[Poland]: [1935]. Original, vintage photographs. In various sizes. (1×) 83 × 54 mm, (5×) 91 × 61 mm, (1×) 128 × 88 mm, (3×) 178 × 129 mm, (2×) 238 × 165 mm. The Gordon Bennett Cup (Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett) is the oldest gas balloon race, created by James..... More

3 original, vintage sepia photographs. Each labelled in ink on verso, two dated (1896). One with printed label in Hungarian on recto. Sizes: 180 × 130 mm and 190 × 150 mm. Collection of 3 photographs of the building of Transylvanian Railway Network between Mádéfalva and Gyimesbükk (today: Siculeni –..... More

[1890s]. In original red cloth. 65 original, vintage, black and white photographs in various sizes. 27 album card leaves. Album page size: 220 × 152 mm. Private photo album of late 19th century Brazil. The album includes several photographs taken in the countryside about indigenous Brazilians, pineapple and..... More

Nürnberg: Joh. Hofmanns, 1685. First editions. Two works in one volume. In contemporary limp vellum. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Both works illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and numerous plates. Extremely scarce and only editions on the Ottoman Empire, both published in 1685, during the time of its greatest extent, under..... More

Wien: In commission bei Carl Gerold’s Sohn, 1896. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on a front cover. Text in English. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 32 p. Inscribed copy of the first edition of Stein’s report on the recently discovered travelogue of the Chinese pilgrim Ou-k’ong (Wukong; ca. 730–790), focusing on..... More

A Paris: de l’Imprimerie de P. Didot l’Ainé, Imprimeur du Roi, M DCCCXIV [1814]. First edition. Presentation copy signed and inscribed to Badía y Leblich’s son, on verso of the title page of the first volume in brown ink. In 19th century half leather. Spine gilt, with black title vignettes..... More

Budapest: “Kosmos” Müintézet Kö- és Könyvnyomda és Hírlapkiadó Részvénytársaság, 1896. First edition. With 41 text illustrations, mainly black-and-white photographic reproductions. Ornamented with initials and tail-pieces. Text in Hungarian. In publisher’s cloth, gilt and red ornamentations on the front panel, gilt title on the cover and the spine, embossed ornamentation on..... More

Budapest: Magyar Királyi Természettudományi Társulat, 1932. First edition. With 49 text illustrations, mostly full page photographic reproductions. Text in Hungarian. In publisher’s printed wrappers. (8), 260 p., and two plates. Richly illustrated travel memoir of the Hungarian zoologist and ethnologist, Lajos Bíró who travelled to Papua New Guinea at the..... More

Budapest: Dante, (1931). First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s red cloth. With the scarce, illustrated dust jacket, designed by Sándor Bortnyik. 248 p., and 8 plates with photographic reproductions. The book was published in the series of travelogues by the Dante publisher, and some of the dust jackets were designed by..... More

Madrid: Imprenta de Don Miguel de Burgos, 1829. First edition. [Atlas imprint: A Paris: Imp. Lith. de Engelmann & Cie. Lithographes de la Chambre et du Cabinet du Roi, 1829. (10 [desultorily numbered, but complete]), 11–118 p.]. Text volume: In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Atlas: In publisher’s printed wrappers. Lithographed throughout..... More

Praha (Prague): Aventinum, 1927. With numerous text illustrations by the author. Signed by the author. Title page printed in red and black. In publisher’s printed buckram. 106, (6) p. Signed copy of Čapek’s humorous travelogue of England, with numerous illustrations, also by him. Karel Čapek (1890–1938) was a Czech..... More

Pesten (Pest): Szent-István-Társulat (Herz János), 1856. First edition. In contemporary half leather. Gilt ornaments and title on spine. VI, 2, (1)–416, (2) p., and 2 plates protected with tissue (portrait of Columbus and a double portrait of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile) and a folding map..... More

Paris: Jacques Langlois et Emmanuel Langlois, 1654. First edition. Complete, with the three folding maps. With several woodcut head and tailpieces, and initials. In somewhat later leather. The gilt spine is with five raised bands and red title vignette. Front and rear panels ruled with gilt double-line at the edges..... More