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  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.

  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 book in Ottoman script on Asia, richly illustrated with black and white photographs and maps.

  A rare, elaborately printed world almanac with portraits of politicians and royalties from all over the world was made in Istanbul for the years 1894 / 1895. It includes texts or China, Russia, Prussia, Afghanistan, Austria, Japan, France, Iran etc.  

  Very Rare and Historically Important – a fine example of the first (and for a generation thereafter only) almanac for Goa and Portuguese India, being perhaps the greatest single published source of quantitative information on Goa during the 1830s; printed in Bombay by the Goan-operated Typographia Portugueza.

  Very rare and historically important – an official Ottoman government printing of the 1862 comprehensive trade agreement between the Sublime Porte and the Zollverein (the German Customs Union), an epic accord that formed the basis for Germany’s dramatic expansion into the Ottoman economy from the 1880s towards World War I.  

  A rare map with blank spaces, meant to be filled in by hand, was printed to showcase the drill of the military troops of the Electorate of Saxony in the area between Leipzig and Dresden.

  An award- winning radio play in German language by a Slovenia-born author on the absurdity of the dictatorship with a photomontage cover.

  The book is a homage to a Bohemian author Karel Čapek upon his premature death, at the age of 49, written by his Serbian and Croatian colleagues, published in an unstable situation on the eve of WWII, when Čapek was listed an enemy of the Nazi Germany.   

  A rare pioneering work on the Croatian contemporary art, printmaking and theatre scenography glorifying the artist Tomislav Krizman as the leading artist of the South Slavs on the eve of the birth of Yugoslavia. With a beautiful expressionist cover by a Dalmatian artist Jerolim Miše.

  A fine example of a Yugoslav mid-century book design and socialist propaganda for children is joined in a 1961 math primer.

  A short novel with a Futurist cover was published in Slovenian language in Fascist Italy by one of the last persisting Slavic publishing companies, under Italian censorship, in 1933.

  The scarce first edition of poems by one of the greatest Croatian poets of the 20th century Ivan „Goran“ Kovačić.

  A modernistic Serbian literary magazine, influenced by the Russian avant-garde.

  An uncommon Slovenian translation of Pope’s decree against the Communism with a unique striking cover was published by a Missionary press to educate children.

  The first edition of one of ‘Dukhter-i Hindu’ [The Girl of India], a ‘romantic and exotic drama’ by Abdulhak Hamid, a foremost late Ottoman poet, playwright and statesman, immortalized in Turkish literature as ‘Dahi-i Azam’ [The Grand Genius]; the work is of profound historical importance for its daring poetry which transcended traditional rhyming schemes, embracing controversial social questions of…

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