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  A travelogue to the Holy Land through Egypt by a Croatian professor Krsto Krile, published on the eve of WWI.   8°, XI, 231 pp., interleaved photographs, two folding plates, and three folding maps (Jerusalem, Croatia, the Holy Land), original boards with decoration and lettering, original cloth spine with lettering (hardly noticeable foxing, very light wear to the corners,…

  A pro-Russian pamphlet, printed by a Croatian underground press during WWII, includes a text by a popular Croatian politician Stjepan Radić, originally published in 1924.

  An Ottoman book on dog breeds by a pioneer of the Turkish cynology Cafer Fahri Dikmen (1876  - 1962).   8°, 191 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (slightly stained and aga-toned, old hand-written number on the rear cover, otherwise in a goo condition).  

Colour lithograph, 19,5 x 26 cm (7.6 x 10.3 inches) (soft fold, otherwise in a good condition).

  The very rare first edition of a foundational work of Cypriology, published in Nicosia, it is the first anthology of primary historical sources on the island, featuring 35 accounts, ranging in date from 1196 AD to 1870, collected and translated from 12 different languages into English by Claude Delaval Cobham, who served as the District Commissioner of Larnaca Province…

  8°.  26 pp. in English and Ottoman, [1] title page in English, original debossed pink wrappers with lettering in Ottoman and English, stapled (binding with light staining and water staining, staples rusty with the wrappers detached, inside a good clean example).  

  A detailed travelogue to Cyrenaica, Libya, by an Italian jurist and artist Giuseppe Haimann.   8°, 141 pp. with black and white illustrations, [3 pp.], folding colour map, original blue wrappers with tan colour, later spine (Slightly age-toned and stained, later spine, p. 133 with tiny narrow loss of text in the outer margin, One line of contemporary ink…

  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 publication in Czech language on the post war reconstruction, was published in 1945 in Jerusalem.

  A scarce map of Czech Republich, made by the Pan-Slavic physical education movement Sokol, on the eve of the partition of the country.

  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.