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  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 19th century photolithoraphed lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early cyrillic alphabet and with original colour shows a holy fool and a clairvoyant Ivan Yakovlevich Koreisha. 

A rare 19th century photolithoraphed lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early Cyrillic alphabet and with original colour shows a restaurant scene accompanied by comical poem in Russian language.  

A rare 19th century photolithoraphed lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early cyrillic alphabet and with original colour shows a variation of the motiv of a fountain of youth. 

  A rare 19th century photolithoraphed lubok (Russian popular broadside) with original colour ahows four scenes from the life of Jesus, accompanied with figures of sibyls from ancient Greece.  

A 1748 edition of the first accurate book of Arabic grammar by orientalist Thomas van Erpe includes the first Latin translation of the 9th century Arabic anthology the Hamasah by Abu Tammam.

  An attractive double-sided map and tourism guide to the great port city of Trieste, made on the eve of WWII, when the region was under the rule of the Italian Fascists.

  Extremely Rare – a pair of large-format maps respectively depicting Northern and Southern India, featuring the ecclesiastical divisions of the Roman Catholic on the subcontinent, prepared for the Vatican’s State Secretariat by Girolamo Petri, issued within his monumental atlas, ‘L’Orbe Cattolico ossia Atlante Geografico Storico Ecclesiastico’.

  An Esperanto translation of a Wilhelm Hauff's novel Die Sängerin was published in Berlin by Friedrich Ellersiek shortly after WWI, in 1921.