Florence: Privately Printed, 1929. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 1/550 limited, signed copiescopies. 8vo. 7-217pp. as Issued. Decoratively colorful paper covered boards depicting cubist design. Each page printed with two inch margins on each side. Minor age wear to exterior and browning to pages due to age, but not affecting text. Book..... More
Berlin: Zentralverband Berlin, 1933. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 15 (1)pp. Original photo-illustrated wraps with white lettering on cover. Appeal by the German Government Committee "Brüder in Not" to organize to help mitigate the suffering in Russia. Documents and letters by those affected by the famine among Germans in the Russian..... More
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1945. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. Unpaginated, 16pp. Original illustrated beige wrappers with black lettering on cover. Illustrated title page. Recapturing various aspects of the Dutch experience during the German annexation in W.W.II. and its consequences. Illustrated with sharp satirical color drawings and descriptive text on each page, versos..... More
Leipzig: Friedrich Christian Dürk, 1830. Hardcover. 8vo. xiv, 370pp. Brown half leather over marbled boards. Range of topics: Instructions to the student; Morality tales; Natural history; Famous countries and people, including Germans; History of Church; Society and the rights and duties of the individual. Age wear to binding, especially at..... More
M.Gladbach: Rheinische Druckerei, 1932. First edition. Softcover. Quarto (9 x 6"). 13, [1]pp. Original illustrated wrappers, with a stunning woodcut portrait of Hindenburg on front cover. Illustrated with 10 duo-tone photogravures, this pro-Hindenbuch political brochure was published after the first round of the German Presidential elections of 1932 (March 13)..... More
Lisboa: Typographia da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1901. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/1000. 8vo. xiii,141pp. Original wrappers beautifully rebound in customized half leather over marbled boards with gilt decorated spine. Top corners bumped. Bookplate of the 'Agiet of the J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles' to inside of front board. Discoloration..... More
Berlin: Proletarischen Verlag Rudolf Reimann, [1932]. First edition. Softcover. Small quarto. 15, [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Published by the Kampfbund gegen den Faschismus* (Fighting-Alliance against Fascism), this virulent Anti-Nazi pamphlet warns about the dangers of Adolf Hitler's NSDAP, denounces the dissension within the party, the feud between the SA and..... More
Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut AG, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (12) 355 (4)pp. Original blue cloth with gilt illustration and lettering on cover, gilt lettering on spine, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine. Housed in plain gray slipcase, with title stamped to spine. "A People Searching for the Ocean..... More
Berlin: Verlag der deutschen Arbeiterfront, c. 1940. First edition. Softcover. Oblong Sextodecimo. 8 (9), 20pp. Original illustrated stapled wrappers with black, red and white lettering on cover. Illustrated title page. Rare piece of German propaganda directed against England. Six pages of printed "facts" from 1933 to 1940 stating Hitler's will..... More
Genf: Observator, 1934. Second edition. Softcover. Quarto. 181pp., 15 plates. Original color-illustrated wraps with pink and white lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. "The Great International Questions." Report of a group of reporters traveling through Austria to investigate the true political state of affairs and its extraordinary meaning for..... More
Berlin: Kampfbund gegen den Faschismus, [1931]. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 15, [1]pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Published by the communist organization "Kampfbund gegen den Faschismus" (Fighting-Alliance against Fascism), this Anti-Nazi pamphlet is a virulent attack against Hitler and his NSDAP party accused of being a creation of capitalism. The Nazi leader..... More
Paris; Edinburgh; New York; London: Goupil & Co., 1902. Limited First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [6], VII, [1], 302, [2]pp. Uncut. 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering and tooling on spine and gold-stamped ruling on covers. Top edge gilt. Limitation page in red and black lettering. Color..... More
