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  An attractive translucent map of the moon, printed on a thick paper, and backed with thin blue paper.

The rare first German edition of a first-hand contemporary report on Palestine during WWI, by one of the major figures in the Zionist movement and spy in the Ottoman Army for the British, Alexander Aaronsohn, was published in Switzerland during WWI.

  A gigantic rare Turkish poster for the memoires of the German Nazi politician Franz von Papen, which were banned in the post-war Germany, was made by a leading Turkish Female designer Gülümser Aral. This is a hand-numbered proof state with the author’s original signature in the upper left corner.  

  One of the early posters by the Polish graphic designer Roman Cieślewicz, later Paris based designer and an art director at Vogue and Elle magazines

A rare book on the palm reading by a pioneer and foremost authority of spiritualism and spiritism in the late Ottoman Empire Ragıp Rıfkı.  

  An uncommon book on Napoleon Bonaparte in Ottoman language, printed by the Bulaq Press in Cairo

  A book on Armenian history with a folding map, showcasing the historical territory of Armenia, was printed during WWI in Istanbul, on the eve of the Armenian Genocide.

الازميرى Muḥammad ibn Walii Izmiri), Author of the Commentaries; ملا ( خسرو Molla Hüsrev, died 1480) Author of the Original Tex

  A German pocket book, printed for the soldiers in WWII, was owned by a German prisoner of war, stationed in the POW camp in Trinidad, Colorado.

  A rare larger pamphlet with a poem by an Austrian nobleman of Jewish origins Leopold von Neuwall was published in Verona for the Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria.

  A large and exceedingly well executed decorative manuscript commissioned by the Deutsch Verein (German Society) of San Francisco, California, presented to the ‘Iron Chancellor’ Otto von Bismarck, in honour of his role as the Unifier of the German people, drafted by Carl Eisenschimel, a skilled Austrian Jewish artist and the Bay Area’s foremost forensic handwriting expert; with provenance from…