Impresso em Lisboa: na officina de Luys Estupina, Anno de M. DCVIII [1608]. First edition. In later leather. Panels, spine, inner edges richly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece (not cited by bibliographies). Woodcut initials, typographical head, and tailpieces. Woodcut printer’s device on last leaf. Pages framed by double-line. Housed in... More

[Madrid]: [Se hallara à Imprenta de Don Pedro Joseph Alonso de Padilla, Impressor, y Mercader de Libros; vive en la Calle de Santo Thomàs, junto al Contraste], [around 1740]. In 20th century leather. Panels blind tooled, spine gilt with red title vignette. Marbled endpapers. 8º; (16) p. Extremely scarce edition... More

Dresden: 1930. Five original, vintage black and white photographs. Ca. 230 × 167 mm. A collection of five vintage photographs of the Second International Hygiene Exhibition. Photographic documentation of Fritz Tschakert’s Transparent Man, the main attraction of the 1930 Dresden exhibition, as well as the exterior and interior of the... More

Paris: Auguste-Rosalie Bisson, around 1866. Vintage photographic map, with the names of the glaciers, peaks and altitude printed on the photograph in black. Albumen print mounted on cardboard sheets, comprises two sections. Folding strengthened with cloth. Item dimensions: 545 × 650 mm (in two parts). Photograph dimensions: 395 × 489... More

Praha: Antonin Gubcevsky, Ca. 1930. Original, black and white photograph. 232 × 167 mm. Czech avant-garde architects, Josef Havlicek and Karel Honzik’s visual for their iconic modernist work, the building of the General Pension Institute in Prague. Josef Havlicek (1899–1961) and Karel Honzik (1900–1966) were representatives of functionalist... More

Riga: Tautas augstskolas, June 1929. First edition. In publisher’s, illustrated wrappers by Andrejs Grigelis, printed in red and black. 225–276, (8) p. Signals was a Latvian avant-garde student journal, published between 1928 and 1930, issued 17 numbers. The present issue includes the annual report of the magazine as... More

[Prague]: The Press Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, 1952. First edition. With 16 full-page photographic reproductions. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 34, (2) p., and 9 double plates. Scarce cold war document about the American terrorist activities in Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s. On October... More

U Zagrebu [Zagreb]: Tiskom I nakladom A. Jakica, 1864. First Croatian edition. In contemporary half cloth. Panels covered with marbled paper. With 55 text illustrations. 244 p. Page 220, 235 and 243 misnumbered. Scarce, first Croatian edition of Defoe’s 1719 novel, Robinson Crusoe. Based on the German translation... More

Warszawa [Warsaw]: Nakladem Spóldzielni Ksiegarskiej “Ksiazka”, 1926[–1933]. Second Polish edition. 3 parts bound into two, the first title page and the last half title bound into, the translations of the usual prefaces (pp. I–[XXXII]) are bound before first part, unlike other copies. In contemporary half cloth, with title labels. (4)... More

Paris: Les Editions Isis, 1931. With six black and white mounted illustrations, one full page text illustration, and pictorial initials by Georges Pogédaieff. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies. Inscribed by Baker, La Cámara and Abatino. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, printed in shades of red and back. Untrimmed. Partly... More

Stockholm: Tryckt hos Johan Pehr Lindh, 1793. First Swedish edition. In contemporary blue wrappers. (8), 84 p. The first Swedish edition of Locke’s Epistola de tolerantia (A Letter Concerning Toleration) which was originally published in 1689 in Latin. It was translated into Sweden by Carl Delén (1767–1850) who was an... More

[S. l. but: London]: [s. n. but: John Murray], [n. d. but: 1841]. First separate edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 15, (1) p. Early scientific paper on the ethnography and languages of the Canary Islands. In his paper, Costa de Macedo examines and confutes James Cowles Prichard’s... More

[Rorschach] Getruckt in deß Fürstlichen Gottshaus S. Gallen Reychshoff, Rorschach am Bodensee: Bey Bartholome Schnell, im Jahr 1606. First edition. In later vellum. Panels are ruled, spine decorated and titled in gilt. Signed binding by Louis Pouillet (bookbinder in Paris, active from 1870 to 1910). Edges gilt. Title printed in... More