[Italy, ca. 1700–1750]. Quarto (26 × 19 cm). Somewhat later (nineteenth-century) quarter calf over marbled-paper covered boards, retaining leather spine of earlier binding; 242, [5] leaves of manuscript text in ink to rectos and versos, on laid paper, including 10 pp. of index, followed by three blank leaves. Decorative calligraphic..... More

Moscow: Izd. "Dom pechati", [1922]. Octavo (17.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 47 pp. Illustrations throughout, including three plates in color. Owner inscription to front wrapper. Wrapper edges lightly chipped; light soil to wrappers; about very good. An early monograph dedicated to the work of the prominent Russian and Soviet..... More

Belgrade: Vreme, 1923. Octavo (18.6 × 15.8 cm). Original reddish brown paper-covered boards, printed in black and with mounted color illustration; [4], 172 pp. With twenty-one mostly full-page black-and-white illustrations and [3] leaves of color plates on thicker stock. A few small, unobtrusive repairs to spine at front hinge; else..... More

Hamburg: Chez Perthes & Besser ("Se vend à St. Petersbourg chez Pluchart, à Londres chez T. Boosey, à Paris chez Treuttel & Wurtz."), 1816. Octavo (20.5 x 13 cm). Later quarter imitation leather binding; [3], 4-230, [3], 234-353, [2] pp. [1] map and 4 engraved vignettes in the text (signed..... More

Kiev: Tipografiia E. Ia. Fedorova, 1878. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers; 19, [1] pp. Professional restoration to wrappers; private inventory to label and number to title in blue pencil; internally very good. A speech by the philosophy professor Silvestr Gоgotskii (1813–1889), in honor of the opening of..... More

New York: [Ukrainian Gold Cross], 1941. Quarto (28 × 22 cm). Original printed side-stapled wrappers: with 14 pages of text mimeographed to rectos and versos, and printed self-wrappers. In Ukrainian and English. Light soil to wrappers; discoloration due to stock; else about very good. A single issue of this monthly..... More

Vintage silver gelatin print, presumably between 1929 and 1930. 12.8 × 18 cm. Somewhat oxidized, with glue residues to verso, else good or better. After studying at the Academy of Arts in Zagreb and the School of Applied Arts in Vienna, Ivana Tomljenović enrolled at the Bauhaus in Dessau in..... More

Original artist book measuring 29.5 × 20 cm. Hand-sewn self-wrappers with 16 unnumbered leaves of illustrations hand-drawn in Indian ink. Unique copy. Born in Kiev in 1966, the artist and writer Julia Kissina is one of the few women associated with Moscow Conceptualism – a movement that challenged state ideology..... More

Moscow; Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1926. Octavo (17 × 11.8 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 46, [1] pp. With ten illustrations in the text. Small chip to lower spine extremity, small stain to lower wrapper edge. Still very good. An illustrated public health brochure promoting health check-ups for pregnant women; hospital..... More

Madrid: en la Imprenta Real, 1645. Folio (28.3 × 19.4 cm). Engraved title page, [18] pp., engraved full-page portrait, 461, [6] pp. Title and engraved portrait by Juan de Noort. Red morocco binding by Emilio Brugalla, dated 1957, with gilt fillets and additional central decorative motifs to boards; spine over..... More

Prague: F. Topič, 1926. Octavo (19 × 12.7 cm). Original printed violet wrappers; 90, [3] pp. Wrappers lightly discolored and worn to lower right corner; else about very good. First and only edition of a volume of essays and newspaper editorials by Milena Jesenská, the journalist and translator best known..... More

L'viv: Nakladom i koshtom Tovarystva "Prosvita", 1925. Octavo (20.2 × 14.2 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Pavlo Kovzhun; 63, [1] pp. With four photographic portraits interleaved. Good or better; wrappers somewhat worn and soiled; nick to lower left corner; internally very good, save for old private owner stamp to two..... More

Tournay: Charles Martin, 1617. Octavo (16 × 11 cm). Contemporary vellum binding with contemporary neatly written title on the spine and green (later?) textile ties; 746 [recte 744, pagination jumps from 458 to 460], [5] pp., 1 errata leaf, with copperplate title (with Noli me tangere, blood-nourishing pelican and resurrected..... More