Books

  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…

  A special supplement to the ‘Times’ of London featuring the ‘Epitaph’ of WWI’s Gallipoli Campaign, being a gripping and detailed account of one of the most brutal military altercations in world history and one of the greatest ever defeats for the British Empire, written by Sir Ian Hamilton, the supreme commander of the Allied operation, just as it was…

  [Ukrayna, Rusya ve Türkiye. Makaleler Mecmuası / Russia, Ukraine and Turkey. A Discussion]   A pamphlet on cultural and demographic connections between Ukraine and Turkey, printed in Ottoman, in Istanbul, during World War I   8°. 71 pp., folding map, later brown cloth binding with gilt lettering (light staining and foxing, small tears in the inner margin of the…

Rare – one of the most important of the maps made by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during World War I, depicting Southern Palestine with the Ottoman-German Gaza-Beersheba defensive line, as well as the vicinity of the Battle of Jerusalem (1917), one the great British triumphs of the war in the Middle East, published in Cairo by the Survey of Egypt…