original yellow publishers wrappers (little stained, soft folds) (#70661). A rare book on cholera by an Ottoman medical doctor Hekim Ismail Pasha, in Bulgarian language in Early Cyrillic…

  A rare work on hygiene in Istanbul, written by a French engineer to prevent cholera and similar diseases, which were then spreading across Europe. 8°: [1] title, 35 pp., original pink wrappers with printed title, cover signed by the author and dedicated to Leon Sellié (wrappers slightly age-toned and stained with tiny tears to spine).

  [Âlem-i İslâm ve İngiliz Misyoneri, İngiliz Misyoneri Nasıl Yetiştirilir? / The World of Islam and the British Missionaries. How do they train British Missionaries?]   A rare insight on the impact of the Christian missionaries on the Muslim world 8°. 112 pp., [2 pp.], interleaved black and white photographs and one map, original cover with lettering, later blue cloth…

Extremely rare – 1 of only 2 known surviving examples – an ephemeral ‘Relación’ pamphlet likely containing the earliest published firsthand account of a dramatic naval battle between Tuscan vessels commanded by the Spanish Admiral Don Pedro de Leyva and a pair of Algerian-Ottoman vessels, which occurred in the Greek Aegean on July 1, 1622, upon which after ferocious combat…

  First Search: Venetians and Genoese Sailors Discover Islands. Second: Christopher Columbus's Discovery of America Also: Amerika kıt'asının hîn-i keşf ü istîlâsında zuhûra gelen vukūât-ı garîbenin târîhi. Bahs-i evvel, Venedik ve Cenevizli gemicilerinin keşf eylediği cezâyir ve sâniyen Kristof Kolomb'un Amerika'yı bulması beyânındadır This is an early, possibly first separately issued publication on Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America…

  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).  …

Mehmet Fetgerey Şoenu, 1890-1931. [Kafkasya ve Servet Menbaları / Caucasus and Sources of Wealth]   Istanbul: A. Garoyan Matbaası  1924.   8°, blank, 136 pp., original wrappers with lettering (uncut example, little age-toned, foxed  and stained, tiny tears and chips in margins).

A pamphlet in Ottoman language on the question about the future of Circassians in the newly founded Turkish Republic, written by a prominent Circassian author Mehmet Fetgerey Şoenu. Small 8°, blank, 47 pp., [1 p.], blank, on thick paper, original thick card wrappers with lettering, bound with original string (wrappers water-stained in margins and with light foxing, rear wrapper and…

  Large 8°. 48 pp., original wrappers (slightly age-toned and with light foxing, tiny tears in margins, but overall in a good condition).  

  A memory book of a circus artist Käthe Derrington, active in the early 20th century as one of the first female bicycle circus performers, includes many distinct entries by various famous circus and theatre artists from Europe and Asia.

  A fine, clean example with original dustjacket of one of the first German post-war cocktail books 8°, 167 pp. with black and white illustrations in text and interleaved colour plates, original dark-red cloth binding with silver embossed decoration on the cover and lettering on the spine, original illustrated dustjacket (dustjacket with minor sporadic scratches and tiny tears, but overall…

  Extremely rare – an important legal proposal that advocated major reforms of the archaic Nueva Grenadian (Colombian) judicial system by dramatically expanding the role and authority of juries during criminal trials, principally authored by José Ignacio de Márquez, the former President and the nation’s foremost legal scholar, framing a major debate between the country’s emerging Liberal and Conservative political…

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…

  An attractive, seemingly unrecorded typewritten thick work on the Communism in Armenia.

   A complete set of the Krokodil magazine, published in 1945. 

  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…

  The first Uzbek translation of Stalin’s Foundations of Leninism with an attractive crude cover design, printed in Tashkent in Perso-Arabic letters   Large 8°, 373 pp., original illustrated card boards (endpapers cracked in the gutters, old signature and date on the title page, a stamp from a de-accessed library on the inner side of the front cover, binding lightly bumped…

  [Manifest des Kommunistischen Partei / Communist Manifesto]   A Serbian translation of the Communist Manifesto, printed by the Yugoslav partisans days before the end of WWII   8°: 64 pp., [4 pp.] blank, original tan wrappers with lettering (minor traces of use, old signature on the title page, but overall in a good condition).    

A first-hand account with a map of the camp., by a concentration camp survivor, published shortly after the liberation   8°, 30 pp., [1] printed map, original green wrappers with illustrated cover (Very Good, spine with a small hand-written number, spine slighty age-toning with a tiny tear).  

