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A rare work on Turkestan was written in Arabic and published in Jedda.   8°. 42 pp. with double-page map of Asia, original blue front wrapper with lettering, later blank rear wrapper, imprint from the original blue rear blank wrapper pasted under the index on p. 41 (p. 5-6 with trimmed outer white margin and tiny repaired tears, light staining…

  Very Rare - a colossal (over 1.5 metres wide!) and exquisitely detailed map of the first serious attempt to construct the Panama Canal, overseen in the 1880s by Ferdinand de Lesseps, the builder of the Suez Canal; by far and away the finest published rendering of the project, it traces the route of the intended channel across the rugged…

  A whiteprint issue of an apparently unrecorded official large-format transportation map of Panama made by the engineers of the U.S.-run Panama Canal Zone Government, issued early in World War II, when the canal was of special geostrategic concern; signed as “Approved” by Glen Edgar Edgerton, the Governor of the Canal Zone.   Photographically reproduced print from original manuscript (Very…

  This map of the Panama Canal was issued in 1915, the first year after opening of the canal as a folding map with information for travellers. The detailed large map in the middle shows the canal with its routes.

  A stunning set of 17 unused colourful flyers by Yugoslav Partisans with text in Slovenian and Italian language, printed over a flag of Yugoslavia and Italian minority in Istria, was made immediately after WWII for annexation of Trieste to Yugoslavia at a referendum.

The first bibliography of Slovenian Partisan publications, issued in April 1945, only weeks before liberation. 

[A Year of Fights at Soča River: September 1943-1944].   Small 4° : [1], title page in red and black, 87 pp. mimeographed text, [3] pp., original wrappers with mimeographed cover (light staining and foxing, small tears in margins, overall in a good condition); plus inserted, related pamphlet, large 8° : 8 pp., with mimeographed illustrated cover and text.  …

  A rare, seemingly unrecorded flyer made by a clandestine Partisan press in Slovenia shows a caricature of Hitler unsuccessfully fighting away Allied planes.

  [1945 Declaration of the New Yugoslavian Government of Marshal Tito].   The official declaration of the foundation of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, the temporary state formed by the Partisans as World War II was in its final stages, printed by an underground Slovenian Partisan press   12°. 12 pp. original wrappers with linocut in red and blue, stapled (old hand-written annotation…

  12°. 18 pp., original wrappers with lettering and illustrations, stapled (old hand-written number on the upper part of the cover, otherwise in a good condition).