BIJOU ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE HOLY LAND
First American edition of this true miniature book of engraved views of various holy sites.
First American edition of this true miniature book of engraved views of various holy sites.
Hand-colored panorama depicting the costumes of Italian people from a variety of walks of life.
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.
Stirring series of photographs captured by a skilled photographer documenting the many diverse aspects of an operation involving a probable heart-lung ("H.L.") bypass.
Gorgeous three-scene peepshow depicting the Arc de Triomphe, the Champs Elysees, the Tuilieries, and other landmarks of Paris as they looked in the early 19th century.
First edition of this historical panorama of the US Civil War, a complex marriage of education, play, and propaganda.
Original photograph album composed with great care, containing forty photos of British train engines mounted one to a page and captioned in a neat hand.
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 fascinating piece of World War I ephemera, celebrating the downing of four zeppelins in a parody of the "Ten Little" rhyme.
Elaborate sales sample book containing over 700 watch faces representing a wide variety of styles and sizes from Besançon, France, a world center for watch production. One of the most striking sales catalogues we've encountered.
Before Zillow, Trulia, and Redfin: a swank archive of images from the Sessions Realty firm of La Mesa, California in the early 1970s.
First edition of this miniature gift book of Prussian and Russian royalty, published during a push for unification.
First printing – and only edition – of Abbey's hated first book.
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.
Signed first American edition of the sequel to THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY.
Rare signed true first edition of this novel of Mexican immigration to the United States from one of Bolivia's most celebrated writers.
First edition of this history of Hawai'i, Samoa, and other Polynesian islands, published "to promote interest in Christian Missions" in the region (Preface) — printed in the year of the final Hawaiian Royalist military resistance, and Queen Liliʻuokalani's abdication.
First edition of this landmark work in the history of education for deaf people, especially deaf children, and focusing on articulation and lip reading.
First edition of this narrative of "an officer's wife on the plains," published in an effort to clear her husband's name in the wake of his defeat at Fetterman's Fight.
Miniature book survey of the Zodiac signs, from an edition of "about 75" copies signed by the printer.
Signed limited first edition of this miniature missive on the benefits of owning a cat, written in the tone of a child asking their parents for a feline friend.
Handsome small selection of minuscule broadsides, each featuring a brief description of a sign of the Zodiac, along with an illustration.
First edition of this impassioned paean to the history of the American coke industry (that is to say: coke, the fuel byproduct of coal or petroleum distillation, not the other one, or the other other one).
First edition of this tongue-in-cheek history of golf, beginning with the prehistoric Golfosaurian, moving onto the missing "link" Golfolinkius Anthropomorphus, and so on.
Inscribed first printing of this groundbreaking work by a psychologist and Islamic scholar, presenting an "integrated theory of personality development that takes into account a universal understanding of both humankind and culture" (Knabb and Welsh).