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  The first edition of an attractive official guidebook to the Pacific Island territory of Western Samoa, then a mandate ruled by New Zealand, published by the Government Printer in Wellington.

  A rare large chromolithographed map of Turkey with Istanbul in the middle was published in Russian Cyrillic as a part of a detailed series of maps of European Russia, made in the late 1920s by the Soviet Military Topographic Office, under the command of the Red Army.

  Presented here is a set of 20 issues of the Komunikat Informacyjny, a double-sided broadside bulletin that was intended to quickly deliver news to front line soldersduring the Warsaw Uprising.

  Two uncut rare 19th century photolithoraphed lubki (Russian popular broadsides) with text in early cyrillic alphabet and with original colour show popular motives from Russian folklore.

  A stunning example of a separately issued de Jode map of the British Isles was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican.

  Of great historical importance – the earliest known portrait of Friedrich von Gentz, one of the central figures of the Vienna Conference of 1814-1815.

  A rare pamphlet in Spanish language represents the latest events of the Russo-Turkish War between 1736-1739, as reported from the Viennese court.

  A stunning example of a rare, separately issued map of Burgundy by Abraham Ortelius, was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican.

  A stunning example of a separately issued de Jode map of France  was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican. 

  A rare school book of geography, printed in Slovenian language, in a DP camp in Spittal, Austria, by the refugees from Slovenia two years after WWII. 

  A stunning example of a separately issued first map of the duchy of Luxembourg, published by Gerard de Jode, was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican.

  A rare Turkish version of an award-winning text on the role of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.

  A first separately printed publication of a letter written by the Egyptian prince Mustafa Fazil Pasa to Sultan Abdul Aziz, today considered one of the greatest documents of Turkish liberty, was made in Cairo under the British rule, to support the Young Turks movement in the time of their formation.

  A stunning example of a rare, separately issued map of Spain and Portugal by Gerard de Jode, was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Mapsin Vatican.

  A stunning example of a rare, separately issued map of Burgundy by Gerard de Jode, was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican.

  A set of original, exquisitely executed manuscript plans of the blockhouse of the Prince of Wales Battery, one of the key components of the elaborate new defensive system that the British constructed around Cape Town (South Africa) during their first occupation of the colony from 1795 to 1803; drafted by Captain (later Major-General) George Bridges, the commanding Royal Engineer…

  A rare gigantic atlas with highly decorative colour lithographed maps, charts and plans represents the regulations of the Danube Delta, after the Black Sea was pronounced neutral territory and the Danube opened a connection between the Central Europe and the Black Sea.

  A rare gigantic atlas with highly decorative colour lithographed maps, charts and plans represents the regulations of the Danube Delta after the Treaty of Paris, after the Black Sea was pronounced neutral territory and the Danube opened a connection between the Central Europe and the Black Sea.

  An attractive, seemingly unrecorded typewritten thick work on the Communism in Armenia.

  A large wall map in photo-reproduction and manuscript with a plan for the new railroad system of Ljubljana.

  A highly attractive separately issued Ottoman map of North-Eastern Africa (Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Sudan), also embracing adjacent parts of the Middle East and Southern Europe.

  A fine large-format map of Louisbourg (Cape Breton) especially prepared for the use of the French Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War.

  One of the earliest and most influential post WW II propaganda rebus children’s books in Yugoslavia. 

  11 issues (complete) of the only continuously published mimeographed magazine by a Pan-Slavic movement Sokol in Yugoslavia, with the last issue printed days only before the beginning of WWII.

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the Biggest Fabrication of the Century!   A pamphlet, printed in Glarus, Switzerland, in 1933, attacks the Protocols of the Elders of Zion of being fabricated and used by the Nazis to spread the anti-Semitic movement among the Swiss people.

    Extremely Rare – a highly sophisticated statistical mining and mineralogy atlas of the newly-founded Republic of Turkey, one of the earliest ‘Kemalist’ graphic scientific publications, and the first advanced thematic atlas ever produced in the Turkic world, printed in Ottoman Script shortly before that writing system was retired.

  The first modern middle school atlas for children in Turkey was published in 1928 in Istanbul by a Turkish geographer and a founder of the department for Geography at the Istanbul University Faik Sabri Duran.

  The first ethnographic map of Alaska, by the Finnish anthropologist H.J. Holmberg, bound within the accompanying Part 1 (of 2 independently-issued parts) of Holmberg’s groundbreaking study of the region.   

