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[Robinson. Parents, His Travels and Marvelous Adventures]   A rare first Slovenian translation of Robinson Crusoe, owned by the artist Božidar Jakac as a child, with possibly the earliest known artist’s signature.   8°, 141 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, [1] index, contemporary black boards with calf spine with embossed lettering, signed, stamped and blind-stamped by the…

  A first edition of popular German Robisonade, which was reprinted in the following years, in a decorative binding.

  An extremely rare illustrated volume of Robinson’s travels through America, from Mississippi, to Canada, Greenland, the Caribbean to South America, was published in German language in 1816. 

A book on the Ukrainian language and the language, used by the Roma in Ukraine, was published in English language by the Academy in Saint-Petersburg.  

  A very rare map of Moldavia and Bessarabia by the boutique cartographer Jakob Adam, published in Vienna at a time when the region was a focal point of tensions between Austria and Russia (on one side) and the Ottoman Empire.

  A very rare gigantic road and transportation wall map of Romania was made in German language during WWI, in the year when Romania joined the Entente Powers.

Pilgrim's Game. Memory of Rome 1950.   Colour lithograph on thick paper, 61 x 81 cm (24 x 31.9 inches) (soft folds and light foxing, but otherwise in a good condition).  

[Growing Roses and Extracting Oil] A rare Ottoman illustrated manual on rose cultivation and making of rose oil by an author from Karlovo, now Bulgaria, one of the centers of rose oil production Small 8°, 48 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers, bound in a later marbled paper wrappers (paper slightly age-toned and fragile with small chips…

A fine example of the first edition of the first printed atlas of the Cape Verde Islands (Cabo Verde), the then Portuguese archipelago off the coast of West Africa, featuring 11 large, attractive, custom drafted maps, including one for each of the major islands, along with detailed textual descriptions, by Christiano José de Senna Barcellos, a Portuguese naval officer and…

A round view from the Milan Cathedral from circa 1880   Lithograph (Very Good, overall clean and bright, just some short tears entering from margins closed from verso, old folds), 43.5 x 43.5 (17 x 17 inches)

  A pamphlet, explaining a round panorama of the Battle of Waterloo, which was exhibited in a wooden pavilion in Amsterdam.   8°, 1 pp., folding map (40 x 29 cm / 15.7 x 11.4 inches), [8 pp.] text, interleaved sheet with manuscript in brown ink recto, original card boards with illustrations on yellow paper, modern bookplate “Ex Libris van…