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  A rare early edition of Agathangelos’es History of Armenia, one of the most influential texts on the early Christianity in the country.

  A fascinating and lovely artefact from the Siege of Mafeking (1899 - 1900), the highest profile event of the Second Anglo-Boer War and one of the greatest global media spectacles of the fin de siècle era, being a set of 37 diapositive glass photographic slides made from contemporary photos apparently by Frank Whiteley, the Mayor of Mafeking and one…

  A rare, seemingly unrecorded propaganda book in Croatian language was printed in Nazi Germany to promote the quality of its social life. The book also diminishes lifestyle in the Allied countries, where the people are allegedly unemployed and starving.

  An oversized catalogue in the shape of a Yugoslav passport was made for an exhibition of contemporary Yugoslav artist in Richard Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh.

  An unusual Serbian version of a Soviet children’s book in a form of a series of 40 loose photomontages, depicting a story of a boy who flew to visit a human-like family of monkeys, was made to educate children in personal hygiene.

  Two original drawings on one sheet showcasing SS Porto and icebreaker Mikula were made by a British, probably during a military campaign in the Black Sea or Eastern Mediterranean Sea, circa 1920.

  A German map shows Abyssinia on the eve of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, in 1935. 

  A set of 5 original photographs, most probably made during WWI, showcase the byzantine capitals of four different cisterns of Istanbul.

  A scarce catalogue listing works of 12 Yugoslav female artists, held in Ljubljana in late 1939 in the Jakopič Pavilion.

  An unusual well-designed Catholic calendar for missions worldwide in Slovenian language was printed on the eve of the end of WWII and designed by a young artist Marjan Tršar, who would become one of the most prominent Yugoslav painters of the 20th century. The cover is an original colour woodcut by the artist.  

  A stunning brochure in Art Nouveau style was made by a Swiss artist and poster designer Otto Baumberger for a spa resort Baden.

  A rare, first printed compilation of Albanian folk songs was printed in 1940, during the Italian military occupation of Albania.

  An uncommon set of 6 religious pamphlets issued in Kronstadt by a Russian Orthodox archpriest, a religious leader and a saint John of Kronstadt in 1899 and 1900.

  A pair of original photos, made during WWI by a Bulgarian lieutenant colonel Kableshkov, showcase temple ruins of Baalbek and reception room of a private mansion in Damascus.

  A beautifully designed book with expressionistic design of text and drawings in a mint condition was designed by a Slovenian academic artist France Kralj in 1921, who was at the time an active member of contemporary art and political movements.

  A stunning theatre and music play with original colour woodcuts by one of the leading Yugoslavian Avant-garde and Constructivist artist August Černigoj, made for Slavic cultural circle on the Fascist occupied territory. 

  A stellar example of a highly decorative children’s book by a Slovenian author Fran Milčinski was designed by a Jože Plečnik’s student Marija Grafenauer (Vogelnik).

  A first edition of popular German Robisonade, which was reprinted in the following years, in a decorative binding.

  A rare Catholic book, printed in Arabic language in Beirut.

  A detailed statistical report on the first decade of the mental institution on the island San Servolo in Venice was printed by the Armenian press on San Lazzaro.

  An extremely rare broadside, printed in Üsküdar, Istanbul, in Polish language is announcing the discharging of the Division of Cossacks, serving the Ottoman Sultan, led by the Polish nobleman Władysław Stanisław Zamoyski.

  An intriguing original manuscript sketch map of Heraclea Pontica (modern Karadeniz Ereğli), one of the most important Greco-Roman historical sites along the Black Sea coast of Anatolia, made in 1806 by Louis Allier de Hauteroche, the esteemed archaeologist and numismatist who was then Napoleon’s vice-consul to the region.

An elaborate large late 19th century colour photogravure of a painting of an Arabian charging army by Alfred Paris was made by a high-end Parisian gallery Boussod, Valadon & Cie.

  A rare pamphlet on a sermon preached in Nestorian Mission in Urumia, Persia, printed in Boston, and signed by the author, Rev. Justin Perkins, “an apostle to Persia” and the first citizen of the United States to reside in Iran.