  A seemingly unrecorded guidebook of Buenos Aires in Croatian language with a map, was printed in the late 1920s for the Croatian immigrants, providing basic information on the city and useful addresses.

  Very rare – the first printing of the famous geographer Carl Ritter’s insightful and influential discourse on the early colonization of New Zealand, based upon his extensive interviews of principals of the New Zealand Company, featuring an original map, published in Berlin in 1842. 

  Very rare monuments of colonial New Zealand printing and history - a trio of broadsides depicting the locations of the decisive battles of both Te Kooti’s War and Titokowaru’s War, the last major armed Maori uprisings against British colonial rule, published in Wellington, in 1869, by the General Government Lithographic Press.

  A rare and excellent work on the British campaign in Martinique, Guadeloupe and St. Lucia during the French Revolutionary War, written by Reverend Cooper Williams, a participant in the expedition and a noted artist and travel writer. 

  A rare broadside was printed for a controversial Lady Godiva Procession in Coventry, in the time of highly moralistic Victorian Era. 

  A rare, possibly unique series of 28 original large photographs, showcasing one of the largest private mid-European art collections on the turn of the century, assembled in Zürich by a German medical doctor and industrialist Dr. Adolf Friedrich Hommel.

  A rare monumental series of 41 folding colour lithographs accompanying a Croatian poem Jama (The Pit), one of the most powerful WWII lyrics, written by Ivan-Goran Kovačić. This 1982 version of illustrations was made by Croatian academic artists Edo Murtić and Zlatko Prica, the authors of the first illustrated edition, printed by a Partisan underground press during WWII. Number 82 of…

  An unusual version of the Persian grammar and an introduction to the country by the British missionary and linguist William St. Clair Tisdall was probably printed in the Middle East for the missionary purposes.  

  A broadside by the Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, Maria Theresia, announces new regulations for mourning for the families of deceased in the Austrian hereditary territory. 

  A broadside, announcing that robbing of the corpses as a crime, was printed amid the Napoleonic wars, two days after the Austrian invading of Bavaria and weeks after Napoleon’s taking over Vienna.

  An attractive pop-up Polish version of Snow White was designed by the master of the 20th century pop up books Vojtěch Kubašta.

A rare first edition of Armenian poetry with a beautiful art nouveau cover design, printed in colour, was published by the Mekhitarists’ press in Venice.

  [On Thursday, March 15th, 1832 in the Imperial Theater by the Actors of the Court. Der Graf von Burgund, Play in Four Acts, by August von Kotzebue].

The first advanced scientific survey of Brisbane’s Harbour, the British Admiralty’s rare large-scale sea chart, based on the work of Commander Edward Parker Bedwell and Lt. Edward Connor.

  [A List of the Famous and Venerable Dead, Buried in the City Cemeteries of Munich. With II, III, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII Appendices and a Name Register].  A rare, historically important list and biographies of famous people, mostly artists and scientists from various countries, buried in the Munich cemeteries was written between the two wars and annotated during…

  A rare Belorussian folio size newspaper printed by the émigrés in Munich, Germany.

  A fine example of an early edition of a directory of the East India Company’s entire civil, military and commercial establishment, issued during the Second Anglo-Maratha War; a treasure trove of information, illustrated with a map.

  Very rare – the official first printing of the first comprehensive trade agreement between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia, presented in parallel French and Ottoman Turkish text, published by the Imprimerie Osmanié in Constantinople in 1906.

  A good collection of 22 + 10 numbers of the Ottoman magazine Servet-i Fünun, known for its richly illustrated content, promoting international events, progress in technology, medicine and education, and a gathering point of the modern Ottoman literature.

  An important dissertation on aerodynamics by using a wind channel was made as a result of experiments, expanding over years, by a German engineer Max Schirmer at the blimp factory Zeppelin during WWII.

  A highly decorative Ottoman portfolio with initials from the circle or institution of sultan Abdul Hamid II.

