![[Appeal of the Polish President on September 1, 1939] Odezwa! Obywatele Rzeczpospolitej! Ignacy Moscicki.](/pictures/thumb/1444.jpg?v=1532018355)
Krakowie [Kraków]: Drukarnia Polska, [1939]. Original vintage, printed poster. Size: 63 × 95 cm. The first printed official communication about the German Invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and marked the beginning of World War II, the largest military conflict... More
A Paris: Chez Louys Billaine, au second Pilier de la grande Salle du Palais, à la Palme, & au grand Celar, M. DC. LXX. [1670]. First French edition. In somewhat later leather. Panels blind-ruled, spine with five raised bands, gilt, with red title vignette. Edges painted. (8), 165, (1) p.... More
![[Cover title:] Adolf Eichmann. אדולף אייכמן I[–VI]. 1–606[–3564]. Adolf Eichmann, Avner Less.](/pictures/thumb/1442.jpg?v=1531737769)
[Jerusalem]: Police d’Israel Quartier General 6-eme Bureau, [1961]. First edition. Six volumes of printed typescript photocopies. Text mostly in German, partially in Hebrew and English. In original blue half-cloth. 154; 154; 151; 155; 149; and 128 leaves (four photocopy-pages per leaf). Extremely scarce, complete transcript of the interrogation of Adolf... More
![Herr Erasmus von Roterdams verteütschte Außlegug über dise wort Sant Pauls zu den von Corinth in der ersten Epistel am viertzehenden Capitel. Ich will lieber in meinem gemuet funff wort in der kirchen reden andere zu unterweysen dan[n] zehentausent woert mit der zungen. Von gesang. Desiderius Erasmus.](/pictures/thumb/1441.jpeg?v=1531501141)
[Landshut]: [Johann Weißenburger], [1521]. Early edition. Papered spine. (8) p. (the last two blank). An early and scarce German edition of Erasmus’ diatribe on church music. The text is a translation of an excerpt from the Annotations and circulated widely among followers of Luther and Zwingli. The treatise... More
[1890s]. In original red cloth. 65 original, vintage, black and white photographs in various sizes. 27 album card leaves. Album page size: 220 × 152 mm. Private photo album of late 19th century Brazil. The album includes several photographs taken in the countryside about indigenous Brazilians, pineapple and... More
![Obrona Warszawy. Lud Polski w Obronie Stolicy. (Wrzesien, 1938 Roku.) [Defence of Warsaw. Polish People in Defence of the Capital. (September, 1938.)]. Teresa Zarnower.](/pictures/thumb/1439.jpg?v=1531417190)
New York: Polish Labor Group, 1942. First edition. Text in Polish. In original photographically illustrated wrappers. 61, [3] p.; 8 plates of photographic illustrations. A contemporary account on Warsaw’s fight against the Nazis. Published by the predominantly Jewish “Polish Labor Group” of New York. With eight photographic illustrations... More
![Ulysses. Fordította Gáspár Endre. Elsö (Második) kötet [Ulysses. Translated by Endre Gáspár. First (Second) volume.]. James Joyce.](/pictures/thumb/1438.jpg?v=1531416593)
(Budapest): Nova Irodalmi Intézet, (1947). First Hungarian edition. In two volumes. Printed in only 1000, numbered copies. This copy is unnumbered. In original half cloth, gilt title on front panel and spine. With the original dust jackets. (4), III, (1), 310, (2); (4), 294, (2) p. First Hungarian edition of... More
![Avantgarda bez Legend a Mytu: Rozhlasovy cyklus o Patnácti Dilech. cast 1–14. [Avant-Garde without Legends and Myths: A Radio Series in Fifteen Parts. Part 1–14.]](/pictures/thumb/1437.jpg?v=1531414285)
[Praha]: [Published privately], [1967.]. First edition. Samizdat. Five carbon copy booklets saddle stitched together. In original modernist wrappers, printed in red and black. Complete. Extremely scarce, private publication with the full transcript of all fourteen parts of the Czech radio play, Avantgarda bez Legend a Mytu. Avant-Garde without... More
