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

Berlin: Morawe & Scheffelt Verlag, 1912. Limited, numbered edition, one of 400 copies. With a supplement mounted onto the inner rear panel. Illustrated with 2 full-page, 5 double-page illustrations. Initials, head and tail pieces throughout. The double-page illustrations are separated by tracing paper. In publisher’s half-vellum, ornamented with thin black..... More

V Praze [Prague]: Vydal Masarykův lidovýchovný ústav (Svaz osvětový), 1928. First edition. Richly illustrated, including two drawings by František Muzika, one by Adolf Hoffmeister and eight photographic reproductions of stage designs. In publisher’s typographic wrappers, printed in red and black, designed by Ladislav Sutnar. (1 [photographic frontispiece leaf]), 109, (13)..... More

Warszawa [Warsaw]: Iskry, 1954. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated hard paper, designed by Jan Młodożeniec. 226, (2) p. First edition of Lem’s seven short stories, including the first episode of the Star Diaries, the adventures of Ijon Tichy. One of the earliest books by Lem. The last story..... More

[Újvidék]: [Fórum Könyvkiadó], [1971]. First edition. Inscribed by the author. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, designed by Gábor Ifjú. Printed on differently colored papers. 89, (7) p. Inscribed first edition of Katalin Ladik’s book of surreal poems. Katalin Ladik (b. 1942) is a Yugoslavian-born (today Serbia) Hungarian radical female..... More

Warszawa [Warsaw]: Wydawnictwo „Prasa Wojskowa”, 1948. First edition. Illustrated with photographic reproductions. In publisher’s wrappers with the original dust jacket. Photomontage cover design by Mieczysław Berman. 75, (1) p., and and 6 photographic plates. A Comminust propaganda booklet, with a striking cover, designed by Mieczysław Berman. Falsifiers of..... More

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

London: Partridge and Oakey, Paternoster Row, and 70, Edgware Road. Saunders & Otley, Conduit Street, 1852. In publishers green cloth. Front panel and spine with gilt illustrations and title, rear panel blind-tooled. Edges gilt. xiv, (2), 524, (4) p., and 16 illustrated plates (frontispiece and title page included), protected with..... More

In Reggio: Appresso Hercoliano Bartholi [Ercoliano Bartoli], [1591]. First collected edition of these works, first part only. In contemporary Italian limp vellum. Complete. Extremely scarce collection of the majority of Zinani’s literary works. A scarce collection of separately published pieces, issued with a general title page by Zinani’s..... More