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  A scarce Croatian anti-Tito and anti-American book with 3 autobiographic articles describing a flight from Croatia, life in Allied DP camps, and exile to Argentina was written by a Croatian nationalistic fascistic politician Vjekoslav Vrančić, who served as a left hand to Ante Pavelić, and was a vice president of the Croatian so-called "government in exile" in Argentina.

  Pictorial map of East and West Pakistan in German language printed in Karachi in Pakistan in 1966.     

  A detailed transportation map of Trieste, issued the after the city was returned to Italy in the wake of World War II.

  A detailed economic atlas for gymnasiums in the Soviet Union, made at the height of the Cold War, showcases the country as a progressive unity, far ahead of the capitalistic countries. 

  An edition of a rare legendary eight-page Azerbaijani satirical political illustrated magazine in Azari, Russian and Turkic language, published in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 1930. 

  Rare – the only work on the economics and economic history of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from the early British colonial period, by Anthony Bertolacci, the island’s Corsican-born Auditor-General, featuring information of immense historical value published nowhere else, augmented by the first edition of Captain Gaulterus Schneider’s revolutionary map of Ceylon – the first scientific survey of the island.

  A beautifully designed art deco map centred on Zagreb, Croatia, made as an advertisement for a competition, organised by a newspaper Jutranji list (Morning Paper), was drafted by a pioneer of the Croatian graphic design Otto Antonini.

  A first edition of an Esperanto translation of a report on concentration camps in Poland by a Polish autor Zofia Nałkowska.

An attractive late 19th Century original watercolour view of Kumbhalgarh Fort, one of the most impressive of the Rajasthan ‘Hill Forts’, probably drafted by a British soldier.

  A translation of Ruskin’s children’s book with original zincograph engravings by a Yugoslavian academic painter Anton Koželj in Art Nouveau style.

  A selection of original Partisan poetry was printed for the underground theatre events of the resistance.

  A receipt by an Istanbul-based architect of Italian origins from the late 19th century.

  An early report on the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland, written by a Russian writer Konstantin Simonov, and published in Slovenian language during WWII in Moscow.