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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
CROATIAN PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING / WWII: Drugo zasjedanja Antifašističkog Vijeća Narodnog Oslobođenja Jugoslavije
- 300.00€
- [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…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
CROATIAN PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING / WWII: Pjesme Partizanke [Partisan Songs]
- 380.00€
- 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).
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- Books, Slavica
CROATIAN POETRY / FIRST EDITIONS: Lirika 1932
- 180.00€
- The scarce first edition of poems by one of the greatest Croatian poets of the 20th century Ivan „Goran“ Kovačić.
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- Books, Geography, Slavica, Turkica
Croatian Travelogue to Istanbul: Put u Carigrad. Sa četrdset slika i tlorisom Carigrada
- 640.00€
- 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…
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- Books, Geography, History, Slavica
Croatian Travelogue to the Holy Land: Uspomene iz Svete Zemlje [Memories of the Holy Land]
- 420.00€
- 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,…
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- Books, History, Slavica
EARTHQUAKE OF LJUBLJANA: Das Erdbeben von Laibach und seine Ursachen. Vortrag, gehalten in der Versammlung des naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines für Steiermark am 20. April 1895
- 280.00€
- [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…
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- Slavica
ESPIONAGE / WORLD WAR II: Према информацијама овдашњег министарства инострансих послова… [According to the information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here…]
- 950.00€
- A fascinating and important intelligence telegram, sent from the Royal Yugoslavian Embassy in Bern, Switzerland to the Yugoslavian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Belgrade, correctly predicting that Germany planned to attack England in September 1940.
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
FEMALE EMANCIPATION / ANTI-FASCISM / YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN: Žena v sedanji družbi [A Woman in Today’s Society]
- 280.00€
- An unusual early feminist anti-Hitler publication from 1934 was written by a famous Slovenian / Yugoslavian female writer, who later became a partisan fighter, prisoner of the Ravensbrück concentration camp and after the war a victim of the new Yugoslav regime. 8°. 96 pp. with black and white title page, original illustrated wrappers (light foxing, mostly to the wrappers…
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- Books, Slavica
Female Sexual Liberation vs. Traditional Values: Smije li žena lagati? [Is It Allowed for a Woman Lie? / Darf die Frau lügen?]
- 280.00€
- A study, if it is morraly correct for a woman to lie to her new husband about the previous love affairs. – A Croatian 1924 translation of a text by an Austrian author J. C Schlegel, specialized in the literature on progressive sexuality 8°, 27 pp., [4 pp.], original illustrated wrappers, stapled (minor staining, small tears in margins, soft…
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- Books, Europe, Maps and Prints, Russia, Slavica
FIRST SOVIET HISTORICAL ATLAS / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA: Русский исторический Атлас [Russkiĭ istoricheskiĭ atlas / Russian Historical Atlas]
- 2,200.00€
- First Soviet historical atlas, made by one of the leading historians Konstantin Kurjashov and accompanied with an introduction by a pioneering historian of the Russian revolutionary movement Mikhail Pokrovsy, glorifying Russian economy of the past and presenting the newly founded Soviet Union as a historical self sufficient formation. Oblong folio, 12 pp. XVIII with 58 numbered maps, printed…
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- Books, Slavica
Folwark zwierzęcy [Animal Farm]
- 850.00€
- A rare Polish edition of Animal Farm was printed in London for the Polish market, where the work was banned 8°, 94 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (Very Good, minor damages in the margins of the wrappers).
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- Books, September 2023: 50 under 1000 EUR, Slavica
HAMLET. Królewicz duński
- 240.00€
- An unusual, undated Polish edition of Hamlet, published in Lviv and Zlochiv in today’s Ukraine. 12°, 139 pp., old (publisher’s?) brown wrappers (old signature in ink on the title page, tiny folds and tears in white margins, wrappers slightly stained with small cracks around the spine, but otherwise a good condition as published with uneven margins and sporadic loose…
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- Slavica
IMMIGRANT PRINTING: Zapojmo! Zbirka persmi. Od srca do srca [Let’s Sing! Collection of Songs. From Heart to Heart].
- 250.00€
- A rare book with a collection of songs was printed during WWII in Cleveland, Ohio, in Slovenian language by the Slovenian Women’s Union of America, as a part of the women's liberation movement.