Berlin: Internationaler Arbeiter-Verlag, 1928. First edition. Softcover. Large octavo. 31, [1]pp. Original illustrated wrappers. This early anti-Fascist pamphlet denounces the 200 political assassinations perpetrated since 1919 by right-wing and far right-wing fanatics against liberal personalities of the Weimar Republic. Within the politically heated turmoil of the early German Weimar Republic..... More
Lisboa: [Editorial Império], 1955. Softcover. Large octavo. 215 pp. Original paper wrappers. 1/175 limited copies. Includes a preface Moses Bensabat Amzalak. Work is facsimile of the original work published in 1628. Book is in Spanish. Interesting work about the Company of Eastern India Overseas Commerce, that was instituted in Reyno..... More
Paris: Les Editions Militaires Illustres, 1943. Limited ed. Softcover. 1/955. Large 4to. 146 (33)pp. Glassine-protected wrappers with red and black lettering to front wrapper. and spine as well as black illustration to front wrapper. Some tears, scuffing, rubbing and browning to glassine jacket. Head and tail of spine torn and..... More
London: Arthur Hall, Virtue, & Co., 1852. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by the ancinet remains brought to light by recent research. Sm. 8vo. xiv. 488pp. Gilt embossed, decorated brown cloth and spine. Head and tail of spine frayed. Corners bumped. Spine sunned. Some discoloration to covers. Hinges starting. With the..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Two octavo volumes. xlvii, 512 + xix, 527 pp. Original decorative brown boars with raised bands and gold lettering on spine. Vol. 1 illustrated with b/w steel engraved portrait of William Cecil, Lord Burghley protected by original tissue guard. Vol. 2 illustrated with..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1868. New Edition. Hardcover. 3 volumes. xlii,505pp. xii,597pp. xvi,548pp. Original calf with gilt border and gilt decorated spine. Red title plate with gilt lettering. Raised bands. Wear to some bands. Marbled page edges. Minor scuffing and staining to boards. Slight rubbing to head and tail..... More
Berlin: Eckart Verlag, 1934. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 123pp. Original pictorial wraps by Dr. Paul Wolff. Wrappers protected by modern mylar. Rare photographic Nazi propaganda on the importance of the German workforce in Hitler's Third Reich. Illustrated throughout with captioned reproductions of b/w photographs showing the construction of the Autobahn..... More
Berlin: Zeitgeschichte-Verlag, 1939. First edition. Softcover. Quarto (10 x 1/2 x 7 1/2"). [8]pp (Text), 56pp (Photographs). Original photo-illustrated wrappers, with red, grey and white lettering to front cover, protected by modern mylar. This Nazi propaganda photobook documents Hitler's triumphant trip through Bohemia, Moravia and Memelland (in far East Prussia)..... More
Berlin: Verlag der deutschen Arbeitsfront, (1938). Auflage: 165000. Softcover. 8vo. Original photographic wraps protected by modern mylar. Illustrated title-page. Rare "Gau Württemberg-Hohenzollern" edition, published by the NS-Gemeinschaft "Kraft durch Freude" (Strength through Joy). Kraft durch Freude was a large state-controlled leisure organization in the Third Reich which was a part..... More
Edinburgh: Printed for the author by William Blackwood & Sons, 1852. Sixth edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxi,346pp. Brown cloth with lettering in gold on spine. Some scuffing and rubbing to binding. Signature of previous owner to inside of front board. In 1843 the author went to seek two British officers, Lieutenant..... More
Lisboa: Academia Portuguesa da Historia, 1977. First edition. Softcover. 4to. 492 pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Pre-Herculano (1810-1870) Portuguese history. Colloquy with the Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian on Portuguese history. 17 discussions at the National Library of Lisbon on the 14th through the 18th century. Discussion topics include books of medieval ancestry..... More
New York: Yeshiva University Press, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xi,821pp. (Continuous pagination). Brown cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Fascinating study of organized town-life in Northwestern Europe during the tenth and eleventh centuries based on the Responsa literature. Some staining and scuffing on cloth, gold lettering on..... More
London: G.G. & J. Robinson, etc. 1800. Eighth edition, corrected. Hardcover. 8vo. 3 volumes. viii,411,28pp. 434,30pp. 413,24pp. Marbled boards over gilt decorated leather spine and edges. Red title plate. Fading to gilt on edges. Rubbing to head and tail of spine, corners and parts of edges. Scuffing and abrasions to..... More