[Paris, ca. 1870–1872]. Oblong folio (18 × 27.5 cm). Contemporary string-fastened gray cloth boards with hand-lettered title (“Album”) to front board; approximately fifty leaves, with documents affixed to first nine leaves, the rest blank. Stationer's label to inside of rear board: “À La Palette de Rubens/ Couleurs fines/ Ve de..... More

A complete run of 12 volumes, bound in 4, of the important French journal under the direction of architect Charles Normand, concerned with the monuments and urban preservation of Paris, containing many hundreds of pages of documents and papers on well-known buildings and works of art, collections, demolished structures, archaeological..... More

SS Marine Devil: self-published, 1947. Quartos (32 × 25.5 to 40 × 27.5 cm). Original staple-stitched self-wrappers; ca. 4–6 pp. per issue of mimeographed typescript to rectos and versos. Some toning and creasing; scattered ink annotations; overall very good. Significant run of this newsletter published on board the SS Marine..... More

Unpaginated (circa 208 pp.) reprint of the renowned Italian socialist journal, commenting on the political situation in Italy and around the world following WWI from a communist viewpoint. Lg. folio. 1/2 cloth and boards. Milan (Feltrinelli Reprint) 1966. During the course of its publication, Il Soviet was the official organ..... More

19th century lotto and checkers game comprised of: a folding lithographed gameboard with checkerboard center and printed rules in two flanking columns of text; 24 individual bingo-style lotto boards in four colored sets of six boards each, the blank spaces having been hand-colored; 19 black painted wooden checker-style discs and..... More

24 of the 25 issues published of the short-lived Australian counterculture journal (a duplicate copy of Vol. I, No. 10 bound in place of Vol. II, No. 6), bound in a single volume, edited by Richard Neville and published by Richard Walsh, most issues 28 pp., containing articles and interviews..... More

A complete run, bound in two volumes, of the serial from the Argentinian coastal province, published during the second World War and edited by R. E. Montes i Bradley, devoted to recent developments in art, literature, and general culture both domestic and international, with contributions by numerous noted cultural figures..... 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

Paris: La Librairie Corti, February–March 1933. Quartos (27.2 × 18.6 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 31, [1]; 33–77, [2]; and 73–111, [2] pp. With numerous reproductions of film stills and photographs. Wrappers somewhat dust-soiled and with small marginal tears; else good. Rare cultural magazine with a focus on cinema, which, as..... More

A sequential run of 60 issues in 49 fascicules of the long-running Italian journal founded originally in 1932 by the Piemontese division of the Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica, under the initial editorial direction of Adriano Olivetti and later Giovanni Astengo, with the aim of promoting and spreading urban studies and..... More

Tbilisi: Tip. Gaz. “Zaria vostoka”, 1927. Octavo (22.8 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 30 pp. Cover illustration by Kirill Zdanevich. Very discrete repairs to wrappers, with professional paper restauration; text evenly toned due to stock; still about very good. First edition of the only collection of poems by Nikolai..... More

Detailed early 19th century hand-colored engraved map of Paris and its environs, covering the area from La Ferté-Alais in the south to Blincourt in the north, and from Gressey in the west to Coulommiers in the east, with four small inset maps of St. Germain en Laye, St. Cloud, Versailles..... More

1901. 2 vols. text, x, 535, viii, 663 pp. history and description of the Gothic cathedral and its rich sculptural decoration and works of art, extensive notes including bibliographic information, inscriptions, index, profusely illustrated throughout with 274 text illustrations and 111 fine plates divided between the two vols. Considerable foxing..... More