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  A rare set of reports on astronomy was published in the early Stalinist period in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.  

  A large colourful Soviet map shows Tashkent, Uzbekistan, rebuilt in a contemporary socrealistic style after an earthquake of 1966, which erased almost the entire city.

  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.

  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.

[Finnish Islamic Magazine]    

  An omnibus of Hasan Hamidulla’s early work, bound in one volume:  

  [Ilham Yımislerı. 1925-1945 ınçi yıllarda yazılgan şiyırlar ciyıntıgi. Pikay. Ilahi şırlar. The Fruits of Inspiration. A Collection of Poems, Written between 1925-1945. Pikay. Ilahi şırlar]   A rare collection of poetry by a Finland-based Tatar author Hasan Hamidulla, written between 1925 and 1970, printed in Tatar language in Turkish and Ottoman alphabet in Finland. The collection was published upon…

  8°. 64 pp., 20th century blue cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (old price written in the inner side of the back cover, slightly age-toned and stained, otherwise in a good condition).  

  8°. 16 pp., 20th century blue cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (old price written in the inner side of the back cover, otherwise in a good condition).  

  A charming, privately issued publication, with poetry in Tatar language, juxtaposed in Ottoman and modern Turkish script, and printed with colour bordures and illustrations was written and published by Hasan Hamidulla in Helsinki in 1973.   8°. [20] mimeographed in black and white and colour, sporadic pages numbered between 341 and 374, 20th century blue cloth binding with lettering…

  Small 4°, 30 pp. photolithography, original blue wrappers, brown cloth spine (staples slightly rusty, wrappers with light age-toning and staining, wrappers slightly stained and age-toned, but overall in a good and clean condition).  

  [Al-Itkan fi tarjimati al-Qur’an / Proficiency in Translating the Quran]   Large 4°, 460 pp. in photographic printing, original boards with lettering, later cloth spine (minor age-toning and foxing, but overall in a good condition).  

  An extraordinary single-issue Tatar language magazine, largely in Ottoman script, published in Stockholm, in 1952, by exiles from the Soviet Union.

  [Turkic-Russian and Russian-Turkic Dictionary of Political, Legal, Economic and Military Terms, Used in Press]   An important early Tatar-Russian dictionary, written by a famous Azerbaijani playwright, composer and public figure Uzeyir Hajibeyov, who authored the Azerbaijani national anthem   8°, [4 pp.] title page and introduction, 94 pp., [2 pp.], 28, in Cyrillic and Perso-Arabic script, later brown cloth…

  Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).  

  12°. 88 pp., original front cover with lettering, 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (minor foxing, hand-written old price on the inner side of back cover, otherwise in a good condition).

A rare newspaper by the Crimean Tatars, printed in Dobrich in Bulgaria, with a contribution from the Tatars from Warsaw [Kırımın Kurtuluşu Anılması / Commemoration of the Liberation of Crimea] 8°. 34 pp., with two illustrations, [2 pp.] index, modern wrappers (slightly age-toned and stained, sporadic old repairs in white margins, small holes, cause from an old binding in the…

  [Our nations shall work together in war and in the peace that will follow]   A rare, seemingly unrecorded poster with portraits of Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill was printed in Slovenian language in Great Britain, probably to be distributed in the Yugoslav Partisan camps on the territory of the liberated territory in Italy. Lithograph, 48 x…

  A stunning lithographed map, designed by Abbas Sahab - Father of Iran's Cartography, in English and partly in Farsi, was the third map by this author, showing a modern city of Tehran in 1964, at the beginning of the White Revolution, which mondernised the infrastructure of Iran.  

  A rare Abbas Sahab's miniature version of a map of Tehran was published in 1958, soon after the 1953 Iranian coup d'état.

A pair of books with 27 handsome colour woodcuts, showcasing various patterns of chintz, wood block printed or painted glazed calico textile panels, made by a Japanese artist Ryuko Goto and published in Kyoto in 1903. 2 volumes (complete), large 4°, reverse collation, original illustrated wrappers, originally bound with brown strings. Vol. 1: Guard, title, 14 colour woodcuts on double…

  A collection of 19 large drafts for textile patterns by an Austrian designer Ludmila Hellmann-Kavalla  

A fascinating collection of 30 early Thai Cremation Volumes in near-mint condition.

A fascinating collection of 30 early Thai Cremation Volumes in near-mint condition.

  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. 

A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of the Americas, being the ‘Ace of Spades’.

