Venice? N. p., 1526. Title page with elaborate woodcut border of musical instruments and allegorical figures. With two woodcut initials. First edition. Text in Italian. Date and place of the dedication is June 10, 1526, Lyon. Precedes the bibliographical (Latin) first edition. Papered spine. (4º); A1–B4 (B4 is blank). “Dehortatione..... More

Estampades en Valencia: en casa de Joan Mey, Venen se en casa de Sanahuja Librer [Juan Mey], any. M. D. Lxvi, [1566]. First edition. Woodcut initials. In modern vellum, title lettered in ink on the spine. ff. [16]. Collation: a–b8. “The first catechismal work directed expressly at the instruction of..... More

Budapest: Benkő Gyula (Rovó Aladár), 1918. First edition. With printed dedication to Georg (György) Lukács. In original paper. 47, (1) p. Balázs’ theoretical book on theatre, an antecedent to his books about film. This treatise was originally written to be lectured on a series of public talk that was..... More

Zagreb: Merkantile, 1929. First edition. In original Constructivist cover. 67, (1) p. Bonifačić (1901–1986) was a Croatian politician, émigré journalist and critic. After Word War II he emigrated to Brazil where he became the editor of Croatian émigré newspapers. He died in Chicago, USA. More

Imprimé à l’Arrivour Abbaye [Larrivour]: dudict Seign, Par Maistre Nicole Paris, 1547. First edition, later version (first in 1546). Title page in an ornate frame. Woodcut printer’s device on the last page. Woodcut initials throughout. Woodcut coat of arms of Jean de Luxembourg on S1r. In later paste paper. Gauffered..... More

[S.i.]: [S.n.], [ca. 1980]. First edition. Samizdat. In somewhat later cloth binding. Xeroxed. 173 [1] p. Extremely scarce samizdat on Marcel Duchamp by Chalupecký. The Czech art critic and art historian, Jindřich Chalupecký (1910–1990) was first introduced to Marcel Duchamp’s works in 1934 and later he published essays and..... More

[Paris]: Gallimard, 1949. First edition, seventh impression. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to Pierre Klossowski. In publisher’s wrapping, printed in red and black. 252 [4] p. First edition of Cioran’s first French book, inscribed to Pierre Klossowski. Précis de Décomposition was the first work of the Romanian-French philosopher..... More

Coloniae [Köln]: apud Peter Quentel, Anno XXXIII [1533]. With two large woodcut illustrations, the Virgin and Child on verso of title and woodcut of the author at end. Woodcut initials. First edition. In later gilt burgundy maroquin. Gilt floral ornaments and title on spine. Marbled endpapers. Gilt edges. Green silk..... More

Budapest: ifj. Nágel Ottó, 1911. First edition. Complete run. The first issue printed by the Kner private press in Gyoma, the second by “Garai Mór és Fia” in Budapest. In publisher’s printed paper. 129, (3); (3), 134–256, (2) p. Scarce and important Hungarian philosophical review. The cradle of the progressive..... More

Grand-Saconnex (Schweiz): Selbstverlag, 1877. First edition. In publisher’s wrappers. 24 p. Scarce pamphlet reflecting on the debate on early Marxist communism countering Engels for Anti-Dühring. First and only edition of the socialist theorist Abraham Enss’ pamphlet in which he criticises Marx and his followers for “doing humbug with socialism”..... More

[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

Strasbourg, Hagenau: Knobloch; Seltz, 1523–1528. Four works in one volume. In contemporary wooden panels with the traces of leather and a codex leaf on spine. Spine with three raised bands. The original copper clasps are presented. The title pages of the first three works (by Erasmus) with identical architectural borders..... More

Vienna: 1927. One page, with a personal letterhead. Signed “Freud”, dated February 27, 1927. 150 × 226 mm. Sigmund Freud’s signed holograph letter to Frau Wolff regarding the treatment of the recipient’s daughter at the Berlin Poliklinik. Freud offers to Mrs. Wolff to recommend her daughter to a physician..... More