A stationary sheet with extraordinary, elaborate watermarks featuring a portrait of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V Reshad and the imperial coat of arms, a curious work of court patronage. Stationary sheet bearing elaborate watermarks, original vertical centrefold (Good, a couple light irregular folds and a crease emanating from centrefold into watermarks, stain in lower-left side), 20.5 x 25.5 cm…
An amazing survivor – an early Istanbul opera broadside advertising the 1855 single-show performance of Gaetano Donizetti’s ‘Don Pasquale’ at the famous Naum Theatre in Pera (Beyoğlu), Constantinople, headlined by the legendary basso buffo singer Vincenzo Galli, published locally in Italian, Ottoman Turkish, Greek, Armenian and Armenian printed in the Ottoman Alphabet!
A rare ephemeral program written in French, Armenian and Ottoman, was published for a for the matinée and evening performance of the Ottoman operetta Leblebici Horhor Aga, written by an Armenian author Tigran Tchoukhajian.
8°, 64 with colour and black and white images, original colour wrappers, stapled (small tears and tiny loss of paper in margins, spine renewed, minor staining, but overall in a good condition).
An important dissertation on aerodynamics by using a wind channel was made as a result of experiments, expanding over years, by a German engineer Max Schirmer at the blimp factory Zeppelin during WWII.
[Leşkergah / Lashkargāh. Historical, Literary, Artistic, Archeological Studies] A pioneering work on the pre-Islamic history of art and archeology of a southwestern Afghan city Lashkargāh, with attached visiting card of the author 8°, 152 pp., interleaved 7 sheets, printed with photographs from both sides, original illustrated wrappers, author’s visiting card attached with a pin to the title…
An extremely rare Nazi report on the state of roads in Germany's former African colonies and the Belgian Congo, made early in World Wat II in preparation for plans for the Third Reich to regain its African empire either by diplomacy or force, being a printed copy of an original typescript labelled as 'Als Manuskript gedruckt' ('Printed as a manuscript'), issued…
A scarce, pioneering atlas of Africa with 18 colour plates featuring 50 maps designed by the leading Vienna map house of Freytag & Berndt, including some sophisticated works of thematic cartography and original maps showcasing the level of Western knowledge of the continent, made to capitalize upon the Africa-mania that swept the general public in the wake of the…
A rare ephemeral Ottoman map of Africa was printed on the back cover of a notebook 8°. [48 pp.] manuscript in pencil on paper with printed stripes, stapled, original pink illustrated wrappers (front cover with light water-staining, tears, loss of image and recently repaired with scotch tape, map with soft folds and tiny tears in the margins, staples…
A highly valuable and voluminous archive relating to the Portuguese Colonial War, or the ‘Guerra do Ultramar’ (1961-74), an epic conflict whereby Portugal fought to maintain its 400-year-old African colonial empire, simultaneously opposing large-scale and well-organized independence movements in Angola, Guiné (Guinea-Bissau), and Mozambique, forming three hot fronts in the Cold War; here being the military papers of Lieutenant-Colonel…
A complete set of the contemporary Ottoman translations of Schweinfurth’s influential travelogue to Africa. 8°: 911 pp. with black and white illustrations, folding map, coloured in outline, one toned lithograph with hand coloured details, contemporary Ottoman black calf with gilt and debossed decoration (remboîtage in a contemporary Ottoman binding) (minor age-toning and foxing, holes in the map on the crossings…
8°. 207 pp. with musical scores, signed by the author, bound in a contemporary marbled boards with black linen spine (minor staining, one page with light staining in the upper margin, sporadic sheets slightly loose, binding slightly worn on the edges, old signature on the top of the front endpaper, overall in a good condition).
A very rare ‘Restricted’ map of Agra made during World War II, when the city was feared to be a target of Japanese bombing, such that the dome of the Taj Majal was covered in camouflage, published in Dehra Dun by the Survey of India. Colour print (Good, some wear along old folds, some conspicuous toning to lower…
A rare pair of mimeographed books on agriculture printed on pink paper in Slovenian language in a DP camp in Austria after WWII Two titles bound in one volume, 4°, mimeographed on pink paper with illustrations. 42 pp., [3 pp.,]. 42 pp., [2 pp.,]. Original black boards and cloth spine (boards slightly rubbed, otherwise in a good condition).
8°, 156 pp., [4] with illustrated vignettes in the text, contemporary brown cloth binding without bound in wrappers (small tears and minor loss of paper in the gutter, minor staining, binding with light wear and ink staining, some sheets slightly stained in the margins, old bookdealer’s stamp on the last page, old signature and date on the title page, altogether…
8°. 29-35 pp., facing pages marked with the same number, with colour lithographed plates, printed covers, stapled (tiny loss of paper in the lower corners of the last pages, light staining and foxing, otherwise in a good used condition).
A rare pamphlet on a sermon preached in Nestorian Mission in Urumia, Persia, printed in Boston, and signed by the author, Rev. Justin Perkins, “an apostle to Persia” and the first citizen of the United States to reside in Iran.
A rare richly illustrated book, supporting the anarchist movement Mlada Bosna (Young Bosnia), responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, was written by a brother of one if its founders Vladimir Gaćinović, and published in Tunis.
A charming complete set of three rare Turkish medical pamphlets on anatomy, written in the Ottoman language for students of medicine, illustrated with amazing proto-modern colour plates. 3 issues (all published), all 8°, with original printed wrappers: No. 1: 69 pp. with black and white illustrations, with 5 interleaved colour plates; No. 2: 36 pp. interleaved with 3…
Large 8°: [25 pp.], title page and 12 chromolithographed illustrations, printed on one side only, verso tan paper, original cover, later binding, stapled (internally in good condition with minimal staining in margins, back cover replaced, front cover slightly stained with repaired vertical crack with tiny loss).
