A Paris: Chez Tuossainct du Bray, rue Sainct Jacques, aux Epics-meurs, M. DC. XXIIII [1624]. First edition. In 18th century leather. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with gilt ornament and title. Edges tinted in red and brown. Woodcut initials and headpieces. (16), 1115, (3 [last 2 blank]) p. Collation... More
[S.l.]: [S.n.], [n.d. but 1709]. First edition. In contemporary leather. Gilt spine with red title label. Edges of the panels gilt. Marbled endpapers. Tinted edges. (12), 308 p. Scarce publication related to the endgame of the Chinese Rites Controversy. Antoine Thomas (adopted the Chinese name of Ngan To... More
Paris: M. Escudier, Éditeur, Rue Richelieu, 1852. First edition. In later half cloth binding, with publisher’s printed wrappers bound into. The panels are covered with marbled paper. With gilt title on spine. Marbled edges. (4), (1)–206, (2) p. Scarce first edition of Liszt’s biography on Chopin, “the best-know and least... More
Paris: Au Sans Pareil, [1921]. Illustrated with a black-and-white photographic reproduction of Max Ernst’s work. First edition. Sheet blue inside. 6 printed pages on one large, oblong sheet, folded twice. Scarce catalogue of Max Ernst’s the first solo exhibition, Exposition Dada. Max Ernst had his first solo exhibition... More
![Elegie. [Elegy.]. Otokar Zizka.](/pictures/thumb/1454.jpg?v=1532102990)
Vyskov: F. Obzina, 1932. Cover and frontispiece designed by Bohdan Lacina. First edition. Limited, numbered. One of 10 luxury copies out of total 225 copies. Signed by the author and the artist on page 13 in ink. In publisher’s wrappers, printed in blue and black. 55, (13) p. Limited, first... More
![Elegie. [Elegy.]. Otokar Zizka.](/pictures/thumb/1453.jpg?v=1532102563)
Brno: [Published privately by Jan Jelínek], 1932. Layout and illustrations by Bohdan Lacina. First edition. Limited, numbered. One of 40 luxury copies. Signed by the author at colophon in ink, and by the artist on the frontispiece in pencil. In publisher’s green wrappers, with mounted title vignette. 20, (8) p.... More
![Bedrich Václavek o Frantisku Halasovi. K problematice soucasné poesie. S osmi básnemi Frantiska Halase. [Bedrich Václavek on Frantissek Halas. The Problematics of Contemporary Poetry. With Eight Poems by Frantisek Halas.]. Bedrich Václavek, Frantisek Halas.](/pictures/thumb/1452.jpeg?v=1532101691)
Bratislava: [Published privately by Zdeněk Rossmann], 1934. Cover illustration by Frantisek Bidlo, layout designed by Zdenek Rossmann. First edition. Limited, one of 250 copies. Japanese binding. (15) double leaves. Scarce publication on Frantisek Halas and contemporary poetry, created by members of Devetsil, the Czech avant-garde artists group. Bedrich... More
![[The New Dwelling: Woman as Creator.] Nové bydlení. Zena jako tvuce. 75 obrazu. Prelozil podle V. vydání. Dr. Bedrich Václavek. ARS. Sbírka rpzprav o Umení. Vede Dr. B. Markalous. Svazek 5. Bruno Taut.](/pictures/thumb/1451.jpeg?v=1532101407)
Praha: Orbis, 1926. First Czech edition. In publisher’s modernist typographical wrappers, printed in red and black. Richly illustrated, with 77 drawings and photographic reproductions. 20, (8) p. Richly illustrated, first Czech edition of Die Neue Wohnung, die Frau als Schöpferin (The New Dwelling: The Woman as Creator) by Bruno Taut... More
![Maskaráda. [Masquerade.]. Oldrich Syrovátka.](/pictures/thumb/1450.jpeg?v=1532100998)
[Brno]: [Published privately], 1937. Cover and layout designed by Oldrich Crhounek. Illustrated with an original, signed lithographic plate (unbound, inserted as frontispiece) by Crhounek. First edition. Limited, numbered, one of 350 copies. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, printed in red and blue. 11, (5) p., and one lithographic plate. Limited, first... More
