Letters in original postmarked envelopes, typed to sheet with A. Einstein address embossed at top: 112 Mercer Street, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. 1. Letter to Miss K. van Leeuwen, 214 Riverside Dr., Apt. 75, New York City; postmarked June 6, 1940, Princeton In German. Einstein suggests that his friends in foreign countries..... More
![Antiguedades Peruanas [INCLUDING BOTH THE TEXT AND ATLAS VOLUMES] (2 vols. complete). Mariano...](/pictures/thumb/48667.jpg?v=1630631201)
Viena [Vienna]: Imprenta Imperial de la Corte y del Estado, 1851. First edition. Hardcover. Atlas: Oblong elephant folio. 58 plates (+ title plate). Text: Quarto. (xi) 328pp. Volumes housed in a beautifully produced modern tan linen clamshell box, with a gilt-stamped black leather label on the front cover. Both volumes..... More
![Freud Letter to Fritz Wittels, 1929. [Two page SIGNED, HANDWRITTEN LETTER]. Sigmund Freud](/pictures/thumb/46416.jpg?v=1600912291)
Vienna: NP, 1929. Original document. Loose leaf. Octavo (9 x 5 5/8). Two page handwritten letter from Sigmund Freud to Fritz Wittels, dated June 24, 1929, on printed Freud letterhead.* Dr. Fritz Wittels, an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst, was a friend and a biographer of Sigmund Freud. He published the biography of..... More
![The Temple of King Sethos I at Abydos (complete in 4 vols.) [INCLUDING 231 PLATES]. Amice...](/pictures/thumb/42986.jpg?v=1502756052)
London/Chicago: The Egypt Exploration Society/University of Chicago Press, 1933-1958. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folios. Vol.1: (xi) 40 plates. Vol.2: (ix) 46 plates. Vol.3: (xi) 65 plates. Vol.4: (xviii) 80 plates. Vol.1 still retains its brown paper dust jacket. Tan cloth boards with gilt-stamped hieroglyphic illustrations on the front covers, and..... More
German Political Parties, 1919–1920. Hardcover. Variant sizes. Original printed flyers on different paper stock in various colors. An extraordinary mirror of the political climate in Bavaria two years after the end of W.W.I exhibited in 52 letter size and 21 smaller size election flyers. The collection contains flyers of the following..... More
Bergamo: Officine Dell' Istituto Italiano D'Arti Grafiche, 1930 & 1934. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 1930 volume: Folio. 90pp. of text followed by 77pp. of plates. Half vellum over gray boards with black lettering. Discoloration and some staining to spine and boards. Small tear to head and tail of spine. Corners bumped..... More
Paris: G. van Oest, 1929-1932. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (14 1/4 x 11"). 41, [3]pp (Text), 72 leaves (Plates) + 2 large folding plans (Vol. 1. Pt. 1); [4]pp, 73-150 leaves (Plates) (Vol. 1. Pt. 2); 18, [2]pp (Text), 151-218 leaves (Plates) + 2 large folding plans (Vol. 2. Pt..... More
Le Caire (Cairo): Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1927-1920. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (14 x 10 1/2") (Text vol.); (14 1/4 x 11") (Plates vol.). [8], 466pp (Text); CXX (120) leaves (Plates). Modern library binding, with gold lettering to spines. Original wrappers bound in. Max van Berchem's collection of the Haram's..... More
Salmanticae (Salamanca): Didacus à Cussio. Expensis Martini Perez Bibliopolae (Diego de Cussio for Martin Pérez bookseller), 1596. Prima Editio (First edition). Hardcover. Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 1/2"). [8], 199, [1]pp. Later full mottled sheep with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Title page with a 3 1/2..... More
![The Racial Characters of the Swedish Nation [WITH] The Race Biology of the Swedish Lapps Part I....](/pictures/thumb/42269.jpg?v=1490998193)
Uppsala: The Swedish State Institute for Race Biology, 1926, 1932. First edition. Softcover, Hardcover. Folios. 182, 4 maps, 108, 45 plates, 138, 93 (1)pp. Original gray wraps with black lettering on cover and spine, first title; blue half cloth over marbled boards with gilt ruling and lettering on spine, second..... More
Drohobycz/Drohobych: Komitetu Redakcyjnego Uczniow Panstw. Gimn. w Drohobyczu, 1937. First edition. Softcover. Large octavo. 15pp. [1]. Original tan illustrated stapled wrappers with black and white lettering on cover. Design and cover illustration by Bruno Schulz* depicting the buildings of Drohobycz. This is vol. 5, issue 4 from the youth magazine..... More
Berlin: R. Duhrkoop, 1907. R. Duhrkoop. Softcover. Elephant folio. 8 pp., sixty-two plates in photogravure (images are approx. 6.5" x 9"), one mounted photo and one original mounted photo with letter, poster and text. Text lists division of all professors by school, including architecutre, physical engineering, mechanical engineering, shipbuilding, chemistry..... More
