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  This is an ephemeral set of 4 theatre programs, made in 1919, by the British at the POW camp Bilbeis, Egypt.

  A large colourful Soviet map shows Tashkent, Uzbekistan, rebuilt in a contemporary socrealistic style after an earthquake of 1966, which erased almost the entire city.

  Rare – an issue of the Afrikaans-language almanac issued by the government of the South African Republic (ZAR); featuring a vast wealth of information on the Afrikaner society during the greatest gold rush in world history and upon the eve of the Second Anglo-Boer War; evidently a special hardcover example bearing the stamp of the chief state printer. 

  A fascinating, very rare large-format map of Burma and Northeastern India composed by Robert Gordon, a prominent explorer, Ruby prospector and the principal engineer of the Irrawaddy River system, published in Calcutta by the Surveyor General of India’s Office.

  The first and only edition of a decorative Art Deco map of Warsaw shows post, telegraph and telephone stations in 1936.

  A rare set of reports on astronomy was published in the early Stalinist period in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.  

  A uncommon collection of Armenian poetry by an Aleppo-born Harutiun Berberyan was published in Bairut, Lebanon. Signed by the author and with a collector’s stamp by an Armenian author and researcher Levon Mikirtitchian (Lewon Mkrtchʻean).

  A rare, richly illustrated book in Ottoman script on Africa, North Pole, Australia and South America.

  An extremely rare illustrated volume of Robinson’s travels through America, from Mississippi, to Canada, Greenland, the Caribbean to South America, was published in German language in 1816.