Paris: [Société française de photographie] Imprimerie de Mallet-Bachelier, 1861. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 51, [1] p. Scarce early catalogue of the fourth exhibition of the Société française de photographie. The Société française de photographie is one of the world's oldest photographic societies. It was founded in Paris, in 1854..... More

Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1923. Illustrated with 8 photographic plates. First Edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. 42 p., and 8 plates. A rare copy of this important catalog for the iconic and first major exhibition of African art in America. In 1903, Stewart Culin (1858–1929) became the founding curator..... More

A Paris: Chez Dubroca, Bonneville, An X. – 1802. First edition. In contemporary paste paper. [4], 74 p. and frontispiece portrait. The first biography of Louverture and the first printed portrait of the “Black Napoleon” published in France. (Matthews, 2012 p. 84) François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (1743–1803) was an ex-slave..... More

[Prague]: [Privately published], 1921. With 8 plates of which 7 are photographic. Titles printed in red and illustrated with small beverage ads. First edition. Text in German. In publisher’s buckram with embossed, gilt title on front and white, embossed advertisement on the rear panel. Advertisements on front and rear pastedowns..... More

Boston: March, Capen & Lyon, 1836. First American edition. In publisher’s half cloth, with printed panels. [2], 151, [1] p. and [1] large folding plates. First American edition of this uncommon book about beet sugar manufacturing. A translation of L.-J. Blachette and Frédéric Salvator Zoéga’s Manuel du fabricant..... More

In Bologna: presso Vittorio Benacci, 1601. Illustrated with two double-page engraved plates. Enriched with two recurring large woodcuts and woodcut and typographical head and tailpieces. First edition. In contemporary vellum. Coll: [𝜋]4; A–H4 ; [ 8], 64 p., and [2] engraved plates. One of the earliest reports of the decisive..... More

A Tournon: Par R. Reynaud, 1614. With two engraved text illustrations (V2: p. 80; p. 182). Woodcut initials, woodcut, and typographical headpieces. First edition. Our copy starts with the second preliminary leaf [*]1, which is blank except for a printed rule and five lines of letterpress beginning on verso "In Effigiem..... More

[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

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

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

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

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

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