[The Gospel of Wealth. According to the English Text of Andrew Carnegie] A rare Greek translation of The Gospel of Wealth by an American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, a text especially important for the history of foundation of public free libraries 8°. 75 pp. with a full page portrait, [4 pp.], original card pink wrappers with illustration…
A rare, unusual separately issued propaganda publication in Croatian language with an extreme anti-Semitic content, was printed in 1939, on the eve of WWII. It is a reprint of a 1906 article by an influential Croatian politician Stjepan Radić (died 1928), who later became a liberal politician and regrated his early writings. 8°: 16 pp., original green wrappers with…
A rare anti-Semitic work in Croatian language was published on the eve of WWII. 8°. X, 221 pp., original wrappers with lettering (old owner's stamp on the first page, tiny tears in the wrappers, otherwise a good, uncut example).
The first book in Ottoman language to express anti-Semitic tendencies 12°. 78 pp. [2 pp.] blank, original illustrated purple wrappers (minor tears in margins, but overall in a good, uncut condition).
[Devil’s Daughter and Other Stories] Short stories in Arabic language written in Cairo during WWII by an Egyptian writer Mahmud Taymur and ornated with a stunning cover design 8°. 150 pp., [2], original illustrated card wrappers (wrappers rubbed on the corners and stained on the back cover, small old annotation on the title page, in a read…
Arabic translation of three texts on Oedipus by a prolific Egyptian translator Taha Hussein, accompanied with an overdramatic cover and charming mid-century clip art Small 8°. 194 pp., original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with short tears, folds and rubbed corners, small loss of paper around the spine, inside in a good condition).
8°, 443 pp., [4 pp.], contemporary pink boards and brown spine, endpapers made of old stationary paper with printed grids (binding with light staining and recent hand-written title on the spine, old manuscript annotation in pencil on the title page and in black ink on p. 85, endpaper with small loss of material and pieces of mounted paper, minor…
[Kitab üd-Dürr üs-Semin fi Esma ül-Benat ve’l-Benin / The Book of Precious Pearls of Boys’ and Girls’ Names] A rare book listing Arabic male and female names was printed by an early all-Arab patriotic press in Cairo 8°, 242 pp., modern brown cloth binding with debossed and gilt decoration and lettering (age-toned, small worm-holes in the lower part of…
[Poems from the Prison about my Country and the Things I Love] A collection of poems by an Egyptian revolutionary writer Ahmed Fouad Negm 8°. 118 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (light foxing, tiny wear on the corners, but otherwise in a good condition).
[The Second Separation of Forces Agreement in Sinai 1975 (An Analytical Study)] 8°. 415 pp. with maps in text, original illustrated card wrappers (wrappers lightly rubbed and stained with soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).
[Washington in Tel Aviv or There Used to be Israel Here] An Arab nationalistic book against Israel with an antisemitic cover design 8°. 184 pp., [8 pp.] with black and white illustrations, original illustrated card wrappers (wrappers slightly stained, corners with tiny chips and folds, spine with a small loss of material, imprint on the back cover…
A 1748 edition of the first accurate book of Arabic grammar by orientalist Thomas van Erpe includes the first Latin translation of the 9th century Arabic anthology the Hamasah by Abu Tammam.
An unusual archive in Hungarian language includes dozens of photographs and original typewritten police reports on true crime scenes from Budapest, made between 1947 and 1949, most of them related to murders.
Official Note from the Consul Charged ad Interim of the General Consulate of France in Buenos-Aires, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Confederation, reclaiming on the authority of international law, that the French, who notoriously and publicly have established themselves in the republic with the same enjoyments and civil liberties as the Argentine citizens, be not…
A rare Armenian almanac, issued in 1905 in Istanbul by the Armenian Hospital, including folding maps and valuable information on the Armenian minority. 8°, 512 pp. with portraits in text and interleaved 6 folding black and white maps, [20 pp.] advertisements on thin yellow paper, original blue cloth blinding with debossed black decoration and gilt lettering (title with…
An illustrated monography of an Armenian painter Martiros Saryan was published three years after his death by the Academy for science in Yeravan in Soviet Armenia.
A book on the founder of Armenian diaspora poetry in the United States Hamastegh was drafted by an Armenian designer Minas Minasian published in New York a year following the poet’s death.
An uncommon Armenian translation of a text on pedagogics by educator, president of Robert Collage in Istanbul and an expert on the Balkans George Washburn was published by the Armenian diaspora in Paris
A colouring book in Armenian and Turkish language with a story of a good Samaritan, was illustrated by a Dutch artist Kees de Kort, famous for his biblical illustrations for children and people with learning disabilities.
An uncommon book, printed in Yerevan in 1960 at the 40th anniversary of the Communist Party of Armenia, includes selected texts by six authors and pioneers of the Armenian Communist movement.
A book on Armenian history with a folding map, showcasing the historical territory of Armenia, was printed during WWI in Istanbul, on the eve of the Armenian Genocide.
A rare first edition of Armenian poetry with a beautiful art nouveau cover design, printed in colour, was published by the Mekhitarists’ press in Venice.
A rare book of poems in Armenian language were written by Gusan Ashot, an author and performer of Armenian lyrics. First edition. From the library of an Armenian author and researcher Levon Mikirtitchian.
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).
[Albom hay nshanagreru : aṛtʻiw 1500-ameaki hay tareru giwtin ew 400-ameaki hay tpagrutʻean / Album on the Armenian Letters on the 1500th Anniversary of the Invention of the Armenian Letters and the 400th Anniversary of the Armenian Printing] A charming ephemeral pamphlet with a series of Armenian letters, composed of portraits and images of monuments and important places…
[Complete Course for embroidery... Separate and Initial Letters of Names and Nicknames] Obling folio , [2] portraits and dedications, original guard, 29 pp. patterns, printed in blue, additional interleaved page between pp. 21 and 22 (missing original guards on the first portrait, second guards slightly age-toned, first two pages with light foxing and water-staining, other pages clean, binding…
[Bavarian Professional Exhibition of Restaurant and Hotel Industry. Augsburg June 26 – July 12]. An informative pamphlet with a rich selection of 1920s Bavarian advertisements on gastronomy and with highly decorative art-deco wrappers was published in 1925 in Augsburg.
