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  A rare, attractively designed book with poetry in Polish, was one of the early works by the founder of Polish Futurism Stanisław Młodożeniec. 

  One of the earliest Polish underground newspapers from WWII was printed by a resistance group Związek Orła Białego in Końskie. Extremely rare!

  A polish art magazine featuring expressionistic, futuristic, avant-garde and cubistic art and poetry with a legendary wood-cut by Władysław Skotarek on the cover, was published in 1919 in Poznan.

  The map is probably the first Western survey of the Bezengi Massive in the Caucasus, Russia, made in 1962 by the Austrian expedition. This photograph of the map was used by the Yugoslavian expedition in cooperation with the Soviet mountaineers during the height of the Cold War. 

  A very rare lithographed postcard map of the Scutari Vilayet in Ottoman script was made in Istanbul during the Young Turks Regime by a Romanian born publisher Tüccarzâde İbrahim Hilmi Çığıraçan.

  A very rare lithographed postcard map of the Aleppo Vilayet in Ottoman script was made in Istanbul during the Young Turks Regime by a Romanian born publisher Tüccarzâde İbrahim Hilmi Çığıraçan.

  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 1930.

  A rare Venetian broadside forbids uncontrolled Turkish trade in the Lazaret of Split in Dalmatia as a health precaution against spreading of the plague.

  An Art-Deco binding with printed photomontage on linen was designed by a Slovenian architect Janko Omahen.

  A rare, seemingly unrecorded flyer made by a clandestine Partisan press in Slovenia shows a caricature of Hitler unsuccessfully fighting away Allied planes.

  A rare book with a collection of songs was printed during WWII in Cleveland, Ohio, in Slovenian language by the Slovenian Women’s Union of America, as a part of the women's liberation movement.

  An extremely rare magazine, issued in Tatar language in Ottoman script in Kazan, at the time in Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (today Russia), with highly decortative illustrations, printed in offset lithography by popular Tatarstan artists in Art Deco style.

  A collection of early Esperanto translations of poetry from the Antiquity to modern times was made by a Hungarian Esperantist Kálmán Kalocsay.

  An uncommon translation to Esperanto of the Japanese short story Kappa by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa from 1927 was published in Tokyo in 1954. 

  An uncommon Serbian book with poems by Todor Manojlović with the cover design by an Avant-Garde artist Mihailo S. Petrov, a member of Group Oblik. Signed by the author.

The first bibliography of Slovenian Partisan publications, issued in April 1945, only weeks before liberation. 

  An extremely rare collection of poems for Yugoslavina partisans was written during WWII by a Slovenian author Tone Seliškar, known for his socialist realist poetry, and was printed by an underground press in Ribnica, Slovenia.

  A rare mimeographed illustrated pamphlet, printed by a Slovenian underground Partisan press, was made at the occasion of the first Allied flights over north Yugoslavia during WWII. 

A unique manuscript French translation of an unpublished Turkish text with valuable information on Janissaries in the 16th century in Turkey, was written by a French Orentalist and translator Jean-Baptiste Adanson.

  An elegantly printed novel in a beautiful Arabic typeface was printed by Jean-Joseph Marcel, the first printer in Cairo, who introduced modern printing to the Arab world.  Ex-libris Şefik Atabey. 

  An unusual, well designed map of Kathmandu that was printed in 1972, during the height of the Nepal-Himalaya tourism craze.

  A very rare and fascinating separately-issued map of the Acropolis of the Pergamon, one of the greatest archaeological sites of Classical antiquity, located near modern Izmir, Turkey, based upon the pioneering excavations of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, plus more recent observations, with text in 5 languages, compiled by the conservator Aristodème G. Sofiano. 

  A unique hand drawing of the land around Balei, what is today the northmost point of Bulgaria, in Serbian Cyrillic and Ottoman Turkish was made in 1873, to establish a new border between the Ottoman Empire and Serbia.

  A first edition of Wartinger's History of Styria was bound in a contemporary decorative green binding. 

  A book on Anatolia by a historian and diplomat Carl Jacob Burckhardt was printed by a private press in Munich in 1925 and was contemporary bound in an elegant half vellum binding. 

  A very rare gigantic road and transportation wall map of Romania was made in German language during WWI, in the year when Romania joined the Entente Powers.

  A German military map was bound in a highly decorative red binding with gilt embossed royal coat of arms. 

  A fascinating, extremely rare Turkish 20th century map by a military historian Hakki Tümerdem shows the development of the Battle of Dumlupınar, the last battle in the Greco-Turkish War in 1922. 