  The rare map of the Balkans, Austria and Southern Germany from the ‘Rome Ptolemy’, a monument in the early history of engraving and the cartography of Central and Southeastern Europe.

  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.

  The first Slovenian translation of the first and only authorized biography of the Beatles, made by a Slovenian musician Tomaž Domicelj with an attractive cover design   2 volumes, 8°: 310 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2 pp.]; 335 pp. Original tan cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine, original illustrated wrappers (Good, used condition, wrappers with…

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).

[Including the Maps:] Sketch of the positions taken up before the Fort of Nowah 1819 and Plan & Sketch of the Fort of Nowah 1819.   An important issue of ‘The Calcutta Journal’, one of the highest quality, most influential and controversial newspapers in India of the first third of the 19th century, notably featuring an authoritative and detailed eyewitness…

12°: [2] blank, 135 pp., folding map, original printed cover, bound in a mid-20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine, old typed annotations on the inner side of the back cover (old hand-written price on the inner side of the back cover, map with minor tears in margins and pin-size holes on the crossings of…

  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 fascinating and academically valuable ‘insider’s account’ of the Jagannath Temple (in Puri, Odisha), perhaps the most famous and controversial place of Hindu worship in the world, home to the Ratha Yatra, a massive festival where in old times pilgrims were crushed under the wheels of gigantic ceremonial chariots (under mysterious circumstances), events the inspired the English work ‘Juggernaut’; featuring…

  The only known surviving examples of a pair of fine nautical works by Captain Edward Smith, R.N., being a large-format sea chart of the Levant, accompanied by a sheet of nautical views of the same coast, based on Smith’s reconnaissance of the coast aboard the yacht ‘Menai’ in the spring of 1840. 

  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 charming post war pictorial map of Barbados   Colour lithography, 63 x 50 cm (24.8 x 19.7 inches) (soft folds, minor staining, but overall in a good condition).  

  [M. Pasteur and His Discoveries and Especially Regarding the Preventive Method Against Rabies. Lecture Given First, in Istanbul, at the Imperial School of Medicine on March 7, and then in Péra, at the Greek Literary Sylloge on March 22, 1887].   8°: 41 pp., original front wrapper, later red cloth binding with gilt lettering (good, minor staining and age-toning,…

  Exceedingly rare and highly important – a complete, contemporarily bound annual run of 53 issues of the maiden and only full year of operation of the ‘The Regenerator of Aryavarta’, the short-lived but highly influential weekly journal published in Lahore, edited by a triumvirate of young luminaries led by the precocious 18-year-old Lala Lajpat Rai, who later gained fame…

Thomas WINGATE (1807-1869) (att.). [S. l., S. d., but probably Pakistan or India, 1840]. A large original drawing showcasing the the Siege of Kahun in Balochistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War, probably drafted by an amateur artist and officer Thomas Wingate, later active in Australia. Watercolours on paper 28,5 x 41cm (11.2 x 16.1 inches), mounted with margins under old…

  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…

Gu HONGMING (also Ku Hung-Ming, 辜鴻銘, 1857-1928). Beijing: The Peking Daily News, 1915. 8 º , [8 pp.] blank and titles in Chinese and English, 21 pp., [3 pp.] blank and index, X, 168 pp., original green binding (binding little water-stained and rubbed, internally clean with sporadic annotations in pen and pencil). The first edition of a collection of essays…

  A historically monumental, unrecorded field archive documenting the immediate practical, diplomatic, and economic implementation of the Treaty of Passarowitz (1718). This suite pairs the highly confidential, field-translated correspondence of the Ottoman Governor Mustafa Pasha with the exhaustive, two-part economic census of named frontier districts and Slavic estate owners ceded along the military demarcation lines of Habsburg Serbia—capturing the exact…

  A colossal composition that has the distinction of being the second ever official Japanese map of the world, with the present edition revised to epitomize the Japanese geographic conception of the globe near the beginning of the Meiji Era, when the country embarked upon a program of hyper-industrialization and international interaction; one of the iconic Japanese maps of the…

  [On Thursday, March 15th, 1832 in the Imperial Theater by the Actors of the Court. Der Graf von Burgund, Play in Four Acts, by August von Kotzebue].

[Theater in Düsseldorf, Today, Friday, April 19, 1831 the Imperial Russian court artist and professor of natural magic Carel Ivanovich von Mekold, who arrived here from St. Petersburg on his return journey from Paris. …War Goddess Minerva…] Düsseldorf: April 1831. Broadside, 35 x 21,5 cm (13.8 x 8.5 inches), (soft fold, otherwise in a good condition) (#70376). A playbill for…

  This is an ephemeral set of 4 theatre programs, made in 1919, by the British at the POW camp Bilbeis, Egypt.

