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.
8°, 198 pp., contemporary marbled paper boards and green cloth spine (pp 111, 158, 191-193 marked twice, pages misnumbered 174-177, but complete according to catch words, small folds in corners, but overall in a good condition with only minor age-toning).
[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 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…
8°, original cover, [2 pp.], 104 pp., folding map, later brown cloth binding with lettering (minor age-toning, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear board, but overall in a good condition).
Twelve Lessons on the Friendly Treatments of Animals 8°, 63 pp., original blue wrappers with illustrated cover (paper slightly waved, wrappers with hardly noticeably foxing and old-hand-written number on the top, but otherwise in a good, clean condition).
A rare satirical illustrated anti-Fascist-Italy pamphlet, printed for the Greek soldiers during World War II. Large 8°. [64 pp.] with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (Very Good). Evangelos BITSAXIS - Kostantinos STASINOPOULOS, editors; T. MORAITINI, A.G. POP, K. VARNALI, authors of texts - F. DIMITRIADIS, K. BEZOU, N. KASTANAKI, P. PAVLIDIS, S. POLENAKI, E. TERZOPOULOS, KYRIAZI,…
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…
[Gazavât-ı Celile-i Peygamberî / Battles of the Glorious Prophet] An exclusively bound Ottoman book on the glorious conquers of the Prophet Muhammad, written by a historian Ahmet Refik. 8°. 224 pp. with decorative vignettes and a small map in text, folding map, bound in dark brown goat with gold ornaments on the covers and lettering on the…
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.
A unique manuscript by a Belgian imperial calligrapher François Magnée, commissioned by the Archery Society at the Poeke castle and presented to Prince Leopold Duke of Brabant, future King Leopold II. Folio (37 x 25 cm), [8 pp.] black, red, green, blue, silver and gold ink on vellum (5 pp. manuscript and 3 pp. blank), bound with a…
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 scarce pamphlet in French language is a translation of an Armenian text with the analysis of the current political situation of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. It was written during WWI in Istanbul, shortly after the Armenian genocide, where over 1 million Armenians were murdered, as many more were deported or imprisoned. 8°. 70 pp., [2 pp.],…
A rare book in French language, written during World War I, in the time of the Armenian genocide, analyses contemporary situation of the Armenian Church in the Ottoman Empire and in the world. Large 12°. 96 pp., original green wrappers with lettering (good, uncut example, wrappers with minor staining and tiny tears).
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).
Small 8°, 4 full-page black and white maps, double-page black and white map, 635 pp. with black and white illustrations, original blue cloth with debossed lines on the covers and gilt lettering on the spine (minor foxing and light staining in the upper part of the edge, spine slightly age-toned with minor cracks on the side, but overall in…
[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…
The second edition of an Arabic translation of the book Communist Guerilla Warfare, describing the warfare tactics of the Soviets and also Yugoslav partisans during WWII. Large 8°. [2 pp.], 245 pp. with illustrations in text, original illustrated wrappers (minimal age-toning to the paper and hardly noticeable wear to the wrappers, but overall in a good and clean…
[Sharh-i Diwan-i Hafiz-i Shirazi / Commentary on the Divan of Hafez] A rare book in Ottoman language in three volumes, partly printed in Alexandria 3 volumes. Small 4°. 4 pp., 411 pp. Old annotations, 455 pp. (first four pages originally coloured yellow with orange detail). , 464 pp. Recent brown calf with embossed decoration (pp. 3-4 of the…
A privately published pre-WWII Slovenian manual on asparagus Small 8°, 38 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2 pp.], original green card wrappers with lettering, stapled (small blue lines on the cover, two old school-library stamps, crossed with a book-seller’s stamp).
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…
An Ottoman book on astronomy, illustrated with fine black and white aquatints, was written for educational purposes and was based on the latest French popular works on astronomy, such as books by Amédée Guillemin (1826 – 1893) and Charles Briot (1817-1882). 8°. [16 pp.], 362 pp. with black and white printed and mounted illustrations in text, 17 interleaved…
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 and unusually attractive large format WWII Japanese map of Australia, New Guinea and the Eastern Indonesian Archipelago, made in 1942, the year that the Japanese Air force mounted the shocking ‘Bombing of Darwin’, the largest ever attack upon Australia mounted by a foreign power, and just before the Allies endeavoured to take the offensive in New…
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.
