Berlin: Petropolis, 1929. Octavo (19.8 × 14 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 223, [1] pp. About very good; spine sun-tanned; owner inscription to ffep; light wear to wrapper edges. First edition of Erenburg's documentary novel about the development and peak of the age of the automobile (it was translated as "The..... 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
![Book ID: 50109 Fotografie di Fantasmi [Photographs of phantasms]. Enrico Imoda,...](/pictures/thumb/50109_001.jpg?v=1629139725)
Turin: Fratelli Bocca, 1912. Large octavo (25.7 × 17.8 cm). Original printed cream wrappers in translucent calque; recent cloth-backed card folder and slipcase by Devauchelle with printed title to spine. With 48 tipped-in gelatin silver prints and one halftone by G. Simoni of Rome, ranging in size from approx. 7.5..... 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
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1920. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 16 pp. Unopened and uncut. Very good. A public health and hygiene pamphlet published during the Typhus epidemic unleashed by the privations of the Russian civil war, which followed the Bolshevik Revolution (1918-1923). A massive public education campaign..... More
![Book ID: 51262 Pogoda i ee predvidenie [The weather and forecasting]. Nekrasov, etr, lich](/pictures/thumb/51262_1.jpg?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
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
Paris: self-published, January 1954-August 1957. Tabloid newsprint, measuring 45 × 32 cm; [4] pp. per issue. Old vertical and horizontal fold; else very good. A complete run in 11 issues of this curious scientific and literary periodical, issued by René Pradel as a place to record his eccentric scientific hypotheses..... 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
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....](/pictures/thumb/P002964_1.jpg?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
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1920. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Printed self-wrappers; 32 pp. Some moisture damage to bottom right corner and wrapper edge; partially unopened and uncut, good or better. Third edition. A public health and hygiene pamphlet published during the Typhus epidemic unleashed by the privations of the Russian..... More
Kaluga: Tipografiia S. A. Semenova (self-published), 1914. Octavo (25.5 × 17.5 cm). Original tan printed wrappers; 16 pp. Two pp. of illustrations. Complete list of the author's publications on pp. 2-3 of wrappers. Light wear to wrappers; trace of moisture stains to wrapper edges, paper label remnant to upper left..... More
Unpaginated (54 typed leaves printed recto only) original typed research report by Williams, a veterinarian, and Stone, a chemist, documenting their attempts to effectively perform saliva and urine tests on thoroughbred racing horses to detect the existence of performance-enhancing drugs and stimulants, including information on the collection of fluids, a...... More