A book of portraits of Slovenian male and female authors from 16th to early 20th centuries was privately bound in a highly decorative contemporary art deco binding.
A scientific work on the formation on Yugoslavia by a French Slavist Émile Haumant was contemporary bound in a highly decorative art deco binding with tricolour fore-edge colouring and tooling.
A rare Slovenian ski manual with highly decorative art deco drawings in black and blue without text with rare original wrappers. Large 12°: 139 pp. with a full page portrait, and black and blue illustrations, [5 pp.], original linen binding with red lettering, original dustjacket. Appendix 1: large 12°. 11 pp., [5 pp.] stapled. Appendix 2: large 12°.…
A stunningly well preserved art nouveau luxury edition of poetry by a Slovenian author Dragotin Kette with wonderful illustrations by an academic artis Maksim Gaspari, made in Munich and influenced by contemporary art nouveau. Large 12°. Portrait with a facsimile signature, XXXVI, [1 pp] text with a portrait, protected with original guard, facsimile of a letter protected with original…
8°. 15-21 pp., facing pages marked with the same number, with colour lithographed plates, printed covers, stapled (light staining and foxing, otherwise in a good used condition).
A unique, previously unrecorded letter by the Italian cartographer and scientist Giovanni Rizzi-Zannoni with his measurements of the latitude of Istanbul, based on the suggestions personally received from a Dalmatian geographer Roger Boscovich during his stay in Istanbul to observe the Transit of Venus in 1761.
[Observation of the New Problem of Mathematical Geography, i.e. the Science of the Earth's Sphere] An exceedingly rare treatise on the length of the day in various parts of the Earth, written by an Arab / Libyan scholar Muhammad Kamal al-Tarabulsi with an introduction of a Beirut-based American scholar Robert West 8°. 23 pp. with illustrations, printed in yellow…
8°, 206 pp. with black and white photos, contemporary red boards and black calf spine with gilt decoration and lettering, old small paper stamp with annotations in Ottoman on the cover (minor age-toning and foxing, old collector’s rubber stamp on the title page, otherwise a very good example in highly decorative original binding, with only slight wear to the…
A German translation of the second part of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s famous marathon speech in the parliament, which lasted over 36 hours in 6 days, is preserved with an extremely rare dust jacket, decorated by a striking powerful portrait of the Turkish leader.
A very rare atlas made by the Berlin Missionary Society, one of the most important missionary organizations in Africa and China during the 19th and early 20th Centuries, featuring 16 original maps made by missionary cartographers, including important figures such as Alexander Merensky and Bernhard Struck, containing 14 maps of South and East Africa and 2 maps of China;…
A very rare, large format, separately issued map of Australia and Oceania that is perhaps the last great map of the continent to be printed in Ottoman Turkish script, with attractive colours and adorned with the flags of major African states and colonies, published in Istanbul for the Kitabhane-yi Sudi bookshop. Colour off-set print (Good, some light staining, wear…
An uncommon Serbian book with poems by Todor Manojlović with the cover design by an Avant-Garde artist Mihailo S. Petrov, a member of Group Oblik. Signed by the author.
A stunning theatre and music play with original colour woodcuts by one of the leading Yugoslavian Avant-garde and Constructivist artist August Černigoj, made for Slavic cultural circle on the Fascist occupied territory.
A scarce work on the Communism was written by an Azerbaijani author Resulzade Mehmet Emin during his exile in Istanbul. Emin was an influential pan-Turkist, pan-Islamist and communist, who saved young Joseph Stalin in Baku in 1905 from being arrested, which later helped him for not being prosecuted later in the Soviet Union. 8°. 144 pp., 20th century brown…
[Overview of Azerbaijani History, Literature and Politics] A rare, important book with the history and current political situation of the newly founded Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, written by the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Adil Khan Ziatkhan, was presented at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, where the independence of the republic was confirmed internationally. 8°, 101 pp., original…
An exceedingly rare third, enlarged edition of Mirza Akbar Sabir’s poetry, accompanied with superb colour illustrations by Azim Azimzade, was published at the occasion of the erection of the monument to the peat in Baku in 1922.
An edition of a rare legendary eight-page Azerbaijani satirical political illustrated magazine in Azari, Russian and Turkic language, published in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 1930.
An attractive book for children in Azeri language, written with Arabic letters, with a humorous story in verses, was published in Baku in 1899. The author was a prominent educator, author and translator Sultan Mecid Ganizade. 8°. Title page, 41 pp., [4 pp.] blank, original pink wrappers with lettering and illustrations, contemporary brown cloth binding with debossed titles in…
The first modern book on geography in Azeri, written by a pioneer of Azeri modern education, Gafur Rashad Alakbar 8°. 117 pp. with black and white illustrations, [1 pp.], later marbled paper wrappers (slightly age-toned, light staining, sporadic old repaired tears in margins, lacking original wrappers, otherwise in a good, clean condition).
[Kitāb Rujūʻ al-shaykh ilá ṣibāhu fī al-qūwah ʻalá al-bāh / The Book of the Sheikh's Return to His Youth in Power of the Bah [i. e. Sexual Energy] …] 4°, 133 pp. with metal plate impressions, contemporary marbled paper binding with a flap and red calf spines, old paper tag with a title on the cover, contemporary pink endpapers,…
A rare Communist Azeri publication with contribution by various authors on the subject of the modern education was published on the Labour day, May 1st, 1924 to commemorate Lenin, who passed away in January of the same year. 4°. 74 pp with a full page portrait of Lenin, original wrappers with lettering, 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering…
[Nice, March 5, 1868. The Count of Castell, Grand Master of the Court, and the Lieutenant-General, Baron de Jeetze, Aide-de-Camp to his Majesty King Louis I of Bavaria, have the honour to ask you to attend the FUNERE SERVICE which will be held tomorrow, Friday March 6th, at 9 am, at the Cathedral for the rest of the soul of…
Broadside with printed template, manuscript additions in black ink, taxation stamps in the upper left corner, 25 x 16,5 cm (9.9 x 6.5 inches) (soft folds, a tiny hole in the lower corner, overall in a good condition).
