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  A small collection of rare ephemera gives an insight of a short- lived Don Cossacks Choir “Ataman General Kaledin”, founded in Munich under the influence of the Serge Jaroff’s Choir by a White Russian émigré Nicolas Nikolaïevitch von Leuchtenberg.

  A very rare large-format survey chart of the coasts of Gabon and what is today the Republic of Congo, executed shortly before World War I by the ‘Mission hydrographique du Gabon’.

  A unique, previously unrecorded letter by the Italian cartographer and scientist Giovanni Rizzi-Zannoni with his measurements of the latitude of Istanbul, based on the suggestions personally received from a Dalmatian geographer Roger Boscovich during his stay in Istanbul to observe the Transit of Venus in 1761.

  A complete year of a Croatian intellectual and cultural magazine Hrvatska revija, which was later banned under Yugoslavia after WWII, bound in a fine binding by a Zagreb-based bookbinder.  

  A pair of large maps showcasing the Kuban region, as it looked in 1920, made in the United States in 1960 and 1961 by a Cossack émigré, a former Major-General Vyacheslav Naumenko, who escaped the post WWII Repatriation of Cossacks.

   A complete set of the Krokodil magazine, published in 1945. 

  A Czech translation of three short texts by a Russian activist and researcher Pyotr Kropotkin with an original linocut design by a Czech Avant-Garde artist and author Josef Čapek.  

  A rare collection of original poetry was printed in Czech language in Irkutsk, Russia, at the time when the Czechoslovakian Legion took control of the Siberian Railway, heading for Vladivostok while escaping the closing clutches of the Red Army.

  A very rare Zaragoza imprint covering events across Europe during the late spring and early summer of 1661, focussing on the Ottoman takeover of Transylvania, the Venetian-Ottoman conflict in both Dalmatia and Crete, as well as the renewal of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance that would ultimately secure Lisbon’s long-term independence from Madrid.