Antique Italian bingo-type game set, likely late 19th or early 20th century, comprised of cardboard game board with 90 gold-numbered spaces on red ground with embossed gold paper frame, 90 hand-numbered wooden game tokens, and 15 sets of 87 total individual cards, housed in 8 colored cardstock sleeves, the cards..... More
Group of 1960's-1980's mostly political buttons, approximately 120 total, a few duplicates, grouped on a hanging piece of woven green cloth, representing a wide range of groups and causes affiliated with gay rights, women's rights, US/Cuba Friendshipment, the war in the Middle East, abortion rights, pacifism, civil unrest in Latin..... More
Group of 50 assorted antique wall stencils, most with botanical motifs, other designs include Art Nouveau and Art Deco abstract and geometric patterns, figures, animals, and insects, most consisting of a cut-out metallic card stock stencil with handmade paper backing sheet, 13 blindstamped "LEFRANC PARIS" in the corner. Some with..... 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
Photo album with approximately 94 mostly black-and-white photographs collected by a member of the Bay Area BDSM community in the late 1980s and early 1990s, pictures depict events including the Pride parade, a pageant with women in assorted bondage restraints, portraits, and candid shots, most with community members dressed in..... More
Altogether 8 issues, ranging from 230-400 pp., of the Dutch annual discussing aspects of cultural life in Papua and other Dutch Indonesian colonies, including a fascinating mixture of native and European art, sculpture, map making, painting, coins, etc., extensive scholarly notes, bibliographies, heavily illustrated throughout. 4to. Vols. 1-3, 7: Cloth..... More
Original walnut and glass case housing two separate mechanical moving scrolls, each one 30 ft. in length and printed with a continuously joined chromolithographic panorama of the coastline from Providence to Block Island, RI and back again. The first one presenting the Eastern Shore starting at Fox Point in Providence..... More
Turn-of-the-century German children's dice-based war game, the contents comprised of a set of 32 stiff lithographed cardboard pieces for constructing and playing the "fortress" side, a set of 30 stiff lithographed cardboard pieces for constructing and playing the "siege" side and 3 small stiff lithographed cardboard tents, 20 painted tin..... More
Exceptional album of 141 original photographs of World War I in France, including 44 photographs of tanks stamped "SECRET" to front and with official stamp from the "Section Photographique de l'Armée" to the reverse, views of demolished buildings around Vienne-la-Ville, battlefields, aerial views from the Somme region, mortars, and German..... More
1899. A complete run in 4 vols., containing altogether many hundreds of pages, of the monthly serial devoted to Spanish and international art, literature, and general culture, edited by Hermenegildo Miralles, Ezequiel Boixet, Francisco Miquel y Badia, and Josep Pasco, including the fiction and poetry of Picon, Pereda, Altamira and..... More
A scarce complete run in 8 issues of the short-lived Dutch Provo mimeographed magazine, with contributions from Duco van Weerlee, Rob Stolk, Hans Tuynman, Peter Bronkhorst, Th. Holterman, Jan de Leeuw, Louis van Abcoude, and Nico van Apeldoorn, three of the issues each devoted to a single topic including a...... More
A complete run of all 25 issues (bound in one volume, each issue approx. 24 pp.) of the short-lived cultural journal published in Barcelona shortly before the tumultuous era of the Spanish Civil War, featuring articles on cultural and social events, art, cinema, travel, sports, politics, fashion, etc., with contributions..... More
Mid-to-late 19th century magnetic divination game consisting of two loose magnetic dials printed with various questions, a glass tray with chromolithographed ground and central chromolithographed floral roundel where the question dial is to be placed, the roundel surrounded by alternating answers to questions corresponding to one dial, and eight small..... 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
A complete and very scarce set of three items related to the Situationist title Les Luttes de Classes, including: the 8-pp. premiere issue published by a group of ex-Situationists after their split from Guy Debord, including Herbert Holl, Édith Frey, Jean Garnault, and Théo Frey, with an introductory mission statement..... More
Turn-of-the-century French comic bingo game comprised of twelve chromolithographed lotto cards of comical scenes in two sets of 6, each with six circular cut-out disks of characters' faces which are removed to reveal the bingo numbers beneath; a set of 72 wooden bingo numbers housed in a drawstring bag; and..... 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
[South Germany], 1945. Broadsheet newsprint; first and last issues each 2 pp. (single folded sheet), the others 4 pp. Old creases; one issue with small tear; else very good copies. Complete run of this photo-illustrated informational newspaper published from May to July 1945 and aimed at French citizens in Germany..... 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
Two parts in one volume, 433 and 365 pp., regarding the construction of the Stevens Hotel and the Stevens Hotel Service Building, including "specifications for the materials and labor for the...Work required in the erection and completion of a 25-story, basement and sub-basement fireproof hotel building, located on Michigan Boulevard..... More
Unpag. volume containing reproductions of early 19th-century photographs of landmarks and sites from around Chile, approximately 166 images total, views include buildings, monuments, cities, natural landscapes, harbors, and celebrations throughout the country, with a focus on Santiago, each photograph captioned below the image, specific sites within Santiago depicted include the..... 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
Folio containing engraved title page, dedication, and ad lectorem leaves followed by fine 19 engraved plates, comprising 11 full page and 8 double-page, depicting expansive views of the Villa Aldobrandini, various façades, fountains and garden grottos, and a number of scenes from Classical mythology, with a particular focus on the..... More
Large atlas of Versailles and the surrounding towns, with twelve maps total including one map depicting the overall area covered in the atlas, and eleven more detailed maps covering the towns and immediate surroundings of Mantes, Poissy, St. Denis, Crépieres, Versailles, Paris, Montfor l'Amaury, Chevreuse, Sceaux, Rambouillet, Arpajon, and Corbeil..... More