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  A rare Abbas Sahab's miniature version of a map of Tehran was published in 1958, soon after the 1953 Iranian coup d'état.

A pair of books with 27 handsome colour woodcuts, showcasing various patterns of chintz, wood block printed or painted glazed calico textile panels, made by a Japanese artist Ryuko Goto and published in Kyoto in 1903. 2 volumes (complete), large 4°, reverse collation, original illustrated wrappers, originally bound with brown strings. Vol. 1: Guard, title, 14 colour woodcuts on double…

  A collection of 19 large drafts for textile patterns by an Austrian designer Ludmila Hellmann-Kavalla  

  With a dedication of the author, Prince Damrong Rajanubhab, to King of Italy Victor Emmanuel III  

A fascinating collection of 30 early Thai Cremation Volumes in near-mint condition.

A fascinating collection of 30 early Thai Cremation Volumes in near-mint condition.

  An extremely rare broadside issued by the Royal Court of King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) of Siam, celebrating the Allied victory in World War I, translated into the English language and published in Bangkok for the benefit of Siam’s Western expatriate population. 

A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of the Americas, being the ‘Ace of Spades’.

  The rare map of the Balkans, Austria and Southern Germany from the ‘Rome Ptolemy’, a monument in the early history of engraving and the cartography of Central and Southeastern Europe.

  A first-hand account report, based on the notes of a traveller and medical doctor Isaac Salomon Kapper from Prague, describes Slavic nations and Ottoman Empire on their political border.

  The first Slovenian translation of the first and only authorized biography of the Beatles, made by a Slovenian musician Tomaž Domicelj with an attractive cover design   2 volumes, 8°: 310 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2 pp.]; 335 pp. Original tan cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine, original illustrated wrappers (Good, used condition, wrappers with…