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  A rare Abbas Sahab's miniature version of a map of Tehran was published in 1958, soon after the 1953 Iranian coup d'état.

  A rare book, published by the Institute of the Peoples of Asia of the USSR in Russian Cyrillic in 1963, includes 10 short novels by contemporary Persian writers.

  A stunning lithographed map, designed by Abbas Sahab - Father of Iran's Cartography, in English and partly in Farsi, was the third map by this author, showing a modern city of Tehran in 1964, at the beginning of the White Revolution, which mondernised the infrastructure of Iran.  

  A large map of highways in Iran, printed by the Ministry of Roads, was printed in English recto and Farsi verso in 1970, in the time of the rapid development of the country under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in the time of the White Revolution. 

  A decorative map of a Persan city Zanjan, was made by a famous Iranian cartographer Sahab in 1976, on the eve of the Iranian revolution.  

  A very large and beautifully produced separately issued map of the Empire of Persia (Iran), issued during the early days of the Pahlavi Dynasty; employing Persian script, it showcases the entire country in resplendent detail, predicated upon the best official sources; published in Tabriz’s glorious bazaar by the Saadat Central Library.

  An archive of 6 original photographs, showcases important events in Tirana, Albania, on the eve of WWII: from the time of the wedding of Zog I, King of the Albanians, in April 1938, to the invasion of Fascist Italy, in April 1939.

  A Slovenian translation of Heinrich Mann’s Professor Unrat, also known as The Blue Angel through its famous movie adaptation, was published in two parts in Ljubljana in 1935 with a unique photomontage cover, showcasing Marlene Dietrich and other characters from the movie.

  A seemingly unrecorded mimeographed newspaper was published by the German war prisoners in 1947 in the Middle East and it includes articles from Iraq and Egypt.

  An uncommon small map of North America was published in an Ottoman Turkish atlas at the beginning of the 20th century.