Budapest: Népszava Könyvkereskedés, [n.d., ca. 1914]. Original, vintage postcard. Printed at Seidner Plakát és Cimkegyár. Designed by Mihály Biró. Chromolithograph. 92 × 141 mm. Anti-war propaganda postcard of the Social Democratic Party of Hungary, featuring Mihály Biró’s (1886–1948) striking illustration of “The Cannon Loader”, created originally for the anti-militarist congress..... More

Trieste: Coen; Herrmanstorfer, 1862; 1863; 1864; 1863. First edition. In somewhat later half leather. Spine with five raised bands, gilt ornaments, and black title vignette. All work with text illustrations throughout. 44 [2]; 23 (1) [2]; 148 [2] 2 lithographic plates with maps and 3 color lithographic plates; 82 (6)..... More

[Warsaw]: [S.n.], September 2 1939. Original vintage, printed poster. Text printed in black, coat of arms of Poland in red. Size: ca. 52 × 65 cm. The first printed official communication about the German Invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, the official Warsaw-edition. The German invasion of Poland on..... More

Prague; Paris: 1936. 63 p.; 24 p. Photographically illustrated architectural magazine, and essay about glass buildings by a Czech associate of Frank Lloyd Wright. Jaroslav Josef Polívka (1886–1960) was a Czech structural engineer, a collaborator of Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1937, Polívka designed the structural frame of the Czech..... More

En Córdoba: en la Imprenta de Don Rafael Garcia Rodriguez, Calle de la Libreria, [1805–44]. First edition. In publisher’s blank, blue wrappers. 40 p. A scarce first edition of this early adaptation of Gulliver’s first voyage into Spanish. An early translation, or rather an adaptation of Gulliver’s first voyage..... More

Berlin: Buch u. Kunstdruckerei Lutze und Vogt, 1923/1924 [1923]. Illustrated with 7 mounted reproductions of Ryback’s paintings. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. (14) p. Catalogue of Ryback’s exhibition, held in Berlin in 1923-1924. Isaacher Bar Ryback (1897–1935) was a Ukranian-French painter, one of the most prominent figures of..... More

Upsaliae [Uppsala]: Ex Officina Werneriana, [1709]. First edition. Text in Latin and Greek. In later half leather by Gustav Hedberg (1859–1920), with his vignette on flyleaf. Spine with gilt floral patterns, and red title vignette, panels covered with marbled paper. [8] 62 p. Emanuel Swedenborg’s doctoral dissertation, his first publication..... More

Londini [London]: Impensis D. Brown, ad Insigne Cygni & Bibliorum extra Portam vulgò dictam Temple-Bar, MDCXCVI [1696]. First edition, second issue. In contemporary leather. Panels tooled at edges, spine gilt, with title-vignette. Edges tinted. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf (“Ex dono Authoris - 10mo Junji. 1696”). [8]..... More

Stockholm: tryckt hos Carl Delén, 1802. First Swedish edition. In contemporary blue paper wrappers. 87, [1] p. First edition of the Swedish translation of the first biography of the “Black Napoleon” Toussaint-Louverture. François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (1743–1803) was an ex-slave, the best-known and the most successful black commanders of the..... More

Bruxelles: René Henriquez, 1934. First edition. An association copy, inscribed by André Breton to Yves Tanguy. Numbered, one of the 20 copies printed on green paper. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Cover illustration by René Magritte. 32 p. Inscribed by Breton: C'est l'apparition d'Yves Tanguy coiffé du paradisier grand émeraude. More

Dresden: Galeria Neue Kunst Fides, 1929. First edition. In original paper with a reproduction of Klee’s painting on the cover and with illustrations inside. 12 unnumbered pages. An extremely scarce catalogue of the exhibition organized by the Galeria Neue Kunst Fides, to commemorate Klee’s 50th birthday. More

[Warsaw]: Klub Futurystów “Katarynka, 1921. First edition. In original typographical wrappers. [16] p. Scarce Polish futurist book with striking typography. Stanisław Młodożniec’s (1895–1959) first book. Młodożniec was a Polish poet, and co-founder of the Polish futurist movement and the futurist club Katarynka in 1919, with Tytus Czyżewski and Bruno..... More

Paris: Jouve & Cie, Éditeurs, 1928. Illustrated with 17 reproductions of Branko Ve Poljanski’s works. An association copy, inscribed to André Salmon. In publisher’s printed wrappers, with the original printed bellyband. 5 preliminary leaves, 13-154, [6] pages including plates. An association copy of this scarce book, inscribed to André Salmon..... More