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  These are first two WWII editions of an illustrated Soviet satirical magazine Krokodil, published only days after Hitler's invasion on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941.   

  A book on the Ottoman Empire and its relations with Russia, France and the Balkans was written in the year of breakout of a Russo-Turkish war in 1788, and is based on the personal notes of a orientalist Constantin François Volney, later accused by John Adams' administration in the United States of being a French spy. Bound in a decorative contemporary…

  A first-hand account report, based on the notes of a traveller and medical doctor Isaac Salomon Kapper from Prague, describes Slavic nations and Ottoman Empire on their political border.

A very rare book of Lithuanian folk songs, translated to Esperanto, was published in Kaunas on the eve of the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, and in the last year of the Lithuanian Esperanto Association before WWII.

  A first and only translation of Les fleurs du mal to Esperanto was published in La Laguna on Tenerife Island in 1957. 

  An uncommon illustrated scientific book,  written in Esperanto, includes numerous original articles on biology, chemistry, geology, linguistics and other topics. 

  An uncommon work by a Danish scientist in Esperanto with scientific explanations on the development racial distinctions, was published on the eve of WWII and was opposing racism. 

  This is a first edition of a famous Esperanto book by Lajos Tárkony on contemporary Esperanto authors, published in Budapest in 1932.

  A rare lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early cyrillic script and with original colour shows popular motives from Russian folklore.

  A rare lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early cyrillic script and with original colour shows popular motives from Russian folklore.

  A rare lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early cyrillic script and with original colour shows popular motives from Russian folklore.

  A rare lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early cyrillic script and with original colour shows popular motives from Russian folklore.

  A rare lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early cyrillic script and with original colour shows popular motives from Russian folklore.

  A rare 19th century photolithoraphed lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early cyrillic alphabet and with original colour shows a holy fool and a clairvoyant Ivan Yakovlevich Koreisha. 

A rare 19th century photolithoraphed lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early Cyrillic alphabet and with original colour shows a restaurant scene accompanied by comical poem in Russian language.  

A rare 19th century photolithoraphed lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early cyrillic alphabet and with original colour shows a variation of the motiv of a fountain of youth. 

  A rare 19th century photolithoraphed lubok (Russian popular broadside) with original colour ahows four scenes from the life of Jesus, accompanied with figures of sibyls from ancient Greece.  

A 1748 edition of the first accurate book of Arabic grammar by orientalist Thomas van Erpe includes the first Latin translation of the 9th century Arabic anthology the Hamasah by Abu Tammam.

  An attractive double-sided map and tourism guide to the great port city of Trieste, made on the eve of WWII, when the region was under the rule of the Italian Fascists.

  Extremely Rare – a pair of large-format maps respectively depicting Northern and Southern India, featuring the ecclesiastical divisions of the Roman Catholic on the subcontinent, prepared for the Vatican’s State Secretariat by Girolamo Petri, issued within his monumental atlas, ‘L’Orbe Cattolico ossia Atlante Geografico Storico Ecclesiastico’.

  An Esperanto translation of a Wilhelm Hauff's novel Die Sängerin was published in Berlin by Friedrich Ellersiek shortly after WWI, in 1921.