  Very Rare – the first edition of an Admiralty chart that represents the first scientific survey of the port of Iasos, near Bodrum, on Turkey’s Aegean coast, site of a once great Greco-Roman port, by the esteemed hydrographer and naturalist Commander Thomas Graves.

  This is probably the first correct survey of the Bezengi Massive in the Caucasus, Russia, made in the mid 1960s by the Yugoslavian expedition, in cooperation with the Soviet mountaineers during the height of the Cold War. 

  A photograph of the social life around the Café of the Grand Hotel Central in Sarajevo, Bosnia, was made on the eve of WWI by a photographer Walter Tausch, who recorded the last images of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife minutes before their assassination in 1914 and documented the arrest of Gavrilo Princip.

[Aslan the Abrek. A Story from the Caucasian Mountains. By a German-Russian]   This rare book is the first European, non-Russian, story on a Caucasian abrek (a North Caucasian Christian soldier) and was published in German language in Jeglava, today in Latvia. 

  A rare pamphlet with Christian content in Syriac language was printed in Aleppo, Syria.

  These are first two WWII editions of an illustrated Soviet satirical magazine Krokodil, published only days after Hitler's invasion on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941.   

  A book on the Ottoman Empire and its relations with Russia, France and the Balkans was written in the year of breakout of a Russo-Turkish war in 1788, and is based on the personal notes of a orientalist Constantin François Volney, later accused by John Adams' administration in the United States of being a French spy. Bound in a decorative contemporary…

  A first-hand account report, based on the notes of a traveller and medical doctor Isaac Salomon Kapper from Prague, describes Slavic nations and Ottoman Empire on their political border.

A very rare book of Lithuanian folk songs, translated to Esperanto, was published in Kaunas on the eve of the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, and in the last year of the Lithuanian Esperanto Association before WWII.

  A first and only translation of Les fleurs du mal to Esperanto was published in La Laguna on Tenerife Island in 1957. 

  An uncommon illustrated scientific book,  written in Esperanto, includes numerous original articles on biology, chemistry, geology, linguistics and other topics. 

  An uncommon work by a Danish scientist in Esperanto with scientific explanations on the development racial distinctions, was published on the eve of WWII and was opposing racism. 

  This is a first edition of a famous Esperanto book by Lajos Tárkony on contemporary Esperanto authors, published in Budapest in 1932.

  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 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 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. 

  A separately published city and transportation map of Poznań in Poland, with letters in art deco style, was printed a year before WWII. 

  A beautifully designed tourist map of Istria, Karst in Slovenia and northeast Italy was designed under Fascist Italy in 1939 in Trieste. 

  A rare official urban plan of Zagreb from 1923 showing the planned expansion of the city, was annotated by the Urban Planning Office engineers in 1928 with prepared new lines of buses, a public transportation first introduced in August 11, 1927.    

  An exquisitely drafted, coloured manuscript plan of the Siege of Badajoz (1812), one of the seminal events of the Peninsular War.

  This classics of the Esperanto Anthology was published in 1958 by the Esperanto publishing house Stafeto, in La Laguna, Tenerife. 

  An uncommon collection of Esperanto literature and poetry by Chinese authors, was published in Beijing in 1989.

  A stunning early illustrated aviation magazine in Ottoman script.

  A historically important, gargantuan map of Canada East (Quebec), commissioned by the Canada’s Crown Land Office as a strategic blueprint to manage the government’s numerous infrastructure, settlement and economic development.

  An attractive pictorial map of Québec and the Gaspé Peninsula was published by the Québec-Gaspé Péninsula Hotel-Motel Association for the summer holidays of 1966. 

  The first comprehensive printed scientific survey of the Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac St. Jean Region, taken during a time of transformative change, commissioned by Canada’s Crown Land Office, printed in Toronto in 1857.

  A scarce and monumental map of Quebec’s St. Maurice Territory, the northern section of the Montreal-Quebec City Corridor, based upon groundbreaking surveys, created as a blueprint for the settlement of the interior regions beyond the seigneuries along the St. Lawrence, published for Canada’s Department of Crown Lands by George Matthews in Montreal, in 1856. 

  A scarce and monumental map of Quebec’s St. Maurice Territory, the northern section of the Montreal-Quebec City Corridor, based upon groundbreaking surveys, created as a blueprint for the settlement of the interior regions beyond the seigneuries along the St. Lawrence, published for Canada’s Department of Crown Lands by George Matthews in Montreal, in 1856. 

