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  A large and exceedingly well executed decorative manuscript commissioned by the Deutsch Verein (German Society) of San Francisco, California, presented to the ‘Iron Chancellor’ Otto von Bismarck, in honour of his role as the Unifier of the German people, drafted by Carl Eisenschimel, a skilled Austrian Jewish artist and the Bay Area’s foremost forensic handwriting expert; with provenance from…

A rare edition of Samkhya Darsana, a text related to the Yoga school of Hinduism, was published by the Sanskrit College of Calcutta.             8°. 246 pp., original wrappers with lettering (slightly age-toned and stained, tiny chips and tears in margins, but overall inside in a good clean condition, later stripe on the spine).  

Possibly the earliest manuscript, mentioning Saartje or Sarah Baartman, known as the “Hottentot Venus” who was as a victim of contemporary scientific racism exhibited in England and Paris from 1810 to 1815 as a freak, believed to be related closer to apes than to humans. The letter was written in Cape Town in late 1809 by Alexander Dunlop, a military…

طلب العلم فريضة على كل مسلم و مسلمة. تراژيتى ناۉقۉ دۉژان يه سواقى مۉسليمان اى مۉسليمانقا [Tražiti nauku dužan je svak musliman i muslimanka / Every Muslim Man and Woman is Obligated to Seek the Knowledge]   A Bosnian school certificate printed and written in Arebica – Bosnian language in Perso-Arabic letters   8°, [4 pp.] with printed template, manuscript…

     

  A unusual book of documents by Bosniaks and other nations, allegedly written all over the world, was published privately to promote a Movemnt of Miljenko Vidović from Sarajevo, Bosnia, to educate illiterate people with correspondence classes, in order to prevent misunderstandings and further wars.   

  A pair of cabinet cards by one of the pioneers of the Sarajevo photography, Anton Schädler, showcase a modern city couple with a child.

  An anonymous report on the situation in Bosnia was written in 1870 by a French agent, following the peace with the Ottoman Empire after the Treaty of Paris of 1856, when Bosnia was becoming a boiling pot of rebellion.  

  A photograph of the social life around the Café of the Grand Hotel Central in Sarajevo, Bosnia, was made on the eve of WWI by a photographer Walter Tausch, who recorded the last images of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife minutes before their assassination in 1914 and documented the arrest of Gavrilo Princip.

  Published at the beginning of the Kingdom's historic First Five-Year Development Plan (1970–1975), this exceptionally rare, gigantic thematic atlas details the infrastructure plans for areas around Riyadh and Dhahran—roughly covering the eastern portions of today's Riyadh and Eastern Provinces—with a primary focus on transportation, oil fields, and spatial geography.  

  A rare book in Turkish language on Saudi Arabia, written by a diplomat Saleh Mustafa Islam comes from the library of Kasim Masoud Kasim Zainal Alireza (?-2016), a member of a prominent Saudi family.   8°. [8 pp.] title, 2 portraits and introduction, 223 pp. with portraits and interleaved black and white images, original illustrated wrappers, dedication (by the…

  8°, 77 pp., later blue cloth boards with gilt lettering (binding slightly age-toned, old hand-written price in the inner side of the rear board, otherwise in a good condition).