In Hamburg: Dated on December 4, 1939. Oblong, printed form on light green paper. Signed in ink by Sophia [Sophie] Scholl. Filled by typewriter and handwriting. With the printed letterhead of the Hitler Jugend and the stamp of the NSDAP, Bund Deutscher Mädel of Altona (Hamburg) Untergau 31. Registry stamp..... More
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[Au Cap François]. [Antoine Marie], [1764]. First edition. Sewn bound. 17, (3) p. Very early, unrecorded Saint-Domingue imprint. Printing in Saint-Domingue origins in the second half of the 18th century. The first printer who established himself on the isle was Antoine Maria (Cabon, 1919). Marie was born in Nantes..... More
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[Au Cap-Français]: [Antoine Marie], [1765]. First edition. Unbound, as published. pp. 69–74. [Complete.]. Early print from Saint-Domingue, an extremely scarce supplement issue of the Avis divers et petites affiches américaines the second journal of the Island. Printing in Saint-Domingue origins in the second half of the 18th century. The..... More
Au Cap François: Chez Marie, Imprimeur-Libraire bréveté du Roi pour l’Isle S. Domingue, à l’execution de tous autres [Antoine Marie], M. DCC. LXIV [1764]. First edition. Woodcut and typographical printer's ornament on the title page. With a typographical headpiece and initial. In publisher’s blank paper, bound by sewing. (2), 90..... More
À Lyon: Par Guillaume Roville, 1568. First edition, second issue (the first issue is dated 1567 on the title but otherwise identical to the second). Letterpress title within elaborate woodcut border, designed by Pierre Vase. Woodcut headpieces and initials throughout. Illustrated with 60 engraved plates after Nicolay’s drawings by Léon..... More
Jena: 1913. Photographic postcard. With the official stamp of the convention. The signatures are written in pen and pencil. With the original envelope, addressed in ink by Buchinger. 139 × 87 mm. Postcard with signatures of ten prominent figures of the international leftist, and social democratic movement, among them Karl..... More
A Paris: Chez André Pralard, ruë Saint Jacques, à l’Occasion, M. DC. XCVII [1697]. First French edition. Engraved frontispiece by Pierre Giffart, depicting Hernán Cortés collecting the treasures of the New World. Woodcut device on the title page. In later black half leather, with gilt title on spine. Marbled endpapers..... More
Italy: 15th century (2nd half). Manuscript on parchment of Latin liturgical text and music, with decorated initials. Altering number of lines, and size of letters. Initials in alternating red and blue, two with contrasting pen-flourished decoration, and fifteen puzzle initials. Music on four-line red staves. Bound into 18th century decorated..... More
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France(?): Second half of the eighteenth-century. Manuscript book. Written in brown ink by one or probably two neat hands. A French introduction by a different hand on the front flyleaf with bibliographical details, and the addition of Fernando da Silveira’s Epigramma from the printed book and the summary of André..... More
Maros Vásárhelyini [Marosvásárhely]: Typis Collegii Reformatorum per Josephum, et Simeonem Kali de felső Vist [József and Simon Káli], 1832, 1833. First edition of János Bolyai’s Appendix, his “explanation of the absolutely true science of space”, “the most extraordinary two dozen pages in the whole history of thought” (Halsted, 1896), a...... More
Manila: En la Imprenta de Sto. Thomas por D. Candido Lopez, Año de 1837. First edition. In contemporary limp vellum, presumably the original binding from Manila. Tinted title on spine. LXXVII, (3 [second leaf blank]), 887, (1) (with mispaginations) p. Scarce first edition of the first locally published book on..... More
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Paris: Chez Jean Richer, 1585 [I–III]; 1588 [IV–V]. First edition. Title pages with woodcut printer’s devices. Woodcut and typographical head- and tailpieces throughout. Woodcut initials. Woodcut portrait of Tabourot in Quatriesme livre (A4v). Bound in contemporary limp vellum, title inked on the spine. Five parts bound into one volume. 12°..... More
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Madrid: Juan Delgado, 1624. First edition. Bifolio. (4) p. First edition of this scarce, Spanish, first-hand account about the first phase of the Siege of Breda, a significant battle of the Thirty (and Eighty) Years' War, whose end was immortalized by Velázquez’s famous painting The Surrender of Breda (Las lanzas)... More
