A collection of works being exhibited at our booth G57 at FIRSTS London's Rare Book Fair with an emphasis on Rare Books, Judaica and the Arts.
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Chemnitz: Städtische Museum, 1931. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 15 (1)pp., 16 plates. Original two color 'wrap-around' woodcut cover, folded and extended to inside covers and endpapers, printed to heavy handmade paper, protected by modern mylar. Title page design original one color woodcut. Catalog of the Erich Heckel exhibition from March..... More
[Zurich]: Schweizerischen Israelitischen Gemeindebund, [1943]. First edition. Softcover. 16mo. Unpaginated (16 pages). Sunned grey printed wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover. Published by the Swiss Federation of Israelite Communities, this extremely scarce Passover haggadah, was issued to Jewish refugees seeking asylum in Switzerland from Nazi persecution during the..... More
Preisbuch V. Auflage, 5. Auflage, 12.-17. Tausend (Fifth edition, 12th-17th thousand), 1909. Softcover. 4to. 100,[2],pp. Gold-stamped wraps with decoration string, protected in modern mylar. Title-page with emblem of the "Deutsche Werkstätten für Handwerkskunst." Rare work on "Dresdner Hausgerät," a cost-effective program designed to manufacture furniture which was easy to assemble..... More
NP: NP, No date. Loose-leaf. Sextodecimo. 10 plates 5 3/4 x 3 3/4." Original erotic lithographs on heavy white card stock; protected in modern mylar. Amorous satire about an overweight wife and her husband's marital difficulties and the unorthodox cure in drawings and text in rhymes, reminiscent of Wilhelm Busch..... More
[Iraq]: [ca. 19th century]. Scroll. 17.5" (full length), 9.5" (parchment height). Scribed on dearskin. Carved wooden handles. More
Frankfurt: I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, 1930. First German edition. Hardcover. Quarto. vii, 285pp. Original bright red cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on cover and spine. Decorative endpapers. Laid in errata page. Printed to heavy stock paper. Naphtol AS is an organic compound used as coupling partners in the preparation..... More
Mantua (Mantova): Ha'Achim B'nei Rabbi Yehoshua M'Prushah (The Brothers, the Sons of Rabbi Yehoshua, from Perugia), 1676. First edition. Loose leaf. Small quarto. Approximately 8.5x6.5". 12pp. Pages uncut. The Seder Ha-ha'arakhah (Order of Assessment) was the tax code for the Jewish community of Mantua. These tax regulations were first published..... More
Berlin: Nova-Druckerei, 1940. First edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 5 1/4 x 7 3/4". 11pp. Staple-bound printed tan paper wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. This extremely scarce work it notable in that it is considered the last work printed in Hebrew to be published in Germany during the..... More
Tel Aviv: Barlevy/Barlevi, ca. 1950s. First edition. Softcover. Small oblong octavo. Illustrated wrappers with multicolored lettering on the front cover. Stapled binding. The publication is a children's coloring book, featuring various famous sites, monuments and building from around Israel. Included are Tel Hai, The Tower of David, Rachel's Tomb, and..... More
Tel Aviv: Barlevy/Barlevi, ca. 1950s. First edition. Softcover. Small oblong octavo. Illustrated wrappers with red and black lettering on the front cover. Stapled binding. The publication is a children's coloring book to teach arithmetic and counting through visual aides. Images include clowns, animals, model trains, teddy bears and clocks. Each..... More
Tel Aviv: Barlevy/Barlevi, ca. 1950s. First edition. Softcover. Small oblong octavo. 6.5x9.5" Illustrated white stapled wrappers, with brown paper along the spine. Unpaginted. 14 double images. The publication is a children's coloring book, containing 14 separate pages of images. Each page is lithographically printed in color, with each facing and..... More
![Item #46613 Zeppelin-Weltfahrten. 3-vol. set (Complete) [VOLUME III. IN ITS ORIGINAL SLIPCASE]. n/a](/pictures/thumb/46613.jpg?v=1611623079)
Dresden: Bilderstelle Lohse, [1932-1933]. First edition. Softcover. In 420 photographs, these striking cigarette card albums tell the history, construction and operation of German Zeppelins from 1899 to 1933, and document the various Graf Zeppelin journeys around the world: - Volume I: Oblong quarto. [16]pp (text), [46] leaves with tipped on..... More
Рига (Riga): д. апта (D. Apta), 1929. First edition. Softcover. Oblong duodecimo. Approx. 6x9". Printed pink wrappers with blue lettering and decorative ruling on the front cover. The publication is a promotional booklet for the ARS film distribution company's 1929-1930 season. This impressively printed booklet was produced to commemorate the..... More
