BIJOU ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE HOLY LAND
First American edition of this true miniature book of engraved views of various holy sites.
First American edition of this true miniature book of engraved views of various holy sites.
A pun on the German for autograph book, "Sein-Album," this SCHWEINE ALBUM invites the signers to blindly draw pigs instead of write their signatures.
Gorgeous three-scene peepshow depicting the Arc de Triomphe, the Champs Elysees, the Tuilieries, and other landmarks of Paris as they looked in the early 19th century.
Satirical novelty pamphlet marking the Russian diplomatic visit to Toulon, France during the formation of the Franco-Russian Alliance, a key development in the lead up to World War I.
First edition of this fascinating piece of World War I ephemera, celebrating the downing of four zeppelins in a parody of the "Ten Little" rhyme.
First edition of this miniature gift book of Prussian and Russian royalty, published during a push for unification.
First collected edition, featuring Adam of Bremen's chronicle of peoples from the Old North and the earliest known mention of the Vikings' discovery of North America, one of three key works in the history of Hamburg within a larger sammelband of six works total.
First edition of this history of Hawai'i, Samoa, and other Polynesian islands, published "to promote interest in Christian Missions" in the region (Preface) — printed in the year of the final Hawaiian Royalist military resistance, and Queen Liliʻuokalani's abdication.
Catalogue of an exhibition on the epic of Gilgamesh, incorporating both modern visual art and archaeological artifacts, and with original silkscreened cover and frontispiece by Baumeister.
Signed first printing of Berendt's tale of Venice and the catastrophic fire at the Fenice Opera House.
Petite French copy of the Bible, apocrypha, and a musical Psalter, with a manuscript title page to disguise its content – a fascinating piece of Huguenot Protestant history.
First printing of the first volume in Campbell's four-volume work, THE MASKS OF GOD, examining cultural variations on the so-called "monomyth."
Colonial-era introduction for Francophone readers to the annual holidays and religious observances in Cambodia, with a pamphlet for the Office des Arts Cambodiens laid in.
Inscribed midcentury travel guide to Taxco for English speakers, illustrated throughout with photographs.
Rare first edition in English of this investigation of life after death, seeking to explain scientifically phantoms, lycanthropes, vampires, and Doubles by reference to "magnetic fluid" and the mesmeric ether.
First edition in English of Exquemelin's illustrated history of famous pirates, the central primary source on the subject during its most famous era, with the continuation by Ringrose.
Scarce first edition of the autobiography of the convent runaway, Spanish soldier, and womanizing duelist who was assigned female at birth but successfully petitioned the Pope to live publicly as a man.
First edition of this important ethnographic work on turn-of-the-20th century Borneo by "the most artistically tattooed man in the world," with some of the earliest photographs of its inhabitants.
First edition of this historical overview and contemporary portrait of social, religious, and domestic life in Turkey of the early 20th century.
A spectacular relic of a legendary episode in 20th-century art collecting and preservation: original carte postale sent to occupied Paris by a vexed Guggenheim, demanding draperies with which to wrap and disguise her priceless modern art collection.
First edition of this monumental facsimile of the first major book printed with moveable type in the West, also called the "Cooper Square Facsimile," in a limited run of 1000 copies.
First edition in modern English of the complete ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, a key historical document of the Early Medieval era composed during the reign of Alfred the Great.
First edition of this book of collected writings by the American Presbyterian missionary, regarding 19th-century Syrian customs and his dedicated efforts to interfere with them.
First edition of this lavishly produced history of French military campaigns and costumes, with emphasis on Napoleon and the Grand Imperial Army.
First edition in this format, sumptuously illustrated, of Johnson's celebrated biographical encyclopedia of infamous criminals.