Paris: H. Lauwereyns, 1882. Third revised. Quarto. III, 128pp. Uncut. 3/4 red leather over marbled boards with gold-stamped borders and lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Silk endpapers. Rare and fascinating work on skin diseases, profusely illustrated with 60 full-page albumen photographs of patients with various skin diseases. This third..... More
Paris; Lisboa: Bonardel e Du Beux, 1756. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XIII, [3], 293, [1]pp. Original full calf with gold lettering and tooling on spine. All edges red. Marbled endpapers. Decorative headpieces and initials. Remarkable 18th-century treatise on public health, written by the renowned Paris-based Portuguese philosopher of Jewish ancestry..... More
NP, n/d. Hardcover. 4 volumes, folio size. Each volumes divided into 6 sections, with separate t.p.s. and paging. Contains 218 (/219 issued) fold-out copper plate engravings, as follows: 1) vol. I: 44, numbered by chapter, as issued 2) vol. II: 55, numbered by chapter, as issued 3) vol. III: 59, with continuous numberation..... 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 1914-1916"..... More
NP, n/d. Hardcover. Der Wagenbauer: Leipzig. Waldheim-Eberle A. G. 1920. Maroon leather portfolio with decorative folding flaps, gold lettering on cover. Title- and contents pages & 67 loose leaves with illustrations of auto and coach designs by Johann Feldwabel. Some of the designs: Mylord, Stadtkupee, Landauer, Jagdwagen. Illustrations are b/w..... More
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Berlin: Siemens & Halske AG Wernerwerk, 1931. First edition. Softcover. Large Quarto. 6pp., 8 photos, 8pp., 4 photos, 7 tech. drawings, 4 of them foldouts. Original green track folder with handwritten lettering on cover holding cyanotype block. This incredibly scarce peice is a description and operating manual for the "Klangfilm"..... More
St. Petersburg: Publishing Association "Education" 1904. First Russian edition. Hardcover. Folio (14 x 11 1/4"). 4, 118 leaves text, (35) 100 plates, 56 (1)pp. Rebacked retaining original olive green illustrated cover with black lettering and original spine with black lettering, plain green back cover. Decorative endpapers. Title page with decorative..... More
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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
NP: NP, ND (ca 1750). Manuscript. Hardcover. Octavo. 445, [1]pp. Contemporary full spotted calf, with gold lettering and tooling on spine. Raised bands. All edges red. Marbled endpapers. Book housed in a modern brown cloth chemise, inside a modern half leather over cloth slipcase, with gold lettering and ruling on..... More
London: Printed for the Author and for F. and C. Rivington, 1792-1798. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/4 x 5 3/4"). 80, [8]pp (Text), 36 leaves (Plates) (Vol. 1); 96, [8]pp (Text), 36 leaves (Plates) (Vol. 2); [2], 98, [8]pp (Text), 36 leaves (Plates) (Vol. 3); 96, [6]pp (Text), 36..... More
Nice: La Diane Française, 1949. Limited First edition. Softcover. 1/300. Quarto (9 x 5 3/4"). 509, [9]pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original printed wrappers with red and black lettering to spine and front cover. The frontispiece is an original lithographic portrait of the author by Henri Matisse, hand-signed and numbered..... More
London: Harrison & Co., 1793-1794. Hardcover. 4to. Marbled leather with gold decorated black and maroon title-labels. Raised bands. Vol. 1: Asia and Africa. (8), lxiv, 772, (1) pp. Vol. 2: Europe and America. (1), vi, 608, (2) pp. Frontispiece engraving in both volumes. Title-pages printed in red and black. Illustrated..... More
Sacramento: California State Printer/ James J. Ayers, 1883-1884. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 184pp. (1). Appendix 1: 67pp, Appendix 2: 61pp, Appendix 3: 62pp. Brown pebbled cloth with blind-stamped ruling on the covers, gilt lettering on the spine. The publication covers such topics as protection of the vines from infection..... More
Berlin: NP, 1841, 1852. Original documents. Loose leaf. Folio. Two folded, double-paged documents, matted behind clear plastic sheets. Rare original historical documents. 1. Civil Letter (printed): Issued to the barber Heinrich Carl Ferdinand Schrader by the mayor and council of the Royal Prussian Capitol Berlin. It declares that subsequent to Schrader's..... More
