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.

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 miniature gift book of Prussian and Russian royalty, published during a push for unification.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 book of collected writings by the American Presbyterian missionary, regarding 19th-century Syrian customs and his dedicated efforts to interfere with them.

First edition in this format, sumptuously illustrated, of Johnson's celebrated biographical encyclopedia of infamous criminals.

A history of Oxford University by the academic and folklorist.