Late 19th century educational tool for teaching children the four basic rules of arithmetic, devised by Father Charier, former student of the École Supérieure et Industrielle de la ville de Metz, formed as two octagonal stiff cardboard disks joined at the center, the top disk divided into four sections, one..... More

Wien: Pichler, 1802. Octavo (17.2 × 10.6 cm). Contemporary paper-covered boards; gilt-tooled red leather spine label; [VI], 122 pp. Boards lightly worn; title stained; else very good. First and only edition of this rare work on the cultural, medical, and legal history of the kiss. The anonymous author writes with..... More

Small 40 pp. astronomy book with instructions on how to read the celestial map and tables of constellations, with some handwritten notes at rear of volume, accompanied by a large handcolored lithographed star map in the style of a planisphere, designed by Frank and drawn by Joseph Kaiser, depicting constellations..... More

Paris: L'Imprimerie de P. Fr. Gueffier, Libraire-Imprimeur, rue de la Harpe, 1774. 12mo (13.6 × 7.8 cm). Later green marbled boards with gilt-tooled leather spine; 110, [1] pp., illustrated with 6 folding tables of calendrical data (hors-texte) and three volvelles, affixed to leaf of card stock following p. 92. Followed..... 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

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

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo khudozhestvennoi literatury, 1930. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original quarter-cloth photo-illustrated boards; 252, [4] pp. With 154 plates of illustrations. Binding and boards rubbed; hinge restored; restorations to closed tears on pp. 135-138. First edition. A fascinating early introduction to “specialized” filming, impressive in its breadth by..... 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: self-published, 1928. Octavo (17 × 12.8 cm). Original printed wrappers; 23 pp. Very good. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (also Tsiolkovskii, Ciolkowski, or Ziolkowski; 1857-1935), the Russian aviation and astronautics pioneer, was one of the founding fathers of rocket science and an important inspiration to the Soviet space program, who also furthered..... 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