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8°, [12 pp.] red and black printing on thick folded brown paper, original illustrated wrappers, author’s dedication on the title page, signatures by the author and the artist an hand-number on the last page (tiny tears in margins and around the spine, otherwise in a good condition).

Small 8°,  50 pp., 12, illustrated card wrappers, signed by the author on the first page (wrappers with a minor wear, otherwise in a good condition).

10 issues (of 15), 8°, between 15-18 pp. with black and white illustrations, original colour wrappers (minor staining, uncut and unbound as originally published, small tears, overall in a good condition).

8°. 334 pp., [1 p.], 20th century cloth with gilt lettering on the cover and spine (sheets with light foxing and staining, old hand-written price on the inner side of the back cover, overall in a good condition).

A scarce work on the Communism was written by an Azerbaijani author Resulzade Mehmet Emin during his exile in Istanbul. Emin was an influential pan-Turkist, pan-Islamist and communist, who saved young Joseph Stalin in Baku in 1905 from being arrested, which later helped him for not being prosecuted later in the Soviet Union.   8°. 144 pp., 20th century brown…

[Borʹba russkoj demokratіi protiv bolʹševikov. Zapiski očevidca i učastnika sverženіja bolʹševistskoj vlasti na Volgi i v Sibiri / The Struggle of Russian Democracy against the Bolsheviks: Notes of an Eyewitness and participant in the overthrow of the Bolshevik authorities on the Volga and in Siberia]   A contemporary first-hand account on the battles with the Red Army on the Volga…

8°. Original front wrappers with lettering, [4 pp.] introduction, 186 pp., [2 pp.], contemporary purple cloth, contemporary stencilled endpapers (minor staining, age-toning and foxing, light scratches on the front wrappers, binding slightly bumped and scratched, traces of old paper label on the spine, overall in a good used condition).

8°. [3 pp.], 445 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated cloth binding, old taxation stamp, rubber-stamp owner’s initials on the title page, original illustrated cloth binding, original pink endpapers (light staining, age-toning and foxing, sporadic small tears in margins, overall in a good condition).

[The Earthquake of Ljubljana and its Causes. A Lecture Held at the Conference of the Association for Natural Science for Styria in April 20th, 1895]   A rare speech on the Ljubljana earthquake of 1895, held in Graz by a geologist Rudolf Hoernes    8°. 61 pp., [2 pp.] blank, old blue wrappers (minor staining and foxing, wrappers with tiny…

A collection of Slovenian national and famous poems was translated into German during WWI, to encourage the Slovenian soldiers, who were fighting for the Austrian emperor against Italians. This is a rare luxury edition, which was issued on hand-made paper in 50 examples only, all of which were signed by the editor and translator Dr. Rudolf von Andrejka and given…

  A rare ephemeral Ottoman map of Africa was printed on the back cover of a notebook   8°. [48 pp.] manuscript in pencil on paper with printed stripes, stapled, original pink illustrated wrappers (front cover with light water-staining, tears, loss of image and recently repaired with scotch tape, map with soft folds and tiny tears in the margins, staples…

  Exceedingly rare and classified - one of the first accurate surveys of the Ahwaz area of the Arabistan region of Persia (today Khuzistan Province, Iran), importantly showcasing a great stretch of the first oil pipeline in the Middle East, completed in 1912, which connected the Masjed Soleyman Oilfield with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s refinery at Abadan; published in the…

  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…

  This is a superb example of a poster by a Poland-born artist Roman Cieślewicz, representing the SSSR and USA in forms of Supermen, as a mirror image of each-other, self-confidently rushing to save the world. The image was made amidst the Cold War and was published in a smaller scale on the cover of the esteemed French art magazine,…

  The first translation of a groundbreaking late 12th century travelogue through the Mediterranean, from Spain to Mecca and Jeddah, by a Muslim scholar Ibn Jubair (ابن جبير) from Banu Kinanah (بَنُو كِنَاَنَة‎,).   8°. XXVII, 412, later black boards and cloth spine, original titles mounted on the cover and spine (minor foxing, title with light staining and scratches, otherwise…

  A pair of very rare posters made for the Nazi-occupation regime in Slovenia during the summer of 1944, marking the terror that the German V-1 missile attacks were inflicting upon London, and supposedly Sir Winston Churchill personally, intended as propaganda pieces to rally the Third Reich’s dispirited Slovenian collaborators at a point when the Nazis were otherwise losing the…

  A fascinating artefact of World War I’s Mesopotamian Campaign – an Ottoman map of the vicinity of the Siege of Kut al-Amara, one of the conflict’s most dramatic events and one of the greatest defeats in British Imperial History; crudely lithographed in theatre by Ottoman engineers, based upon a “captured” British map that was itself based on fresh, detailed…

  The only known example of a fascinating cyanotype (blueprint) plan of Sekondi, capturing the Gold Coast’s (Ghana) main commercial port during the Edwardian boom period of economic and infrastructure development - a value artefact of the the Industrial Revolution and urbanism in Sub-Saharan Africa.  

  A very rare, large-format atlas of the sea floor off the western and northwestern coasts of Africa, from Morocco down to Sierra Leone, made by the German Navy during the height of World War II expressly for the use of U-Boats; with 24 plates of highly sophisticated and brightly coloured sea charts predicated upon novel, recent intelligence, it was…

  A spectacular artefact of the Gallipoli Campaign, being an extremely rare ultra large map of the Cape Hellas-Krithia battle sector issued by T.E. Lawrence’s (later ‘Lawrence of Arabia’) map department at the Intelligence Office in Cairo, predicated upon a recently “captured” Ottoman map that was the first proper survey of this critical military zone; greatly augmented by extensive and…

  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.  

This whiteprint photographic map, with its beautiful purple signature hue, depicts Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands.  The map was made by the Instituto Geográfico Militar, the Ecuadorian military mapping institution, predicated upon the best scientific surveys.  It shows all of the islands, while the legend, located under the title, gives symbols for the main towns and administrative centres; roads; airports; volcanic craters;…