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  A rare collection of two titles that feature entertaining and valuable accounts of early frontier life in Patagonia, the result of separate investigative tours of the Río Negro and Chubut territories by the brothers Moritz and Theodor Alemann, prominent journalists, who endeavored to assess the regions’ suitability for Germanic immigration and to weave German immigrant ‘colonies’ in Argentina into…

  A very rare broadside with Ottoman script showing the Battle of Kosovo was made in the series of large separately published maps by the Turkish War Office the late Hamidian period as a part of intellectual propaganda to revive patriotic sentiment.

This is a rare first edition of a highly influential first separately published Ottoman work on the Kurds, written under a false name of a German scientist by an Albanian author in the time of the last years of the Ottoman Empire. The text, which diminishes the Kurdish minority, played a major role in the formation of the Turkish opinion…

  A rare poster map, showing the Battle of Kursk during WWII, was published by the Higher School of Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the highest educational institution on the Soviet Union. 

  Very rare and historically important – the most detailed and accurate Ottoman map of the Kuwait and the Basra region of Iraq, issued by the General Staff of the Ottoman Army for strategic and operational planning early in World War I and during the twilight of the reign of Sheikh Mubarak Al Sabah, the ‘Father of Modern Kuwait’; depicting…

The publication contains transcriptions of documents related to the foundation of Kuwait, sourced from the Ottoman archives and published after World War I.    8º, 34 pp., original front cover with lettering, later spine (missing rear cover).  

[The Sahara Railway between Gabes and Sudan and Its Evident Correlation with the Commercial Interests of Italy]   An unusual pamphlet, written by an Italian engineer Leone Paladini and printed in Cagliari, Sardinia, advocating a Trans-Saharan railway, connecting Gabès in Tunisia with towns in today’s north Nigeria.   Small 8°, 64 pp. original green wrappers with lettering, later spine (minor…

Raymond JANIN (1882 – 1972). Istanbul: Échos d’Orient 1920. 8°, 72 pp., index, [4 pp.] with 4 photolithographed plates, blank, original paper wrappers with lettering (good, clean condition) (# 70740). A seminal work on the history of Thrace, Greece, published in Istanbul on the eve of the Greek War of Independence.

[Los Salmos / Book of Psalms]   An uncommon Book of Psalms in Ladino, printed in Istanbul by an Armenian publisher under a sponsorship of the American missionaries.   12°: [4 pp.,], 217 pp., [3 pp.] blank, original dark blue cloth card wrappers (minor staining mostly to the first and last pages, wrappers slightly rubbed, with light staining, a repaired…