Nizhnii-Novgorod: Izd. Vserossiiskoi chrezvychainoi komissii po likvidatsii bezgramotnosti, 1921. Large octavo (single folded sheet); 32 pp. A fine copy. Early provincial edition, and a fine copy, of the first mass-produced Soviet primer for illiterate adults, published by the newly formed All-Russian Emergency Commission for the Elimination of Illiteracy (Vserossiiskaia chrezvychainaia..... More

Madrid: self-published, 1951. Quarto (28 x 21 cm). Green cloth with gilt-tooled leather label to spine; iv, 152 pp. typed manuscript, printed recto only. Some light foxing to first and last few pages, extremely minor soiling to cloth, overall very good. Original typed manuscript by Manuel de Foronda y Gómez..... More

Leipzig: Chez Voss et Compagnie, 1802. Small folio (38.7 x 27.5 cm). Vellum-backed stiff marbled paper wrappers; XII, 72 pp. text with 51 engraved plates. Foxing throughout, heavy at places, a couple of old tears and small areas of paper loss, some chipping and brittleness at edges, still overall very..... More

6 vols., with approx. 390 superb plates (30 in color, the others in photogravure on fine paper) accompanied by interleaved commentary on the objects, documenting the major collection of mostly Japanese, with some Chinese, art including paintings, lacquerwork, sculpture, ceramics, etc. Large folio. Silk-covered boards, elaborately tie-bound in the Japanese..... More

226 pp. text, including a 56-page general introduction on landscape design, with descriptions in French, German, and English, notes, index, engraved half-title of a temple among trees, title with engraved vignette of the Porte de Coucy, and 92 engraved plates with 122 numbered views, together with three engraved maps, and..... More

Rome: Movimento Futurista/A. Taveggia, n.d. (circa 1927). Quarto (29.3 x 23.2 cm). One double-sided sheet printed in red. Very slight yellowing, overall excellent. This single-page flyer or manifesto from the Futurist movement contains to one side an image of Giacomo Balla's "Il Pugno di Boccioni" surrounded by the motto "Marciare..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930. Octavo (18.8 × 14.4 cm). Original staple-stitched chromolithographed wrappers; 11, [1] pp. including wrappers. A striking chromo-lithographed Russian children’s book by the Russian poet Sergei Nel’dikhen (1891–1941), who is today largely unknown. Nel’dikhen was a kind of outsider of the literary establishment: he was part of..... More

Prague: Ústřední studentské knihkupectví a nakladatelství, 1930. Quartos (30 × 21.5 cm). Original staple-stitched decorative wrappers; 1–48 and 49–96 pp. With 14 illustrations per issue. Very minor wear to spine and corners; one corner with small repair to inside of wrapper; overall very good. Complete run of the important journal..... More

Milano: Stampa Archiepiscopale, 1661. Small folio (32.8 x 23 cm). Later paper boards backed with likely original vellum, later hand-lettering of title to spine; (xii), 406, (vi) pp. Very light scattered toning and foxing, original frontispiece and portrait missing and replaced with reproductions, overall very good. An original 17th century..... More

[Mogilev]: V Polevoi Tipografii Glavnogo Shtaba 1-i Armii, 1819. Octavo (17.7 × 11.1 cm). Contemporary patterned calf; all edges gilt; [3], 75, [2], XII pp. Three charts and forms on two folded leaves. Binding rubbed; small private owner labels to front pastedown; else about very good. Second edition of a...... More

12-page whimsical avant-garde piano composition dating to very early in the career of the accomplished Egyptian-born Italian composer, one of a few of his works from the early 1920s dating to his days as a Futurist, comprised of three movements: I. Marcia funebre per un uccellino, II. Marcia nuziale per..... More

Nice: self-published, 1969. Quarto (31 x 21.5 cm). Original printed paper folder with black title to front cover, contents loose as issued; 58 unpaginated stenciled sheets housed within, many printed recto and verso, some printed recto only, some scattered illustrations, handwritten page numbers in pencil at upper right-hand corners of..... More

Other titles: Narrhalla. Mainzer Carnevalszeitung, and: Narrhalla. Mainzer Carnevals-Zeitung. Ein Organ für die Mainzer Karnevalsbestrebungen [Mainz carnival paper: an organ for the Mainz carneval effort]. Vols. I–VI (of VII published), bound in two volumes. Mainz: Wirth, 1841–1846. Octavos (22.5 × 16 cm). Later brown calf over four raised bands; spine..... More