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  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.

  A rare large chromolithographed map of Turkey with Istanbul in the middle was published in Russian Cyrillic as a part of a detailed series of maps of European Russia, made in the late 1920s by the Soviet Military Topographic Office, under the command of the Red Army.

  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.

  Two uncut rare 19th century photolithoraphed lubki (Russian popular broadsides) with text in early cyrillic alphabet and with original colour show popular motives from Russian folklore.

  A stunning example of a separately issued de Jode map of the British Isles was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican.

  Of great historical importance – the earliest known portrait of Friedrich von Gentz, one of the central figures of the Vienna Conference of 1814-1815.

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

  A stunning example of a rare, separately issued map of Burgundy by Abraham Ortelius, was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican.