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  A rare pamphlet on a sermon preached in Nestorian Mission in Urumia, Persia, printed in Boston, and signed by the author, Rev. Justin Perkins, “an apostle to Persia” and the first citizen of the United States to reside in Iran.

  A scarce second edition of Gorky’s short stories was printed in Berlin for the Russian market, to avoid the Russian censorship.

  A rare complete set of three Communist newspapers, published in Paris in 1910 and 1911, by the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party in exile, includes articles by Lenin, who lived in there at the time.

  A complete set of rare Slovenian magazine on social issues, published between 1918 and 1919, was edited by a women's rights activist, educator and politician Alojzija Štebi.

  A set of 6 original gouache drawings, including one original photomontage with mounted newspaper images, was made for advertisements in the early 1950s in Germany.   

  A large, exceedingly rare poster from circa 1925 was printed in Munich for a private liquor store.

  A seemingly unrecorded pamphlet in Latin was printed in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1740 for St. Gertrude‘s day.

  A rare complete set of 7 highly detailed maps of the administrative areas of Holland and Belgium, were printed in black and red, and accompanied by a title page and a key map and housed in a decorative contemporary marbled paper slipcase.

  An original diary with poetry and accompanying photographs belonged to a German soldier, stationed in the German colony in China before WWI, during the Russo-Japanese War.   

  A rare Polish underground newspaper was published during the WWII by an underground press in Warsaw.

  A scarce illustrated pamphlet was published during WWII by the Russian War Relief in New York to raise money for the supplies to fight against Nazi Germany on Russian soil. With articles written by famous names such as Dmitri Shostakovich and Constantin Simonov.

  An impressive archive consisting of a stellar original photograph and sixteen manuscript documents relating to the Comte d’Escayrac’s 1856 planned expedition to find the source of the White Nile, two years before John Hanning Speke successfully accomplished said objective, from the personal papers of Gabriel Aubaret, the mission’s second-in-command and subsequently a famous diplomat and a leading figure in…