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  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.   

  8°, 171 pp., original tan wrappers with lettering (deaccessioned library example with sporadic notes and small stamps, minor cracks to the wrappers, otherwise a seemingly unread example).

  A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of Kasakhstan, Uzbekistan & Turkmenistan.

  An unusual, well designed map of Kathmandu that was printed in 1972, during the height of the Nepal-Himalaya tourism craze.

A Tatar translation of an Azeri tale by a Russian writer Lermontov was published in Kazan in a turbulent year 1918, when the city founded its independent state of Turkic peoples and Volga Germans, was briefly sieged by the Czechoslovakian Legion and was eventually defeated by the Bolsheviks.    8°. 15 pp., trimmed rear original wrapper with lettering mounted with…

Nikolai Ivanovich KOTOVSCHIKOV (KOTOVSHCHIKOV, 1846-1905) [Title on Rear Wrapper:] Ординарный профессоръ Императорскаго Казанскаго Университета. Н. И. Котовщиковъ. Признаки распознаванія и лѣченія чумы. Переводъ съ русскаго. Изданіе Гайнуль Гибадъ Хасанова. Kazan: Типо-литографія Императорскаго Университета [Typo-Lithography of the Imperial University] 1911. [Ordinary professor at the Imperial Kazan University. N. I. Kotovshchikov. Signs of Recognition and Treatment of Plague. Translation from Russian. Published…

A rare pamphlet in Russian and Tatar languages is a new program for the first six years of Muslim primary schools, confirmed by the All-Russian Congress of Muslim Students, an organization, aiming to uniformize the education and culturally unite Tatars in Russia on the eve of the Russian Revolution.   8°, title in Tatar, 55 pp. including 7 pp. in…

[Bulgar Harabeleri hem Burunegi Bulgarları / The Ruins of Bolghar and the Ancient Bulgars]      A rare Tatar publication with an illustrated text on the ruins of the ancient city Bolghar, the capital of Volga Bulgaria from the 8th until 15th century, was printed in Kazan in 1908.                 8°. 44 pp. with black…

An extremely rare sammelband featuring several foundational works regarding the colonial era in what is today Kenya and Uganda, composed of various publications and ephemeral documents assembled and custom-bound in 1889 by Sir Lewis Pelly, one of the founding directors of the Imperial British East Africa Company (IBEAC), the private company that was charted in 1888 by the British government…

8°. 111 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, 20th century dark brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (a tiny repaired hole in the title page, old price written in the inner side of the back cover, otherwise in a good condition ).

An Italian map of the natural harbour of Kismaayo, in the far south of Somalia.     Photozincograph, with navigational markers heightened in yellow and some details added in manuscript in red pen, with pastedown date stamp in lower left corner (Very Good, some wear along old folds), 55.5 x 70.5 cm (22 x 27.5 inches).