![Szines linómetszetek. [Color Linocuts.]. Emil Róbert Novotny.](/pictures/thumb/1449.jpg?v=1532100538)
[Hungary]: 1927. First edition. 7 colour and 2 black-and-white linocut plates, each signed and dated by the artist in pencil. In original, yellow portfolio with linocut printed cover, with colour linocut mounted on the cover. 9 plates. Complete. 290 × 340 mm. Portfolio of avant-garde linocuts by the Hungarian painter... More
![Sovetsky film. Monografie SSSR, Umení, 28. [The Soviet film.]. Lubomír Linhart.](/pictures/thumb/1448.jpeg?v=1532100257)
[Praha]: [Nakladatelství Pavel Prokop], [1936]. First edition. Illustrated with numerous photographic reproductions. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, designed by Jiri Friml, printed in red and blue. 40 p. Scarce publication about the Soviet film industry with modernist cover, designed by the Czech architect and typographer Jiri Friml. Illustrated with... More
![Rinktinės zydu apysakos. O[zeris] Finkelsteinas, Ch[ackelis] Lemchenas, G[enrikas] Zimanas. [Selected Jewish Stories.]. Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Asch, Dovid Eynhorn, Isaac Leib Peretz, Avrom Reyzen.](/pictures/thumb/1447.jpeg?v=1532099874)
Kaunas: Spaudos Fondo Leidinys, 1931. Illustrated with three black-and-white photographic reproductions of the authors’ portraits. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Untrimmed. 232, (2) p., and 3 plates. Scarce, Lithuanian edition of Yiddish literature. With modernist cover design. A collection of short stories by Yiddish authors, such... More
![Exotická krajina. Básne. [Exotic Landscape. Poems.]. Frantisek Dvorak.](/pictures/thumb/1446.jpeg?v=1532099520)
[Ceské Budejovice]: Edice Gemini, 1931. With three, signed woodcut illustrations by Frantisek Bohumír Kouba. First edition. Limited, numbered, one of only 100 copies. Signed by the author on half-title. Hand-printed by Stanislav and Vaclav Kocmoud. In publisher’s cardboard wrappers, with mounted red title vignette. 27, (5), p. Bibliophile, first edition... More
![Zydowskie ugrupowania i stronnictwa polityczne w Polsce. (I-sze pólrocze 1926). Ministertwo Spraw Wewnetrznych. Tylko do uzytku urzedowego. [Jewish Political Groups and Parties in Poland. (First term of 1926.) Ministry of the Interior. Only for official use.]. Aleksander Hafftka.](/pictures/thumb/1445.jpg?v=1532098942)
Warszawa: Drukarnia Policyjna, [1926]. First edition. Original, vintage, printed poster. 60 × 125 cm. A comprehensive and profound overview of the diversity of Jewish groups in Poland in the mid-1920s. The extensive and somewhat complex table, which was published by the Ministry of Internal Affair only for official... More
![[Appeal of the Polish President on September 1, 1939] Odezwa! Obywatele Rzeczpospolitej! Ignacy Moscicki.](/pictures/thumb/1444.jpg?v=1532018355)
Krakowie [Kraków]: Drukarnia Polska, [1939]. Original vintage, printed poster. Size: 63 × 95 cm. The first printed official communication about the German Invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and marked the beginning of World War II, the largest military conflict... More
A Paris: Chez Louys Billaine, au second Pilier de la grande Salle du Palais, à la Palme, & au grand Celar, M. DC. LXX. [1670]. First French edition. In somewhat later leather. Panels blind-ruled, spine with five raised bands, gilt, with red title vignette. Edges painted. (8), 165, (1) p.... More
![[Cover title:] Adolf Eichmann. אדולף אייכמן I[–VI]. 1–606[–3564]. Adolf Eichmann, Avner Less.](/pictures/thumb/1442.jpg?v=1531737769)
[Jerusalem]: Police d’Israel Quartier General 6-eme Bureau, [1961]. First edition. Six volumes of printed typescript photocopies. Text mostly in German, partially in Hebrew and English. In original blue half-cloth. 154; 154; 151; 155; 149; and 128 leaves (four photocopy-pages per leaf). Extremely scarce, complete transcript of the interrogation of Adolf... More