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- Books, Other, Slavica
Karl Marx. Njegovo življenje in njegov nauk [The Life and Teaching of Karl Marx}
- 120.00€
- 8°, 171 pp., original tan wrappers with lettering (deaccessioned library example with sporadic notes and small stamps, minor cracks to the wrappers, otherwise a seemingly unread example).
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- Books, September 2023: 50 under 1000 EUR, Slavica, Turkica
KAZAN IMPRINT / RUSSIAN REVOLUTION / MUSLIM SCHOOLS: روسيه ده گى مسلمان تورك تاتار خلقى اوپون آلتى يللق ابتدائى مكتب پروغرامماسى Программы для мусульманскихъ начальныхъ училищъ. Съ 6-ти годичнымъ курсомъ обученія.Одобрена 2 всероссійскимъ съѣздамъ учащихъ Мусульманъ
- 550.00€
- A rare pamphlet in Russian and Tatar languages is a new program for the first six years of Muslim primary schools, confirmed by the All-Russian Congress of Muslim Students, an organization, aiming to uniformize the education and culturally unite Tatars in Russia on the eve of the Russian Revolution. 8°, title in Tatar, 55 pp. including 7 pp. in…
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- Books, Slavica
Lirske in epske poezije [Lyrical and epic poetry]
- 480.00€
- A collection of poems, partly dedicated to the author’s trip to Istanbul 12°, [2 pp.], 196 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original brown cloth binding with gilt decoration and lettering, original patterned endpapers, gilt edges (old signature in black ink on the first blank page, minimal wear, but overall in a very good condition).
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- Books, Design, Slavica
Lotte v Weimarju. Roman o Goetheju in Charlotte. [Lotte in Weimar].
- 95.00€
- 8°: 385 pp., [2], original light brown cloth boards with illustrated title, brown calf spine with lettering, original illustrated dustjacket (good used condition, dustjacket with small tears and tiny marginal loss).
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- Maps and Prints, Russia, Slavica, World Maps
Mapping Lenin’s Work: Kарта составлена и подготовлена к печати Научно-редакционной картосоставительской частью ГУГK при участии научных сотрудников Института марксизма-ленинизма при ЦK Kпcс. Редакторы: Е.В. Гладкова, Г.В. Шадрина Научные консультанты: Г.Н. Голиков, Д.С. Kислик, 3.А. Лёвина, Н.П. Мамай, Т.В. Панченко, Р.М. Савицкая
- 2,200.00€
- [The map was compiled and prepared for printing by the Scientific and Editorial Mapping Department of the Federal Agency for Geodesy and Cartography with the participation of researchers from the Institute of Marxism-Leninism at the Central Scientific Research Center of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Editors: E.V. Gladkova, G.V. Shadrina Scientific advisers: G.N. Golikov,…
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- Books, Slavica
Mark Twain / Yugoslav Book Design: Življenje na Missisipiju [Life on the Mississippi]
- 95.00€
- 8°: 343 pp., original illustrated boards, original illustrated dustjacket (minor age-toning on the edges, otherwise a good, seemingly unread example, wrappers slightly age-toned with small tears, one tear repaired on the inner side with old tape).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
MEDICINE / UNDERGROUND PRINTING / YUGOSLAV PARTISANS: Partizanski zdravstveni vestnik. Leto 1, Št. 1. [Partisan Medical News, Year 1, No. 1]
- 420.00€
- A rare medical publication by Slovenian / Yugoslav partisans, printed in an underground press during WWII, includes articles on lice, disinfection and medicine against itch, construction of a basic bathroom, partisan fighter as a nurse, diseases of teeth and dental care, scurvy and burial of the dead in the woods. A folding mimeographed illustration represents a construction of a barrel…
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Slavica
Montenegro / Ottoman Empire: IIIe a Propos de L’Herzegovine. Montenegro
- 650.00€
- 8°, portrait, 63 pp., folding map, originally coloured in outline, later wrappers (age-toned with light cracks in margins, portrait slightly water-stained).
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- Books, History, Slavica
Murder of Empress Elisabeth – Sissi Sisak Imprint: Spomen-spis užasnog umorstva Njezinog Veličanstva Kraljice Jelisavete dne 10. rujna 1898. godine.
- 440.00€
- [A Memoir of a Terrible Murder of Her Royal Highness Queen Elisabeth on September 10th, 1898] 12°, 32 pp., original illustrated wrappers, stapled (minor foxing, cover slightly stained with a ink stain, otherwise in a good condition).
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