Prague: Nakladatel Fr. Borový, 1916. Octavo (22 × 13.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Hofman; 122, [6] pp. With fourteen smaller and three full-page drawings by Hofman. Very good; in protective mylar. The first book publication by the Čapek brothers (Karel and Josef Čapek), this collection of experimental prose works..... More

Petrograd: Izdanie Otdela Izobrazitel’nykh Iskusstv Komissariata Narodnogo Prosveshcheniia, 1919. Folios (64 × 45 cm). Original folded newsprint, printed to rectos and versos; 4–6 pp. Striking suprematist lettering in header. Leaves toned and somewhat brittle, as usual; old creases and nicks to folds, corners, and margins. Still good or better. Five..... More

Hamburg: bei August Campe (printed by Friedrich Vieweg, Braunschweig), 1815. Octavo (16 × 10.5 cm). Publisher's pink printed wrappers with decorative border; X, 95, [1] pp. Text within ornamental floral border printed in red; title page set within black ornamental border and double-ruled border in red. A very good copy..... More

X, 240 pp. scholarly work concerning portraits of emperors on Roman currency, including bibliography, illustrated with images of hundreds of coins on 32 plates. 4to. Red cloth with embossed text on front board. Berlin (Gebr. Mann) 1940. (Archäologisches Institut des Deutschen Reiches: Das Römische Herrscherbild, III. Abteilungen, Band. 2). This..... More

Warsaw, printed ca. 1945 or 1946. Various sizes, see list below. Very good. Group of vintage prints of photographs by Eugeniusz Haneman, mostly taken in 1944 and early 1945, and printed in 1945 or 1946, shortly after the war, and largely with the artist’s own captions to rectos in blue..... 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

Berlin: Jüdischer Literarischer Verlag (Idishe literarisher farlag, printed by Lutze & Vogt), 1923. Octavo (19 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Y. Tshaykov; 163, [3] pp. Light wear and traces of professional restoration to spine and hinges; else about very good; the best copy we have encountered in the..... More

237 pp. text on prison reform in mid-century Spain, divided into chapters with headings such as "Educación, Cultura y Arte", "Labor Religiosa", "Trabajos Exteriores", "Redención de Penas", "Libertad Condicional", and "Instituciones Especiaies", followed by an unpaginated (28 pp.) appendix titled "Estadistica Penitenciaria" of various tables and charts, documenting statistics such..... More

N.p. [Amsterdam]: Willy Scholte [Stempelplaats], 1970s-1980s. Various sizes, most cards approximately 10.5 x 15.5 cm. Loose, some cards with original mailing envelopes. Excellent condition. Willy (Wilhemina) Scholte was one of very few women working at the Stempelplaats workshop in the late 1970s and early 1980s, close to the heart of..... More

Kiev: Derzhavne vydavnytstvo, 1921. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers with a constructivist design by Vadym Meller; 15, [2] pp. Ink number to title verso; splitting to lower spine extremity; smudge to rear cover; still about very good. Rare and ephemeral first printing of this key manifesto..... More

Paris: Au sans pareil, March 1920. Quarto (27.3 × 19.3 cm). Original pictorial staple-stitched self-wrappers; [8] pp. With illustrations. Margins of leaves with some professional restoration; staples somewhat rusted; fold with two small rust spots; binding somewhat dust-stained; else good. The seventh and final issue of the Journal of the..... More

7 vols. bound in 15 parts, comprising a complete set of the monumental catalogue of manuscripts in the Austrian National Library, copiously annotated, with bibliographic references throughout, each volume containing its own registers and indexes, profusely illustrated with collotype reproductions of manuscript texts and illuminations, some in color. Large 4to..... 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