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  An unusual version of the Persian grammar and an introduction to the country by the British missionary and linguist William St. Clair Tisdall was probably printed in the Middle East for the missionary purposes.  

  A broadside by the Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, Maria Theresia, announces new regulations for mourning for the families of deceased in the Austrian hereditary territory. 

  A broadside, announcing that robbing of the corpses as a crime, was printed amid the Napoleonic wars, two days after the Austrian invading of Bavaria and weeks after Napoleon’s taking over Vienna.

  An attractive pop-up Polish version of Snow White was designed by the master of the 20th century pop up books Vojtěch Kubašta.

A rare first edition of Armenian poetry with a beautiful art nouveau cover design, printed in colour, was published by the Mekhitarists’ press in Venice.

  [On Thursday, March 15th, 1832 in the Imperial Theater by the Actors of the Court. Der Graf von Burgund, Play in Four Acts, by August von Kotzebue].

The first advanced scientific survey of Brisbane’s Harbour, the British Admiralty’s rare large-scale sea chart, based on the work of Commander Edward Parker Bedwell and Lt. Edward Connor.

  [A List of the Famous and Venerable Dead, Buried in the City Cemeteries of Munich. With II, III, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII Appendices and a Name Register].  A rare, historically important list and biographies of famous people, mostly artists and scientists from various countries, buried in the Munich cemeteries was written between the two wars and annotated during…

  A rare Belorussian folio size newspaper printed by the émigrés in Munich, Germany.

  A fine example of an early edition of a directory of the East India Company’s entire civil, military and commercial establishment, issued during the Second Anglo-Maratha War; a treasure trove of information, illustrated with a map.

  Very rare – the official first printing of the first comprehensive trade agreement between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia, presented in parallel French and Ottoman Turkish text, published by the Imprimerie Osmanié in Constantinople in 1906.

  A good collection of 22 + 10 numbers of the Ottoman magazine Servet-i Fünun, known for its richly illustrated content, promoting international events, progress in technology, medicine and education, and a gathering point of the modern Ottoman literature.

  An important dissertation on aerodynamics by using a wind channel was made as a result of experiments, expanding over years, by a German engineer Max Schirmer at the blimp factory Zeppelin during WWII.

  A highly decorative Ottoman portfolio with initials from the circle or institution of sultan Abdul Hamid II.

  A special supplement to the ‘Times’ of London featuring the ‘Epitaph’ of WWI’s Gallipoli Campaign, being a gripping and detailed account of one of the most brutal military altercations in world history and one of the greatest ever defeats for the British Empire, written by Sir Ian Hamilton, the supreme commander of the Allied operation, just as it was…

  A seemingly unrecorded, separately issued Ottoman map depicting the Siege of Port Arthur (1904-5), today part of Dalian, China, whereby a massive Japanese force took the heavily fortified Russian base after an unexpectedly brutal showdown, one of the great military events and global media spectacles fin-de-siècle era, and one watched with special interest by the Sublime Porte, long Russia’s…

A pamphlet in French language was written by one of the Bulgarian leading literary experts to show the superiority of the Bulgarian over Serbs, through their literature, during WWI, when the neighboring Bulgaria and Serbia were fighting on opposite sides.