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Imprimé à l’Arrivour Abbaye [Larrivour]: dudict Seign, Par Maistre Nicole Paris, 1547. First edition, later version (first in 1546). Title page in an ornate frame. Woodcut printer’s device on the last page. Woodcut initials throughout. Woodcut coat of arms of Jean de Luxembourg on S1r. In later paste paper. Gauffered..... More
![László Moholy-Nagy’s Hand-Drawn Postcard] New York [Palace Café, Budapest]....](/pictures/thumb/1707.jpg?v=1567519841)
[Budapest]: [1917]. On military-issue postcard. Titled in black pencil. Ca. 90 × 140 mm. László Moholy-Nagy’s (1895–1946) pencil drawing on the verso of an unused military-issue postcard, depicting a lady in a large hat, sitting at a café-table with two glasses, one of her elbows placed on the table, her..... More
![László Moholy-Nagy’s Hand-Drawn Postcard Of a Lady at the] Café Corso, 1917....](/pictures/thumb/1706.jpg?v=1567519482)
[Budapest]: Titled and dated in black pencil, in 1917. On military-issue postcard. Ca. 90 × 140 mm. László Moholy-Nagy’s (1895–1946) pencil drawing in color on the verso of an unused military-issue postcard, depicting a lady, sitting at a café-table right-turned. Titled and labeled in the artist’s hand: Café Corso 1917..... More
Darmstadt: October 27, 1733. With Joseph Süß Oppenheimer’s holograph notes on both sides and signature on verso. Stamped, signed by De Pretlack on recto. One leaf (ca. 205 × 88 mm). Autograph notes and signature of the Jud Süß, one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism..... More
[S.l.]: [s.n.], [n.d., but after August 27 1516]. First edition. Title page with large woodcut illustration showing the King on his throne surrounded by the delegates. In Bastarda type, with two floral woodcut initials. In later hard paper. Gilt title vignette on spine, damaged. [20] p. A bibliographically unrecorded, early..... More
Hungary: Around 1900. First edition. In red contemporary cloth. 40 hand colored drawings. Forty hand colored drawings by the Hungarian Art Nouveau artist Gizella Mirovszky-Greguss (1862–1955). More
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Upsaliae [Uppsala]: Excudebant Regiae Academiae Typographi, [1825]. First edition. Text in Latin and Swedish. With an engraved, folding map of Delaware Bay and the colony of New Sweden. The gatherings bound together by sewing, otherwise unbound. (4), 34 p., and an engraved, folding map. First edition of Carl David Arfwedson’s..... More
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Barcelona: Imprenta de la Renaixensa, 1876. First Spanish edition. In contemporary half leather. Marbled endpapers. XI, (2), 14–322, (2) p. First Spanish edition of Charles Darwin’s 1871 groundbreaking book on human evolution and the sexual selection, “The Descent of Man”. More
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Wien [Vienna]: J. Rauh's lith. Kunstanstalt, [ca. 1853]. Original lithograph portrait poster. With mounted inscription and signature by Aldridge. Printed signature and text in English and German. Size: ca. 320 × 390 mm. Inscribed portrait of Ira Aldridge, the first black Shakespearean actor. Lithograph portrait of Ira Aldridge..... More
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Budapest: Dick Manó Kiadása, [1921]. First Hungarian edition. In two volumes. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Cover design by István Zádor. 300; 278, (2) p. First Hungarian edition of Mann’s 1901 Nobel prize-winning novel, the Buddenbrooks. Cover design by István Zádor (1882–1963) the Hungarian graphic artist and painter..... More
Berlin: Morawe & Scheffelt Verlag, 1912. Limited, numbered edition, one of 400 copies. With a supplement mounted onto the inner rear panel. Illustrated with 2 full-page, 5 double-page illustrations. Initials, head and tail pieces throughout. The double-page illustrations are separated by tracing paper. In publisher’s half-vellum, ornamented with thin black..... More
Budapest: Novák Rudolf és Társa Orvosi Szakkönyvkereskedés és Könyvkiadóvállalat, [N.d. but ca. 1935]. First edition. Photographically illustrated. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 54, (2) p., and one plate (the original red cellophane sheet, accessory of the illustration, included). Richly illustrated publication on cosmetic surgery, illustrated with forty-four photographic reproductions. More