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[Kitab Khoyshtáb ve Zar dest efshár ve Zedah Ruh / The Book of Innate Ardour and Hand-Churned Gold and Great River]   8°. Title page, [8 pp.], 84 pp. lithographed text, contemporary green card wrappers, later green spine, mounted label “ Presented by the Trustees of the Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Translation Fund” on the inner side of the front board (title…

8°, 34 pp., [2 pp.] blank, later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).

  [A List of the Famous and Venerable Dead, Buried in the City Cemeteries of Munich. With II, III, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII Appendices and a Name Register].  A rare, historically important list and biographies of famous people, mostly artists and scientists from various countries, buried in the Munich cemeteries was written between the two wars and annotated during…

  Map of Munich made for the occassion of the Arts & Crafts Fair of 1908 as an advertisement by a world famous fabrics and clothing factory Lodenfrey, which specialised in Bavarian and early hiking clothing.  

  A scarce first-hand account on the Civil War along the route of the Trans-Siberian Railway was written in New York by lieutenant general Saharov, a White Russian émigré, in 1920, and was published by a Commander of the Russian Imperial Navy, Harald Graf in Munich, Germany.

An attractive and vibrant large format map of Buenos Aires, capturing the city midway through its 50 year-long boom era, when it was one of the world’s most exciting, fast growing and cosmopolitan metropolises – an ‘Edición extraordinaria’ issued to celebrate the 1910 International Railway Exposition, a major sign of the Argentine capital’s coming of age - published by the…

[A Memoir of a Terrible Murder of Her Royal Highness Queen Elisabeth on September 10th, 1898]   12°, 32 pp., original illustrated wrappers, stapled (minor foxing, cover slightly stained with a ink stain, otherwise in a good condition).  

  A rare, first printed compilation of Albanian folk songs was printed in 1940, during the Italian military occupation of Albania.

  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.

  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. 

  The first translation of a groundbreaking late 12th century travelogue through the Mediterranean, from Spain to Mecca and Jeddah, by a Muslim scholar Ibn Jubair (ابن جبير) from Banu Kinanah (بَنُو كِنَاَنَة‎,).   8°. XXVII, 412, later black boards and cloth spine, original titles mounted on the cover and spine (minor foxing, title with light staining and scratches, otherwise…