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  An official secretarial transcription of a letter by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II to the Austrian ambassador in Spain, Hans von Khevenhüller-Frankenburg, regarding negotiations with Belgium, was written at the beginning of Dutch War of Independence (1568–1648).

  A rare, unmounted fan leaf showcasing the Mutiny of Aranjuez and capture of Prime Minister of Spain Manuel Godoy, was made in London expressly to be exported to Spain. 

  An extremely rare early Bloemfontein imprint featuring seminal primary sources concerning the end of the Orange Free State-Basotho Wars which secured the Anglo-Afrikaner balance of power in the region, as well as the security of what would become Lesotho, commissioned by the Volksraad of the Orange Free State as a work of ‘intellectual propaganda’ advancing its national claims. 

  A rare Italian translation of Arthur Ransome’s pro-Soviet book was issued by the Italian socialist publishing house Avanti!, whose headquarters were burned down by the Mussolini's Blackshirts a year before. It was banned by the Fascist government in 1926.

  A scarce first-hand account on the Civil War along the route of the Trans-Siberian Railway was written in New York by lieutenant general Saharov, a White Russian émigré, in 1920, and was published by a Commander of the Russian Imperial Navy, Harald Graf in Munich, Germany.

  This is the 7th number of a rare early Croatian left-wing magazine with avant-garde poetry, which was banned in the same year after the number 15 for political reasons.

  A first edition of a novel by France Bevk was published under difficult circumstances by one of the last Slavic publishing houses persisting on the Italian Fascist territories. The text inside is Slovenian, but the main title had to be translated to Italian and the author's name has been Italianised. 

  A stunning set of 17 unused colourful flyers by Yugoslav Partisans with text in Slovenian and Italian language, printed over a flag of Yugoslavia and Italian minority in Istria, was made immediately after WWII for annexation of Trieste to Yugoslavia at a referendum.

A beautifully designed book with a lyrical story in six acts in Croatian language, was drafted by an architect, composer and a later director of the Zagreb Philharmonic Hall Ivo Tijardović.

An anonymous, probably spying report on the Ottoman fleet was sent to France on August 8, 1793, through a French diplomat Marie Louis Descorches, in the time of the French Revolution, when the old Franco-Ottoman alliance was establishing new relations.

  A very rare map of Moldavia and Bessarabia by the boutique cartographer Jakob Adam, published in Vienna at a time when the region was a focal point of tensions between Austria and Russia (on one side) and the Ottoman Empire.

  An uncommon first separately published translation of poems by Slovenian poet France Prešeren to Russian was printed in Moscow in 1901.