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.
Album of photographs chronicling the activity of the Hambros Bank after it was evacuated to an estate at the start of WWII — once owned by a Hambros employee and likely produced by them for workers.
Book of attire featuring different orders of Italian monks, all hand-colored and presented accordion style.
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.
Original annotated photograph album of the Buchenwald concentration camp compiled by an anonymous American G.I. soon after liberation.
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 these essays presenting arguments for the international abolition of the slavery by the Treasurer of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, specially bound for presentation and inscribed by the author.
First edition of this illustrated tour of horrible things and the people they happened to, undertaken with great enthusiasm by the author-publisher, whose quarter-century of prior research formed the basis for this work.
First edition of Ballinger's investigation of Nan Madol, a Micronesian "monolithic stone corpse of a city" identified as a remnant of the lost continent Mu by James Churchward and his followers.
Anthology published to benefit Spanish Republicans in their fight against Franco via the North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, an outgrowth of American Communist relief organizing.
Signed first printing of Berendt's tale of Venice and the catastrophic fire at the Fenice Opera House.
Reprint of Brown's 1924 study of Easter Island archaeology and ethnology.
First edition, second issue (as common) of Burton's classic account of his travels in Somalia and Ethiopia, with appendices including the diary and observations of John Speke and an early effort at a grammar of the Harari language.
First printing of the first volume in Campbell's four-volume work, THE MASKS OF GOD, examining cultural variations on the so-called "monomyth."
First printing of this history of Christiano Jr.'s photographs of African enslaved people and laborers in Brazil, a collection he sold as a souvenir to European tourists — a rare title.
First edition of this sweeping history of Paris, from Gallo-Roman Lutèce to the imagined future of 1987 — featuring transmission screens and flying swan-boats, the latter depicted in a stellar full-page image by Robida.
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.
First edition thus of this lively and vindictive argument for the historicity of Pope Joan, adapted with a new preface from Alexander Cooke's 1610 DIALOGUE BETWEEN A PAPIST AND A PROTESTANT.
First edition of this history of Arab and European invasions and occupations of the African continent, with great attention to the eventual British opposition to the slave trade.
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 of this anthology of African, Arab, European, and Asian historical sources, from Pharaonic inscriptions to twentieth-century accounts.
First edition of this historic account of Virginia, the Roanoke colony, and its environs, including the landmark map of Virginia and all the famed engravings of Native American life in the 1580s.