BIJOU ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE HOLY LAND
[circa 1850]
First American edition of this true miniature book of engraved views of various holy sites.
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LES TUILERIES Peepshow
[circa 1830]
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.
PANORAMA DER BERLINER GEWERBE AUSSTELLUNG
1896
Contemporary peepshow of the Great Industrial Exposition of Berlin, the "impeded world fair" that combined innovative technological exhibits with an amusement park.
THE SAD TALE OF THE ZEPPELINS
[circa 1916]
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.
WEIHGESCHENT FUR JEDEN ECHTEN PREUSSEN
[circa 1835]
First edition of this miniature gift book of Prussian and Russian royalty, published during a push for unification.
SCRIPTORES RERUM GERMANICUM SEPTENTRIONALIUM
1706, 1679, 1694, 1676
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.
THE CITY OF FALLING ANGELS
2005
Signed first printing of Berendt's tale of Venice and the catastrophic fire at the Fenice Opera House,.
LA BIBLE, QUI EST TOUTE LA SAINTE ESCRITURE DU VIEIL ET DU NOUVEAU TESTAMENT
[1678]
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.
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CHOREA GIGANTUM, OR [...] STONE-HENG
1663
First edition of the first published treatise to argue the mysterious construction of Stonehenge was not by the Romans but by the Danes, evocatively illustrated with woodcuts of the monument and featuring a poem celebrating the Scientific Revolution by Dryden.
CEREMONIES DES DOUZE MOIS : Fetes Annuelles Cambodgiennes
[circa 1951]
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.
TAXCO : The Enchanted City
(1950)
Inscribed midcentury travel guide to Taxco for English speakers, illustrated throughout with photographs.
CRAWHALL'S CHAP-BOOK CHAPLETS
1883
Limited first edition of this idiosyncratic collection of re-designed chapbooks, based upon the collection of chapbook-collector Joseph Crawhall – his own copy, inscribed to him by the publisher.
RULES, ORDERS, AND REGULATIONS FOR THE POLICE OF THE CITY OF LONDON
1824
First edition of the first handbook printed for the police force governed by London's Court of Aldermen, 5 years before the Metropolitan Police Act that formed the Scotland Yard.
BUCANIERS OF AMERICA
1684; 1685
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.
MODES AND MANNERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
1927
Spectacular four-volume set, a revision and expansion of the original 1909 edition, introducing for the first time a chapter addressing American fashions and adding additional illustrations.
Original Interzone Correspondence Card from Vichy France
[1941]
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.
THE SAXON CHRONICLE
1823
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.
A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE LIVES AND ADVENTURES OF THE MOST FAMOUS HIGHWAYMEN, MURDERERS, STREET-ROBBERS, &C.
1734
First edition in this format, sumptuously illustrated, of Johnson's celebrated biographical encyclopedia of infamous criminals.
THE CONFESSIONS OF J. LACKINGTON
1806
Scarce American edition of the bookseller's Confessions, with one of the earliest Brooklyn imprints.
OXFORD
1914
A history of Oxford University by the academic and folklorist.
RELATION DES VOYAGES ET DES DÉCOUVERTES
1698
Beautiful late 17th-century edition of a central primary source in the conquest of the Americas, bound somewhat incongruously with an early edition of French buccaneer Montaubon's 1695 voyage to the Caribbean.
BLACKFEET INDIANS
(1935)
First printing of this beautifully illustrated history of the Blackfeet people, as told by the Montanan ethnographer and Native ally.
THE LAST JOURNALS OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE
1874
First edition of the final African journals of Scottish missionary, abolitionist, and explorer David Livingstone, including his own account of the famous meeting with Stanley.
Book-Shaped Reading and Writing Kit
[circa 1859]
Beautifully preserved mid-19th century French portable reading and writing kit that mimics the shape of a leather-bound book.
NORTHERN ANTIQUITIES
1859
Victorian edition of this important survey of Norse literature and history – with a fore-edge painting of a Viking ship, a color frontispiece of Yggdrasil, and an excerpt from the PROSE EDDA.