An attractive cartographic ‘Sugoroku’ gameboard commemorating the 1925 Asahi Shinbun Trans-Eurasian flight, a major landmark of early aviation, whereby two Japanese planes flew from their homeland over 16,500 km to tour various European capitals as part of a patriotic PR tour to showcase Japan’s role as world power, printed by the mission’s sponsor, the ‘Asahi Shinbun’, a leading Japanese…
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).
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…
Screen prints from a rare portfolio made at Bando prison camp in 1919, represent parts of the camp. Large 4°. 11 screen prints in black and white (title page and 10 loose images), inserted in original thin card folder with flaps and illustrated cover (folded slightly scuffed on the corners, lower flap missing, inside in a good, clean…
59 issues of 85, with missing first 26 numbers. Please see below for collations and details). A stunning set of 59 issues of ‘Die Baracke’, a magazine printed by German internees at the Bando POW Camp, Japan, lavishly illustrated with original maps, theatre sets, a moon chart, music scores, and a ‘how to’ guide on the unique and sophisticated…
[The Expulsion of the Germans from China. An Account of the Events Based on English Shanghai Newspapers from October 1918 to April 1919] Small 4°. Illustrated frontispiece, XI, 402 pp., bound in publisher’s green linen binding with lettering on the cover and spine (Very Good, minor age-toning to the spine).
[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.
[Tarik-i Refah. Frankli'nin Servet Hakkındaki Nasayihi ve Tercüme-i Hali / The Way to Wealth. Franklin's Commentary on Wealth and ItsTranslation] A rare Ottoman translation of Franklin’s The Way to Wealth, published in Ottoman language in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1910 8°, 30 pp., [2 pp.], original orange wrappers with lettering (wrappers with a light stain, otherwise in a…
[The History of the Berlin Police from 1945 until 1. 10. 1950 from 1945] A typescript with major changes inside the Berlin Police, set between 1945 and 1974, mostly covering the events of the cold war Large 4°, 55 pp. typescript numbered recto and verso or only recto, [52 pp.] typescript recto and verso or only recto, some…
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.
[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).
4°. [20], with b/w and chromolithographed illustrations within text, with original wrappers and illustrated chromolithographed cover (binding loose, wrappers dusty, with small tears and small paper loss on the cover, lower corner missing on the rear blank cover, internally clean with tiny chips on the corners)
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…
[Pious and Christian Prayers with Other Prayers, First , Given to the Light by Many Precious, Serious, Learned Men, Endowed with Abundant Gifts by the Holy Spirit …] A rare book of prayers in Czech language, written for the Protestant milieu of Bohemia, was published on the eve of the Battle of White Mountain, that sealed the future…
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;…
An extraordinary example of the first scientific large format sea atlas of Brazil, the result of a mapping-espionage mission led by the esteemed hydrographer and future French Navy Minister Captain Albin Roussin, conducted on the eve of Brazilian independence, and in anticipation of French commercial and political adventurism in the country, the colossal atlas established the new ‘gold standard’ for…
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.
[Note on the Judgement in Periods of Nations] 8°, [2 pp.], 318 pp (wrongly printed 813), [4 pp.] errata and blank, original embossed brown calf with a flap, original pasted-down endpapers with blue stenciled patterns, blank loose endpapers, hand-written title on the spine and on the foot edge (slightly age-toned with minor staining, old minor annotations on the…
[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…
An Ottoman translation of an Arabic classic work on the politics, printed in Bulaq, Cairo. 8°: 153 pp. letterpress, later European binding with marbled boards an green cloth spine with gold lettering, marbled endpapers (binding slightly rubbed on the corners, but otherwise in a good condition).
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).
A rare pamphlet, printed in Bulgarian language in Istanbul Large 12°. 8 pp. (old owner’s name and annotation on the cover, old owner’s small stamp with initials on the top of the title page, tiny folds, slightly dusty, small repaired loss of white inner margin on the last page).
