Assisi: 1794. First edition. In later paper. CX [2] p. First edition of this important and scarce Italian proto-feminist work. Breve difesa dei diritti delle Donne, this “brief defense of women's rights” is a milestone in the Early Modern Italian debate on gender. The eighteenth century was a...... More
[Spain]: [late 18th century]. Manuscript in ink on paper. In later buckram, . ff [44 (last blank)]. Scarce Spanish manuscript on the history of the Spanish Inquisition. Written in 1652 by José de Rivera, a secretary of the Council of the Supreme Inquisition. The treatise begins with a brief..... More
Papeete (Tahiti): Cie Ricar Imp.-Lith. du gouvernemmente[!], September 1844. First edition. Folio. Lithographed entirely. [4] p. Extremely scarce journal, single number of the first newspaper published in French Polynesia. L’océanie française was the first French newspaper to be published in the South Pacific. It was a four-sheet, weekly..... More
Madrid: Diego Diaz de la Carrera, 1655. First edition. In later half cloth. [4] p. Scarce contemporary report on the Battle of the Dardanelles, 1655. The Battle of the Dardanelles, on 21 June 1655, was an act of the Cretan War, the fifth Ottoman–Venetian war, that took place at the..... More
[Imprint from colophon:] En Madrid: Por Lucas Antonio de Bedmar y Baldivia, Imressor de los Reynos de Castilla, en la Calle del Carmen, 1683. First edition. In later half cloth. Scarce Spanish news tract, a contemporary account of the Battle of Vienna by the Turks, describes the act between July..... More
En Madrid: por Pablo de Val, 1666. First edition. In later half clot. ff [8] 30., and two engraved plates. Scarce panegyric on the occasion of the acclamation of Charles II of Spain, with two fine allegoric engravings with the portraits of Charles and Mariana of Austria. With..... More
[S.l. but Madrid]: [Letter dated in Madrid on May 20, 1643. First edition. In later paper wrappers. 4 f. First edition of the scarce Spanish news letter supposedly addressed to the Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines Islands. A printed copy of an anonymously written long letter supposedly sent..... More
Budapest: Benko, 1907. First edition. In original illustrated cloth, 175 + [1] p. (Illustrated with 76 pictures). Rare book of the Hungarian traveler about his trip in the Crimea and Caucasus. Inscribed by the author to the the Hungarian politician Sandor Barkoczy. More
Tel Aviv and other locations in Palestine: late 1930s to late 1940s. Approx. 20 photographs: shelter for the disabled in Marmorek st. in Tel Aviv, after it was bombed by a Nazi aeroplane (1941); a Jewish youth flying the Israeli flag on top of a utility pole (apparently in Alenby..... More
Around 193. Signed on the front, Angelo label on the back. 20 x 26 cm. Angelo (Pál; Pinkász Funk, 1894–1974) was a Italian origin Hungarian photographer and cinematographe. More
![Item #2746 [Arabian Nights] Alf Layla wa-laylaqad haddaba-hu wa-sahhaha-hu ahad al-aba'...](/pictures/thumb/2746.jpg?v=1660991909)
Beirut: al-Maṭbaʻah al-Kāthūlīkīyah lil-Ābāʼ al-Yasūʻīyīn [Catholic Press of the Jesuit Fathers], 1888–1890. First edition of this version of the text. In publisher’s wrappers (printed title on front and spine on vol. 3 and 5). An early edition of the Arabian Nights by the Jesuit printing house in Beirut... More
A Constantinople [but Paris]: De l’Imprimerie d’Ibrahim Pacha (Et se vend a Francfort, Chez J. G. Eslinger), First edition. In contemporary marbled paper. Typographic and woodcut head and tailpieces. 100, - 700, 60, 15 [1775]. [4] 212 p. First edition of Lancelin de Laval’s stories about Muhammad's private life and..... More
![Item #2744 [Ode à Picasso.]. Jean Cocteau](/pictures/thumb/2744.jpg?v=1660989087)
around 1916. . In canvas-covered notebook (sold by Chapron Coquelin Suc.r; 34, Rue de Seine). Written on rectos. MS leaves are loose. 4-page autograph. Holograph copy of the first four pages of an early and different version of Cocteau’s Ode à Picasso. Ode à Picasso is one of..... More
