Venice, Basel: 1532. First edition. In 17th century leather binding. 1] [From colofon:] Stampata in Vinegia [Venice]: per Gulielmo da Fontaneto de Monserra:& Merchio Sessa: e li heredi del. q. Piero de Ravani [Guglielmo da Fontaneto, Melchiorre Sessa e gli eredi di Pietro Ravani], Del.M.D.XXXII [1532]. ff. [10] 386., Sign...... More

Budapest: Magyar Szocilaista Munkáspárt, MTA, 1971. 24 x 33 cm. Obituary of important philosopher. More

A Versailles: De l’Imprimerie de Ph.-D- Pierres, Premier Imprimeur Ordinaire du Roi, rue Saint-Honoré, No. 23, Juillet1789. First edition. In somewhat later blank wrappers. [4] 24 p. The extremely scarce first edition of the earliest version of the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a draft by Abbé Sieyès. This..... More

Warsaw: 1816. In contemporary half leather. 54 p., 1 plate. First polish edition. More

Roma: Per Luigi Perego Savioni Stampator Vaticano incontro la fabbrica de S. Agostino, [1789]. First Italian edition. In contemporary green blank wrappers. Scarce Spanish proto-feminist work in contemporary Italian translation. Born into a family of physicians on his father's side in 1749, and received an unusual education for a...... 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

Koethen (Leipzig). A. Wiede (Ernst Keil). 1849. First Polish edition (second overall). Papered spine. Light foxing. 40 p. The proclamation was first published in German, in December 1848 and it followed, presumably in a few weeks, the Polish edition. Early, scarce and important work of the founder of anarchism... More

Paris: Gallimard, (1955). First edition. Limited, numbered one of 50 (of 56) copies. In publisher’s wrappers, printed in red and black, protected with tracing paper. 272, (8) p. Limited, first edition of Simone de Beauvoir’s collection of essays. According to Beauvoir the question “how the privileged may think about..... 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

(Paris): Gallimard, (1958). Presentation copy. In publisher’s paper. 221, (1) p. Inscribed by the French author Roger Caillois (1913–1978) to Iván Boldizsár (1912–1988) the Hungarian poet and writer. Boldizsár was the president of the Hungarian PEN Club from 1970 and President of the International PEN Club in 1984..... More

Budpest: 1914. In original cloth, the covers inside. 192 p. Complete year of the important Hungarian pericodiacal. More

Amsterodami [Amsterdam]: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium [Elzevier], MDCXLIII [1643]. First edition. In later red maroquin. Gilt panels, spine, and inner edges. Marbled endpapers. Gilt edges. Woodcut device on the title page. Woodcut initials and tailpieces. [12] 282 p. The scarce first edition of this fundamental text for the history of philosophy..... More

Parisiis [Paris]: Apud Joannem Ruellium, sub intersignio Vulpis caudae, via ad D. Jacobum, 1548. First Paris edition. With woodcut initials. In lather leather. Gilt title on spine. Marbled endpapers. Tinted edges. a–b8, C–Z8, AA–HH8; ff. 247, (1). First Paris edition of Eck’s De Purgatorio. Johann Eck’s early anti-Protestant writing..... More