Hélio Augusto Esteves FELGAS (1920 - 2008).   Carmona [today Uíge], Angola: [Privately Published by the Author], 1959.   Large 8° (16.5 x 22 cm): 188 pp. typescript, with 2 folding maps, the first, Divisão administrativa do actual Congo Belga (between pp. 36 & 37) printed on tracing paper (21 x 20 cm) and the second, Baixo e Medio Congo…

  One of the most significant manuscripts regarding exploration and ethnography in sub-Saharan Africa to appear on the market in many years, being the original diary of the French adventurer Robert Hottot complied during his groundbreaking ‘Mission ethnographique du Kanem-Chari-Logone’ (1908-9), to what is today Congo (both PRC and DRC), the Central African Republic and Chad, where he made meaningful…

  A stellar moment of African cartography and inland hydrography, being the first atlas, or accurate, complete large-scale map, of the 1,724 km-long navigable route of the Upper Congo River from Léopoldville (Kinshasa) to Stanleyville, the only natural passage into the heart of Africa, made during World War I for the use of steamer captains by the specialist Belgian colonial…

  German-Ottoman / Turkish Relations Congress of Berlin  

  A series of a richly illustrated Art Nouveau lifestyle magazine in Ottoman Script and partly French, was printed in Istanbul between 1909 and 1911.

A collection of patriotic stories by popular Brazilian writers Olavo Bilac (1865 – 1918) and Coelho Netto (1864 -  1934).   Small 8°, 283 pp. with colour illustrations in text, illustrated boards, original red cloth spine (slightly bumped on the edges, light foxing, internally with minor age-toning).

1130 recipes from the rich Triestino cuisine by a former war reporter Maria Stelvio, made in the time of rationing and published during World War II in Fascist Italy.   8°, 461 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, [3 pp.], original wrappers with lettering (wrappers with tiny tears and loss of paper, mostly around the spine, little stained,…

8°: [6 pp.], 107 pp. with black and white advertisements and interleaved advertisements, [7 pp.], original green boards with illustrated cover, green cloth spine (binding slightly age-toned, but otherwise in a good condition with only minor foxing to the first and last pages).

  A rare and until now underappreciated work on modern citrus growing, printed in Ottoman language, as a part of the program to modernize the agriculture of Crete   4°. 4 pp. [index], 172 pp. with charts and sporadic illustrations, bound with original brown wrappers, original marbled boards, new black calf spine (light staining and foxing, inner white margins with…

  8°, 96 pp., advertisement, original illustrated wrappers (slightly stained, a tiny loss of image on the rear wrappers, but otherwise in a good condition).  

  A set of 30 issues of an unusual Tatar magazine published in Constanța, Romania, for the Crimean Tatar minority, which moved to the territory of today’s Romania during the Russian famine of 1921 and fleeing the Soviet government's collectivization in 1928–29.  

  A complete year of a Croatian intellectual and cultural magazine Hrvatska revija, which was later banned under Yugoslavia after WWII, bound in a fine binding by a Zagreb-based bookbinder.  

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…

  Two privately issued ephemeral pocket books in Croatian language from 1930s include erotic stories in verses accompanied by lewd images, reproduced in the technique of whiteprint.

8°, [12 pp.] red and black printing on thick folded brown paper, original illustrated wrappers, author’s dedication on the title page, signatures by the author and the artist an hand-number on the last page (tiny tears in margins and around the spine, otherwise in a good condition).

A beautifully designed book with a lyrical story in six acts in Croatian language, was drafted by an architect, composer and a later director of the Zagreb Philharmonic Hall Ivo Tijardović.

  This is the 7th number of a rare early Croatian left-wing magazine with avant-garde poetry, which was banned in the same year after the number 15 for political reasons.

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

Branko SUČEVIĆ (1895 - 1980), author; Ladislav NOWORYTA, cover designer. Zagreb: Noskabi 1937. 8°. 79 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, original illustrated wrappers (light foxing, otherwise in a good condition) (#70801).

  A rare pioneering work on the Croatian contemporary art, printmaking and theatre scenography glorifying the artist Tomislav Krizman as the leading artist of the South Slavs on the eve of the birth of Yugoslavia. With a beautiful expressionist cover by a Dalmatian artist Jerolim Miše.