An early example of a Bible in Arabic language, translated by Eli Smith and Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck, printed in the elegant “al-Amerikani” font by the American Mission Press in Beirut 8°, 920 pp., [2 pp.] title page, 295 pp., publisher’s dark brown full calf with debossed decoration, gilt lettering in Arabic on the spine (slightly age-toned, stained…
An exceedingly rare book on the Ottoman language for the Lebanese, printed by the Saint George Press in Beirut 8°. 195 pp., contemporary marbled boards and black cloth spine (last two pages with tiny chip in the outer white margin, binding lightly scuffed, otherwise in a good condition).
An unusual and rare collection of poems by a Slovenian author France Prešeren was translated to Bengali by Sisir K Chattopadhyaya, and published in Calcutta in 1957.
An extremely rare, seemingly unrecorded pamphlet with private home addresses of the nobleman, foreign diplomats and members of the Prussian court, was printed around 1800, probably for heads of protocol. The first name of the list it the one of the first US minister to Berlin John Quincy Adams.
[Kitāb-i Muqaddas, yaʻnī kutub-i ʻAhd-i ʻAtīq va ʻAhd-i Jadīd kih ʼaz zabānhā-yi ʼaṣlī-i ʻIbrānī va Kaldānī va Yūnānī tarjumah shudah ʼast] [Bible: The books of the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original Hebrew and Greek languages] A fine example of a rare first edition of the first translation of the Bible to modern Persian, published in London…
[Bibliography of Publications in the National Liberation War. 1941-45] The groundbreaking bibliography, listing over 9000 titles of underground publications, issued by the Yugoslav Partisans during WWII, including in North Africa, Italy and in the concentrations camps. 4°: [18 pp.] with a full-page portrait…
An important and scarce work on Partisan publications by Vladimir Dedijer, subsequently one of the most internationally esteemed Yugoslav academics, issued in Belgrade shortly after its liberation. Large 8°: 158 pp. (1 image within text), 1 plate, 1 folding plate, [1] (index), original tan wrappers with printed brown and red cover, stapled, on the first blank page a stamp of…
8°. 111 pp., portrait with red printing and lettering in margins, 20th century dark brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (minor foxing, hand-written old price on the inner side of back cover, one white margin trimmed, an old typed title mounted on the title page, otherwise in a good condition).
The first Slovenian translation of Anthony Scaduto’s highly influential book Dylan, originally published in 1972, with an attractive cover design. 8°: 437 pp. with black and white illustrations, original red cloth binding, original illustrated dustjacket (slight discoloration of the red cloth in the margins, light traces of red colour on the lower part of the wrappers verso and…
An ephemeral thick catalogue of obtainable Slavic books in 1935 by a mayor Belgrade-based publisher and book dealer of Jewish origins Geca Kon, who was arrested and executed at an unknown place at the time of the German occupation of Yugoslavia, in 1941.
A rare set of two books with reprint of texts from the Serbian underground Partisan newspaper "Borba", issued between 1941 and 1943, published by the Archive of the Yugoslavian Communist Party in Belgrade in 1949.
An Ottoman report on Bosnia and Herzegovina, published in the crucial year of 1908, when Austro-Hungary withdrawn from Novi Pazar in exchange for being given permanent sovereignty over Bosnia. 8°, 15 pp., original blue wrappers with lettering (minor water-staining, old annotations on the cover, wrappers with light staining, small tears in margins and old mounted paper label on…
A rare Bosnian pan-Turkic anti-Communist pamphlet was published during WWII by a Muslim intellectual Mustafa Busuladžić, who sided with the Croatian pro-Nazi anti-Communist government. The book was used as an evidence against him at his trial for collaboration only days after the end of WWII. 12°. 70 pp. with a portrait and a map, later 20th century blue cloth…
[Banaluka Sahrası Muharebesi / Battle of Banja Luka Field] Small 8°, original cover with lettering, [2 pp.] title page, 17 pp., new black cloth binding with gilt lettering and debossed decoration (improvised repairs of paper loss in inner margins, light water staining in margins, sporadic old annotations in pencil, minor staining).
A rare scientific work on plants by a Danish agronomist Paul de Neergaard, with highly decorative illustrations by Mads Stage, was originally written in Esperanto and later translated to other languages.
A scarce catalogue of the first exhibition of Yugoslavian artist in Poland after WWII, made in the month of the Tito-Stalin Split, after which the communication between Yugoslavia and Poland was shut down. From a library of Božidar Jakac.
Exceedingly rare – a great monument in the culinary history of Latin America, being an early edition of the first published Brazilian work on desserts, a valuable record of over 100 recipes, many quintessentially Brazilian and employing local produce and methods, a manifestation of the new pride in ‘things Brazilian’ that flourished during the reign of Emperor Pedro II;…
A rare, very large format double-sided sheet of maps of Bucharest (thus 2 maps), showcasing both the city proper and the metropolitan area, made during the early days of World War II by the General Staff of the Nazi German Army, just as Romania was switching sides from the Allies to the Axis cause; predicated upon the best information, the…
A rare book in Ottoman Turkish includes photoreproductions with the locations of the Ottoman army in Bucharest in Romania, during the occupation of Romania’s capital by the Central powers between 1916-1918.
[Mevkufat also Mülteka tercümesi. Mevkufati or Mevkufati. Mülteka tercümesi] The first printed edition of the most important text on the Islamic law in the Ottoman Empire 2 volumes in 1. Large 4°, 2 pp., 356 pp., 2 pp., 314 pp., original calf binding with a flap and debossed ornaments, modern black spine. Margins of the first pages…
An important Ottoman first-hand account on the political events of the second half of the 18th century and the relations with the Central Europe by a Baghdad-born author, was printed by the Bulaq press in Egypt. 2 volumes, bound in one, 4°. 14 pp. (index), 210 pp., [1] blank, 7 pp. (index), 190 pp., printed on thick paper, contemporary…
Possibly the first detailed history of Bulgaria made after the proclamation of its independence 8°, 191 pp., modern black cloth with gilt lettering and debossed ornaments (light staining and sporadic water-staining in margins, sporadic tiny holes in white margins (paper deformations- as published), title page with stronger staining and a small hole in the margin, first pages with…
A pamphlet in French language was written by one of the Bulgarian leading literary experts to show the superiority of the Bulgarian over Serbs, through their literature, during WWI, when the neighboring Bulgaria and Serbia were fighting on opposite sides.
