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

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

[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

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

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

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

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

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

Bratislava-Pozsony: Eugen Prager Könyvkiadó, [1938]. First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s green buckram. With the original illustrated dust jacket, designed by Harry Rott (pseud.?). 153, (3) p. First Hungarian edition of Ilya Ehrenburg’s reportage about the Spanish Civil War, with the original illustrated dust jacket. More

[Prague]: Nakladatelství Pokrok, 1929. First Czech edition. With a folded, printed leaf of editor’s recommendation of the book. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Photomontage cover designed by Václav Mašek. 259, (5) p. First Czech edition of Egon Erwin Kisch’s 1927 novel, Zaren, Popen, Bolschewiken, with a photomontage cover design... More

Moskwa [Moscow]: Nakładem Związku Patrjotów Polskich w ZSRR, 1944. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, designed by Mieczysław Berman. 70, (2) p. First officially published book for the wider public on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, with a striking cover design by Mieczysław Berman. Mark Bernard (1908–1966) was a...... More

[Tel Aviv]: [S.n. but Reprezentacja Żydowsta Polskiego], October 1943. First edition. Text in Hebrew, except for the map which is bilingual (Polish-Hebrew). Former collection copy, related ink inscriptions on the title page, private bookplate on title page verso (Rabbi Yehuda Liv), stamp on the second leaf and on p. 28..... More

London: Imprinted by John Wolfe and are to bee sold at his shop at Poules chayne, 1592. First edition. Woodcut device on the title page. Woodcut initials, head and tailpieces throughout. In later blind-tooled calf. Spine gilt, with title vignettes. Marbled endpapers. Tinted edges. 4º: A2–4, B–O4; [6], 103, [1]..... More