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London: Sovinformburo, 1941-1945. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 1203 issues (most 4 pages each) in 16 volumes, bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Speckled page edges as issued. Usual age wear, scuffing and minor staining to bindings. Head and tail of spines, corners, and parts of edges on..... More
Bologna: Printed by Licinio Cappeli, 1937. Deluxe Edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folio, unnumbered (16 1/4 x 13"). 570pp. Original sculpted copper pipes adorning spine over silver-stamped caramel leather with embossed eagle in modern design, overlapped by an aluminum edge of a battle ax and wooden molding designed by F. Capelli, executed..... More
NP: (1942?). Hardcover. 1/50? Folio. Unpaginated. Quarter vellum over paper-covered decorative boards with title stamped in silver & emblem (possibly of the German tradesmen organization) blind-stamped on front cover. Top corners bumped and worn. Boards slightly bowed. Title leaf, 2ff calligraphic text + 59 original photographs by Curt Bieling with..... More
Avignon: 1789. First edition. Loose leaf. Quarto. 9.5 x7.5". 237-240pp. [+ added supplement, two sided leaf]. Text printed in black in a two-column format, with woodcut headpiece/decorative border surrounding the title at the top of the first page. Pages uncut, printed on rag paper. This remarkable document, an issue of..... More
NP [London?]: n.p. [Privately Printed], 1756. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [1] 38pp. [+ 14 manuscript pages]. 3/4 light brown morocco over marbled paper boards, gilt lettering on the spine. Publisher's woodcut illustrated device on the title page. This privately printed work was created to stir public support for the continuing..... More
Berlin: "Die Deutsche Tat", VerlagsgmbH. für deutsches Schrifttum, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. 4to.140pp. Various pagination (altogether ca. 2,500). Tan cloth with brown lettering on cover and spine. Minor age wear to binding. Usual browning to pages. Remnants of two library plates near tail of spine, small library plate on inside..... More
Hohen Neuendorf: Lothar Nowack Atelier Silberblick, 2009. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 13/17. Oblong Quarto. Unpaginated. Original half cloth over paper covered boards with newsprint and labels with lettering in the German national colors on cover, red, respectively yellow lettering on labels of spines with belly band in German National colors..... More
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Rome: NP, 1927. Original document. Softcover. Folio (13 x 9"). Original b/w photographic portrait of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. The photograph is tipped onto thick cardstock, which is inscribed to the then French Minister of Justice Louis Barthou: "A S. S. Louis Barthou, con cordiale deferente simpatia. Roma maggio 1927..... More
Orléans: Laurent D'Houry, 1781. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 669pp. Original red Morocco with gilt Plaque de Dubuisson of Charles d'Esmangart* and intricate gilt tooling, gilt framed fleur-de-lis on covers and spine, gilt lettering and tooling on spine; five raised bands. Gilt edges. Blue endpapers. Royal emblem on title page. Green..... More
Hamburg, Berlin: Carl Hoym Nachf. 1931. First edition. Staple bound. Quarto. 256pp. Complete original stapled tear-off calendar with thin red leather trim around hanging punch holes at top over photo-illustrated cover with red and brown lettering, protected by modern mylar. Worker's Calendar 1932 celebrating 15 years of Dictatorship of the..... More
Braunschweig: Handwerkskammer Braunschweig, 1934. Original document. Hardcover. Folio. 33 leaves. Original string-bound tan cloth with brown emblem printed on cover. Extraordinary and unique copy documenting photographically the "Day of German Crafts in Braunschweig," dedicated to the district leader Dr. Hesse, signed on the dedication page by H. Wahldiek, president of..... More
London: Printed by W. Clowes, 1824. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 20pp. [1]. Rebacked retaining the original spine laid down over full tan calf boards, with gilt ruling to the edges of covers. Gilt-stamped motifs, tooling and lettering to the spine, with black label. Signed and inscribed by Sir Thomas Lawrence..... More
