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  A Slovenian translation of Heinrich Mann’s Professor Unrat, also known as The Blue Angel through its famous movie adaptation, was published in two parts in Ljubljana in 1935 with a unique photomontage cover, showcasing Marlene Dietrich and other characters from the movie.

  A seemingly unrecorded mimeographed newspaper was published by the German war prisoners in 1947 in the Middle East and it includes articles from Iraq and Egypt.

  An uncommon small map of North America was published in an Ottoman Turkish atlas at the beginning of the 20th century. 

  An attractive translucent map of the moon, printed on a thick paper, and backed with thin blue paper.

The rare first German edition of a first-hand contemporary report on Palestine during WWI, by one of the major figures in the Zionist movement and spy in the Ottoman Army for the British, Alexander Aaronsohn, was published in Switzerland during WWI.

  A gigantic rare Turkish poster for the memoires of the German Nazi politician Franz von Papen, which were banned in the post-war Germany, was made by a leading Turkish Female designer Gülümser Aral. This is a hand-numbered proof state with the author’s original signature in the upper left corner.  

  One of the early posters by the Polish graphic designer Roman Cieślewicz, later Paris based designer and an art director at Vogue and Elle magazines

A rare book on the palm reading by a pioneer and foremost authority of spiritualism and spiritism in the late Ottoman Empire Ragıp Rıfkı.  

  An uncommon book on Napoleon Bonaparte in Ottoman language, printed by the Bulaq Press in Cairo

  A book on Armenian history with a folding map, showcasing the historical territory of Armenia, was printed during WWI in Istanbul, on the eve of the Armenian Genocide.

الازميرى Muḥammad ibn Walii Izmiri), Author of the Commentaries; ملا ( خسرو Molla Hüsrev, died 1480) Author of the Original Tex

  A German pocket book, printed for the soldiers in WWII, was owned by a German prisoner of war, stationed in the POW camp in Trinidad, Colorado.

  A rare larger pamphlet with a poem by an Austrian nobleman of Jewish origins Leopold von Neuwall was published in Verona for the Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria.

  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 first-hand account with a map of the camp., by a concentration camp survivor, published shortly after the liberation   8°, 30 pp., [1] printed map, original green wrappers with illustrated cover (Very Good, spine with a small hand-written number, spine slighty age-toning with a tiny tear).  

  The scarce World War I edition of the stellar map Heinrich Kiepert originally made to illustrate Max Freiherr von Oppenheim’s travels in the Levant, but here revised as a special ‘Railway Edition’ to depict the extensive, new railroad systems in the region that played major role in the on-going conflict.

  This is a valuable manuscript archive relating to the Suez Canal, the project that utterly revolutionized global transportation, commerce and communications.  It is highlighted by a detailed letter written by one of the major stakeholders in project, written from Alexandria only a few days after Sa’id Pasha, the Viceroy of Egypt, formally approved Ferdinand de Lesseps’s proposal to build…

  Extremely rare - an extraordinary work of early Burmese printing by the prominent American missionary Elisha Abbott, ‘The Apostle of the Karens’, being a curious thesis likening the contemporary plight of the oppressed Karen people with that of the Jewish Christian Converts in the New Testament, with intriguing illustrations of Jewish iconography, written in the Karen language, published by…

  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 cover was designed by a futurist painter Julče Božič.

  An uncommon first edition of the radical modern Ottoman theatre play Vatan (Fatherland), for which its author Namık Kemal was exiled and imprisoned eight days after its premiere.  From the library of Edward Heron-Allen.

  An exceedingly rare map by Gerard de Jode, printed only as a broadside after the publication of his atlas of 1578.

  Ottoman Historical Atlas

  A masterpiece of Art Deco design, being a large format separately issued map of Turkey with its railway systems, made during the height of the Kemalist Era when the republic’s railways were under the process of nationalisation and expansion, a key part of Atatürk’s political and economic agenda, published in Ankara – extremely rare.

  An extremely rare issue of a first Modena newspaper, reporting on the events happening in Europe and in the Ottoman Empire in the second week of August, 1680

  A rare example of a seemingly unrecorded early publication made for a drinking event of the pioneers of the Alpine mountaineering.

  Document on vellum for a post manager in Braunau, Austria, by the Family Thurn und Taxis, a key player in the postal services in Europe from the 16th century on. 

From the library of Sultan Abdul Hamid II – a very rare and highly important work, being the improved second edition of first book of statistics on the Ottoman Empire; illustrated with ground-breaking thematic maps predicated upon fresh, original data; one of the great landmarks in the era’s rapid modernization of Turkey, the Balkans and the Middle East; bound in…

  Seemingly unrecorded - a content-rich Scottish broadside, being on open letter written by Colonel William Fullarton, a prominent liberal statesman, addressed to the Duke of York, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army; created as part of the former’s legal and propaganda war against General Thomas Picton (later famous for his final act at the Battle of Waterloo), who had…

  A book on the founder of Armenian diaspora poetry in the United States Hamastegh was drafted by an Armenian designer Minas Minasian published in New York a year following the poet’s death.

