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  An extremely rare magazine, issued in Tatar language in Ottoman script in Kazan, at the time in Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (today Russia), with highly decortative illustrations, printed in offset lithography by popular Tatarstan artists in Art Deco style.

  A collection of early Esperanto translations of poetry from the Antiquity to modern times was made by a Hungarian Esperantist Kálmán Kalocsay.

  An uncommon translation to Esperanto of the Japanese short story Kappa by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa from 1927 was published in Tokyo in 1954. 

  An uncommon Serbian book with poems by Todor Manojlović with the cover design by an Avant-Garde artist Mihailo S. Petrov, a member of Group Oblik. Signed by the author.

The first bibliography of Slovenian Partisan publications, issued in April 1945, only weeks before liberation. 

  An extremely rare collection of poems for Yugoslavina partisans was written during WWII by a Slovenian author Tone Seliškar, known for his socialist realist poetry, and was printed by an underground press in Ribnica, Slovenia.

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

A unique manuscript French translation of an unpublished Turkish text with valuable information on Janissaries in the 16th century in Turkey, was written by a French Orentalist and translator Jean-Baptiste Adanson.

  An elegantly printed novel in a beautiful Arabic typeface was printed by Jean-Joseph Marcel, the first printer in Cairo, who introduced modern printing to the Arab world.  Ex-libris Şefik Atabey. 

  An unusual, well designed map of Kathmandu that was printed in 1972, during the height of the Nepal-Himalaya tourism craze.

  A very rare and fascinating separately-issued map of the Acropolis of the Pergamon, one of the greatest archaeological sites of Classical antiquity, located near modern Izmir, Turkey, based upon the pioneering excavations of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, plus more recent observations, with text in 5 languages, compiled by the conservator Aristodème G. Sofiano.