  A scarce second edition of Gorky’s short stories was printed in Berlin for the Russian market, to avoid the Russian censorship.

  A rare complete set of three Communist newspapers, published in Paris in 1910 and 1911, by the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party in exile, includes articles by Lenin, who lived in there at the time.

  A complete set of rare Slovenian magazine on social issues, published between 1918 and 1919, was edited by a women's rights activist, educator and politician Alojzija Štebi.

  A set of 6 original gouache drawings, including one original photomontage with mounted newspaper images, was made for advertisements in the early 1950s in Germany.   

  A large, exceedingly rare poster from circa 1925 was printed in Munich for a private liquor store.

  A seemingly unrecorded pamphlet in Latin was printed in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1740 for St. Gertrude‘s day.

  A rare complete set of 7 highly detailed maps of the administrative areas of Holland and Belgium, were printed in black and red, and accompanied by a title page and a key map and housed in a decorative contemporary marbled paper slipcase.

  An original diary with poetry and accompanying photographs belonged to a German soldier, stationed in the German colony in China before WWI, during the Russo-Japanese War.   

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

  A scarce illustrated pamphlet was published during WWII by the Russian War Relief in New York to raise money for the supplies to fight against Nazi Germany on Russian soil. With articles written by famous names such as Dmitri Shostakovich and Constantin Simonov.

  An impressive archive consisting of a stellar original photograph and sixteen manuscript documents relating to the Comte d’Escayrac’s 1856 planned expedition to find the source of the White Nile, two years before John Hanning Speke successfully accomplished said objective, from the personal papers of Gabriel Aubaret, the mission’s second-in-command and subsequently a famous diplomat and a leading figure in…

  A small collection of rare ephemera gives an insight of a short- lived Don Cossacks Choir “Ataman General Kaledin”, founded in Munich under the influence of the Serge Jaroff’s Choir by a White Russian émigré Nicolas Nikolaïevitch von Leuchtenberg.

  A very rare large-format survey chart of the coasts of Gabon and what is today the Republic of Congo, executed shortly before World War I by the ‘Mission hydrographique du Gabon’.

  A unique, previously unrecorded letter by the Italian cartographer and scientist Giovanni Rizzi-Zannoni with his measurements of the latitude of Istanbul, based on the suggestions personally received from a Dalmatian geographer Roger Boscovich during his stay in Istanbul to observe the Transit of Venus in 1761.

  A complete year of a Croatian intellectual and cultural magazine Hrvatska revija, which was later banned under Yugoslavia after WWII, bound in a fine binding by a Zagreb-based bookbinder.  

  A pair of large maps showcasing the Kuban region, as it looked in 1920, made in the United States in 1960 and 1961 by a Cossack émigré, a former Major-General Vyacheslav Naumenko, who escaped the post WWII Repatriation of Cossacks.

   A complete set of the Krokodil magazine, published in 1945. 

  A Czech translation of three short texts by a Russian activist and researcher Pyotr Kropotkin with an original linocut design by a Czech Avant-Garde artist and author Josef Čapek.  

  A rare collection of original poetry was printed in Czech language in Irkutsk, Russia, at the time when the Czechoslovakian Legion took control of the Siberian Railway, heading for Vladivostok while escaping the closing clutches of the Red Army.

  A very rare Zaragoza imprint covering events across Europe during the late spring and early summer of 1661, focussing on the Ottoman takeover of Transylvania, the Venetian-Ottoman conflict in both Dalmatia and Crete, as well as the renewal of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance that would ultimately secure Lisbon’s long-term independence from Madrid.

  A collection of 4 important Portuguese royal decrees announcing sweeping legal reforms in Goa, including the ‘Alvará’ that established the state’s new code for combatting piracy in the Indian Ocean; all part of the Marquis de Pombal’s radical Enlightenment agenda for the Portuguese Empire – all the pamphlets are very rare and in stellar condition.

