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 about Flora de Filipinas. Segun el Sistema sexual de Linneo. Por el P. Fr. Manuel Blanco Agustino Calzado

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 about Caption title:] Traslado de una carta en que declara todo lo sucedido en Estados de Flandes,...

[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 about László Moholy-Nagy’s Hand-Drawn Postcard] New York [Palace Café, Budapest

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 about Promissory note. (Wechsel

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 about Watercolor drawings of Walter Crane’s Flora Feast

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 about The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.] El origen del hombre. La seleccion natural...

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 about A Buddenbrook-ház. Egy család alkonya. Forditotta Lányi Viktor. Első [Második] kötet....

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 about A szépítö-sebészetröl. Lehetőségek, problémák, megoldások. A szerző 44 eredeti...

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 about A spanyol hadszíntérröl jelenti. [No pasarán

[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 about Cari, popi, Bolsevici.] Caři, popi, Bolševici. [Zaren, Popen, Bolschewiken

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 about Powstanie w ghetcie warszawskiem. [The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Budapest: Hornyánszky Viktor Császári és Királyi Udvari Könyvnyomdája, 1901. First edition. Text in Hungarian and German. Illustrated throughout, many photographical reproduction. In modern leatherette, the publisher’s printed cover mounted onto the front panel. (4), 199, (1) p., and 22 plates. Illustrated catalogue of Lajos Bíró’s extensive German New Guinean ethnographic..... More about Bíró Lajos Német-Új-Guineai (Astrolabe-Öböl) néprajzi gyűjtéseinek leíró jegyzéke. 22...

Paris: [S.n.], 1946. First edition. Illustrated with 6 photographic reproductions. In publisher’s printed wrappers. (16) p. Exhibition catalogue of de Chirico’s infamous show at Galerie Allard in June 1946, where the vast majority of the 28 exhibited paintings were fakes, forged by Óscar Domínguez. More about Exhibition Catalogue] G. de Chirico