  A special supplement to the ‘Times’ of London featuring the ‘Epitaph’ of WWI’s Gallipoli Campaign, being a gripping and detailed account of one of the most brutal military altercations in world history and one of the greatest ever defeats for the British Empire, written by Sir Ian Hamilton, the supreme commander of the Allied operation, just as it was…

  A seemingly unrecorded, separately issued Ottoman map depicting the Siege of Port Arthur (1904-5), today part of Dalian, China, whereby a massive Japanese force took the heavily fortified Russian base after an unexpectedly brutal showdown, one of the great military events and global media spectacles fin-de-siècle era, and one watched with special interest by the Sublime Porte, long Russia’s…

A pamphlet in French language was written by one of the Bulgarian leading literary experts to show the superiority of the Bulgarian over Serbs, through their literature, during WWI, when the neighboring Bulgaria and Serbia were fighting on opposite sides.   

  A rare first and only edition of a pro-German text in Ottoman language by a Russian revolutionary, Marxist, supporter of the Young Turks and a friend of a controversial ambassador Hans von Wangenheim, Alexander Parvus was written during Parvus’s staying in Istanbul.

  An Ottoman translation of articles on the role of Germany in the Ottoman Empire and on the Balkans by a German author Ernst Jäckh, a promotor of the Young Turks in Germany and later professor at the Columbia University, was published during WWI in Istanbul.

  A rare book in Ottoman script on Asia, richly illustrated with black and white photographs and maps.

  A rare, elaborately printed world almanac with portraits of politicians and royalties from all over the world was made in Istanbul for the years 1894 / 1895. It includes texts or China, Russia, Prussia, Afghanistan, Austria, Japan, France, Iran etc.  

  Very Rare and Historically Important – a fine example of the first (and for a generation thereafter only) almanac for Goa and Portuguese India, being perhaps the greatest single published source of quantitative information on Goa during the 1830s; printed in Bombay by the Goan-operated Typographia Portugueza.

  Very rare and historically important – an official Ottoman government printing of the 1862 comprehensive trade agreement between the Sublime Porte and the Zollverein (the German Customs Union), an epic accord that formed the basis for Germany’s dramatic expansion into the Ottoman economy from the 1880s towards World War I.  

  A rare map with blank spaces, meant to be filled in by hand, was printed to showcase the drill of the military troops of the Electorate of Saxony in the area between Leipzig and Dresden.

  An award- winning radio play in German language by a Slovenia-born author on the absurdity of the dictatorship with a photomontage cover.

  The book is a homage to a Bohemian author Karel Čapek upon his premature death, at the age of 49, written by his Serbian and Croatian colleagues, published in an unstable situation on the eve of WWII, when Čapek was listed an enemy of the Nazi Germany.   

  A rare pioneering work on the Croatian contemporary art, printmaking and theatre scenography glorifying the artist Tomislav Krizman as the leading artist of the South Slavs on the eve of the birth of Yugoslavia. With a beautiful expressionist cover by a Dalmatian artist Jerolim Miše.

  A fine example of a Yugoslav mid-century book design and socialist propaganda for children is joined in a 1961 math primer.

  A short novel with a Futurist cover was published in Slovenian language in Fascist Italy by one of the last persisting Slavic publishing companies, under Italian censorship, in 1933.

  The scarce first edition of poems by one of the greatest Croatian poets of the 20th century Ivan „Goran“ Kovačić.

  A modernistic Serbian literary magazine, influenced by the Russian avant-garde.

  An uncommon Slovenian translation of Pope’s decree against the Communism with a unique striking cover was published by a Missionary press to educate children.

  The first edition of one of ‘Dukhter-i Hindu’ [The Girl of India], a ‘romantic and exotic drama’ by Abdulhak Hamid, a foremost late Ottoman poet, playwright and statesman, immortalized in Turkish literature as ‘Dahi-i Azam’ [The Grand Genius]; the work is of profound historical importance for its daring poetry which transcended traditional rhyming schemes, embracing controversial social questions of…

  Signed by the author.

  A detailed, richly illustrated work on the development of the medical institutions and the decline of epidemics in the newly founded Kingdom of Yugoslavia was published by the Institute for Social Medicine.

Travelogue by the second Ottoman ambassador in Berlin, which influenced sultan Salim III to reform the Ottoman administration and base it on the Prussian model. This printed version was published a century later, on the eve of the of Germany’s taking over a large part of the Ottoman finances and railways.

  The first edition of a fascinating guidebook to the Territory of New Guinea, then ruled as an Australian mandate (but today the northern half of Papua New Guinea), with numerous illustrations and 2 excellent folding maps, published in Canberra for the Australian Government.