This is a large and exceedingly detailed sheet of sea charts of the Alexandria area, Egypt, made during the twilight of Britain’s domination of the country. Photozincograph with some navigational details heightened in purple, pastedown printed correction slip added over Alexandria’s Inner Harbour, manuscript notes regarding a 1958 voyage and contemporary manuscript additions added in red pen (Good, old…
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).
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…
A charming large mimeographed magazine on aviation, published by the Polish cadets in the Modlin Fortress in 1925 [Cadet No. 2. Newspaper of the Cadets of 2nd Corps in Modlin] Small folio. [20 pp.] mimeographed text with illustrations, original illustrated wrappers, inserted thicker sheet with mimeographed text on both sides, unbound, as originally published (sporadic staining and tiny…
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).
An updated 1914 edition of fine sea chart made by the British Admiralty of the northwestern coast of Libya, known as the Jebel Akhdar, the historical region of Cyrenaica. Photozincograph with some navigational details heightened in yellow (Good, noticeable staining in upper and lower margins, some print transference), 102.5 x 68.5 cm (40.5 x 27 inches).
[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…
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…
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