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  A separately published city and transportation map of Poznań in Poland, with letters in art deco style, was printed a year before WWII. 

8°, viii, [1] illustration (Berlin Mosque), 315 pp., original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on the back, red edges (publisher’s stamp on the title page, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear cover, minor staining, binding lightly scuffed on the corners).

S. İLHAMI. [Cumhuriyet Çocuklarına Kelime Usûliyle Son Türkçe Elifba / The Latest Turkish Elifba with a Word Learning Method for Children of the Republic, 4th edition] Istanbul: Ibrahim Hilmi - Orhaniye Matbaası 1928. 8°: 64 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers little stained and chipped in margins, internally clean, cracks around the spine, minor…

  [Yavrumun Elifbası / My Child’s Primer]   8°, 63 pp. zincography with illustrations, original wrappers with colour cover (very good, minor staining, tiny tears in the spine).  

  A rare map of Gottschee in Slovenia, privately published in Germany by the exiles from the area.

ПРОГРАММА ВТОРОГО МУСУЛЬМАНСКАГО ВЕЧЕРА: Вь залахь Бакинскаго Общественнаго Цобранія въ ... Бъ пользу Общества распостраненія грамотности среди мусульманъ Нешръ-Муарифъ جمعيتنڭ نفعنه عايد ايكنجى مسلمان مسامره سنڭ مرامنامه سى [PROGRAM OF THE SECOND MUSLIM EVENING: In the halls of the Baku Public Council in ... For the benefit of the Society for the dissemination of literacy among Muslims Neshr-Muarif]   An…

  A seemingly unrecorded mimeographed newspaper was published by the German war prisoners in 1947 in the Middle East and it includes articles from Iraq and Egypt.

  A rare first printed report on the pioneering operations of the International Prisoners-of-War Agency by the Red Cross during WWI. Richly illustrated with heliographed images and photographs were made by Frédéric Boissonnas.  

  A unique documentation of original photographs, autographs, different stamps, tickets and seals, all referring to the International Prisoners-of-War Agency, originally hand-bound together, has been made by the members of the Red Cross of Genève for four years, during WWI.

  A rare, possibly unique series of 28 original large photographs, showcasing one of the largest private mid-European art collections on the turn of the century, assembled in Zürich by a German medical doctor and industrialist Dr. Adolf Friedrich Hommel.

A rare travelogue from Istanbul to North America and the Caribbean, written in French by P. G. Foscolo from a family of shipowners. Printed in Istanbul.