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  A detailed, richly illustrated work on the development of the medical institutions and the decline of epidemics in the newly founded Kingdom of Yugoslavia was published by the Institute for Social Medicine.

Travelogue by the second Ottoman ambassador in Berlin, which influenced sultan Salim III to reform the Ottoman administration and base it on the Prussian model. This printed version was published a century later, on the eve of the of Germany’s taking over a large part of the Ottoman finances and railways.

  The first edition of a fascinating guidebook to the Territory of New Guinea, then ruled as an Australian mandate (but today the northern half of Papua New Guinea), with numerous illustrations and 2 excellent folding maps, published in Canberra for the Australian Government.

  A rare early edition of Agathangelos’es History of Armenia, one of the most influential texts on the early Christianity in the country.

  A fascinating and lovely artefact from the Siege of Mafeking (1899 - 1900), the highest profile event of the Second Anglo-Boer War and one of the greatest global media spectacles of the fin de siècle era, being a set of 37 diapositive glass photographic slides made from contemporary photos apparently by Frank Whiteley, the Mayor of Mafeking and one…

  A rare, seemingly unrecorded propaganda book in Croatian language was printed in Nazi Germany to promote the quality of its social life. The book also diminishes lifestyle in the Allied countries, where the people are allegedly unemployed and starving.