Coimbra: Joam Antunes, 1726. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [42], 763, [1], 16pp. Original speckled calf with gold lettering, tooling and ruling on spine. Raised bands. Title page in red and black lettering. Decorative head-, tailpieces, and initials. Only edition and all published of this wonderfully zany early 18th century attempt..... More
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Impériale, 1805. First complete French edition. Hardcover. Quartos. Vol.1: (xcvii) 528pp, 31pp. Vol.2: 460pp, 84pp. Black leather over dark blue marbled paper boards. Gilt lettering and ruling on the spines. The first full French translation of compiled research from the Asiatic Society of Bengal, originally published in..... More
Essen, Germany: THALES Verlag GmbH, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. App. 4,000pp. Original burgundy boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Frontispiece photograph. "Edmund Landau (1877–1938) occupied one of the first places of the contemporary mathematical world. His fields were number theory which fascinated him above all, analysis, and..... More
Berlin: Hansa Luftbild G.m.b.H, 1931-1943. Softcover. Original printed wrappers. Nr. 6: 1931. 32pp. Nr. 8: Luftbild-Lesebuch. 1934. 66pp. Nr. 10: 1936. 24pp. Nr. 11: 1936. 25pp. & 4 color folding charts. Nr. 11(?): Luftbild-Topographie. 1936. 79pp. Nr. 12: 1937.23,[2]pp. Nr. 15: 1937. 37pp. Nr. 16: 1938. 84pp. Nr. 17: 1939..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1873. First edition in book form. Hardcover. Quarto. [4], 450, [2], 495, [1]pp. Original full cloth with gold lettering and ruling on spines. In 1873, Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau published this two-volume work summarizing his decades of research into soap bubbles and related phenomena due to surface tension..... More
Berlin: Paul Parey, ND (ca 1907). First Spanish-language edition. Hardcover. Folio (15 x 19 1/4"). 12 loose plates, as issued. Original gilt-stamped burgundy cloth portfolio, with gold lettering to front cover. This complete set of 12 colored photographic reproductions documents Professor Dr. Paul Wagner's field experiments with nitrogen fertilizer at..... More
Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1874. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folio. 6 leaves, 60 (Nos. I–LIX plus XXXIb) plates, two of them folding, the others doubled-paged. Original three-quarter red morocco over green pebbled cloth, tightened with twelve original metal pegs, with gilt lettering and decor embossed medallion of cover, gilt lettering..... More
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New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 3 vols. (complete). VI + 446 + 405 + CCXCpp. Original red buckram with title vignettes laid on spines. Colored frontispiece in each volume. Numerous steel engraved plates, some being colored. Hundreds of b/w illustrations in text. Popular account of..... More
London: Printed by R. Norton, for Walker Kettilby, 1684, 1690. First English language edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 3/4 x 8"). [20], 327, [1]pp., 2 double plates. Contemporary full spotted calf with gold lettering and ruling to spine. Raised bands. Additional engraved title page. Title page printed in black with double..... More
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Lucca: Azienda Grafica Lucchese, 1963. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. 1/350. Folio. [108]pp. Uncut. Original gilt-stamped morocco, with gold lettering on covers. Uncut. Illustrated title page. Limitation page signed by editor Carlo Hautmann. Book housed in its original marbled cardboard slipcase. Striking facsimile of the second Venetian edition (1493) of Johannes de..... More
Franckfurth und Leipzig: Christoph Gottlieb Nicolai / Carl Christoph Immig, 1724 & 1726. Hardcover. " 8vo. Three-quarter vellum over paper boards. 2 vols. in 1, each with frontispiece and title page in red and black. (12), 296 pp., (22); (6), 164 pp., (8). Fascinating 18th century hand manual on the..... More