  An exceedingly rare broadside with new regulations for Dalmatia, in Italian and Croatian language, printed in Venice.

  A rare poster map, showing the Battle of Kursk during WWII, was published by the Higher School of Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the highest educational institution on the Soviet Union. 

  A rare poster map, showing the Battle of Moscow and Stalin, was published by the Higher School of Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the highest educational institution on the Soviet Union. 

  A rare publication in Czech language on the post war reconstruction, was published in 1945 in Jerusalem.

  A rare Polish translation of an socialist text by a Viennese Jewish author Felix Kanitz, with an avant-garde cover by an unknown Polish artist.

  The first translation of the Anti-Düring book by Friedrich Engels to Slovenian was published in 1933 to set an example how to supress all the contemporary tendencies to change or undermine the fundamental Marxist thought.

  A large, seemingly unrecorded geological wall map of South Istria and Northern Dalmatian Islands with manuscript colouring was made after WWII, when the territory was regained by Yugoslavia after more than two decades under Fascist Italian government.

  A traditional Slovenian didactic children’s poem is accompanied with high quality illustrations by a painter and sculptor Tone Kralj, who is known for his mural paintings with hidden anti-Fascist motifs, made in Slavic churches in Fascist Italy.

  A rare pamphlet, printed by a Slovenian underground Partisan press, was made at the occasion of the first Allied flights over the country during WWII. 

  This is an ephemeral set of 4 theatre programs, made in 1919, by the British at the POW camp Bilbeis, Egypt.

  A large colourful Soviet map shows Tashkent, Uzbekistan, rebuilt in a contemporary socrealistic style after an earthquake of 1966, which erased almost the entire city.

  Rare – an issue of the Afrikaans-language almanac issued by the government of the South African Republic (ZAR); featuring a vast wealth of information on the Afrikaner society during the greatest gold rush in world history and upon the eve of the Second Anglo-Boer War; evidently a special hardcover example bearing the stamp of the chief state printer. 

  A fascinating, very rare large-format map of Burma and Northeastern India composed by Robert Gordon, a prominent explorer, Ruby prospector and the principal engineer of the Irrawaddy River system, published in Calcutta by the Surveyor General of India’s Office.

  The first and only edition of a decorative Art Deco map of Warsaw shows post, telegraph and telephone stations in 1936.

  A rare set of reports on astronomy was published in the early Stalinist period in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.  

  A uncommon collection of Armenian poetry by an Aleppo-born Harutiun Berberyan was published in Bairut, Lebanon. Signed by the author and with a collector’s stamp by an Armenian author and researcher Levon Mikirtitchian (Lewon Mkrtchʻean).

  A rare, richly illustrated book in Ottoman script on Africa, North Pole, Australia and South America.

  An extremely rare illustrated volume of Robinson’s travels through America, from Mississippi, to Canada, Greenland, the Caribbean to South America, was published in German language in 1816. 

  A scarce Croatian anti-Tito and anti-American book with 3 autobiographic articles describing a flight from Croatia, life in Allied DP camps, and exile to Argentina was written by a Croatian nationalistic fascistic politician Vjekoslav Vrančić, who served as a left hand to Ante Pavelić, and was a vice president of the Croatian so-called "government in exile" in Argentina.

  Pictorial map of East and West Pakistan in German language printed in Karachi in Pakistan in 1966.     

  A detailed transportation map of Trieste, issued the after the city was returned to Italy in the wake of World War II.

  A detailed economic atlas for gymnasiums in the Soviet Union, made at the height of the Cold War, showcases the country as a progressive unity, far ahead of the capitalistic countries. 

  An edition of a rare legendary eight-page Azerbaijani satirical political illustrated magazine in Azari, Russian and Turkic language, published in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 1930. 

  Rare – the only work on the economics and economic history of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from the early British colonial period, by Anthony Bertolacci, the island’s Corsican-born Auditor-General, featuring information of immense historical value published nowhere else, augmented by the first edition of Captain Gaulterus Schneider’s revolutionary map of Ceylon – the first scientific survey of the island.

  A beautifully designed art deco map centred on Zagreb, Croatia, made as an advertisement for a competition, organised by a newspaper Jutranji list (Morning Paper), was drafted by a pioneer of the Croatian graphic design Otto Antonini.

  A first edition of an Esperanto translation of a report on concentration camps in Poland by a Polish autor Zofia Nałkowska.

An attractive late 19th Century original watercolour view of Kumbhalgarh Fort, one of the most impressive of the Rajasthan ‘Hill Forts’, probably drafted by a British soldier.

  A translation of Ruskin’s children’s book with original zincograph engravings by a Yugoslavian academic painter Anton Koželj in Art Nouveau style.

  A selection of original Partisan poetry was printed for the underground theatre events of the resistance.

  A receipt by an Istanbul-based architect of Italian origins from the late 19th century.

  An early report on the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland, written by a Russian writer Konstantin Simonov, and published in Slovenian language during WWII in Moscow.