Budapest ? 1950 around. In paper binding. Around 100 vintage photos. Erna Vamos, was born in Budapest in a Hungarian family of Jewish origin. She was an artist who specialized mainly in portraits of African subjects. Her youth, spent in Budapest and Paris, was marked by the influence of certain..... More
![Item #3494 [L’ambasciaria] Lambasciaria di David Re dell’ Etiopia al santißimo S. N....](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3494.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1750926340)
In Bologna: per Giacobo Keymolen Alostese, nel mese de Martio, Anno 1533. First Italian edition. Later plain cardboard binding. [30] p. Coll.: A–D3. An extremely scarce vernacular edition of the earliest documented account of Francisco Álvares’ embassy to the Ethiopian court, detailing Emperor Dawit II’s diplomatic appeals to Pope Clement..... More
Lisboa [Lisbon]: Typographia do Commercio, 1900. First edition (issued as a separata from A Tribuna; the parent journal could not be traced). Later half-leather binding, with the publisher’s original front wrapper bound in. 119 [3] p. Scarce first edition of the first printed collection of Guinean orature, by the first..... More
[France and Brazil]: [c. 1880s–1890s]. Large-format oblong folio photographic album containing 50 late 19th-century albumen prints mounted on 25 card leaves, most with printed captions in French. The sequence comprises 13 uncredited views of Paris and 37 Brazilian views by Marc Ferrez, the latter almost all titled and credited on..... More
![Item #3417 [Chronographia reportorio dos tempos] Chronographya reportorio dos tempos, no qual se...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3417.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1739795515)
Empresso com licença em Lisboa [Lisbon]: por Iorge Rodriguez a custa de Pero Ramires, Anno de 1603. Woodcut armorial device on the title page, with a few woodcut initials throughout. Illustrated with several tables and nearly one hundred woodcut images, some full-page. Among them is a large world map (f..... More
Hungary: 1910 Around. More
A Rouen: Chez Julien Courant, derriere le Pallais pres la Bastille à l’Image Sainct Nicollas, M. DC. L [1650]. First edition. Woodcut title ornament, headpieces, and initials throughout. Printer’s corrections in ink and mounted paper slips in the dedication; a corrected royal printing privilege mounted over the originally printed text..... More
![Item #3810 [Cover Title]: Afrique. Océanie. Amérique. [Arts Primitifs]. Océanien. Salle n°...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3810.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781726494)
[Paris]: Hôtel Drouot, 1930. First edition. Original printed wrappers with photographically illustrated cover label. 16 p., and 1 plate of photographic reproductions. Illustrated Drouot catalogue, issued at the peak of the Paris market for arts primitifs and closely aligned with the collecting horizon of the Surrealist milieu. Around 1930..... More
![Item #3809 [Cover Title]: Arts Primitifs. Américain. Africain. Océanien. Salle n° 10. 4–5...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3809.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781985411)
[Paris]: Hôtel Drouot, 1930. First edition. Original printed wrappers with typographic cover label. 14 [2] p., and 8 plates of photographic reproductions. Illustrated Drouot catalogue, issued at the peak of the Paris market for arts primitifs and closely aligned with the collecting horizon of the Surrealist milieu. Around 1930..... More
[N.p. (London)]: [S.n.], 1840. First edition. Later gilt green leather binding. [4] 68 [2] p. Scarce Portuguese defence of abolitionist policy and sovereignty, documenting a rare dispute between two leading abolitionists during Britain’s global campaign against the slave trade. A political pamphlet by the Viscount de Sá da Bandeira..... More
Paris: Libraire L. Hachette et Cie., Éditeurs, [c. 1858]. Complete with 14 leaves of explanatory text and 82 plates, including tinted and color lithographs, many based on photographs. First edition. Large folio (36 × 52 cm). In publisher’s green cloth, with a large lithographed, colored title vignette on the front..... More
Paris: Henri Vivien, Libraire-Éditeur 51, Rue Blanche 51, [around 1897]. First edition. Contains 2 letterpress plates (title page and half title) and 21 tinted and colored lithographs of which one is double-page (folded). In publisher’s printed hard paper portfolio. [2 (letterpressed plates)] [21 (lithographed plates)]. [Complete.]. Extremely scarce, seemingly unrecorded..... More