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  A rare song book, printed by a Partisan underground press during WWII, includes musical scores for seven poems, written by a Slovenian poet Simon Gregorčič.

  Rare – the first serious and detailed published proposal for an interoceanic canal across Nicaragua, compiled by the French journalist and speculator Félix Belly, with a large, magnificent, chromolithographed map by the engineer Thomé de Gamond.

  An original manuscript sketch map of the Grahamstown-Great Fish River region of South Africa, the strategically critical ‘Eastern Frontier’ of the Cape Colony, made immediately in the wake of the Sixth European-Xhosa War (1834-6).

  One of the earliest reports on the underground movement in Jewish ghettos and prison camps in Poland during WWII was published by Central Jewish Historical Committee in Poland in 1946.  

  A very rare newspaper with maps, printed by the Allies in Slovenian language, and dropped with airplanes in Yugoslavia, during the WWII.

  A rare, seemingly unrecorded lithographed broadside, printed in Switzerland, shows Algiers, besieged by French in 1830. 

  One of the first newspapers made by and for Muslim Bosniaks in their language, and printed in Latin script, after their partiton from the Ottoman Empire. 

  A book with original artwork. A numbered example, signed by the author.

  A rare map of Gottschee in Slovenia, privately published in Germany by the exiles from the area.

  A fascinating and important intelligence telegram, sent from the Royal Yugoslavian Embassy in Bern, Switzerland to the Yugoslavian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Belgrade, correctly predicting that Germany planned to attack England in September 1940.

  Very Rare - the first broadly accurate British sea chart of the Straits of Sunda, but also extending to include West Java (including Jakarta) and southeastern Sumatra, published by William Herbert in 1758.