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The final wartime issue of the most famous Slovenian Partisan newspaper, ‘Delo’, printed by an underground press in Italian-occupied Ljubljana, with a magnificently illustrated cover, was printed in a secret room in the building of the Fascist police station.   8°. 34 pp., original wrappers with illustrated cover printed in red, stapled (Very Good, staples slightly soiled, slightly stained, tiny…

  A 4-page pamphlet with a full page linocut, made by an underground Slovenian Partisan press, handed out to the resistance fighters on Christmas, 1944   8°, [4 pp.] with a full page linocut (tiny tears in margins, otherwise in a good condition).  

  A pair of rare maps, multiplied with a photographic procedure, were made by an underground partisan geodetic office during WWII and were carried on the field during operations.

  A rare Polish underground newspaper was published during the WWII by an underground press in Warsaw.

  A selection of original Partisan poetry was printed for the underground theatre events of the resistance.

  Lithograph with original colour: 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 inches) (soft fold, slightly age-toned and stained, small tears in margins).

The very rare first state of J.F.W. Des Barres’s beautifully rendered chart of Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts, famously the site of the Mayflower Pilgrims’ landing at ‘Plymouth Rock’; after the first scientific mapping of the bay executed by Thomas Wheeler, as part of Samuel Holland’s General Survey of the Northern District of British North America, an epic endeavour that trigonometrically charted…

  A rare unusual large originally coloured aquatint and etching showcasing the fortress Hohentwiel on the top of a volcanic dome in the German province Baden-Württemberg, as it look like before the demolition by the Napoleonic army in 1801, is presented in an unusual perspective of hemiorama.

  A handsome clean example of an exceedingly rare first Ottoman lithographed atlas, made by a pioneer of the Ottoman modern mapmaking, Ali Şeref Paşa in the time of his schooling in Paris. Ali later became the leading Ottoman governmental cartographer and is today known for his last, unfortunately unfinished gargantuan project of wall map of Anatolia in 100 sheets,…

12°. [2] title page, 27 pp., [2], original blue wrappers with printed title, stapled (wrappers with minor foxing, dents and staining, otherwise in a good condition).