Kostantiniyye [Constantinople]: Matbaa-i Ebüzziya, 1304 AH [1886/1887 AD]. First Turkish edition. Text in Ottoman Turkish. Twelve works of the Kitaphane-i Ebüzziya series in one volume. In contemporary half leather. Spine with gilt title and ornaments. Panels decorated with blind stamped ornamentation. Marbled endpapers. Ornamented with head-pieces. Illustrated with a full-page..... More

V Praze [Prague]: Nakladem Musea Kralovstvi Ceskeho, V kommissi u Fr. Rivnace, 1858. First edition in this format. In late 19th-century, tooled, burgundy buckram, spine gilt. Ribbon marker. [8], [1]–112, [2], [4], [1]–120, [4], [1]–111, [1], [4], [1]–120, [4], [1]–115, [1] p. Five first or early Shakespeare editions in Czech..... More

V Praze [Prague]: Nakladem Musea Kralovstvi Ceskeho, V kommissi u Fr. Rivnace, 1872. First edition in this format. In late 19th-century, tooled, burgundy buckram, spine gilt. Ribbon marker. [8], [1]–87, [1], [4], [1]–100, [4], [1]–128, [4], [1]–96 p. Four first or early Shakespeare editions in Czech. Despite the numbering..... More

W Praze [Prague]: Tiskem Anny Spinkowé, wedenm J. B. Maleho [Anna Spinkowa], 1843. First edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers. [4], [1]–158 p. The first edition of the first complete verse translation of any Shakespeare plays into Czech. Othello’s first Czech translation, a prose version by Simeon Karel Macháček, was..... More

W Praze [Prague]: W Kommissí u Kronbergra a Řiwnáče [Jaroslawa Pospíšila], 1847. First Czech edition. In contemporary half cloth. (7), 4–175, (1) p. The first Czech edition of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. More

Madrid: En la imprenta de la Viuda de Ibarra, MDCCC [1800]. First edition. In modern red moiré. Title vignette on front panel. Marbled endpapers. Old collection stamp on title page. (6), LXXV, (3) p. The first critic of the 1798, first Spanish translation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In..... More

Pest: Ráth Mór Bizománya, 1867; 1870. First edition. Two volumes bound into one. In contemporary half cloth. Gilt title on spine, panels covered with marbled paper. Edges marbled. [4], [1]–226, [2]; [4], [1]–259, [1] p. Contains four first or early Hungarian translations and editions of Shakespeare’s works. 1. Athéni..... More

Madrid: Imprenta de I. Sancha, 1827. First edition.Text in Italian and Spanish. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. In contemporary half leather. 71 [1] p. The first Spanish edition of the libretto for Rossini’s Otello, an imitation of Shakespeare's drama by Francesco Maria Berio di Salsa. The story of..... More