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  These are first two WWII editions of an illustrated Soviet satirical magazine Krokodil, published only days after Hitler's invasion on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941.   

  A book on the Ottoman Empire and its relations with Russia, France and the Balkans was written in the year of breakout of a Russo-Turkish war in 1788, and is based on the personal notes of a orientalist Constantin François Volney, later accused by John Adams' administration in the United States of being a French spy. Bound in a decorative contemporary…

  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.

A very rare book of Lithuanian folk songs, translated to Esperanto, was published in Kaunas on the eve of the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, and in the last year of the Lithuanian Esperanto Association before WWII.

  A first and only translation of Les fleurs du mal to Esperanto was published in La Laguna on Tenerife Island in 1957. 

  An uncommon illustrated scientific book,  written in Esperanto, includes numerous original articles on biology, chemistry, geology, linguistics and other topics. 

  An uncommon work by a Danish scientist in Esperanto with scientific explanations on the development racial distinctions, was published on the eve of WWII and was opposing racism. 

  This is a first edition of a famous Esperanto book by Lajos Tárkony on contemporary Esperanto authors, published in Budapest in 1932.

  A rare lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early cyrillic script and with original colour shows popular motives from Russian folklore.

  A rare lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early cyrillic script and with original colour shows popular motives from Russian folklore.

  A rare lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early cyrillic script and with original colour shows popular motives from Russian folklore.