Pragae: Apud D. Hartmann, 1820. First edition. In contemporary hard paper, panels covered with green paste paper. Scarce first edition of Presl’s flora of Sicily. Karel Bořivoj Presl (1794–1852) was the most important 19th-century Czech botanist. In 1817 he went on a study trip to Sicily and collected..... More
[S.l. (Spain)]: [S.n.], , [n.d., but ca. 1616?]. First edition. In modern green half leather, bound with several blank leaves. Armorial woodcut device on title page. [4] p. An extremely scarce battle report of the events related to the aftermath of the Capture of La Mamora in 1614... More
![Item #2741 [Guadeloupe; Legal Briefs] Fourteen Unrecorded Guadeloupe Imprints, a Unique...](/pictures/thumb/2741.jpg?v=1660987386)
Basse-Terre: Imprimerie de la République; Imprimerie du Gouvernement; Cabre, 1803–1805. First editions. In contemporary leather. Spine gilt, with red title vignette (“Mémoire”). A collection of fourteen early and unrecorded imprints of legal briefs dated and printed between 1803 and 1805 in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe. Each of the..... More
![Item #2740 Commerce du Levant. Draps de Languedoc embarqués à Marséille de 1708 à 1752. [1.]...](/pictures/thumb/2740.jpg?v=1660986893)
[France, Marseille(?)]: [18th century]. Manuscript in ink on paper. Unbound, disbound from a larger volume. Text in French, in a neat hand. Pages tanned at the extremities, some light foxing here and there, first and last leaves slightly dented. [52] p. Manuscript account of the Languedoc cloth export to the..... More
[Czech lands]: late 18th, early 19th century. Manuscript book in Czech. In Czech cursive hand. In contemporary calf. [12 (ruled except for the first leaf, otherwise blank)] 9–255 [7 blank] p. [pp. 64–65; 255 ruled otherwise blank). Czech manuscript horse veterinary book. Written in the late 18th or early 19th..... More
[Rhenen]: early 18th century. Manuscript in ink in various hands. In contemporary overlapping limp vellum. Text in Dutch. Simon Laat’s name in ink by contemporary hand on front panel and inner rear panel, also in text. [116] p. Collection of early 18th-century manuscript recipes for wine fining. Including 71 numbered..... More
![Item #2737 [Lebanon] Carte du Liban d'après les reconnaissances de la Brigade Topographique du...](/pictures/thumb/2737.jpg?v=1660481182)
Paris: Imp. Lemercier, rue de Seine 57. (Gravée per Erhard Schièble rue Bonaparte 42), 1862. Color lithograph map in 16 sections mounted with linen. Bookseller’s vignette on verso (A. Corion Succ.r de H. Dorlin, Paris). 74 × 96.5 cm. First edition of the most important map in the history of..... More
Belgrade: Nadrealistička izdanja / Édition Surréalistes, May 1930. irst edition. In original printed wrappers. Text in Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic) and French. With several text illustrations and photographic reproductions. pp. [6] 3–136 p., and ff. [1 (of 2) advertisement]. The first collective publication of the Belgrade group of Serbian Surrealists. Nemogucé is..... More
Etching on vellum. Plate: 133 × 113 mm, image: 113 × 89 mm, sheet: ca. 213 × 133 mm. Signed and dated, in plate, lower left of image: Rembrandt f. 1634. More
Bremae & Amstelodami [Bremen, Amsterdam]: Sumptibus Bibliopolarum G.W. Rumpii & H. Vieroot [G. W. Rump and H. Vieroot], 1760–1763. First edition. In contemporary uniform vellum, with gilt supralibros of The Society of Writers to the Signet (WS Society). Core texts in Latin. 6 parts in 2 vols., [16] 176 [7]..... More
A Paris: Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin & Jacques Guerin, Libraires, rue Saint Jacques, à Saint Thomas d’Aquin. M. DCC. XLI [1741]. First edition. In contemporary school prize binding with gilt coat of arms of Stanisław I Leszczyński on the panels. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt compartments, and title vignette. 4°;..... More
Nyiregyháza: Nyirvidék: (Nyomtatott Pringer és Jóba könyvnyomdájában), 1883. In somewhat later half cloth. With the formerly unrecorded, green, printed wrappers of the “Debrecen-edition” mounted on front panel. Possessor’s inscription on front panel (Miklós Preiser). [2 (title page of the 2nd part)] (340 [of 342]) p.; [3]–68 p. Contemporary, semiofficial transcript..... More