[Resimli Bulgarca Rehber-i Kıraat / Illustrated Guide to Bulgarian] 8°. 52 pp. with illustrations, [2 pp.] errata (later wrappers, old taxation stamp on the title page, small worm holes in the lower part of the text, sporadic old annotations in pencil, otherwise in a good condition).
8°. [4 pp.], 620 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, 4 full page colour maps and one double-page map, contemporary red boards with black cloth corners and brown calf spine (minor wear to the binding, small cracks in the gutters of the endpapers, minor foxing, old pencil annotations on front endpapers, overall in a good condition).
[Les aventures de Télémaque / The Adventures of Telemachus by Fénelon] 8°, XV, 402 pp., [6 pp.], later brown three quarter calf with bown boards, later patterned endpapers (first blank page missing, sporadic underlinings in red pencil in the first pages, otherwise in a good condition with minimal staining).
A rare, important history book in Bulgarian language, written by a prominent Bulgarian diplomat, was printed in Istanbul by a Macedonian Press 8°, [2] title page, XXI, 616 pp., [4 pp.] errata, newer marbled wrappers (uncut example, partly unbound title page with missing upper white corner, some pages lightly stained, old dried moist stains between pages 180-200, otherwise in…
A book on Anatolia by a historian and diplomat Carl Jacob Burckhardt was printed by a private press in Munich in 1925 and was contemporary bound in an elegant half vellum binding.
A first separately printed publication of a letter written by the Egyptian prince Mustafa Fazil Pasa to Sultan Abdul Aziz, today considered one of the greatest documents of Turkish liberty, was made in Cairo under the British rule, to support the Young Turks movement in the time of their formation.
A collection of previously anonymous articles published in Paris, by a Cairo-based Ottoman medical doctor and a supporter of the Young Turks Şerefeddin Mağmûmî 8°. 301 pp., later (1970s) black cloth binding with gilt lettering (minor foxing and staining, imprint from old wrappers mounted on the inner side of endpapers, old price written on the inner side of…
A translation of an Italian work “On Tyranny” was translated into Ottoman as a propaganda piece at the time of the capitulation of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and published in Cairo to avoid the censorship. 8°. 271 pp. with a portrait, original boards with hand splattered paper and black cloth spine (minimal wear to the cover, but overall…
An extremely rare, large format map of Calcutta, depicting the revolutionary fire prevention and control infrastructure devised by its new Fire Chief, Bernard Westbrook, giving the city one of the most advanced fire systems in Asia, saving untold lives and properties. Zincograph in colours by the Vandyke Process, mounted upon original linen and folding into original black cloth…
8°. [4 pp.] illustrated advertisements, 247 pp. with black and white illustrations, 7 pp. on tan paper, [16 pp.] illustrated advertisements, original illustrated wrappers, original black sloth spine (wrappers with soft folds and tiny chips, otherwise in a good condition)
8°. [10 pp], 225 pp., later brown cloth binding with lettering on the spine (sporadic small repaired tears in margins, light staining an foxing, old written price on the inner side of the rear board, otherwise in a good condition).
8°, [8 pp.], 308 pp. lithographed text with some pages with larger folded margins with annotations, as originally published, modern green cloth boards with gilt lettering and debossed decoration, brown calf spine with raised bands and gilt lettering (light foxing, old signature and date in Ottoman on the first page, old scribbles on the last blank page, otherwise in…
[Aslan the Abrek. A Story from the Caucasian Mountains. By a German-Russian] This rare book is the first European, non-Russian, story on a Caucasian abrek (a North Caucasian Christian soldier) and was published in German language in Jeglava, today in Latvia.
An original manuscript of one of the most important official documents relating to the history of art and Protestantism in Styria during the Counterreformation.
[From the Travel through America. The City of Chicago] An Ottoman translation of Baron Edmond de Mandat-Grancey’s description of Chicago, first published in 1898 8°, 37 pp., later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).
8°. 53 pp. with blue and black illustrations, [1] index, original illustrated colour binding (Very Good, seemingly unread example, binding with minimal wear, very light glue marks on the inner side of the rear cover, a tiny small number on thetop of the back cover)
12°. 16 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with lettering, stapled (light staining and foxing, old annotation in ink on the front cover, overall in a good condition).
A children’s story about a young boy helping the partisans and tricking the Nazis, accompanied by high quality illustrations by the artist Stane Kumar, was published in 1956 as a part of the Socialist Yugoslav propaganda for children.
A traditional Slovenian didactic children’s poem is accompanied with high quality illustrations by a painter and sculptor Tone Kralj, who is known for his mural paintings with hidden anti-Fascist motifs, made in Slavic churches in Fascist Italy.
An unusual Serbian version of a Soviet children’s book in a form of a series of 40 loose photomontages, depicting a story of a boy who flew to visit a human-like family of monkeys, was made to educate children in personal hygiene.
A book with national stories from the mountainous region of Pohorje in Styria was published in Ljubljana under the Fascist occupation during WWII. The illustrations were made by Jože Beranek, known for his WWII Axis-backed propaganda posters, who was executed for treason only days after the war.
12°. 60 pp. with black and white illustrations and one colour illustrations, front endpapers with lettering, original illustrated binding (light foxing on edges, old paper label in the upper corner of the cover, binding with light scuffing on the corners, overall in a good condition).
