GILGAMESCH
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.
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.
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.
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 of this Broadside Press publication on a practical pan-African movement, "part of the specifically useful methodology of Liberation being created all over the Afrikan world by Afrikan revolutionaries" (Amiri Baraka, rear panel).
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.
First US edition of this in-depth history of chemistry's beginnings as a science, from classical antiquity through medieval alchemy and on through the 17th century. Part of the Watts History of Science Library series.
Inscribed first edition of this collection of caricatures of leaders and people of the Axis Powers in WWII, by a Jewish Polish artist.
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.
First editions of both parts of this proto-graphic novel memoir, the reflections of an antifascist Japanese artist in the years leading up to World War II.