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  Two rare 1930s maps of Newfoundland were beautifully privately bound together in a green leather binding, made by a famous London based bookbinder Riviere & Son. 

  A pair of rare, seemingly unrecorded newspapers in French and English language was published for Belgian and American soldiers in Léopoldville (now Kinshasa) in the Congo in 1961.

  An unusual book was made at the first anniversary of the German newspaper Deutsche Adria-Zeitung in Triste under the Nazi occupation and was printed days before the Allies and the Partisans took over the city. The introduction was written by an Austrian Nazi politician and Gauleiter, Friedrich Reiner, who was later tried at the Nuremberg trial for war crimes and executed in Yugoslavia…

  A rare first translation of The Little Prince to Esperanto was printed in 1961 in Orléans and was accomapnied with black and white illustrations, based on the original drawings. 

  A decorative originally coloured mezzotint portrait showcasing General George Eliott, the Governor of Gibraltar with a siege in the background, was drafted by a Brussels-based artist Pierre de Glimes, and printed by Johan Fredrik Martin, a Swedish specialist in mezzotint stipple engraving and colour printing.

  The two original drawings are first-hand accounts of the construction of roads and canals by Austro-Hungary, during its occupation of Montenegro in WWI. The drawings were probably made for a publication.

  Exceedingly rare – one of only 2 known examples - the first publication of the earliest systematic trigonometrical survey of the south-western coast of Sri Lanka, a self-contained section of a four-part series of charts resulting from Lieutenants Frederick Thomas Powell and Richard Ethersey’s masterly survey of the ‘West Coast of Ceylon’, undertaken upon the orders of the East…

  A set of original fotos of Yugoslavian president Josib-Broz-Tito was made by Yugoslav official photographers, for the central agency, which distributed the copies to the national and international newspapers.

  A pro-Russian pamphlet, printed by a Croatian underground press during WWII, includes a text by a popular Croatian politician Stjepan Radić, originally published in 1924.

  A rare book of poems in Armenian language were written by Gusan Ashot, an author and performer of Armenian lyrics. First edition.  From the library of an Armenian author and researcher Levon Mikirtitchian.

  A series of 28 Russian lubki showcases the main protagonists of the Caucasian war, battles with the Ottomans, and Cossacks.

  A rare unusual large originally coloured aquatint and etching showcasing the fortress Hohentwiel on the top of a volcanic dome in the German province Baden-Württemberg, as it look like before the demolition by the Napoleonic army in 1801, is presented in an unusual perspective of hemiorama.

  A large rare lithograph showcases a Croatian castle Trakošćan, which was rebult in a neogothic style until 1860 and is today a popular tourist destination.

  A detailed hand drawing in pencil and red and black ink from circa 1700 shows Fort-Louis in France, close to the German border.

  A unique Bidermeier hand painted miniature portrait of young Karl Freiherr von Schrenck, a later famous lawyer and Bavarian minister of Justice, fired for signing a memorandum against Lola Montez.

  An original 17th century hand-drawn portrait of count Friedrich Fugger, a member of the famous banking family from Augsburg. 

A beautifully painted view of the lighthouse Grebeni off of the coast of Dubrovnik was painted by a Slovenian-born Anton Perko, a Royal Marine Draftsman to the Habsburg court.

  This rare poster in Serbian language featuring two Soviet documentary movies was made in 1948, in the year of Tito-Stalin fall-out, what caused Yugoslavia's expulsion from the Cominform.

  A beautifully designed large book on the growth of the Fascist industry was published at the 10th anniversary of the rule of the National Fascist Party in Italy.  

  A small collection of proof states and unique 3D drafts for caricatures, concerning WWII in Yugoslavia, featuring powerful Anti-Hitler, Pro-Allied, Pro-Serbian Royalist messages; made in New York early in 1942 by Jewish expatriates from Hungary, Derso and Kelen.

  A rare Buddhist and Yoga manual in Croatian language was printed in Madras, India, in 1938.

  5 issues of an uncommon Croatian Nationalistic magazine were printed in Croatian and Spanish language in Buenos Aires by post-WWII Croatian immigrants and sold mostly in North America, Australia and Germany.