[Pioneers from the Quiet Valley. A Pioneer Animal Play in Five Acts] 8°. 54 pp. With black and white illustrations, [2 pp.] blank, original illustrated wrappers, staples (old paper label on the cover, old stamp and annotation from a de-accessed archive, otherwise in a good unread condition)
A charming book with poetry for children was designed and illustrated by a Slovenian architect Ana Nuša Jontez, the wife of one of the most prolific Yugoslav architects of the 20th century, Edo Mihevc. 8°. 81 pp., with black and white colour illustrations, [2 pp.], original illustrated colour wrappers with flaps (wrappers with minor foxing on the inner side, very…
This exceedingly rare ephemeral propaganda mimeographed magazine for small children was printed by an underground Slovenian partisan press during WWII. 8°. 16 pp. mimeographed text with the illustrations, original illustrated blue wrappers, stapled (soft vertical fold, wrappers with light staining and a small loss of a corner on the rear cover, the crosswords on the last page filled…
A fine example of an important and beautifully produced national atlas of chile, featuring 39 maps predicated upon the best scientific sources, made by Enrique Espinoza, who is credited with revolutionizing the study of geography in Chile, published by the venerable Paris firm of Erhard Frères. Small 4° (27 x 20.5 cm): 2 pp., 39 maps (5 folding;…
Long 8°, 38 pp., later brown cloth boards with gilt lettering (pp. 28 and 29. bound tightly with tiny glue marks in the text, last pages with trimmed white margins, old hand-written price in the inner side of the rear board, otherwise in a good condition).
[Nashryat Kerymi: Kıtaylılar / Kerimi’s Publications: The Chinese] 8°. 24 pp., imprints and advertisements from original wrappers mounted on the first and last page, 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (light foxing, hand-written old price on the inner side of back cover, otherwise in a good condition).
[Tercüme-i Tarih-i Nevâdir-i Çin-i Maçin / Translation of the Stories of History of China and the Greater China] 8°, 70 pp. lithograph, first two pages with gilt margins, later blue cloth boards with brown cloth spine, grey printed endpapers (minor staining overall in a good condition).
A rare translation of one of the most popular Chinese plays Thunderstorm to Esperanto, the language promoted in socialist and communist countries to be the only neutral language of the world.
A rare work on hygiene in Istanbul, written by a French engineer to prevent cholera and similar diseases, which were then spreading across Europe. 8°: [1] title, 35 pp., original pink wrappers with printed title, cover signed by the author and dedicated to Leon Sellié (wrappers slightly age-toned and stained with tiny tears to spine).
[Âlem-i İslâm ve İngiliz Misyoneri, İngiliz Misyoneri Nasıl Yetiştirilir? / The World of Islam and the British Missionaries. How do they train British Missionaries?] A rare insight on the impact of the Christian missionaries on the Muslim world 8°. 112 pp., [2 pp.], interleaved black and white photographs and one map, original cover with lettering, later blue cloth…
First Search: Venetians and Genoese Sailors Discover Islands. Second: Christopher Columbus's Discovery of America Also: Amerika kıt'asının hîn-i keşf ü istîlâsında zuhûra gelen vukūât-ı garîbenin târîhi. Bahs-i evvel, Venedik ve Cenevizli gemicilerinin keşf eylediği cezâyir ve sâniyen Kristof Kolomb'un Amerika'yı bulması beyânındadır This is an early, possibly first separately issued publication on Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America…
A memory book of a circus artist Käthe Derrington, active in the early 20th century as one of the first female bicycle circus performers, includes many distinct entries by various famous circus and theatre artists from Europe and Asia.
A legendary cocktail book, written by a French entertainer Georges Gabriel Thenon – Rip, and illustrated by poster designer Paul Colin. Housed in a highly decorative, hand-made Art-Deco covers, made for a Berlin based fan maker and a Royal warrant of appointment Heinrich Nicolaus van Santen.
A rare translation of Lenin’s texts on the unification and protection of the Muslims in the Soviet Union was published in Tashkent and Samarkand in 1926. Small 4°. 195 pp. with a portrait of Lenin, [5 pp.], 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (minor age-toning, handwritten old price on the inner side of…
The first Uzbek translation of Stalin’s Foundations of Leninism with an attractive crude cover design, printed in Tashkent in Perso-Arabic letters Large 8°, 373 pp., original illustrated card boards (endpapers cracked in the gutters, old signature and date on the title page, a stamp from a de-accessed library on the inner side of the front cover, binding lightly bumped…
[Manifest des Kommunistischen Partei / Communist Manifesto] A Serbian translation of the Communist Manifesto, printed by the Yugoslav partisans days before the end of WWII 8°: 64 pp., [4 pp.] blank, original tan wrappers with lettering (minor traces of use, old signature on the title page, but overall in a good condition).
A first-hand account with a map of the camp., by a concentration camp survivor, published shortly after the liberation 8°, 30 pp., [1] printed map, original green wrappers with illustrated cover (Very Good, spine with a small hand-written number, spine slighty age-toning with a tiny tear).
A stellar moment of African cartography and inland hydrography, being the first atlas, or accurate, complete large-scale map, of the 1,724 km-long navigable route of the Upper Congo River from Léopoldville (Kinshasa) to Stanleyville, the only natural passage into the heart of Africa, made during World War I for the use of steamer captains by the specialist Belgian colonial…
A rare and until now underappreciated work on modern citrus growing, printed in Ottoman language, as a part of the program to modernize the agriculture of Crete 4°. 4 pp. [index], 172 pp. with charts and sporadic illustrations, bound with original brown wrappers, original marbled boards, new black calf spine (light staining and foxing, inner white margins with…
8°, 96 pp., advertisement, original illustrated wrappers (slightly stained, a tiny loss of image on the rear wrappers, but otherwise in a good condition).
A complete year of a Croatian intellectual and cultural magazine Hrvatska revija, which was later banned under Yugoslavia after WWII, bound in a fine binding by a Zagreb-based bookbinder.
