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A poem composed by Georg Friedrich Stauber, a theology student, and Christian Reinhard Steinheil (1708 – 1786), a court official for the occasion of the 8th birthday of Christian IV, the future Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1722 - 1775), from a line of the Bavarian imperial family Wittelsbach, at the time still known as Christian III. As he was married morganatically…

Publication for Russian refugees in Istanbul:  View of the Russian Monastery of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker "Belozerskaya" on Athos.   4°, [24 pp.] with black and white illustrations, original illustrated covers mounted over later wrappers (small tears, chips and folds , minor foxing and staining, small tears in the lower parts of rear sheets).  

[Report of the Battle, which Took Place on September 20, 1703 at he Plain of Höchstädt Between French and Bavarian Army…]   Large 4°, [4 pp.] letterpress (Very good with uncut edges, margins little age-toned).

Bulletin of the Russian Trade Committee in Constantinople.   8°. 32 pp. with two interleaved charts and one folding plate, [12 pp.] advertisements, original brown wrappers with lettering, later spine (wrappers with small chips and tears, otherwise in a good condition).  

Ottoman cookbook featuring a popular Turkish Caracter from theater plays and magazines Karagöz. Small 8°, 79 pp., later tan linen binding and green endpapers (old Ottoman signature in ink on the title page, light staining and tiny chips in white margins, tiny holes from old binding in the inner margins).

[The reasons for consideration for the spread of the contagion in the Morea, and Rumelia are becoming ever greater…] Broadside, letterpress on thin laid paper with a watermark, 28 x 19 cm (11 x 7.5 inches).  

A religious work in a fine binding from the Fürstenberg library at the Castle Donaueschingen.   Small 8°, [2 pp.] blank, XXIV, 246 pp., [4 pp.], blank, full green calf with blind and gold tooling, spine with raised bands and gold lettering and tooling, original dark red endpapers, gilt edges  (old tiny sporadic annotations in text and drawings (map and…

The authoritative chart of the harbour of Lourenço Marques (today Maputo, Mozambique), shown in the wake of World War II, showcasing what was one of Africa’s busiest and most modern ports, published by the British Admiralty.   Polychrome photolithograph on thick paper, contemporary hand-stamped price revision to title, rolled (Very Good, overall clean and bright, light wear along vertical centrefold),…

[Imperial Ottoman Loan 4% of the Baghdad Railway. Second and Third Series. Contract]   4°, 11 pp. in French, 11 pp. in Ottoman, original tan wrappers with title in French on the front and Ottoman on the rear wrappers (old library stamps, small tears and chips in edges, traces of old paper label on the spine, later spine).  

Istanbul: A. H. Boyacıyan  - American Bible House 1880. 8°. XIX, 231 pp., [6 pp.], original blue cloth binding with debossed decoration and gilt lettering on the spine, old plate mounted on the inner side of the front cover, old list mounted on the rear free endpaper, old small annotations on the title page, otherwise in a good condition).

Lithographed map with original hand colour, dissected into 18 sections and mounted upon original linen, folding into original dark green cloth covers with publisher’s pastedown label, publisher’s advertisements as front endpaper (Wrappers slightly pale with worm holes on the spine, internally clean), 51 x 70 cm (20 x 27.6 inches).

Stanford's map of West Africa.   Lithographed map with original hand colour, dissected into 21 sections and mounted upon original linen, folding into original red cloth covers with publisher’s pastedown label, publisher’s advertisements as front endpaper (Good, clean example), 52 x 77 cm (20.5 x 30.3 inches).

A particularly handsome example of Stanford’s map of Denmark and Iceland with original brown covers.   Copper engraved map, originally coloured in outline, dissected into 20 sections and mounted upon original linen, folding into original brown cloth covers with publisher’s pastedown label, publisher’s advertisements as front endpaper (Good, clean example), 68 x 55 cm (26.8 x 21.6 inches).

Pilgrim's Game. Memory of Rome 1950.   Colour lithograph on thick paper, 61 x 81 cm (24 x 31.9 inches) (soft folds and light foxing, but otherwise in a good condition).  

8°. 61 pp. with a black and white illustration, [3], stapled (Slightly age-toned, paper slightly fragile with small cracks in the white margins, front cover with light foxing, a very light water-staining in the upper inner corners, a tiny hole in the white margin of the page 33-34, a tiny hole in p. 54-55).

  8°. 21 pp., [3] advertisements and blank, original pink wrappers with lettering, unbound, as originally published (wrappers slightly dusty and with tiny tears in the margins, some words underlined with old red pencil, otherwise in a good condition).  

A rare book in Bulgarian language, published by the American Bible House was printed by Boyaciyan in Istanbul.   8°. [4 pp.], 277 pp., [3 pp.], original brown cloth with embossed decoration and gilt lettering (spine pale, tiny crack in the hinge of the rear endpapers, otherwise in a good condition with only sporadic light staining inside)

[To New Places and New Tasks. (Through national suffering, social, peace, progress, labor and prosperity. On the occasion of the Feast of the Assumption - 18/1923)]   8°, 31 pp., original wrappers with lettering, stapled (wrappers with light foxing, crudely cut upper margin, internally with light age-toning, otherwise in a good condition).  

12°. 162 pp., later wrappers (first and last page with light water-staining, old annotations on the title page and in the first page above, old stamp on the title page).

Letters for Mothers or a Guide for Mothers in the Good Nutrition of Children. Third Edition   A rare book in Bulgarian language, published by the American Bible House was printed by Boyaciyan in Istanbul and includes instructions for mothers.   Large 12°. XII, 180 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original green cloth binding with debossed decoration and gilt lettering on…

  Etching with roulette, printed in sanguine, marked 3 in the upper right corner, platemark: 20,5 x 29 (8.2 x 11.4 inches), sheet: 28,5 x 37,5 cm (11.2 x 14.6 inches), (slightly stained and with light water-staining in margins).  

A rare Ottoman pamphlet on the importance of the carob for the military during World War I.   Small 8°, 4 pp., original brown letters with lettering.  

[Schoolbook for History of the Homeland for 3 Class]   8°. 164 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, original green wrappers with lettering and illustrations (wrappers with light age-toning, foxing and chips, inside with minor foxing and age-toning to first pages, but otherwise a good example).

Copper engraving and etching, 39 x 26 cm (15.3 x 10.2 inches) (minor foxing, but overall in a good condition).