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A rare, important history book in Bulgarian language, written by a prominent Bulgarian diplomat,  was printed in Istanbul by a Macedonian Press   8°, [2] title page, XXI, 616 pp., [4 pp.] errata, newer marbled wrappers (uncut example, partly unbound title page with missing upper white corner, some pages lightly stained, old dried moist stains between pages 180-200, otherwise in…

A rare anti-Semitic work in Croatian language was published on the eve of WWII.         8°. X, 221 pp., original wrappers with lettering (old owner's stamp on the first page, tiny tears in the  wrappers, otherwise a good, uncut example).  

A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas)   Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).

A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas)   Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).

A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas)   Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).

A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas)   Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).

A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas)   Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).

[Bibliography of Publications in the National Liberation War. 1941-45]   The groundbreaking bibliography, listing over 9000 titles of underground publications, issued by the Yugoslav Partisans during WWII, including in North Africa, Italy and in the concentrations camps.                                  4°: [18 pp.] with a full-page portrait…

This exceedingly rare ephemeral propaganda mimeographed magazine for small children was printed by an underground Slovenian partisan press during WWII.      8°. 16 pp. mimeographed text with the illustrations, original illustrated blue wrappers, stapled (soft vertical fold, wrappers with light staining and a small loss of a corner on the rear cover, the crosswords on the last page filled…

An important and scarce work on Partisan publications by Vladimir Dedijer, subsequently one of the most internationally esteemed Yugoslav academics, issued in Belgrade shortly after its liberation.   Large 8°: 158 pp. (1 image within text), 1 plate,  1 folding plate, [1] (index), original tan wrappers with printed brown and red cover, stapled, on the first blank page a stamp of…

An unusual early feminist anti-Hitler publication from 1934 was written by a famous Slovenian / Yugoslavian female writer, who later became a partisan fighter, prisoner of the  Ravensbrück concentration camp and after the war a victim of the new Yugoslav regime.   8°. 96 pp. with black and white title page, original illustrated wrappers (light foxing, mostly to the wrappers…

The first printed pharmacopeia in the Ottoman Empire with an original text by an Austrian medical doctor Karl Ambros Bernard, was published by Henri Cayol, the first lithographer in Istanbul. A uncut example with original wrappers.   4°, [4 pp.] titles, IV, 161 pp., [2 pp.] errata, original blue wrappers with lettering, book-seller’s stamp in Ottoman on p. 1 (good, uncut…

An unusual work in German language by a retired professor of zoology Alexander von Brandt, searching for the explanation for the female liberation, especially sexual liberation, and feminism through the history, evolution, botanical and zoological examples.   8°. VII, 202 pp. with black and white images, [2pp.], 4 black and white plates, original orange wrappers with lettering (sporadic pages cut…

8°. [10 pp], 225 pp., later brown cloth binding with lettering on the spine (sporadic small repaired tears in margins, light staining an foxing, old written price on the inner side of the rear board, otherwise in a good condition).

The first edition of Halit Ziya’s drama Kabus (Nightmare), published in Ottoman language in 1918   8°. 222 pp., original wrappers with lettering, modern black cloth binding with gilt lettering (minor staining, original wrappers with light age-toning and staining, a tiny piece of paper missing in the rear wrappers).

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…

A deeply disturbing but historically important map depicting Łódź, Poland shortly after it was conquered by the Nazis in early World War II; all the of place and street names have been changed from Polish to German nomenclature and all signs of the city’s Polish population and Jewish community (which numbered over 30% of the city’s residents) has been erased;…

An early illustrated Ottoman zoology and botany book in a magnificent red morocco binding is a translation of a contemporary German book. The translation, made by a medical doctor to sultan Abdulmejid I,  Hekimbaşı Salih Efendi, during the time of the Tanzimat, was a major contribution to Ottoman understanding of the Western contemporary biology and terms, which provided the grounds for…

A round view from the Milan Cathedral from circa 1880   Lithograph (Very Good, overall clean and bright, just some short tears entering from margins closed from verso, old folds), 43.5 x 43.5 (17 x 17 inches)

An unusual work by a Ukrainian medical doctor Boris Tschlenoff, based in Switzerland, discusses the future of Russia, with a hope it will develop in a democratic federal republic. 8°, 24 pp., later blue cloth binding with gilt lettering (lacking original wrappers, slightly age-toned, old hand-written numbers on the inner side of the boards, otherwise in a good condition).

The first edition of a scientific illustrated geological book on the Tatras was written by a Polish foremost expert on the subject Edward PASSENDORFER (1894-1984). The brilliant cover design was made by a Polish academic artist Konstanty Maria Sopoćko (1903-1992), possibly still as a student, who would later become a prominent designer, printer and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts…

An extremely rare and intriguing raised relief map of Prague and its environs, created by the innovative professor, Anton Hickmann, whose passion was popularizing geography; published in Reichenberg, in northern Bohemia (today Liberec, Czech Republic).   Lithograph in colour, pressed into raised relief on thick card (Good, even toning and some wear to highest points of relief, edges worn and…

Colour lithograph, 70 x 51 cm (27.6 x 20 inches), verso views and advertisements (soft folds with small partly repaired holes on the crossings and tears in margins, minor staining, otherwise in a good condition).

A book on the Ukrainian language and the language, used by the Roma in Ukraine, was published in English language by the Academy in Saint-Petersburg.