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…
[Berlin and Surroundings. Appendix: Phrasebook and Polish-German Dictionary] A rare polish guidebook to a Nazi Berlin with a Polish-German dictionary and a map 12°, XVI, 151 pp., folding map, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with light folds, minor are-toning and staining, repaired tear in the left-hand side of the map, otherwise in a good condition).
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…
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).
A seemingly unrecorded early lithographed view of the town and bay of Regla, on Havana Harbour, after a drawing by the famed naturalist, explorer and artist Paul Wilhelm, Duke of Württemberg, made during his first tour in the Americas, an attractive large format work seemingly printed for private circulation. Lithograph (Fair, several unclosed tears from margins, with a few…
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,…
A rare manual for officers is the fifth and the last book, printed in the first Istanbul lithographic press, run by a Frenchmen Henri Cayol on the premises of the Ministry of War for only five years. It was written by the main patron of this new technique, the statesman and admiral Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha. 8°: [6 pp.]…
[Karl Marx. A Brief Biographical Sketch / Карл Маркс. Kраткий биографический очерк с изложением марксизма] 8°: 25 pp., original illustrated wrappers, stapled (very good, uncut example, wrappers slightly dusty with light chips in the corners).
An unusual pan-Turanian work in German language, representing the contemporary movement in the Ottoman Empire, was written and self-published in Ljubljana by a Slovenian author and orientalist Arthur von Wurzbach, who appears to be overlooked in the historical books, possibly for his monarchist and pro-Ottoman sentiments in his homeland, which would soon become Yugoslavia. Small 4°, 32 pp. letterpress…
A rare, beautiful expensively lithographed Ottoman Alefbe or a primer of the Arabic basic script 8°, 36 pp. colour and gilt lithograph, original binding with illustrated boards, red cloth spine (slightly stained, title page and last page slightly age-toned, small folds in the corners, repaired two split gutters in the first and last part of the book, binding lightly…
[A Year of Fights at Soča River: September 1943-1944]. Small 4° : [1], title page in red and black, 87 pp. mimeographed text, [3] pp., original wrappers with mimeographed cover (light staining and foxing, small tears in margins, overall in a good condition); plus inserted, related pamphlet, large 8° : 8 pp., with mimeographed illustrated cover and text. …