In Bologna: per Giacobo Keymolen Alostese, nel mese de Martio, Anno 1533. First Italian edition. Later plain cardboard binding. [30] p. Coll.: A–D3. An extremely scarce vernacular edition of the earliest documented account of Francisco Álvares’ embassy to the Ethiopian court, detailing Emperor Dawit II’s diplomatic appeals to Pope Clement..... More

Nakladem Komitetu Centralnego, 1946. First polish edition. In original paper. 31 p. More

Kiev: Kiev: Melukhe-farlag (on title page: Kultur-lige, Kiev, Kleyne Bibliotek 'Lirik'), 1921. Illustration by Joseph Chaikov. In original paper. 16 p. David Hofstein (1889-1952), Jewish-Ukranian poet and author; leading member of the "Kiev Group" during the golden age of Yiddish literature in Soviet Russia, and one of thirteen Jewish intellectuals..... More

[Paris]: [Imprimerie de J.-A. Boudon], [1835.]. First edition. In publisher’s printed ochre wrappers. 11, (1) p. Catalogue of Louis David’s 1835 exposition and sale of 15 paintings and a collection of twelve sketchbooks. Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) was Napoleon’s appointed painter, and the most celebrated French artist of the era..... More

A Paris: Chez Dannecun, Editeur, Imprimeur en taille-douce, rue de la Harpe, no. 149, à la Tête noire, [ca. 1803]. First edition. Oblong. In near contemporary half leather, gilt title on spine. Panels covered with marbled paper, edges tinted. [9] letterpress leaves, and 72 hand-colored engraved plates. An extremely scarce..... More

Budapest: Pallas Irodalmi és Nyomdai Részvénytársaság, 1886. First edition. In somewhat later half leather, gilt spine. [4] XV [3] 258 [2] p. First Hungarian edition of David Hume’s selected essays on economy. Partial translation of Political Discourses (Edinburgh, 1752). One of the earliest Hungarian publications of Hume’s works. More

[Syria]: around 1927. Side wire stitched brochure. Title in ink on the first leaf. Contains six black and white photographs, mounted on cardboard leaves. Three images are labeled and credited on the negative. 7 leaves. (6 photos; size: ca. 225 × 165 mm). A collection of six early aerial photos..... More

Jerusalem: Turgeman (or Turgemon), 672 [1919 or 1920]. First Jerusalem edition (second overall; first in Odessa, 1912). In publisher’s printed wrappers. Illustrated. [6] 3–161 [3] p. The first translation of the Arabian Nights into Hebrew, consists of sixteen selected stories. This scarce collection of sixteen selected stories is the first..... More