A remarkable diary kept by Private Thomas P. Wilkinson, of Newark, Delaware, a soldier in the 114th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, a Union Army regiment from the Civil War also known as the "Zouaves d'Afrique" which served under Colonel Charles H. T. Collins and were known for their colorful Americanized..... More
A collection of five texts (all published, in five volumes) of classical Georgian literature, edited and with an introduction by Platon Ioseliani (1809–1875), the Georgian linguist, philologist, and historian. The son of a priest and a hereditary nobleman, Platon Ioseliani graduated from the Tiflis Theological Seminary (1830) and later St..... More
Altogether 147 issues, comprised of 7 early issues (Year I, Nos. 5 and 6, and Year II, Nos. 2, 3, 8, 21, and 23) and a large sequential run of 140 issues (Year III, No. 1 through Year XX, No. 139/140, lacking nos. 66 through 69) of the long-running Italian..... More
A complete run in seven fascicules of the Argentinian cultural and political journal, edited by Luis Aznar and Guillermo Korn, born out of the socialist branch of the Reforma Universitaria, each issue with a specific focus topic and subtitle, celebrating the Reformation as a political-cultural and socialist movement, each issue..... More
A complete run in 13 fasciscules - 12 numbered issues plus supplemental issue - of the short-lived official publication of the Oranje Vrijstaat Amsterdam, published by the Kabouter group, successors to the Dutch Provo movement, edited collaboratively by Roel van Duyn, Jan van Amerongen, Akke Blaauw, Toon Muller, Ewout van..... More
The first ten years, housed in 15 volumes (lacking 1905 volume I and 1907 volume I), of the French illustrated sports and leisure journal, under the editorial direction of Pierre Lafitte, composed primarily of photomontages and photo essays with captions and other small amounts of text, with occasional drawings and..... More
Album of 48 original photographs depicting sights around the city of Guatemala, predominantly architectural, some photographs with hand-written captions or captioned within the plate, views include the Catedral Metropolitana, National Theater, Templo de la Recolección, Plaza de Armas, Gran Hotel, Calle de la Libertad, Calle del Mercado, Iglesia de San..... More
Late 19th century educational tool for teaching children the four basic rules of arithmetic, devised by Father Charier, former student of the École Supérieure et Industrielle de la ville de Metz, formed as two octagonal stiff cardboard disks joined at the center, the top disk divided into four sections, one..... More
[Titles, subtitles and numbering vary: Nos. 1-18 subtitled "Notiziario de Cultura Contemporanea"; nos. 56-62 alternately numbered as 1-7; no. 64/65 entitled "Marcazero" with cover title "Marca 3"; no. 66/67 entitled "Marcauno" with cover title "Marca 3"] 66 issues (publisher's serialization lacks a no. 63) in 25 fascicules (many showing multiple..... More
1920s French shadow theater-style animated optical game comprised of a chromolithographed cardboard and wood theater scene flanked by Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character and Charles Prince's Rigadin, the center framing a celluloid screen with imposed image of a fence with two lampposts, behind which are mounted two fixed rollers with mechanical..... More
Early 19th century road map of downtown Paris and its immediate surroundings showing the location of the twelve municipal districts and town halls, with a legend including street names, police, hospitals, parishes, markets, bridges, and other sites and landmarks, with hand-drawn colored borders outlining the districts. Some toning, minor soiling..... More
A complete run of 6 issues bound in 5 (160, 160, 131, 120, 156 pp.) of the transatlantic literary and artistic journal, with text in English and German, edited by Carl Laszlo, René Matti, Michael Barfuss, and Michael Heitmann, discussing topics such as art, photography, pop culture, and underground political..... More
A complete run in 24 issues bound in one volume of the short-lived Argentinian literary and cultural journal, issues approx. 8-16 pp., edited by Julio Fingerit, containing prose and poetry together with articles of cultural interest on topics such as architecture, romanticism, the modern novel, art, woodcuts, folklore, James Joyce..... More
