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  A masterpiece of Art Deco design, being a large format separately issued map of Turkey with its railway systems, made during the height of the Kemalist Era when the republic’s railways were under the process of nationalisation and expansion, a key part of Atatürk’s political and economic agenda, published in Ankara – extremely rare.

  An extremely rare issue of a first Modena newspaper, reporting on the events happening in Europe and in the Ottoman Empire in the second week of August, 1680

  A rare example of a seemingly unrecorded early publication made for a drinking event of the pioneers of the Alpine mountaineering.

  Document on vellum for a post manager in Braunau, Austria, by the Family Thurn und Taxis, a key player in the postal services in Europe from the 16th century on. 

From the library of Sultan Abdul Hamid II – a very rare and highly important work, being the improved second edition of first book of statistics on the Ottoman Empire; illustrated with ground-breaking thematic maps predicated upon fresh, original data; one of the great landmarks in the era’s rapid modernization of Turkey, the Balkans and the Middle East; bound in…

  Seemingly unrecorded - a content-rich Scottish broadside, being on open letter written by Colonel William Fullarton, a prominent liberal statesman, addressed to the Duke of York, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army; created as part of the former’s legal and propaganda war against General Thomas Picton (later famous for his final act at the Battle of Waterloo), who had…