Todi/Rome: Casa Editrice "Atanòr", [circa 1927]. Octavo (21.5 x 16 cm). Original printed wrappers; 313 pp. Some small tears to front cover and along spine, rubbing to extremities, small spot of damp staining to inside front cover, some pages loose from glued binding but all present, overall very good. Julius..... More
Torino: Tipografia Ceresole e Panizza, 1869. Octavo (22.8 x 15.8 cm). Presentation copy in original Romantic binding of white cardstock boards with pastoral scene within a gilt-framed cartouche to front cover and hand-colored portrait of a woman to back cover; 87 pp. plus 2 large folding plates. Some minor soiling..... More
Large handcolored lithographed star map in the style of a planisphere, designed by Frank and drawn by Joseph Kaiser, depicting constellations from the North Pole to the 40th latitude, with overlaid volvelle-type component to rotate in order to match up the month, day, and time shown in concentric circles around..... More
Moscow-Leningrad: Snabtekhizdat, 1932. Quartos (30 × 21.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers (the design is repeated in different colors); 182 pp. (consecutive pagination). Light soil and foxing to wrappers; three issues with detached wrappers and chipping to edges; internally very good. Scarce series of instructional brochures, intended as an introductory..... More
[Paris]: [Lacan], 1962-1979. Various, mostly quartos (approximately 29.5 x 21 cm). Various formats: some bound in wrappers, some loose sheets. Some scattered wear, soiling, and losses. Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) was a controversial French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. He gave annual seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, which were divided into..... More
![Book ID: 51262 Pogoda i ee predvidenie [The weather and forecasting]. Nekrasov, etr, lich](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51262_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1639745644)
Moscow: Sel´khozgiz, 1937. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Embossed cloth over boards; pictorial endpapers; 93, [3] pp. Illustrations (some in color), maps, diagrams. Light soil to cloth and spine, else very good. Intended as an aide for agronomists working on Soviet collective farms, this guide to weather forecasting as it..... 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
Moscow: Izdanie narodnogo komissariata zdravookhraneniia, 1920. Octavo (22 × 19 cm). Publisher's staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 54 pp. Tables and graphs throughout. Slight moisture damage to bottom right corner and wrapper edge; crease to bottom corner of rear wrapper. Else uncut and unopened; about very good. Second edition (first published in..... More
Sofia: Pechatnitsa "Doverie", 1932. Octavo (20 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (by the author?); 132 pp. Largely uncut and unopened copy; text toned; small repair to lower right corner; a few nicks to rear wrapper; overall about very good. First work by Rusev (1902-?), a Bulgarian psychologist who was..... More
Tbilisi, 1889. Octavo (23 × 15.6 cm). Original printed wrappers; 18 pp. of text, one folded graph lithographed in black and light blue, and one photographic plate showing twelve microphotographs of Malaria parasites. Good or better; light soil, toning, and moisture staining throughout; some nicks and fraying to spine and..... More
Tashkent: Izd. Narodnogo Kommisariata Zemledelii︠a︡ Kazakhskoi Respubliki i Sredne-Aziatskogo gos. universiteta, 1930. Octavo (25 × 18 cm). Original printed wrappers; 203, [1] pp. Eleven leaves of plates with two photographs each. Small tear to lower spine extremity; light chipping to spine; stamp of the Société asiatique in Paris and inventory..... More
![Book ID: P002964 Nekotorye cherty kibernetiki [Some features of cybernetics]. V. V....](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P002964_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591347363)
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo "Znanie", 1956. Octavo (21.5 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched wrappers; [2], 20, [2] pp. About very good; a fragile publication, with spine extremities beginning to split; tiny nick to lower right corner of front wrapper. One of the very first Soviet publications to openly and fairly discuss the..... More
[Soviet Union, ca. 1972-1989]. A remarkable group of original letters, drawings, and self-published translations of Western articles, as well as original Russian samizdat works on the theory of UFOs and sightings by Soviet citizens. 1. "Posadka NLO pod Serpukhovom" [A UFO landing near Serpukhovo]. Moscow, 1980. Bound typescript, 6 leaves..... More