München: Hesperos verlag, 1919. Frontispiece and four full-page text illustrations by Emil Preetorius, each signed by the artist in pencil in the lower left. Cover design also by him. Second edition. Limited, numbered (1/50/450). Signed by the illustrator on the recto of the second leaf in pen. Handbound. In publisher’s... More
Praga (Prague): Ustredni Delnické Knihkupectvi a Nakladatelstvi (A. Sveceny), 1927. With several photographic illustrations. First Czech edition. In original, typographically illustrated blue cloth. 238, (2) p. Authorised Czech edition, from the same year of the premiere of the film. Illustrated with more than 60 frames from the movie. More
Zu Franckfurt [Frankfurt]: Bei Chr. Egenolff [Christian Egenolff], (Jm Jenner. An. M.D.LI.) [1551]. First Frankfurt edition. In blind stamped half leather binding with four raised bands. Panels covered with paste paper. Large woodcut illustration on the title page and approximately 250 woodcut illustrations. Collation: #6, A–Z6, Aa–Oo6. (6), CCXXII leaves... More
[Argentorati (Strasbourg)]: [In Aedibus Matthiae Schurerij (Matthias Schürer)], [Mense Aprili Anno Domini M. D. XIX. (1519 April)]. First Strasbourg edition. In somewhat later paper. Illustrated title page. 167, (1) p. Collation: A6, B4, C8, D4, E8, F4, G8, H4, I8, K4, L8, M4, N8, O6. Scarce and early edition of... More
![Türkische Schau-Bühne […]; [Bound before:] [Francisci, Erasmus]: Der Türkischen Groß-Sultanen Ursprung, Macht und Herrlichkeit […].](/pictures/thumb/1432.jpg?v=1530566570)
Nürnberg: Joh. Hofmanns, 1685. First editions. Two works in one volume. In contemporary limp vellum. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Both works illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and numerous plates. Extremely scarce and only editions on the Ottoman Empire, both published in 1685, during the time of its greatest extent, under... More
New York: John W. Lovell Company, [1887]. First English edition. In publisher’s brown cloth, with gilt title and gilt rules on spine. Bevelled boards. Top edge gilt. (4), (I)–VI, (3)-199, (1), (I)–IX, (I)–II, (1) p. Extremely scarce, first English edition of Friedrich Engels’ first book, Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse... More
Wien: gedruckt mit Schulzischen Schriften, 1769. First edition. In contemporary leather. Spine gilt, with red title vignette. Edges tinted. Woodcut headpiece on A1. Pages ruled with woodcut frame. (*)1 [title page, verso blank], a–b8, c6 [i.e. (24) leaves] and 1 folded plate. A curious and scarce treatise on glassblowing and... More
Kraków: [Sigmund Grim, Marx Wirsung], August 4, 1518. Second edition. In later paper. Title in figural woodcut border. Woodcut initials throughout. (58) p.; a6, b-g3 [last blank not present]. The first accurate geographical historical and ethnographical description of Eastern Europe. Miechowa’s work provides the first systematic description of... More
Sevilla: Andrea Pescioni, 1582. First edition. With 35 woodcut illustrations, some recurring. Decorated with heraldic woodcut on the title page, numerous woodcut initials and a tailpiece, and woodcut printer's devices on 4¶4 and on the last leaf. Text printed in two columns. In 19th century, empire style, red morocco binding... More
![New York. (z naseho okna). [New York (From Our Window).]. Helena Bochorakova-Dittrichova.](/pictures/thumb/1427.jpg?v=1529494124)
Ca. 1931. Original watercolour on paper. Signed lower left, and titled at lower right corners. On the back panel of the framing: „Bochoraková Dittrichova, New York (z naseho okna). Framed, with passe-partout. Ca. 38 × 45,5 cm. Watercolour painting of New York by Helena Bochorakova-Dittrichova, depicting a busy intersection with... More
