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  A rare first printed report on the pioneering operations of the International Prisoners-of-War Agency by the Red Cross during WWI. Richly illustrated with heliographed images and photographs were made by Frédéric Boissonnas.  

  An extremely rare first edition of an interpretation of the Russian Revolution predicted through Dostoyevsky’s work, printed in Sofia, Bulgaria in Russian language in 1921, was based on a manuscript, written in a prison in Galicia in 1919 by a Russian exile Metropolitan Anthony Khrapovitsky.

  A rare pamphlet with a text on privilege to sell tobacco from the prince-elector of Bavaria Charles Albert to Carl Roman Meyern from Austria.

A decorative rare invitation card, designed by a famous Slovenian Architect Jože Plečnik, for his honorary doctorate, with usual contemporary manuscript corrections of the wrong quoted year.

  An émigré Cossack periodical with inserted folding map of the Kuban region of Russia was edited by a former Major-Genera,l White Russian Vyacheslav Naumenko, who escaped the post WWII Repatriation of Cossacks.

  A book on contemporary Slovenian dance was written and designed in 1975 by a dancer and architect Marija Vogelnik, a student of Jože Plečnik. Signed by the author.

  An excellent large-format official map of British Guiana, made under the direction of George D. Bayley, the colony’s Land Commissioner, rich in new information from recent surveys.

  An interesting, ephemeral photoprint map especially made for trekkers depicting the southern approaches to Mount Everest, published in Kathmandu, Nepal.

  A rare transportation map, published in the last months of WWI in Switzerland, showcases the navigable river routes of the central Europe and the planned projects.