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.
Inscribed first printing of this beautifully illustrated selection of over four centuries of maps of the Persian Gulf, compiled by the geographically minded ruler of the Emirate of Sharjah.
First printing of the first volume in Campbell's four-volume work, THE MASKS OF GOD, examining cultural variations on the so-called "monomyth."
Finely bound set of first editions of the complete history of World War II by one of its central players.
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 printing of this history of various artforms in Nigeria, including beadwork, brass work, carving, pottery, and weaving – illustrated with photographs of objects and diagrams by Michael Foreman.
First printing of this account of the work of the Emergency Rescue Committee, formed to smuggle Jewish refugees out of Vichy France — by the one of the founders of the group and the first American to be recognized by Israel as Righteous Among the Nations.
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 history of magicians, entertainers, curiosities, and the just plain weird, by sleight-of-hand master Ricky Jay.
Reprint edition of this study in comparative ancient religion, originally published in 1925 by a retired surgeon and revived for University Books's Library of the Mystic Arts by those with doubts about the "physical theory of disease."
First edition in English of this uncommon survey of occult knowledge by an Austrian journalist, anthroposophist, and theater critic.
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.
First US edition of the French cult classic of "fantastic realism."
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.
Signed first edition of this important account of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising from one of its few leaders to survive.