Rome: Novissima, 1940 - XVIII. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (10 1/2 x 8 3/4"). Unpaginated. [142]pp. Original printed stiff paper boards rebacked with modern brown cloth. Photographic frontispiece portrait of Mussolini. Lavishly illustrated throughout with 123 striking photogravures, this English-language Fascist propaganda work features images of the Italian Youth of..... More
Berlin: Druck und Verlag der Reichsdruckerei, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Large Quarto. (4) 14 (2), 15-54, 17, 16, 15, 15, 12, 11, 5, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 7, 5, 1, 1, 2, 1, 18pp. Original gray quarter cloth over light green..... More
Mexico? NP, 1940s. First edition. Softcover. "To my friend Arguelles (who) with admirable work as (Ambassador) of (word?) in the Embassy the (word)? defend with dignity the just (word?) of the Spanish people. Gamoneda" on title page. Quarto. 114 (1)pp. Original tan wraps with color lithograph in red double frame..... More
Berlin: Printed by H. Winckler, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 45 leaves. Original black and purple cloth design with gilt lettering on cover. Decorative endpapers. Title page with vignette. Hand colored second title page with uniquely stylized typography reading Höhepunkt (Highlight). Third title page with hand colored illustration. Original photograph..... More
NP, ca 1938. Softcover. 1) Der Kdf-Wagen von A bis Z: Ein Handbuch vom Kdf-Wagen. Volkswagenwerk G.m.b.H. Berlin. Breidenstein Verlagsgesellschaft, Frankfurt a. M. ND (ca. 1938). Octavo. Unpaginated (124pp). Quarter-cloth over blind-stamped tan wraps in original illustrated dust jacket. Scarce early A to Z Volkswagen handbook. Profusely illustrated with reproductions..... More
London: Printed by Tho. Roycroft, for the Author, 1676. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [10], 582, [6]pp. Modern 3/4 crushed morocco over black cloth with title laid on spine. Vignette. Title page in red and black lettering. Decorative headpieces and initials. Sammes' elaborate "Britannia Antiqua Illustrata, or the Antiquities of Ancient..... More
Hamburg: City Council, 1835. Loose leaf. Elephant Folio broadside (15 1/3 x 12 3/4"). Original gray broadside with black lettering and emblem of City of Hamburg. The proclamation translated below was printed and posted around Hamburg after riots against its Jewish Citizens had broken out on July 31, 1835 and spread..... More
Berlin: Berliner Buch- und Zeitschriften - Verlag, E. O. Erdmenger & Co., 1939-1943. Hardcover. Scarce collection of three works by Heinrich Doehle, profusely illustrated with color & b/w photographic reproductions of hundreds of medals, decorations, insignia and badges from the Third Reich. Covers party, military, police, civil, fire brigade, red..... More
Нагасаки (Nagasaki): Типографія "Воли" ("Tipografìa "Voli"), 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong small octavo. 7 1/4x10". Rebound in blue library buckram boards, with white lettering on the spine. Library of Congress decorative endpapers. Original red illustrated wrappers bound in. Frontispiece illustrations, including gravure. This scarce and intriguing publication serves as a...... More
Edinburgh: H. M. General Register House, 1881-1884-1887-1888. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11 x 8"). lxxiii, [5], 676pp (Vol. 1); lx, [4], 713, [3]pp (Vol. 2); lxxi, [5], 608, [2], 2pp (Vol. 3); xliii, [5], 678, [2], 2pp (Vol. 4). Uncut and partly unopened. Original blind-stamped full cloth, with gold lettering..... More
Grenoble (vol. 1) Valence (vol. 2): P. Charvys (vol.1) Chenevier et Chavet (vol.2), 1661-1869. First edition (vol.1) Reprint (vol.2). Hardcover. Large quarto. [34], 874, [65] (vol.1); [12], 782, [8], 87 (vol.2). Full calfs with gold lettering on red leather title-labels and black leather volume-number-labels. Gold decoration on spine. Only front..... More
NP: Club-Zigaretten, [1933]. First edition. Oblong quarto. [8]pp (text), 26 leaves (photographic plates), [2]pp. Original wrappers with red lettering and embossed swastika on front cover. Book housed in its original cardboard slipcase. Frontispiece portrait of Adolf Hitler protected with a tissue-guard. Published by the German cigarette company Club, this impressive..... More
Geneva: Aux depens du Baron Henry de Blonay. 1950. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 1/150 copies. Folio. Contemporary vellum with black emblem to cover and gilt lettering to spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Profusely illustrated endpapers. Illustrated title page with red and black lettering. Printed on vellum paper. Wonderful work of..... More