8 vols. bound in 4. XVIII, 328, XII, 411, XII, 372, VII, 386, XVI, 393, XII, 459, XX, 452, XX, 412, 180 pp. text summarizing almost nine thousand pieces of source material for the study of 17th century France, including documents from an astonishingly wide variety of sources, indices. 8vo..... More

Prague: Izd. red. zhurn. "Vol'noe Kazachestvo", 1930. Large octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original staple-stitched gray wrappers; 174, [1] pp. With two folding maps affixed to rear wrapper (showing Eastern Europe in the 13th-16th centuries). Uncut and unopened copy in very good condition. Isaak F. Bykadorov (1882-1957) was a Don..... More

Paris: Izd-vo "Mech", 1937. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 42 pp. Wrappers lightly creased and spotted; still about very good. First and only edition of this harsh polemic by a pro-Ukrainian member of the Russian diaspora, writing under the pseudonym A. Chigirin. The book critiques the..... More

Prague: Klub socialistické kultury ("Práce"), 1947. Octavo (22.8 × 14.8 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Karel Teige; 156, [2] pp. Front wrapper with light dust soil; else very good, in protective mylar. First edition of this translation by M. Haluza, with an understated but effective late typographic wrapper design by..... More

N.p.: 1872. N.p., [1872], single folded leaves measuring 20.5 × 14 and 19 × 12.5 cm. Very good. Two holograph letters containing a polite request to be introduced to “Her Majesty the Queen” before Tolstoy’s return to St. Petersburg. “N’ayant pas eu le plaisir de vous trouver a à la..... More

London: 1902. Octavo (18 × 12 cm). Original staple-stitched self-wrappers; 16-48 pp. per issue. Good to very good, with one issue unopened and uncut. Five issues (of twelve published) of the political supplement to the literary and political journal “Zhizn’” (Life), founded in St. Petersburg in 1897. Literary works by..... More

XVI, 438 pp. treatise on the life, works and miracles of St. Francis, the history of his order and treatment of St. Francis in art, introduction by Pope Leo XIII, bibliographic notes, profusely illustrated, 35 plates. Lg. 4to. Boards. Paris (E. Plon, Nourrit) 1885. More

[St. Petersburg]: [Tipografiia E. Arngol'da], [1907]. Large octavo (24 × 15.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; [3], 4-15 pp. Light wear to wrappers; spine extremities begining to split; internally very good. A pamphlet by the Russian architect Nikolai Vsevolodovich Dmitriev (1856-1918). The title refers to the October Manifesto, the precursor to..... More

Unpaginated (ca. 105 pp.) collection of documents originally issued as Oberbaum Blätter, an irregular weekly series of left-radical underground press broadsides and handbills, including contributions by Rudi Dutschke, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Peter Handke, Peter O. Chotjewitz, the members of Kommune 1, and others, executed throughout with an experimental graphic style..... More

2 vols., 654 pp. text on the ideas and works of the Humanist theologian, including discussion of his supporters, collaborators and illustrators, bibliography, index, profusely illustrated (many portraits). 8vo. Boards, slipcase. Cologne (Wienand) 1967. More

Geneva: Izdanie rossiiskoi sotsialdemokraticheskoi rabochei partii, 1904. Octavo (18 × 12 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; 40 pp. Stamp of the Central Committee of the Russian Social-democratic Worker’s Party to title and front wrapper. Light fading to wrapper; wrappers starting to detach from block, still about very good. First edition..... More

535 pp. history of the culture and art of Campania and Naples from ancient times to the 19th century, 524 illustrations (many in color). 4to. Cloth, slipcase. Milan (Electa for Banca Nazionale del Lavoro) 1977. More

2 vols., 856, XXVI pp. alphabetical dictionary of the trades and professions practiced in Paris since medieval times, including an essay by M.E. Levasseur on the historical and social context of vocations in France. 4to. Wrpps. Paris/ Leipzig (H. Welter) 1905-1906. More