![Herr Erasmus von Roterdams verteütschte Außlegug über dise wort Sant Pauls zu den von Corinth in der ersten Epistel am viertzehenden Capitel. Ich will lieber in meinem gemuet funff wort in der kirchen reden andere zu unterweysen dan[n] zehentausent woert mit der zungen. Von gesang. Desiderius Erasmus.](/pictures/thumb/1441.jpeg?v=1531501141)
[Landshut]: [Johann Weißenburger], [1521]. Early edition. Papered spine. (8) p. (the last two blank). An early and scarce German edition of Erasmus’ diatribe on church music. The text is a translation of an excerpt from the Annotations and circulated widely among followers of Luther and Zwingli. The treatise... More
[1890s]. In original red cloth. 65 original, vintage, black and white photographs in various sizes. 27 album card leaves. Album page size: 220 × 152 mm. Private photo album of late 19th century Brazil. The album includes several photographs taken in the countryside about indigenous Brazilians, pineapple and... More
![Obrona Warszawy. Lud Polski w Obronie Stolicy. (Wrzesien, 1938 Roku.) [Defence of Warsaw. Polish People in Defence of the Capital. (September, 1938.)]. Teresa Zarnower.](/pictures/thumb/1439.jpg?v=1531417190)
New York: Polish Labor Group, 1942. First edition. Text in Polish. In original photographically illustrated wrappers. 61, [3] p.; 8 plates of photographic illustrations. A contemporary account on Warsaw’s fight against the Nazis. Published by the predominantly Jewish “Polish Labor Group” of New York. With eight photographic illustrations... More
![Ulysses. Fordította Gáspár Endre. Elsö (Második) kötet [Ulysses. Translated by Endre Gáspár. First (Second) volume.]. James Joyce.](/pictures/thumb/1438.jpg?v=1531416593)
(Budapest): Nova Irodalmi Intézet, (1947). First Hungarian edition. In two volumes. Printed in only 1000, numbered copies. This copy is unnumbered. In original half cloth, gilt title on front panel and spine. With the original dust jackets. (4), III, (1), 310, (2); (4), 294, (2) p. First Hungarian edition of... More
![Avantgarda bez Legend a Mytu: Rozhlasovy cyklus o Patnácti Dilech. cast 1–14. [Avant-Garde without Legends and Myths: A Radio Series in Fifteen Parts. Part 1–14.]](/pictures/thumb/1437.jpg?v=1531414285)
[Praha]: [Published privately], [1967.]. First edition. Samizdat. Five carbon copy booklets saddle stitched together. In original modernist wrappers, printed in red and black. Complete. Extremely scarce, private publication with the full transcript of all fourteen parts of the Czech radio play, Avantgarda bez Legend a Mytu. Avant-Garde without... More
München: Hesperos verlag, 1919. Frontispiece and four full-page text illustrations by Emil Preetorius, each signed by the artist in pencil in the lower left. Cover design also by him. Second edition. Limited, numbered (1/50/450). Signed by the illustrator on the recto of the second leaf in pen. Handbound. In publisher’s... More
Praga (Prague): Ustredni Delnické Knihkupectvi a Nakladatelstvi (A. Sveceny), 1927. With several photographic illustrations. First Czech edition. In original, typographically illustrated blue cloth. 238, (2) p. Authorised Czech edition, from the same year of the premiere of the film. Illustrated with more than 60 frames from the movie. More
Zu Franckfurt [Frankfurt]: Bei Chr. Egenolff [Christian Egenolff], (Jm Jenner. An. M.D.LI.) [1551]. First Frankfurt edition. In blind stamped half leather binding with four raised bands. Panels covered with paste paper. Large woodcut illustration on the title page and approximately 250 woodcut illustrations. Collation: #6, A–Z6, Aa–Oo6. (6), CCXXII leaves... More