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  [Proletarian. Organ of a Central committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party]   8°. 91 pp. mimeographed text, original wrappers with mimeographed lettering and title in red linocut, stapled (wrappers with minor age-toning, minor wear to the corners, otherwise in a good condition).    

  [Extract of the Contract on Mineral Oil on the Segment of al-Jazeera [i. e. Upper Mesopotamia, in this case Iraq]].   8°: 23 pp., original pink wrappers with lettering, stapled (soft folds, minor staining in the upper part, but overall in a good condition).  

  [Tercüman-ı Hakikat ve Musavver Servet-i Fünûn / Interpreter of Truth and Servet-i Fünun] A special edition of a cultural magazine with a first modern Ottoman article on the quarantine by a prominent author Ahmet Mithat Small Folio, 158 pp., [2 pp.] index, [8 pp.] with portraits printed recto only, original green boards with imperial insignia, later black cloth spine…

  An exceedingly rare – possibly unique – artifact from the World War II Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union, being a indigo photographic print of a Red Army map of Kursk, Russia, made on a portable printing press by one of the German Army’s ‘Motorized Surveying and Map Detachments’; Kursk, occupied by the Germans from November 1941 to…

  8°, 443 pp., [4 pp.], contemporary pink boards and brown spine, endpapers made of old stationary paper with printed grids (binding with light staining and recent hand-written title on the spine, old manuscript annotation in pencil on the title page and in black ink on p. 85, endpaper with small loss of material and pieces of mounted paper, minor…

  [Commemorative Map of the World War. The Great Footprint of Meiji, the Great Undertaking of Taisho].   An extremely rare and very large format Japanese propaganda map, a grand pageant of imagery celebrating Japan’s military triumphs during the Meiji and Taishō Eras that made her an Asian-Pacific superpower and gave her a great empire, showcasing elements of the just-concluded World…

  Colour print, 63 x 46 cm (inches) (soft folds, minor age-toning, but overall in a good condition).   A decorative late art deco map showcases Ankara with its modern neighborhoods  

  An unusual visualization of the end of the Balkan Wars and the beginning of the World War I, representing the last stages of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, connecting rotating nationalistic thoughts in a flower-shaped pattern, centralized on the word “Homeland” Colour print, 57 x 40 cm (22.4 x 15.7 inches) (minor staining, soft folds, verso proof state…

  A whiteprint issue of an apparently unrecorded official large-format transportation map of Panama made by the engineers of the U.S.-run Panama Canal Zone Government, issued early in World War II, when the canal was of special geostrategic concern; signed as “Approved” by Glen Edgar Edgerton, the Governor of the Canal Zone.   Photographically reproduced print from original manuscript (Very…

  A rare complete last series of the legendary Ottoman intellectual magazine Servet-I Fünun, which introduced the popular Western culture to the East   11 issues in 11 volumes (10 volumes with each 20 issues, 1 volume with 11 issues), all small folio, each issue with 16 pp. with black and with illustrations and illustrated cover, sporadic issues with colour…

  An Ottoman book on modern western astronomical discoveries, edited by Selih Zeki, the director of the Imperial Observatory   8°. [4 pp.] introduction, folding plate, 247 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, [2 pp.] blank, 19 interleaved photographs with irregular numeration, one double-page celestial chart, original broen cloth binding with debossed decoration and gilt lettering on the…

  A rare first printed Ottoman book on Geology   8°: 9 pp., [6 pp.], 146 pp., colour folding plate, contemporary yellow and black card binding with gilt debossed decoration (rear cover scratched, stained and with small loss of material, minor staining, plate with soft folds, binding scratched on the edges, text pages clean).