Bucarest: Monitorul oficial și imprimeriile statului, Imprimeria centrală, 1937. First edition. Softcover. Folio. 78 pp (Text), 14 leaves of plates (some folded), 40 loose original photographs in pocket at rear. Original printed wrappers. Following a trend of eugenism studies in Germany and Northern Europe, this work is the result of extensive..... More
Stockholm: Gedruckt in Aftonbladets Druckerei, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio (16 3/4 x 13 3/4"). [8], IV, 182pp (Text), C (100) (Plates). Original blind wrappers over 3/4 decorative white cloth and glossy burgundy paper covered boards. Gold lettering to spine and front cover. Book housed in its original cloth-linen..... More
![Redekunst von A-Z (The Art of Public Speaking) [SIGNED BY AUTHOR]. Oscar Schellbach](/pictures/thumb/37182.jpg?v=1434442363)
Baden-Baden: Oscar Schellbach-Verlag, 1957. First edition. softcover. Signed by author on title page of first volume and each sleeve of long playing records. Small Folio. 12 vols. at ca. 500pp, 12 long playing records. Original blue quarter cloth over textured blue wraps with gilt-stamped lettering on cover accompanied by 12..... More
Berlin: Dietz Verlag, 1952. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8/30. 91 (4)pp. Full red hand bound morocco with staggered gilt borders encasing gilt-stamped frame of laurel and stars, with gilt lettering on front cover. Same framing without lettering on back cover. The spine also with staggered gilt-stamped ruling and stars at top..... More
![Lettres écrites d'Egypte et de Nubie en 1828 et 1829 [BOUND WITH] Relation d'un Voyage dans...](/pictures/thumb/43736.jpg?v=1521590722)
Paris: Firmin Didot Frères; Benjamin Duprat, 1833; 1841. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8 3/4 x 6"). xv, [1], 472pp (Lettres écrites d'Egypte et de Nubie en 1828 et 1829); [4], 148pp (Relation d'un Voyage dans l'Yémen, entrepris en 1837 pour le Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris). Uncut. Later 3/4 crushed..... More
London: Field & Tuer, Ye Leadenhalle Presse, 1884. First limited edition. Hardcover. 20/125 (Number and year in pencil) xxxii, 62 (2)pp. Original full vellum with small gilt-stamped hieroglyphic image and lettering on cover, gilt lettering and ruling on spine and back cover. Vignette on title page. Publisher's device on verso..... More
Paris: Editions des Musees Nationaux, 1954, 1963, 1971, 1972, 1986, 1992. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 4 parts in 11 books (complete). xii,184,108pp. xxvi,256,276pp. viii,410,436pp. xvi,160,165,xvi,162,106pp. Tan and gray wrappers with black lettering to cover and spine. Minor staining and discoloration to some wrappers. Slight creasing to wrapper on vol.I. This..... More
[California?]: Public Utilities Commission of the State of California, [c.Febuary 1967]. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folio. 33 foldout maps. Bolted quarter cloth over paper-covered boards as issued, paste-down cover label on front board. Issued by Public Utilities Commission of the State of California. Includes table of contents divided into Sectional..... More
東京(Tokyo): 刀江書院／東京帝国大学(Toko-Shoin/ Tokyo Imperial University), 1930. Ex-Library, "Special" first edition. Hardcover. Folio. Japanese: 2pp, (1) 2pp, 6pp, 6pp, 70pp (with 40 figures interspersed) + 126 plates, 19pp. + 2 plates. 3pp. appendix in German. English: (xi) indexes of plates and figures, 53pp. Bound in three quarter leather over brown cloth..... More
Budapest: American Joint Distribution Committee Magyarorszagi Bizottsaga, 1946. First edition. Softcover. Duodecimo. viii, 179pp. Original gray wraps with black lettering on cover and spine. Compilation and description of laws particularly legislated to govern the circumstances of surviving Jews returning to Hungary. With a foreword by Minister of Justice Ries Istvan..... More
Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags-Aktien-Gesellschaft, 1904–1918. Hardcover. Quarto (11 5/8 x 7 7/8"). Each volume with approx. 500pp. Volume 2 with 32pp., and volume 3 with 8pp. additional advertisement insert bound in at rear. Four in original red cloth (vols. 1, 2, 3, 8), one in original black cloth (Vol. 4) and..... More
Le Caire (Cairo): Institut Français d'Archeologie Orientale, 1906 (Vol. 1); 1909 (Vol. 2); 1914 (Vol. 3). First edition. Hardcover. Folio (13 1/2 x 10"). [6], ii, 89, [3]pp (Text), lxxix (79) leaves (Plates) (Vol. 1); [4], 60pp (Text), liii (53) leaves (Plates) (Vol. 2); [4], 103, [1], liii (53) leaves..... More
Venice (Venetia): Printed by Simon Calignani, 1574. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (8) 109 (1)pp. Rebound in full leather with ornate period blind-stamped decor on covers, gilt lettering on spine; raised bands. Red edges. Title page with elaborate architectural framing. Historiated woodcut initials. Twenty-three headpiece copper engravings (3 3/4 x6") for..... More