A rare pamphlet, printed in Bulgarian language in Istanbul Large 12°. 24 pp., original wrappers with lettering (slightly age-toned and stained, old Ottman and Bulgarian stamps, old annotations, wrappers, first and last page with small loss of white margins).
[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…
[Account of the Inheritance of the Late Muhammad Sharif Pasha the Great, Regarding His Granddaughter, Her Excellency, Sinless and Virtuous Madam Khadija Soad Hanim Efendi] Small 4°. Blank, 12 pp., 3 pp., blank, blank, original full brown goat binding with bold and embossed decoration and lettering, original green and gold endpapers (binding slightly stained and scuffed around the…
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…
A highly important and attractive work on the Eighth Xhosa War (1850-3), a critical conflict in which the British scored a crushing defeat upon the Xhosa, so securing permanent dominance over the Eastern Frontier regions of the Cape Colony, a victory secured by the ‘scorched earth’ offensive launched by Governor George Cathcart from the spring of 1852 to the…
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.
Two seemingly unrecorded Ottoman texts on Chemistry 2 titles in 5 parts, bound together, large 8°. Mimeographed text in two colours with illustrations and hand written additions, 136 pp., 107 pp. (two parts of one title). 351 pp., 148 pp., 28 pp. (three parts of one title). Contemporary green cloth binding, contemporary pink endpapers (minor age-toning and staining,…
An authoritative composition featuring two maps of Chicago, one centring upon the inner city and the other showcasing the fast-growing suburban areas of the future ‘Chicagoland’, by Rand, McNally & Company, the nationally important Chicago-based map house. Bi-chrome lithograph (black and green) printed on both sides, folding into original printed tan card wrappers (Very Good, clean, bright and…
[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)
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.
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;…
Extremely rare – two related works bound together authored by the General Staff of the French Army in Indochina, providing a fascinating analysis of one of the great geopolitical concerns of the fin de siècle era, being the rival French and British designs to control Yunnan, the last major wealthy Chinese province not be exploited by foreign powers: the highly…
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…
An ephemeral biography of Christopher Columbus in Ottoman language was issued in the series Büyük Adamlar Serisi (Series of Important Men) with Ottoman lettering in the last year before the Atatürk’s reformation of the script in the Republic of Turkey. 8°. 15 pp. with illustrations, illustrated cover, stapled (soft folds, minor staiing, overall in a good condition). …
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 fine, clean example with original dustjacket of one of the first German post-war cocktail books 8°, 167 pp. with black and white illustrations in text and interleaved colour plates, original dark-red cloth binding with silver embossed decoration on the cover and lettering on the spine, original illustrated dustjacket (dustjacket with minor sporadic scratches and tiny tears, but overall…
Extremely rare – an important legal proposal that advocated major reforms of the archaic Nueva Grenadian (Colombian) judicial system by dramatically expanding the role and authority of juries during criminal trials, principally authored by José Ignacio de Márquez, the former President and the nation’s foremost legal scholar, framing a major debate between the country’s emerging Liberal and Conservative political…
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).
One of the most significant manuscripts regarding exploration and ethnography in sub-Saharan Africa to appear on the market in many years, being the original diary of the French adventurer Robert Hottot complied during his groundbreaking ‘Mission ethnographique du Kanem-Chari-Logone’ (1908-9), to what is today Congo (both PRC and DRC), the Central African Republic and Chad, where he made meaningful…
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…
8°: [6 pp.], 107 pp. with black and white advertisements and interleaved advertisements, [7 pp.], original green boards with illustrated cover, green cloth spine (binding slightly age-toned, but otherwise in a good condition with only minor foxing to the first and last pages).
A rare cookbook, printed in Buenos Aires, educates German immigrant women in South America in application of locally available ingredients, unknown in Germany, Spanish language and cooking procedures, appropriate for the South American climate. 8°, 243 pp., [5 pp.] advertisements, original green cloth binding with lettering (slightly age-toned and stained, last pages with small sporadic holes in lower…
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.
[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…