  A scarce Croatian anti-Tito and anti-American book with 3 autobiographic articles describing a flight from Croatia, life in Allied DP camps, and exile to Argentina was written by a Croatian nationalistic fascistic politician Vjekoslav Vrančić, who served as a left hand to Ante Pavelić, and was a vice president of the Croatian so-called "government in exile" in Argentina.

  A rare monumental series of 41 folding colour lithographs accompanying a Croatian poem Jama (The Pit), one of the most powerful WWII lyrics, written by Ivan-Goran Kovačić. This 1982 version of illustrations was made by Croatian academic artists Edo Murtić and Zlatko Prica, the authors of the first illustrated edition, printed by a Partisan underground press during WWII. Number 82 of…

[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…

  The scarce first edition of poems by one of the greatest Croatian poets of the 20th century Ivan „Goran“ Kovačić.

  5 issues of an uncommon Croatian Nationalistic magazine were printed in Croatian and Spanish language in Buenos Aires by post-WWII Croatian immigrants and sold mostly in North America, Australia and Germany.

  A travelogue to the Holy Land through Egypt by a Croatian professor Krsto Krile, published on the eve of WWI.   8°, XI, 231 pp., interleaved photographs, two folding plates, and three folding maps (Jerusalem, Croatia, the Holy Land), original boards with decoration and lettering, original cloth spine with lettering (hardly noticeable foxing, very light wear to the corners,…

  A pro-Russian pamphlet, printed by a Croatian underground press during WWII, includes a text by a popular Croatian politician Stjepan Radić, originally published in 1924.

  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).

  The very rare first edition of a foundational work of Cypriology, published in Nicosia, it is the first anthology of primary historical sources on the island, featuring 35 accounts, ranging in date from 1196 AD to 1870, collected and translated from 12 different languages into English by Claude Delaval Cobham, who served as the District Commissioner of Larnaca Province…

  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).  

  A detailed travelogue to Cyrenaica, Libya, by an Italian jurist and artist Giuseppe Haimann.   8°, 141 pp. with black and white illustrations, [3 pp.], folding colour map, original blue wrappers with tan colour, later spine (Slightly age-toned and stained, later spine, p. 133 with tiny narrow loss of text in the outer margin, One line of contemporary ink…

  A Czech translation of three short texts by a Russian activist and researcher Pyotr Kropotkin with an original linocut design by a Czech Avant-Garde artist and author Josef Čapek.  

  A rare publication in Czech language on the post war reconstruction, was published in 1945 in Jerusalem.

  A rare collection of original poetry was printed in Czech language in Irkutsk, Russia, at the time when the Czechoslovakian Legion took control of the Siberian Railway, heading for Vladivostok while escaping the closing clutches of the Red Army.

  A book in Czech language with a modern avant-garde cover, published in 1921, commemorates the victims of the Czechoslovakian Legion, who fought on the side of Italians during WWI to gain the independent Czech and Slovak country.   

   

  A book on contemporary Slovenian dance was written and designed in 1975 by a dancer and architect Marija Vogelnik, a student of Jože Plečnik. Signed by the author.

Very Rare – the first broadly accurate and detailed map of the course of the lower Danube River, that flowed 1,400 km from Belgrade to the Black Sea; a colossal 7-sheet work (bound in atlas form) that would measure a course approximately 420 cm (almost 14 feet!) long if joined, based on the first serious attempt to map this vital…

First Turkish translation of Das Kapital   8°. 6 pp. 205 pp. [as always falsely starting with unnumbered p. 5], [2 pp.] contemporary black boards with mounted original cover (minor staining, binding slightly scuffed and cracked, front cover slightly stained and scratched with a missing corner, inside in a good condition).

  An uncommon book on a Yugoslav politician in exile Vladimir Dedier and the Bernard Russell Piece Foundation with articles in different languages was published for a a World Congress on Human Rights in Tension in Rio de Janero in 182. The copy was signed by Vladimir Dedijer.

  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).

  A very rare magazine, published by young Christian German men in Aleppo, Syria, on the eve of WWI. Probably the first and only number. 

  This rare pamphlet of the Diet of Augsburg (Reichstagsordnung) from 1582, printed under Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, codifies essential legal and religious regulations from a pivotal period of European history.  

  A diary, composed of autobiographical songs and poems, filled with black humor and irony, was written by a young woman, imprisoned in Japanese camps Malang and Lampersari in Java, during World War II. 8°, notebook with striped paper, 32 pp. manuscript in Dutch in blue ink with illustrations in colour pencils, rest of the pages blank, original blue marbled…