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  A rare translation of Lenin’s texts on the unification and protection of the Muslims in the Soviet Union was published in Tashkent and Samarkand in 1926. Small 4°. 195 pp. with a portrait of Lenin, [5 pp.], 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (minor age-toning, handwritten old price on the inner side of…

  The first Uzbek translation of Stalin’s Foundations of Leninism with an attractive crude cover design, printed in Tashkent in Perso-Arabic letters   Large 8°, 373 pp., original illustrated card boards (endpapers cracked in the gutters, old signature and date on the title page, a stamp from a de-accessed library on the inner side of the front cover, binding lightly bumped…

  [Manifest des Kommunistischen Partei / Communist Manifesto]   A Serbian translation of the Communist Manifesto, printed by the Yugoslav partisans days before the end of WWII   8°: 64 pp., [4 pp.] blank, original tan wrappers with lettering (minor traces of use, old signature on the title page, but overall in a good condition).    

A first-hand account with a map of the camp., by a concentration camp survivor, published shortly after the liberation   8°, 30 pp., [1] printed map, original green wrappers with illustrated cover (Very Good, spine with a small hand-written number, spine slighty age-toning with a tiny tear).  

Hélio Augusto Esteves FELGAS (1920 - 2008).   Carmona [today Uíge], Angola: [Privately Published by the Author], 1959.   Large 8° (16.5 x 22 cm): 188 pp. typescript, with 2 folding maps, the first, Divisão administrativa do actual Congo Belga (between pp. 36 & 37) printed on tracing paper (21 x 20 cm) and the second, Baixo e Medio Congo…

  One of the most significant manuscripts regarding exploration and ethnography in sub-Saharan Africa to appear on the market in many years, being the original diary of the French adventurer Robert Hottot complied during his groundbreaking ‘Mission ethnographique du Kanem-Chari-Logone’ (1908-9), to what is today Congo (both PRC and DRC), the Central African Republic and Chad, where he made meaningful…

  A stellar moment of African cartography and inland hydrography, being the first atlas, or accurate, complete large-scale map, of the 1,724 km-long navigable route of the Upper Congo River from Léopoldville (Kinshasa) to Stanleyville, the only natural passage into the heart of Africa, made during World War I for the use of steamer captains by the specialist Belgian colonial…

  German-Ottoman / Turkish Relations Congress of Berlin  

  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 collection of patriotic stories by popular Brazilian writers Olavo Bilac (1865 – 1918) and Coelho Netto (1864 -  1934).   Small 8°, 283 pp. with colour illustrations in text, illustrated boards, original red cloth spine (slightly bumped on the edges, light foxing, internally with minor age-toning).

1130 recipes from the rich Triestino cuisine by a former war reporter Maria Stelvio, made in the time of rationing and published during World War II in Fascist Italy.   8°, 461 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, [3 pp.], original wrappers with lettering (wrappers with tiny tears and loss of paper, mostly around the spine, little stained,…