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.

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 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 in English of this uncommon survey of occult knowledge by an Austrian journalist, anthroposophist, and theater critic.

First printing of this practical nursing handbook, which encourages student nurses to treat the battlegrounds of WWII as an opportunity for training — in remarkably sharp condition.

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.

Inscribed first edition of this investigation of the technical failures aboard the TITANIC, published only months after the sinking by the then-editor-in-chief of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.

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.