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  The scarce World War I edition of the stellar map Heinrich Kiepert originally made to illustrate Max Freiherr von Oppenheim’s travels in the Levant, but here revised as a special ‘Railway Edition’ to depict the extensive, new railroad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

Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned, tiny tears and chips in margins ) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).

  A rare pamphlet with Christian content in Syriac language was printed in Aleppo, Syria.

  A pamphlet in Arabic language with a decorative cover was made as a propaganda against the former Syrian president Adib al-Shishakli after his deposition in 1954.   Large 8°. 96 pp., original illustrated wrappers (wrappers slightly worn with tiny scratches and holes in the upper margin on the cover, but otherwise in a good condition).  

  A very rare broadside with Ottoman script showing the siege of Szigetvár was made in the series of large separately published maps by the Turkish War Office the late Hamidian period as a part of intellectual propaganda to revive patriotic sentiment.  

  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.

  A fascinating account of the German economist and ethnographer Karl Theodor Stöpel’s tour of Taiwan which occurred just after the island was taken over by Japan, during which he witnessed the island rapid’s economic-political transition and the local Chinese’s rebellion against the new regime, as well as being one of the earliest scientific missions deep into the island’s interior,…

  The first economical research of Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic with a large mineralogical map was made by the first Chairman of the Council of People s Commissars of Tajikistan, who was later executed for treason. 

  [Geographical Atlas for Primary Schools. Slovenian Edition]   A rare official atlas for primary schools, issued in Slovenian language by the Fascist Italy, after its taking over the central Slovenian region in World War II in 1941.   Small 8°. 20 pp. with colour maps and black and white photographs, original wrappers with lettering (good used condition with old…