Panorama of Monks of Various Orders
Book of attire featuring different orders of Italian monks, all hand-colored and presented accordion style.
Book of attire featuring different orders of Italian monks, all hand-colored and presented accordion style.
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.
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.
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.
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.
First edition of this account of the Anglo-French cartographer's explorations in Jubaland, now a member state of Somalia, illustrated with the author's own photographs and maps.
First edition of the world-famous "Diary of a Young Girl," a moving monument of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany's cataclysmic destruction of individual lives, communities, and cultures.
First edition of this hunting and wildlife manual published by the government of what was formerly Italian Somaliland, illustrated with the faces, figures, and footprints of the Bat-Eared Fox, Common Genet, assorted antelopes and others, many of which are protected.
First edition of this historical overview and contemporary portrait of social, religious, and domestic life in Turkey of the early 20th century.
First edition in English of this reflection on the tactics and methods used by General George Grivas in the the liberation of Cyprus and elsewhere – a rare title, particularly in dust jacket.
First printing of this beautifully illustrated history of the Blackfeet people, as told by the Montanan ethnographer and Native ally.
First edition of this brief publication dedicated to a select number of Germans fallen in World War II, accompanied by an original signed woodcut by Gerhard Marcks.
Uncommon account of the life of a South African ostrich farmer near the turn of the twentieth century.
Uncommon first US edition and first English translation of this major work by the French medieval historian, with an admiring foreword by Katherine Anne Porter.
Calendar of the Jewish year 5703 (1942-43), issued by the Synagogue of Turin for the period in which that synagogue would be destroyed by Allied bombardment.