  A rare ephemeral program written in French, Armenian and Ottoman, was published for a for the matinée and evening performance of the Ottoman operetta Leblebici Horhor Aga, written by an Armenian author Tigran Tchoukhajian.

  A superb example, handsomely bound in a fine three quarter blue morocco, probably from the library of Napoleon II.

  A pair of fine, separately issued maps that represent the first broadly accurate general  mapping of Southern Egypt and Northern Sudan; important masterpieces of frontier military cartography printed during the Siege of Khartoum, and which served as the definitive maps used by Anglo-Egyptian forces for the remainder of the Mahdist War (1881-99), the epic contest for control of Sudan;…

  An Italian illustrated magazine on the war events on the Balkans in 1897.

  A very rare and authoritative contemporary account of how the Spanish Royal Court publicly greeted the arrival of the news of the Christian victory at the Siege of Vienna (1683), including a detailed description of the elaborate cavalcade of King Carlos II to the Royal Convent of Our Lady of Atocha and the reception of the Austrian ambassador at…

  Rare – the first great counter-argument to Colonel George de Lacy Evans’ ‘Designs of Russia’, widely considered to be the intellectual genesis of ‘The Great Game’, by the esteemed economist Thomas Tooke.

  A German translation of the second part of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s famous marathon speech in the parliament, which lasted over 36 hours in 6 days, is preserved with an extremely rare dust jacket, decorated by a striking powerful portrait of the Turkish leader.

  A rare political Communist magazine, printed in Ottoman script, was issued in 1929 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan and includes articles on the industrial development of the country in the 5 years after Lenin’s death.

  A series of one of the most influential Ottoman newspapers with elaborate colour printing.

  A series of a richly illustrated Art Nouveau lifestyle magazine in Ottoman Script and partly French, was printed in Istanbul between 1909 and 1911.

  A pair of cabinet cards by one of the pioneers of the Sarajevo photography, Anton Schädler, showcase a modern city couple with a child.

  2 issues of an early Hebrew newspaper Habazeleh were published in Jerusalem in 1898 and 1900.

  A very rare larger portrait of Mehmed V with titles in Ottoman and Armenian script, was published for the occasion of his investiture in 1909, only days after the massacre of Armenians in Adana. The Armenian Genocide under the reign of Mehmed IV happened six years later.

  A mimeographed pamphlet, printed by an underground Slovenian press during WWII includes four short theater plays, based on Soviet originals.

  Two rare 1930s maps of Newfoundland were beautifully privately bound together in a green leather binding, made by a famous London based bookbinder Riviere & Son. 

  A pair of rare, seemingly unrecorded newspapers in French and English language was published for Belgian and American soldiers in Léopoldville (now Kinshasa) in the Congo in 1961.

  An unusual book was made at the first anniversary of the German newspaper Deutsche Adria-Zeitung in Triste under the Nazi occupation and was printed days before the Allies and the Partisans took over the city. The introduction was written by an Austrian Nazi politician and Gauleiter, Friedrich Reiner, who was later tried at the Nuremberg trial for war crimes and executed in Yugoslavia…

  A rare first translation of The Little Prince to Esperanto was printed in 1961 in Orléans and was accomapnied with black and white illustrations, based on the original drawings. 

  A decorative originally coloured mezzotint portrait showcasing General George Eliott, the Governor of Gibraltar with a siege in the background, was drafted by a Brussels-based artist Pierre de Glimes, and printed by Johan Fredrik Martin, a Swedish specialist in mezzotint stipple engraving and colour printing.

  The two original drawings are first-hand accounts of the construction of roads and canals by Austro-Hungary, during its occupation of Montenegro in WWI. The drawings were probably made for a publication.

  Exceedingly rare – one of only 2 known examples - the first publication of the earliest systematic trigonometrical survey of the south-western coast of Sri Lanka, a self-contained section of a four-part series of charts resulting from Lieutenants Frederick Thomas Powell and Richard Ethersey’s masterly survey of the ‘West Coast of Ceylon’, undertaken upon the orders of the East…