Tel Aviv: Barlevy/Barlevi, ca. 1950s. First edition. Softcover. Oblong small octavo. Illustrated wrappers with multicolored lettering on the front cover. Stapled binding. The publication is a delightful children's coloring book relating to the Jewish holidays. Images depict the holidays of Shavuot, Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Hanukah, Tu BiShvat..... More
![Item #42715 So ist Halle (That's Halle) [WITH] Die Schulstadt Halle (The School City Halle)....](/pictures/thumb/42715.jpg?v=1504310854)
Halle, Germany: Verkehrsamt der Stadt Halle, (1930). First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 32pp. Original illustrated wraps with red, yellow and gray lettering, protected by modern mylar. Pamphlet produced by the Halle Tourist office to attract tourism for the city. Designed by the School for applied Art illustrated with halftone photographs by..... More
London: Day & Son, Limited, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 2 vols. (complete). XIV + 360 + XIV + 275pp. Original green blind-stamped cloth with gold title on spine. Folding map frontispiece in each volume. Fascinating account of the author's journey in the Levant. Newton was vice-consul between 1852 and..... More
London: Thomas Ilive, 1714. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. [10] 272pp. 9.5x7.5". Original brown mottled calf boards with blind stamped decorative ruling and motifs on the covers. Spine with gilt lettering and ruling over a red label and raised bands. Gilt tooling along the edges of the boards. Illustrated Spanish..... More
Vienna: Erste Wiener Vereins-Buchdruckerei, n.d. [ca. 1925]. First Austrian edition. Softcover. Quarto. 104pp. Printed olive-colored textured paper wrappers with black lettering on the cover. The scarce first Austrian edition of the infamous anti-Semitic fabrication The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, translated into German. Although no editor or translator is..... More
![Item #39278 A Model Japanese Villa [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED]. Kazumasa Ogawa](/pictures/thumb/39278.jpg?v=1439339898)
Tokyo: Published by the author, 1899 (Meiji 32). First and only edition. Softcover. Large oblong quarto (14 3/4 x 11 1/2"). [1] leaf (Title), [15] leaves (Plates). Original string-bound stiff wrappers covered with decorative rice paper, with title pasted on front cover. Title inscribed in French and signed by Commander..... More
Douala, Cameroon: Published by the author, 1952. Original photograph(s). Original photographs. Large quarto (11 x 8 3/4"). Unpaginated. [24]pp. Full burgundy leatherette photo-album. This unique collection is divided into two parts: 1) The first part of the collection consists of the complete 24 mounted silver gelatin photographic postcards documenting young..... More
Hamburg: Verlag H. v. Seggern & Sohn, 1923. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. [2]pp (Title), [6]pp (Introductory text), 12 loose leaves (Plates), as issued. Original photo-illustrated paper portfolio. Rare portfolio of twelve photogravure plates of nude photography by Jozsef Pecsi (1889-1956), an influential Hungarian photographer whose Budapest studio was one of..... More
Budapest: A Fény, [1928]. Second revised. Softcover. Small octavo (7 1/2 x 5"). 120, [2]pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers, with white lettering to front cover. Decorative title page, head-, and tailpiece. This splendidly produced study on artistic photography was originally published in 1917 by József Pécsi (1889-1956), a renown Hungarian photographer..... More
Leipzig: Joh. Friedrich Gleditsch, 1687. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. (16) 458 (14)pp. Original contemporary vellum with beveled edges and handwritten lettering on spin, library sticker on lower spine. Peiffer (1640-1698) was a German Lutheran theologian, orientalist, and the superintendent of Lübeck. Considered one of the theologians who have influenced Johann..... More
![Item #48964 Onomasticon [BOUND WITH] In Pollucis Dictionarium Annotationes. Julius of Naukratis...](/pictures/thumb/48964.jpg?v=1630953243)
Basel: Robert Winter, 1541. First Latin Edition. Sammelband of two works published in 1541 and 1542, quarto. 479, [1, blank], [14, index, colophon and device], [2, blank]; 26, [20, index, colophon, and device], [2, blank]pp. Fine woodcut printer’s device depicting Athena at verso final index leaf in both works; printed..... More
Hamburg: Lucas Gräfe & Sillem (Edmund Sillem), 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 x 10"). [4], 109, [1]pp (Text), lxxv (i.e. 80) leaves (Photographic plates). Original olive cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Illustrated with original x-ray photographs of broken bones, imbedded bullets, etc.. "Röntgen-Atlas der Kriegsverletzungen..... More