Evreux: J. J. L. Ancelle, 1793. First edition. Published unbound. 4 p. Decree of the National Convention about slave-trade; the declaration of William Pitt as enemy of mankind; and a decree on sylviculture. 1º. Qui autorise le Ministre de la Marine à faire marquer & exploiter les Bois propres..... More

A Paris: de l’Imprimerie Nationale Exécutive du Louvre, An II.e de la République [1794]. First edition printed in Paris. Published unbound. 2 [2 (blank)] p. The first official printing of the Law of 4 February 1794, the decree enacting the first general abolition of slavery in the modern world... More

Wien (Vienna): Verlag der “Neuen Glühlichter”, Druck von Johann N. Vernay, (ca. 1890). Chromolithograph. 140 × 90 mm. Considered the first May Day (Mai-Feier) postcards printed in Europe. May Day or International Worker’s Day is the commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre which was a demonstration that took place on..... More

[Budapest]: [S.n.], [1906?]. First edition. Two original stitched fascicles with paper-covered spines. 56; 42 p. Official register of approved surname changes during the great wave of surname Magyarization and Jewish assimilation in Hungary. Issued annually by the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior, the present register records every surname change..... More

Budapest: [S.n. (Várnay és Fia], 1913?]. First edition. Two original stitched fascicles with paper-covered spines. 62 [2 (blank)]; 47 [1 (blank)] p. Official register of approved surname changes during the great wave of surname Magyarization and Jewish assimilation in Hungary. Issued annually by the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior..... More

Waitzen (Vác): Anton Gottlieb, 1803. First edition. Text in German. Published unbound. 8, (8) p. The first publication of the first school for deaf children in Hungary, that has been opened in 1802. The founder of the institution was a Hungarian nobleman, András Cházár and the first director Antal Simon..... More

Budapest: Magyar Kommunista Párt, Szociáldemokrata Párt és a Szabad Szakszervezetek közös kiadása, 1945. First edition. In original photographically illustrated paper, printed in red and black. VIII, (5), 5–136 p. Edited by Róbert Byssz, using photomontage in the manner of El Lissitzky and Rodchenko. Showing the Soviet-styled celebration of May Day..... More

Matriti [Madrid]: ex officina Francisci Martinez [Francisco Martínez], Anno 1639. Second edition. Text in Latin, printed in two columns. In contemporary limp vellum with thongs. [12] 352 [56] p. Scarce Spanish legal work for the Audiencias in the New World. Francisco de Alfaro (1551–1644) was a significant Spanish jurist..... More

Roma: Per Luigi Perego Savioni Stampator Vaticano incontro la fabbrica de S. Agostino, [1789]. First Italian edition. In contemporary green blank wrappers. Contemporary Italian translation of a scarce Spanish proto-feminist work. Josefa Amar y Borbón (1749–1833) was born in Madrid into a family of physicians on her father's side..... More

Chuquisaca: Imprenta Boliviana, [1832]. Two woodcut figures on the title page. First edition. Unbound as issued, gatherings sewn together. V [1 (blank)] 40 p. An extremely scarce Bolivian imprint, Antonio José de Irisarri’s sharp critique on legal and social institutions. The third installment in the La Pajarotada series by..... More

France: c. 1825. Oval clear lead-glass plaque with serrated edges, enclosing a finely molded white sulphide cameo of President Boyer (inscribed “Pt. Boyer” at the base of the bust). The reverse is deeply sunburst-cut and polished. Original gilt-bronze suspension mount. Height 11 cm (excluding mount). Rare French cut-glass sulphide portrait..... More

Prága (Praha): Levá Fronta (Jav. Hoffmann), 1932. First edition. In publisher’s printed green paper. 32 p. First edition of Balázs’s essay. The printed version of a banned lecture on Marxism that he was to held in Bratislava in 1931. “Sarló” (Sickle), the publisher of this pamphlet, was a leftist Hungarian..... More

Budapest: Világosság rt. (1917). Lithograph poster, printed in red and black on yellow background. Mounted on canvas. Ca.  63 x 46 cm. Advertisement poster for “Népszava” (People’s Voice) the official newspaper of the Hungarian Social Democratic Party. With Mihály Biró’s (1886–1948) famous image of the “Red Man with Hammer”... More