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  [Hikâye-i Hikemiyye-i Mikromega / A Moralizing Story Micromégas]   A rare Ottoman translation of Voltaite’s science fiction short story Micromégas   8°: 31 pp., original tan wrappers, later spine (wrappers with light staining and foxing, inside in a clean, partly uncut condition with hardly noticeable foxing to the last pages).  

  [The Brazilian Letter. A Letter of the Holy Father to Brazilian Bishops on the Catholic Action]   A rare mimeographed pamphlet with an encouraging message to the heads of the Catholic church by Pope Pius XI was probably published by the Slovenian political and war refugees in a DP camp in Austria in 1946.   8°. 28 pp., [2…

  [Our nations shall work together in war and in the peace that will follow]   A rare, seemingly unrecorded poster with portraits of Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill was printed in Slovenian language in Great Britain, probably to be distributed in the Yugoslav Partisan camps on the territory of the liberated territory in Italy. Lithograph, 48 x…

  Card and paper sleeve with printed lettering, 19.5 x 26 cm (7.6 x 10.2 inches) (slightly stained, soft folds, repaired old tear).  

  8°: [4 pp. titles], 736 pp., with3 interleaved plates, [2 pp.] blank, with original illustrated cover, contemporary three-quarter calf with yellow paper boards with debossed decoration, spine decorated with mounted paper elements, original green endpapers (good, minor staining and tiny tears in margins, one page with a small tear, loose endpapers missing, binding with light scratches, tiny worm holes…

  8°, [2 pp.], 84 pp., interleaved 15 plates, original covers mounted on modern cloth binding, modern pink endpapers (minor foxing, small holes in inner white margin from old binding with a string, some plates loose, original covers slightly rubbed on the corners, tiny folds in corners, but overall in a good condition).  

  [Special Map of Australia in 9 Sheets, after Original and Official Sources by A. Petermann]   A rare, separately issued Petermann’s map of Australia on 9 sheets with old colour, originally mounted on linen and joined together in a wall map, printed by the finest German cartographic office.   Original coloured lithography, 98 x 122 cm (38.6 x 48…

  8°: 71 pp., original wrappers with lettering, later spine (Ottoman annotations on the top of the title page, otherwise in a good condition).

  [Usûl-i Coğrafya-yı Sagir / Small Introduction to Geography]   An early Ottoman geography book with large, wonderfully originally coloured maps.   12°: 156 pp., [4 pp.] blank and errata, 3 folding plates with maps – lithographs with original colour, original green boards and green cloth spine (binding with small chips and scratches, inside in a good condition with minor…

  Colour lithograph, 24 x 33 cm (9.44 x 13 inches) (soft fold, minor staining, otherwise in a good condition).  

  Lithograph with original colour: 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 inches) (soft fold, slightly age-toned and stained, small tears in margins).

  Colour print, printed from both sides, 43 x 60 cm (17 x 23.6 inches) (soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).