A seemingly unrecorded portrait of a Croatian philanthropist, industrialist and nobleman Šandor Alexander Sesvetski (1866-1929) from a prominent Zagreb Jewish family. Cabinet card with albumen print and lettering in the lower margin and verso, contemporary signature in black ink in the lower right corner 16,4 x 10,7 cm (6.4 x 4.3 inches) (minor staining, corners slightly bumped, overall in…
Two privately issued ephemeral pocket books in Croatian language from 1930s include erotic stories in verses accompanied by lewd images, reproduced in the technique of whiteprint.
8°, [12 pp.] red and black printing on thick folded brown paper, original illustrated wrappers, author’s dedication on the title page, signatures by the author and the artist an hand-number on the last page (tiny tears in margins and around the spine, otherwise in a good condition).
A beautifully designed book with a lyrical story in six acts in Croatian language, was drafted by an architect, composer and a later director of the Zagreb Philharmonic Hall Ivo Tijardović.
This is the 7th number of a rare early Croatian left-wing magazine with avant-garde poetry, which was banned in the same year after the number 15 for political reasons.
A rare pioneering work on the Croatian contemporary art, printmaking and theatre scenography glorifying the artist Tomislav Krizman as the leading artist of the South Slavs on the eve of the birth of Yugoslavia. With a beautiful expressionist cover by a Dalmatian artist Jerolim Miše.
A scarce Croatian anti-Tito and anti-American book with 3 autobiographic articles describing a flight from Croatia, life in Allied DP camps, and exile to Argentina was written by a Croatian nationalistic fascistic politician Vjekoslav Vrančić, who served as a left hand to Ante Pavelić, and was a vice president of the Croatian so-called "government in exile" in Argentina.
An application form with an empty place for a name was printed by a Croatian Catholic church during WWII in cooperation with the Fascist government, to prevent cursing in order to separate the Croatian nation from the vulgar Balkans and to keep the name of God and mother from inappropriate conversation.
A rare monumental series of 41 folding colour lithographs accompanying a Croatian poem Jama (The Pit), one of the most powerful WWII lyrics, written by Ivan-Goran Kovačić. This 1982 version of illustrations was made by Croatian academic artists Edo Murtić and Zlatko Prica, the authors of the first illustrated edition, printed by a Partisan underground press during WWII. Number 82 of…
8°. 479 pp., original wrappers with illustrated title (good uncut example, wrappers with small cracks in margins and slightly dusty, otherwise in a good condition).
The first edition of one of the first published books by a Croatian writer, poet and politician Vladimir Nazor is glorifying 23 Croatian kings and leaders.
The book published immediately after WWII, gathers mostly pro-Tito and pro-Stalin speeches and articles by a popular Croatian author and Head of State Vladimir Nazor.
[2nd Congress of the Antifascist Council of the Yugoslav Liberation] A rare Croatian WWII underground partisan pamphlet describes the 2nd Congress of the Antifascist Council of the Yugoslav Liberation (AVNOJ), the most important Partisan event during the war, where Tito was proclaimed Marshall. The date was later celebrated as the Day of the Republic. 8°, 72 pp., original…
The first edition of a rare and important booklet with poems by a famous Croatian poet Vladimir Nazor was published by an underground partisan press and dedicated to the youth, fighting for the resistance. 12°, 49 pp., [2], original wrappers with lettering, inserted errata (slightly age-toned, wrappers with light foxing, otherwise in a good condition).
A pioneering work on the history of Jewish community in Zagreb with its analysis and lists of known members, was published on the eve of WWII by a Zagreb Chief Rabbi Gavro Schwarz.
5 issues of an uncommon Croatian Nationalistic magazine were printed in Croatian and Spanish language in Buenos Aires by post-WWII Croatian immigrants and sold mostly in North America, Australia and Germany.
A rare first edition of the travelogue from Zagreb to Istanbul by a prolific Croatian writer Adolfo Veber Tkalčević 8°, [4 pp.], 239 pp. with black and white illustrations, [5 pp.] index, 2 interleaved double-page views, folding map, contemporary marbled boards and black cloth cpine with lettering, original pink endpapers (old owner’s stamps on the inner sides of…
A travelogue to the Holy Land through Egypt by a Croatian professor Krsto Krile, published on the eve of WWI. 8°, XI, 231 pp., interleaved photographs, two folding plates, and three folding maps (Jerusalem, Croatia, the Holy Land), original boards with decoration and lettering, original cloth spine with lettering (hardly noticeable foxing, very light wear to the corners,…
The one and only number of a rare illegal underground pro-Stalinistic magazine in Croatian language includes articles by the Bulgarian author and politician Todor Pavlov, as well as Milovan Đilas and Edvard Kardelj, who signed themselves with their nom de plume, as Communism was at the time forbidden in Yugoslavia.
A pro-Russian pamphlet, printed by a Croatian underground press during WWII, includes a text by a popular Croatian politician Stjepan Radić, originally published in 1924.
Colour print, 51,5 x 86 cm (20.2 x 33.8 inches), accompanied by an original brochure with an index: 8°, 13 pp., [2 pp.], wrappers with title, stapled. Housed in an original illustrated wrappers with a flap (a small hand-written monogram of the previous owner, otherwise in a near-mint unused condition with a minimal stains on the spine of the wrappers).…
8°. 26 pp. in English and Ottoman, [1] title page in English, original debossed pink wrappers with lettering in Ottoman and English, stapled (binding with light staining and water staining, staples rusty with the wrappers detached, inside a good clean example).
A Czech translation of three short texts by a Russian activist and researcher Pyotr Kropotkin with an original linocut design by a Czech Avant-Garde artist and author Josef Čapek.
A rare collection of original poetry was printed in Czech language in Irkutsk, Russia, at the time when the Czechoslovakian Legion took control of the Siberian Railway, heading for Vladivostok while escaping the closing clutches of the Red Army.
A book in Czech language with a modern avant-garde cover, published in 1921, commemorates the victims of the Czechoslovakian Legion, who fought on the side of Italians during WWI to gain the independent Czech and Slovak country.
