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  The first edition of an attractive official guidebook to the Pacific Island territory of Western Samoa, then a mandate ruled by New Zealand, published by the Government Printer in Wellington.

  A rare large chromolithographed map of Turkey with Istanbul in the middle was published in Russian Cyrillic as a part of a detailed series of maps of European Russia, made in the late 1920s by the Soviet Military Topographic Office, under the command of the Red Army.

  Presented here is a set of 20 issues of the Komunikat Informacyjny, a double-sided broadside bulletin that was intended to quickly deliver news to front line soldersduring the Warsaw Uprising.

  Two uncut rare 19th century photolithoraphed lubki (Russian popular broadsides) with text in early cyrillic alphabet and with original colour show popular motives from Russian folklore.

  A stunning example of a separately issued de Jode map of the British Isles was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican.

  Of great historical importance – the earliest known portrait of Friedrich von Gentz, one of the central figures of the Vienna Conference of 1814-1815.

  A rare pamphlet in Spanish language represents the latest events of the Russo-Turkish War between 1736-1739, as reported from the Viennese court.

  A stunning example of a rare, separately issued map of Burgundy by Abraham Ortelius, was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican.

  A stunning example of a separately issued de Jode map of France  was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican. 

  A rare school book of geography, printed in Slovenian language, in a DP camp in Spittal, Austria, by the refugees from Slovenia two years after WWII. 

  A stunning example of a separately issued first map of the duchy of Luxembourg, published by Gerard de Jode, was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican.

  A rare Turkish version of an award-winning text on the role of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.

  A first separately printed publication of a letter written by the Egyptian prince Mustafa Fazil Pasa to Sultan Abdul Aziz, today considered one of the greatest documents of Turkish liberty, was made in Cairo under the British rule, to support the Young Turks movement in the time of their formation.

  A stunning example of a rare, separately issued map of Spain and Portugal by Gerard de Jode, was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Mapsin Vatican.

  A stunning example of a rare, separately issued map of Burgundy by Gerard de Jode, was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican.

  A set of original, exquisitely executed manuscript plans of the blockhouse of the Prince of Wales Battery, one of the key components of the elaborate new defensive system that the British constructed around Cape Town (South Africa) during their first occupation of the colony from 1795 to 1803; drafted by Captain (later Major-General) George Bridges, the commanding Royal Engineer…

  A rare gigantic atlas with highly decorative colour lithographed maps, charts and plans represents the regulations of the Danube Delta, after the Black Sea was pronounced neutral territory and the Danube opened a connection between the Central Europe and the Black Sea.

  A rare gigantic atlas with highly decorative colour lithographed maps, charts and plans represents the regulations of the Danube Delta after the Treaty of Paris, after the Black Sea was pronounced neutral territory and the Danube opened a connection between the Central Europe and the Black Sea.