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A poem composed by Georg Friedrich Stauber, a theology student, and Christian Reinhard Steinheil (1708 – 1786), a court official for the occasion of the 8th birthday of Christian IV, the future Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1722 - 1775), from a line of the Bavarian imperial family Wittelsbach, at the time still known as Christian III. As he was married morganatically…

  A set of 6 original gouache drawings, including one original photomontage with mounted newspaper images, was made for advertisements in the early 1950s in Germany.   

  [al-`Urāḍa fī l-ḥikāya al-salğūqīya / The Gift from the History of the Seljuks / Das Greschenk aus der Saldschukengeschichte]   A rare first printed publication of an important 14th century historical work on the Seljuk Dynasty, written in Farsi, was a groundbreaking work of a German famous orientalist Karl Süssheim, which gained him a professorship at the University of Munich.…

  An Ottoman translation of articles on the role of Germany in the Ottoman Empire and on the Balkans by a German author Ernst Jäckh, a promotor of the Young Turks in Germany and later professor at the Columbia University, was published during WWI in Istanbul.

  A rare first and only edition of a pro-German text in Ottoman language by a Russian revolutionary, Marxist, supporter of the Young Turks and a friend of a controversial ambassador Hans von Wangenheim, Alexander Parvus was written during Parvus’s staying in Istanbul.

  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 work from the sequence of the first broadly accurate maps of the Gold Coast (today’s Ghana), created by the Intelligence Division of the British War Office, with exceedingly detailed coverage of travel routes into the interior and the labelling of the domains of tribal nations, the present edition was made to guide British forces,…

  Circa 185 x 130 cm (72 x 50 inches), lithograph in colour, printed from two originally joined plates, originally mounted on linen with wooden rollers. With contemporary annotations in pencil and pen.   A rare gigantic wall map of Fatih in the European Part of Istanbul is the first official survey project of the city, made in the newly…

  An Italian illustrated magazine on the war events on the Balkans in 1897.