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An early illustrated Ottoman zoology and botany book is a translation of a contemporary German book. The translation, made by a medical doctor to sultan Abdulmejid I,  Hekimbaşı Salih Efendi, during the time of the Tanzimat, was a major contribution to Ottoman understanding of the Western contemporary biology and terms, which provided the grounds for the further developing of science.…

An early illustrated Ottoman zoology and botany book in a magnificent red morocco binding is a translation of a contemporary German book. The translation, made by a medical doctor to sultan Abdulmejid I,  Hekimbaşı Salih Efendi, during the time of the Tanzimat, was a major contribution to Ottoman understanding of the Western contemporary biology and terms, which provided the grounds for…

The first Ottoman book on the modern geomagnetism and binnacle, including an almost always missing rotating volvelle   Small 4°: 332 pp. with an illustrated title page, charts and one illustrations, 3 double-page illustrations including a colour lithograph, folding chart, a page with mounted volvelle, composed of two parts and a string and instructions on the last page, original errata…

A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas)   Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).

  A rare folding map of Serbia and Belgrade, was printed in Budapest two days after the Austro-Hungarians declared war on Serbia, what marked the beginning of the World War I. - One of the earliest maps showing the theater of the WW I.    

  The volumes of the book by a Serbian writter Stevan J. Jakovljević in highly decorative Art-Deco binding, are the second edition, published on the eve of WWII.

  A classic of the Yugoslavian Dadaism

  A modernistic Serbian literary magazine, influenced by the Russian avant-garde.

  An uncommon book of poetry by a Serbian author Jovan Jovanović Zmaj was published in Cyrillic Script at the end of WWII in liberated Dalmatia in Croatia. 

  An uncommon Serbian translation of a controversial pamphlet by a German ambassador to London, describing the events leading to WWI, originally published privately in 1916.   Small 8°. VII, 71 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original wrappers with lettering, later spine (old signature on the top of the cover and title page, underlining and old annotations in red colour throughout…