  A scarce, historically important and monumental map of Ontario’s Muskoka, Georgian Bay, Nipissing, Algonquin and Upper Ottawa Valley regions, based upon groundbreaking surveys, made as a blueprint for the regional settlement designs of Canada’s Department of Crown Lands, published in Toronto in 1857. 

  An Exceptionally rare - seemingly unrecorded – and impressively large ‘Sunprint’ or cyanotype map on cotton cloth, depicting Major Robert Lyle McClintock’s advanced topographical survey of the environs of Potchefstroom, South Africa, executed in the period following the Second Anglo-Boer War, made in Potchefstroom after the original survey composed in Pretoria. 

  A detailed meteorological atlas of Greece with 119 coloured maps was printed in 1935 in Greece. This copy was dedicated by the author Elias Mariolopulos to his professor, a British meteorologist Sir William Napier Shaw.

  A small uncommon pocket map of Würzburg in Germany, with a highly decorative Art Nouveau cover, was made for the occasion of a Franconian Singing Festival in 1904. 

  An important, gargantuan map of Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula, predicated on the surveys of the Bahamian-born cartographer Gerald George Dunlevie, published in Toronto for the Canada’s Crown Land Office, serving as the official blueprint for the administration of the region during a generation of transformative change.  

  A rare large tourist poster map of the Republic of Djibouti was mad after the independence in 1977.

  A rare first edition of an Esperanto book of short stories by a Swiss Esperantist Reto Rossetti, published in Stafeto Esperanto publishing house in La Laguna on Tenerife Island in 1955.

  A rare theatre play by Jakob David Applebaum was originally published in Esperanto by Stafato publishing house in La Laguna, Tenerife. 

  An uncommon translation of a short story from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes was translated to Esperanto and published by a private press in 1955 in Spain. 

  A signed copy of an uncommon poetry book was written and published in Esperanto by a British author Marjorie Boulton. 

  A rare playbill from the Theatre-Royal in Worcester presents The Celebrated Distin family, a famous family of musicians, who played a vital role in popularization of Saxhorns and brass music in England and the United States, with a major influence on the American Civil War bands. 

  A rare playbill from the Theatre-Royal in Worcester presents The Celebrated Distin family, a famous family of musicians, who played a vital role in popularization of Saxhorns and brass music in England and the United States, with a major influence on the American Civil War bands.

  A rare playbill from the Theatre-Royal in Worcester presents The Celebrated Distin family, a famous family of musicians, who played a vital role in popularization of Saxhorns and brass music in England and the United States, with a major influence on the American Civil War bands.

  A rare playbill from the Theatre-Royal in Worcester presents The Celebrated Distin family, a famous family of musicians, who played a vital role in popularization of Saxhorns and brass music in England and the United States, with a major influence on the American Civil War bands.

  A rare playbill from the Coventry Theatre, presents The Celebrated Distin family, a famous family of musicians, who played a vital role in popularization of Saxhorns and brass music in England and the United States, with a major influence on the American Civil War bands. 

  A rare playbill from the Coventry Theatre, presenting The Celebrated Distin family, a famous family of musicians, who played a vital role in popularization of Saxhorns and brass music in England and the United States, with a major influence on the American Civil War bands. 

  A rare playbill from the Theatre-Royal in Worcester presents The Celebrated Distin family, a famous family of musicians, who played a vital role in popularization of Saxhorns and brass music in England and the United States, with a major influence on the American Civil War bands. 

  A fascinating and unique example of a military topographical map of Northwestern Italy, featuring original and extensive manuscript additions regarding the Italian Fascist High Command’s defensive plan made in response to the Allied invasion of the South of France in August-September 1944.  

  A highly attractive and information-packed little map of Trinidad, based on the latest official surveys, published by the controversial banknote printer Waterlow & Sons.

An unusual illustrated work on botany was originally written in Esperanto by a Danish agronomist and Esperantist Paul de Neergaard.

  An uncommon separately published map of the island of Crete, shows the theatre of war of 1897, which lead to the establishment of the Cretan state a year later.

  An extremely rare broadside issued by the Royal Court of King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) of Siam, celebrating the Allied victory in World War I, translated into the English language and published in Bangkok for the benefit of Siam’s Western expatriate population. 

  This is probably the first map of Trieste, printed in Slovenian language at the Free Territory of Trieste after WWII, after the Slovenian language was supressed by the fascists for almost three decades.    

  A rare book in Ottoman Turkish includes photoreproductions with the locations of the Ottoman army in Bucharest in Romania, during the occupation of Romania’s capital by the Central powers between 1916-1918.