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  An unusual and rare collection of poems by a Slovenian author France Prešeren was translated to Bengali by Sisir K Chattopadhyaya, and published in Calcutta in 1957.

  A pair of rare maps, multiplied with a photographic procedure, were made by an underground partisan geodetic office during WWII and were carried on the field during operations.

  A rare, seemingly unrecorded pamphlet gives valuable details on the 1st Swiss organised pilgrimage to the Holy Land, attended by 501 people from Switzerland and South Germany, in 1903, when travel to Ottoman Palestine was still quite dangerous and difficult to arrange.

  Detailed map of Isfahan, made by a "Father of Iran'S Cartography" Abbas Sahab. 

  A detailed road map of Iran, with a chart of distances between the major Persian cities and an inset relief map, was made in 1960 by an Iranian cartographer Abbas Sahab.

  A rare Abbas Sahab's miniature version of a map of Tehran was published in 1958, soon after the 1953 Iranian coup d'état.

  A rare book, published by the Institute of the Peoples of Asia of the USSR in Russian Cyrillic in 1963, includes 10 short novels by contemporary Persian writers.

  A stunning lithographed map, designed by Abbas Sahab - Father of Iran's Cartography, in English and partly in Farsi, was the third map by this author, showing a modern city of Tehran in 1964, at the beginning of the White Revolution, which mondernised the infrastructure of Iran.  

  A large map of highways in Iran, printed by the Ministry of Roads, was printed in English recto and Farsi verso in 1970, in the time of the rapid development of the country under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in the time of the White Revolution. 

  A decorative map of a Persan city Zanjan, was made by a famous Iranian cartographer Sahab in 1976, on the eve of the Iranian revolution.  

  A very large and beautifully produced separately issued map of the Empire of Persia (Iran), issued during the early days of the Pahlavi Dynasty; employing Persian script, it showcases the entire country in resplendent detail, predicated upon the best official sources; published in Tabriz’s glorious bazaar by the Saadat Central Library.

  An archive of 6 original photographs, showcases important events in Tirana, Albania, on the eve of WWII: from the time of the wedding of Zog I, King of the Albanians, in April 1938, to the invasion of Fascist Italy, in April 1939.

  A Slovenian translation of Heinrich Mann’s Professor Unrat, also known as The Blue Angel through its famous movie adaptation, was published in two parts in Ljubljana in 1935 with a unique photomontage cover, showcasing Marlene Dietrich and other characters from the movie.

  A seemingly unrecorded mimeographed newspaper was published by the German war prisoners in 1947 in the Middle East and it includes articles from Iraq and Egypt.

  An uncommon small map of North America was published in an Ottoman Turkish atlas at the beginning of the 20th century.