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A fantastic large-format propaganda broadside, or ‘wall newspaper’, made to celebrate the exploits of German General Erwin Rommel, the ‘Desert Fox’, and his Afrikakorps, printed in Fascist Spain in July 1942, before the pivotal showdown at El Alamein had been decided. 

  A richly illustrated mystic work on the life of the Prophet Muhammad by an Ottoman author Yazıcızâde Mehmed   4°, 7 pp. [mispagination, actually 8pp.], 4 pp., 478 pp., [2 pp.], lithographed text with illustrations, 3 pages printed in gold ink, contemporary brown cloth, later spine (slightly age-toned and stained, endpapers chipped, tiny cracks in margins, binding slightly scuffed…

  8°, 158 pp., later black cloth binding with debossed decoration and gilt lettering (old manuscript in colour pencil on first and last page, otherwise in a good condition).  

An exceedingly rare depiction of a Prague folk festival for the Coronation of Emperor Ferdinand I and Maria Anna of Savoy, lithographed in Litoměřice, showcases unique ethnographic and documentary details from this historic event as well as the diversity of Bohemian culture and social life of the early 19th century in Prague.   Lithograph, 55 x 69 cm (21.6 x…

  Exceedingly rare – an early edition of the de facto official liturgical manual of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil, written by Reverend Modesto Perestrelo de Barros Carvalhosa, which remains the basis of the one used to the present day; printed in a delightfully crude technical manner by the Evangelical Press in São Paulo for the exclusive use of church…

  A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of the Prussia.

  [Psikoloji İlm-i Ahvâl-i Ruh / Psychology. The Science of the Psyche]   A late Ottoman work on the modern psychology   8°, 203 pp., [5 pp.], later wrappers (slightly age toned, but otherwise in a good condition).    

  Three numbers (of 6) of an extremely rare newspaper “Africa-Post. Weekly Newspaper for the German Troops in Tunisia”, printed by the Allies in Tunisia during WWII, in German language for the German troops, in order to cause a psychological warfare.

VARIOUS AUTHORS. Johann STRANIMARYER, Author of the Collection. Gesänge. Gesam(m)elt im heurigen Jahr, wo das Trinkgeld sehr wehlfeil war. Zur Belustigung für Jedermann. [Songs. Gathered in This Year, when the Money was Very Low [lit. when the Tips were Poor]. For Entertainment of Everyone] Mostly Austrian Empire: Vienna, Prague, Wiener Neustadt, Jihlava, Znojmo [circa 1800-1850] - Collected in Kapfenberg, Austria:…