![[The Beauties of Handel.] Dedicated by permission to His Majesty. The Beauties of Handel, in two Volumes, Consisting of upwards of One hundred of his most favourite Songs, Duetts & Trios, Selected from the Various Works of this great Master, arranged with a separate Accompaniment for the Piano Forte, and figured from the M.S. Scores of the Author, by Jos. Corfe. Gentleman of his Majesty’s Chapels Royal & Organist of the Cathedral Salisbury. Vol. 1. Georg Friedrich Handel, George Frideric, Joseph Corfe, Joseph Gear.](/pictures/thumb/1426.jpg?v=1529488758)
London: Printed and Sold for the Author, by Preston. 97. Strand, & to had of all the Music Sellers in the United Kingdom. [N.d. but 1803 or 1804. First edition. Engraved sheet music. Association copy: “From Mr Joseph Corfe to Jos.h Gear. Salisbury 1805.” presumably in Joseph Gear’s hand on... More
![Vingt-quatre Préludes et Fugues dans tous les tons et demi-tons du mode majeur, et mineur. Pour le Clavecin ou Piano-Forté. Composés par Jean Sebastien Bach. 1re [2me] Suite. [BWV 846–869; 870–893.]. Johann Sebastian Bach.](/pictures/thumb/1424.jpg?v=1529486567)
A Zurich: chez Jean Georges Naigueli. Gravé par Richome. [1801; 1802.]. First edition. Engraved sheet music. Two volumes bound together. In contemporary half vellum with gilt-stamped title vignette on spine and gilt-stamped ownership label (L. C.) mounted on the front cover. Panels covered with pink paper, on front cover faded... More
![A dakota nyelv. Hunfalvy Páltol. Különnyomat a M. Acad. Értesitöböl. [Dakota Language by Pál Hunfalvy. Extract from the Bulletins of the Hungarian Academy.]. Pál Hunfalvy, Stephen Return Riggs.](/pictures/thumb/1422.jpg?v=1528307197)
Pesten [Pest]: Nyomatott Landerer és Heckenastnál, MDCCCLVI [1856]. First separate edition. Offprint. In later half cloth. 68 p. and 1 folding plate. First separate edition of the first Hungarian linguistic study on the Dakota language. Written by the Hungarian linguist and ethnologist, Pál Hunfalvy (1810–1891), a member of... More
Riga: Izdevnieciba Tagadne, 1930. Cover designed by Eriks Kalis. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated grey wrappers, printed in green and black. 48, (8) p. Striking constructivist cover by Eriks Kalis. Eriks Kalis (1904–1939) was a Latvian graphic designer and scenographer, member of the avant-garde Riga Artist Group. “Kalis’s... More
[Budapest]: Nova Irodalmi Intézet, [1948]. First Hungarian edition. Association copy, inscribed by Caldwell to György Bányász. In publisher’s red half-cloth, with the original illustrated dust jacket, designed by Jenő Pályi. Gilt and yellow, embossed logo of the publisher on the front panel. Gilt title and geometric ornamentation on the spine... More
![Memoire sur la communication de la Mer Rouge a la Méditerranée par la Mer Rouge et l’isthme de Soueys. Par J. M, Le Pére, Inspecteur divisionnaire au Corps royal des Ponts-et-chaussées, Membre de l’Institut d’Égypte, &c. [And:] Rapport de MM. Prony, Sganzin et Tarbe […] sur un Mémoire de M. Le Pere, […]. Jacques-Marie Le Pére.](/pictures/thumb/1419.jpg?v=1527764569)
A Paris: de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1815. First edition. Association copy, dedicated twice. Inscribed to Louis Becquey by the author on the flyleaf. Inked-out inscription on the title page, supposedly addressed to Mathieu Molé. In contemporary red half Maroquin. Panels ruled with gilt ornamentation. Spine with gilt title and rules. iv... More
![Ocalenie. [Rescue.]. Czeslav Milosz.](/pictures/thumb/1418.jpg?v=1527762998)
[Warsaw]: Spoldzielnia Wydawnicza Czytelnik, 1945. First edition. In publisher’s wrappers, printed in grey and brown. 154, (6) p. Early poetry collection by the Nobel laureate Polish poet and writer, Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004). Ocalenie was Milosz’ first book to be published after World War II, thus many of his... More