A book on contemporary Slovenian dance was written and designed in 1975 by a dancer and architect Marija Vogelnik, a student of Jože Plečnik. Signed by the author.
Very Rare – the first broadly accurate and detailed map of the course of the lower Danube River, that flowed 1,400 km from Belgrade to the Black Sea; a colossal 7-sheet work (bound in atlas form) that would measure a course approximately 420 cm (almost 14 feet!) long if joined, based on the first serious attempt to map this vital…
First Turkish translation of Das Kapital 8°. 6 pp. 205 pp. [as always falsely starting with unnumbered p. 5], [2 pp.] contemporary black boards with mounted original cover (minor staining, binding slightly scuffed and cracked, front cover slightly stained and scratched with a missing corner, inside in a good condition).
A beautifully designed Turkish book on the development of the maritime trade with a large map and a series of 11 statistical charts in art deco forms 4°: 104 pp. (front wrappers counting as pp. 1-2) with colour portraits and black and white illustrations in text, [6 pp.], 11 colour folding plates (between 25,5 x 36 cm and…
An uncommon book on a Yugoslav politician in exile Vladimir Dedier and the Bernard Russell Piece Foundation with articles in different languages was published for a a World Congress on Human Rights in Tension in Rio de Janero in 182. The copy was signed by Vladimir Dedijer.
An unusual series of drawings in different styles, depicting Satan and demons in various forms from the traditional 666 and the pentagon through monograms to Hitler and Stalin 8°: [68 pp.] with 35 drawings in colour, recto only, art nouveau black calf with debossed decoration and a clasp, later gilt decoration and manuscript title, art nouveau patterned end…
A small collection of rare ephemera gives an insight of a short- lived Don Cossacks Choir “Ataman General Kaledin”, founded in Munich under the influence of the Serge Jaroff’s Choir by a White Russian émigré Nicolas Nikolaïevitch von Leuchtenberg.
8°, [10 pp.] title page, colour plate and an introduction, 239 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (slightly age-toned and stained, small chips and folds in the corners and margins, old annotations in pencil on the first and last blank paper, wrappers slightly water-stained and tiny loss of paper on the spine, inside overall in a good,…
[Hitler and the National Socialism] The first separately printed biography of Adolf Hitler in Turkish language, with a critical analysis of the National socialism and a problem of anti-Semitism, published in the year, when Hitler was elected a chancellor. Signed by the author 8°, 147 pp., with interleaved sepia photographs, contemporary green cloth binding with gilt lettering…
Extremely rare - an extraordinary work of early Burmese printing by the prominent American missionary Elisha Abbott, ‘The Apostle of the Karens’, being a curious thesis likening the contemporary plight of the oppressed Karen people with that of the Jewish Christian Converts in the New Testament, with intriguing illustrations of Jewish iconography, written in the Karen language, published by…
A detailed book on the early military history of the Arab World, centered on Mecca 8°, 254 pp., [2 pp.], 3 interleaved folding maps, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with minor foxing and wear to the edges, one map split in the fold, but overall in a good condition).
روبرتسون نام مورف مشهورك مولفاتندن يكى دنيانلر كشفنه داتر اولان تاريخى اولوب انجمن دانشك اعضاً خارجيه سنده و باب عالى ترجمه اوطه سى خلفاسنده عبدالغفار انيس بنده لرى انكليز لسانزه ترجمه اتمشدر Histoire de la découverte du nouveau monde p. Robertson traduite p. Enis Abdoulgaffar effendi membre de l’académie turqe en 1269 de l’Hegir – cet ouvrage est traduit de…
A first issue of an exceedingly rare ephemeral Ottoman magazine, with possibly largest lithographed map of the world before the appearance of the late Ottoman chromolithographed atlases. 8°, 40 pp. with lithographed black and white plates, coloured folding lithographed map, 25 x 39 cm, original green wrappers with lettering on the inner sides (repaired tear in the folding…
A rare complete set of three Communist newspapers, published in Paris in 1910 and 1911, by the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party in exile, includes articles by Lenin, who lived in there at the time.
[The Earthquake of Ljubljana and its Causes. A Lecture Held at the Conference of the Association for Natural Science for Styria in April 20th, 1895] A rare speech on the Ljubljana earthquake of 1895, held in Graz by a geologist Rudolf Hoernes 8°. 61 pp., [2 pp.] blank, old blue wrappers (minor staining and foxing, wrappers with tiny…
[Tarih-i İstikbâl. Mesaif-i Siyasiye / Reception History. Political Issues] A charming late Ottoman binding made of Ebru – or Islamic marbled paper 8°. 208 pp., contemporary marbled paper boards with envelope flaps and brown calf spines (last 15 pages slightly age-toned and water stained, binding with minor wear, otherwise in a good condition).
An exceedingly rare mimeographed illustrated book on the economy in agriculture, made for an Ottoman school with a stunning multicolour title page showcasing a well-managed farm 8°: 422 pp., [2 pp.] index, mimeographed text with illustrations, charts and vignettes, illustrated title page, old corrections and annotations in pencil and blue ink, original blue cloth with debossed ornaments (minor…
One of the first Ottoman novels, written in its contemporary European form 8°, original front wrapper printed in blue black and gold, tile page, 231 pp. with black and white illustrations, contemporary brown cloth with debossed decoration, brown calf spine with gilt debossed decoration, contemporary marbled endpapers (old annotations in pencil, binding slightly rubbed, overall in a good condition).
An absolutely stellar example of the first broadly accurate map of Egypt and Palestine, predicated upon advanced trigonometric surveys undertaken by the cartographer Pierre Jacotin on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte during the French occupation of Egypt, considered to be one of the great achievements of Enlightenment science. Copper engraving, dissected into 32 sections and mounted upon…
A very rare and important Arabic language school atlas of Egypt, commissioned by the country’s Education Ministry and Ministry of Finance, emblematic of the country’s emerging national awakening whereby Egyptians gradually regained control over their country’s economy and institutions from the British quasi-colonial regime; in this vein, such cartographic works in the Arabic language, made for the use of…