  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 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. 

Very rare – the first maritime anemological atlas of the South Atlantic off the coasts of Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, covering an area extending from the Río de la Plata up the mouth of the Amazon, charting the monthly wind patterns at all points throughout this critical sector, by the French Admiral Viscount Octave de Chabannes, featuring 50 full-page plates…

  A rare and highly attractive little Turkish thematic atlas featuring 11 World maps detailing the locations of key agricultural and mineral resources; made by Ömer Lütfi, a secondary school teacher in Adana, in the spirit of President Atatürk’s sweeping educational reforms; published in Mersin, a stellar example of provincial Anatolian printing.  

A great monument of thematic cartography, being an atlas of world maps that depict geomagnetic declination and inclination throughout the globe as it varied at different historical times, created by the eminent Norwegian physicist and astronomer Christopher Hansteen, its 15 maps, printed on 7 plates, are largely predicated upon the author’s own meticulous data collection methods and analytical skills which…

  A rare book on the theory of relativity was written by one of the first Ottoman electrical engineers Mehmed Refik and contains various experiments, which should be tested in order to confirm Einstein’s theory, published in the final form in 1916.   Large 8°. 40 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (minor foxing, wrappers slightly scratched…

Lithograph, 57 x 84 cm (22.4 x 33 inches) (soft folds with tiny tears, but overall in a good condition).

  A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of Tibet, being the ‘3 of Diamonds’.

A gigantic time chart of the world, based on Sebastian Adams’s legendary map of the history of time, printed in Guadalajara and pertinent to Mexican history.   Colour lithography, originally mounted on linen and varnished, linen stripes on the joints between segments. 70 x 682 cm (27.6 x 268.5 inches), (tiny loss of margins, varnish chipped, one of the joints…

Joseph PRIESTLEY (1733-1804). London: J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard, May 1, 1805 Copper engravings and lithography, originally dissected to 21 segments and mounted on linen with green silk edges, 64 x 97cm (25.2 x 38.2 inches), housed in an original green mottled papered card slipcase (slipcase slightly rubbed, little foxed and stained). A time chart, composed by one of…

An exceedingly rare, large-format (almost 2 m!) time chart in Swedish language, printed by the first lithographer in Sweden, Karl Müller.   8 sheets, lithography with original colour, each circa 57 x 44 cm (22.4 x 17.3 inches), ca 106 x 170 cm (41.7 x 66.9 inches) if assembled. Uncut edges with tiny tears, some contemporary annotations in ink in…

  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.

  An archive of 6 original photographs, showcases important events in Tirana, Albania, on the eve of WWII: from the time of the wedding of Zog I, King of the Albanians, in April 1938, to the invasion of Fascist Italy, in April 1939.

  A rare pamphlet with a text on privilege to sell tobacco from the prince-elector of Bavaria Charles Albert to Carl Roman Meyern from Austria.

Mardinizâde Ahmed Cemaleddin. Istanbul: Teşebbüs Matbaası 1340 [1924], information on the title page - Cumhuriyet Matbaası 1341 [1925] – information on the cover. 8°, 151 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers, stapled (staples rusty and broken, minor staining, otherwise a good, uncut example) (# 70738). A manual on the cultivation of tobacco in Ottoman language, issued in…

  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.

[Gunapatha also Guna Patha]   8°, title, 41 pp., originally bound with a string (old manuscript annotations in pencil on the cover, little age-toned and stained, sporadic pages with strong age-toning, small tears andtiny loss of paper in margins, mostly in first and last pages) (#70500).

  A large rare lithograph showcases a Croatian castle Trakošćan, which was rebult in a neogothic style until 1860 and is today a popular tourist destination.

  A broadside by the Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, Maria Theresia, announces new regulations for mourning for the families of deceased in the Austrian hereditary territory. 

  [Seyahat Jurnali. İstanbul'dan Bağdat'a ve Hindistan'a. Sene 1300 ila 1304 / Travelogue. From Istanbul to Baghdad and Istanbul. From 1883-1887].   8°, 119 pp. with 12 interleaved black and white plates and one double-page plate, original yellow cloth boards with gilt and black lettering and decoration, later calf spine with gilt lettering, later marbled endpapers (minor foxing, endpapers slightly…

  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 detailed transportation map of Trieste, issued the after the city was returned to Italy in the wake of World War II.

  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.

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