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  A fine, uncut example of the first edition of a famous Slovenian short story Kurent by one of the county’s greatest authors - Ivan Cankar.   8°, [4 pp.], 81 pp., [3 pp.], original patterned wrappers (old price, written in pencil on the cover, minor foxing to the first and last pages, tiny chips around the spine, but overall…

  An Ottoman propaganda text on the Turkmen tribes, published during World War I, with partly invented historical texts and statistics, written by an infamous fraudster Naci Ismail under an assumed names of foreign scientists.   8°. 533 pp., [3 pp.], original wrappers with lettering (wrappers slightly dusty and soiled with small tears, partly repaired spine, title page slightly age-toned,…

  An early modern Ottoman geography school book   Small 8°, 54 pp., [2 pp.] blank, 7 colour printed double-page maps, contemporary marbled paper boards and black cloth spine (binding restored with partly repaired loss of paper, tiny holes in the folds and tiny tears in margins, minor staining, but overall in a good condition).    

  A rare pamphlet, printed in Bulgarian language in Istanbul   Large 12°. 8 pp. (old owner’s name and annotation on the cover, old owner’s small stamp with initials on the top of the title page, tiny folds, slightly dusty, small repaired loss of white inner margin on the last page).  

  A rare pamphlet, printed in Bulgarian language in Istanbul   Large 12°. 24 pp., original wrappers with lettering (slightly age-toned and stained, old Ottman and Bulgarian stamps, old annotations, wrappers, first and last page with small loss of white margins).  

  Chromolithograph, 51 x 34 cm (13.4 x 20 inches), (small repaired tears in the fold, sporadic light staining in white margins, but otherwise in a good condition).      

  Chromolithograph, 51 x 34 cm (13.4 x 20 inches), (small repaired tears in the fold, sporadic light staining in white margins, but otherwise in a good condition).  

  A second edition of the most popular early translation of Julius Caesar, made by a Croatian writer and translator August Harambašić (1861 – 1911).   12°. 114 pp., original wrappers with lettering, later spine (used condition, cover with a light scratch and a paper stamp in the corner, old owner’s signature on the title page).  

  4 volumes on modern physics in Ottoman language with one of the earliest texts on the electricity in the Ottoman Empire.   4 volumes bound-in-one, 8°, [4 pp.], 162 pp., [2 pp.] blank. 155 pp. 87 pp. 136 pp. Contemporary blue cloth boards with debossed decoration and gold crescent, original brown calf spine with gilt decoration (minor staining, spine…

  8°, 206 pp. with black and white photos, contemporary red boards and black calf spine with gilt decoration and lettering, old small paper stamp with annotations in Ottoman on the cover (minor age-toning and foxing, old collector’s rubber stamp on the title page, otherwise a very good example in highly decorative original binding, with only slight wear to the…

    [A Short History of All-Connected Communist Party (of Bolsheviks)]   A rare book on the history of Communism, printed by the Slovenian underground press during World War II, bound in dyed parachute silk   8°, 296 pp., [4 pp.], original silk binding with lettering on the cover (good, used condition with minor foxing and annotations in pencil, old…

  8°, [8 pp.], 64 pp., with two black and white portraits of Oscar Wilde, original illustrated wrappers, bound in a recent black linen with gilt lettering and debossed decoration, signed by the translator (minor age-toning and staining, but overall in a good condition).