A complete run in three issues of the short-lived Swedish avant-garde journal, edited by Ingemar Gustafson, C.O. Hultén, Ilmar Laaban, and Göran Printz-Påhlson, containing poetry, prose, and some original artwork, including original lithographs from Roberto Matta and Anders Österlin. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Newer illustrated paper boards with leather spine label..... More
A complete run in 4 years and 162 issues of the weekly Argentinian newspaper, each issue approx. 24 pp., founded by and under the editorial direction of Enrique Martinez de Castillo and Leo Rudi, with articles on current events including politics, the economy, education, and culture. Illustrated throughout with photographs..... More
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1990s. A complete archive of two interrelated publications housed in five volumes, chronicling the resistance and adaptations of Berlin's radical leftist literary, intellectual and visual arts communities between the early 1990s and the present day, comprised of 52 issues (ca. 30-65 pp.) of Sklaven and 12 issues (ca. 40-48 pp.)..... More
Unpaginated (40 pp.) collaborative volume from the two legendary Munich artist groups, Spur and Wir, with brief manifesto from the group comprised of 12 statements, the rest of the volume consisting almost entirely of illustrations in the form of 25 linocuts (9 in color), by a range of artists including..... More
Seven issues, 50-64 pp. each, comprising a complete run of Raphaël Sorin's legendary but short-lived literary review including contributions by and new translations of Bukowski, Kerouac, Olivier Cohen, Jurij Moskvitin, Gérard Guégan, Philippe Delaroche, Alain le Saux, Richard Brautigan, Charles Olson, Raymond Chandler, and others, illustrated throughout with wildly erotic..... More
2 vols. I. iv, xxxxiii, 14, pp. text incl. foreword, annotated scholarly essays on ancient and modern carpets from Persia, India, Turkey, and Asia, and a descriptive listing of the first 50 plates, text richly illus. with photographic reproductions and figures, 50 plates comprised of 26 collotypes doubled with a...... More
Leningrad: Gublit, ca. 1925-1928? Various formats. Three small posters, printed to rectos in blue and red. About very good; small nicks and tears to edges. In protective mylar sleeve. Contains the following slogans: "Kazhdoe novoe sel’sko-khoziaistvennoe tovarishchestvo – zalog uluchsheniia krest'ianskogo khoziaistva (Every new agricultural cooperative plays its part in..... More
2 vols., XII, 644, VIII, 731 pp. exhaustive review of all the notable architecture and commercial construction in Hamburg, including public buildings, civic institutions, housing, parks, port facilities, shipbuilding, urban infrastructure and ground transportation, bibliography, index, 2566 text illustrations from photos and plans, 22 folding plates from maps and plans..... More
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Tartu: Odamees, 1920. Octavo (21.8 × 17.7 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Natalie Mei; 69, [1] pp. Wrappers very lightly worn and discolored; very good. First and only volume of this important publication of Estonian modernist art and literature, which marked a radical break with the “Siuru” movement around Marie..... More
Brno: [Grafický klub pro Moravu], 1925. Folio (44 × 32 cm). Recent gray portfolio with gilt-tooled title to front board; letterpress-printed title, introductory text, and seven plates of dry point etchings (one duplicate leaf!), some signed in the plate, and six prints signed in pencil by the artist (only duplicate..... More
90 leaves (printed recto only) flip-book by the revolutionary American animation artist, filmmaker, and color theorist, presenting an abstract series of images using geometrical forms in black and yellow on white ground, meant to be seen as a moving piece. 12mo. Original illustrated stapled wrpps., some minor soiling. Montreal (La..... More
12 vols., altogether over 7000 pp. catalogue, by J. van den Gheyn, Fréderic Lyna, Emile Wagemans, et al., of the collection of over 8500 illuminated and otherwise rare or unusual mss. in the Royal library, each item described, many with extensive annotations and cross-references. 4to. Orig. wrpps., some vols. sl..... More