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Paris: Editions Alexis Sinjon, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. vg- to vg+. Small folio. [3] + 56 loose plates. Beige buckram over brown paper-covered boards portfolio, with black lettering on the front cover. Beige string ties. The portfolio houses a three page text insert followed by 56 loose plates, containing photogravure reproductions after photographs of Basque homes, towns and villages. This part, deals with the Spanish provinces of Navarre, Biscay, Guipuzcoa, and Alava, all considered part of the greater Basque region, displaying both interior and exterior design and architectural styles. There are some interesting street scenes as well. Each photo has a descriptive caption underneath. Text in French. Portfolio with minor rubbing to extremities and a few smudges. A small closed tear at the head of the spine. Interior front cover with some small smudges. Minor age toning to the edges of the plates. Minor sporadic smudges in the margins of a few plates throughout. Images clean and bright.… Read More

Paris: Société des Américanistes, 1937. First edition. Softcover. g. Quarto. 397-404pp, 3 leafs of plates. Unopened copy. Original printed wrappers. Rare and fascinating work relating the latest archeological discoveries in Monte Alban (Mexico) between 1932 and 1936. It is profusely illustrated with 3 plates of b/w photographic reproductions of a tomb bearing the painted features of Pitao Cozobi and Xipe. Wrappers slightly age-toned. Text in French. Wrappers in overall good, interior in very good condition.

London: Hevrat Ha-Sefer/ Hebrew Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Quarto. 48pp. [1]. Blue cloth boards with lettering, illustration, and ruling in gold and black lettering. Illustrated title page. Atlas written by Zev Jabotinsky, the leader of the revisionist Zionist movement and by Samuel Perlman, who served as editor and translator. This atlas, the first in modern Hebrew, was written to fill a gap in Hebrew schools with limited Hebrew resources and published by the Ha-Sefer press founded by Jabotinsky and Perlman. Contains 48 colored lithographic maps of the heavens, globe, continents, Middle-East and Israel as well as historical maps of the Roman Empire, medieval and early modern Europe and the city of Jerusalem. Special emphasis is placed on Jews and they places they have historically lived. Explanatory pages offer information on the places shown on the maps, often giving the number of Jews living there. Topographical and statistical maps, with text including charts… Read More

[1929]: Yehezkel Stimetzki/ Dafus Azriel, Jerusalem. First Hebrew edition. Softcover. g+ to vg-. Quarto. 16pp. Printed tan wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. A 16-page folded pamphlet discussing the need to establish a strong Jewish defense organization in the Land of Israel, by pioneering Revisionist Zionist leader Vladimir "Ze'ev" Jabotinsky. Published in the wake of the infamous 1929 Palestine Riots, the manifesto advocated for a strong organized Jewish defense force ("The Haganah", as we now know it) for protection against Arab assaults. This work was originally published in German in 1925, to coincide with the Fourteenth Zionist Congress held in Vienna. The Hebrew translation was published in 1929, "to aid those injured during the riots", as stated on the front cover, and advocate for Jewish national defense. A scarce and historically important work in the history of the Revisionist Zionist movement. Text in Hebrew. Wrappers with some minor foxing and water stains. Age toning… Read More

Paris: Vladimir Jabotinsky, 1930. Limited first edition. Hardcover. g+. 1/200. Octavo. 29pp. [1]. Half pebbled dark green leather over green-brown marbled paper boards. Title with stamped raised band and VJ at bottom of spine. Gilt ruling and lettering on the spine. Marbled endpapers. With half title and b/w photographic frontispiece of the author. This is copy #75 from a limited run of 200 self-published copies, hand-numbered and signed by the author. On the limitation leaf at front. A scarce first edition of this collection of 15 short stories by influential political activist, literary figure, and Revisionist Zionist thinker Vladimir "Ze'ev" Jabotinsky (1880-1940), written during his period in Paris. The collection contains a few small lithographic illustrations in black from acclaimed Polish-Jewish artist and illustrator Arthur Szyk (1894-1951). Text throughout in Russian. Binding with sunning to the spine and some light rubbing and bumping to extremities. Minor rubbing to the hinges of the… Read More

Lisboa: Typographia da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1901. Limited edition. Hardcover. vg. 1/1000. 8vo. xiii,141pp. Original wrappers beautifully rebound in customized half leather over marbled boards with gilt decorated spine. Top corners bumped. Bookplate of the 'Agiet of the J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles' to inside of front board. Discoloration and some minor chipping to wrappers. Ex Libris 'Patria Semper, Joao Rosa' opposite title-page and in rear of book. Signed by Jayme Arthur Mocha Pinto (?) and inscribed. Inscription impossible to make out. Recensao Publicada e Accrescenta de Notas e Bibliographia por Marthino Augusto Ferreira da Fonseca. Includes bibliography. Text in Portuguese. Very good condition.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Goo to very good condition. Inscribed "To Mr. William Naumburg With kind regards and a Happy New Year from his friend and neighbor, the author A. V. Williams Jackson New Year 1907" on front free endpaper. Quarto. xxxi, 471 (2)pp., 112 plates, incl. frontispiece, 1 large folding map bound in at rear. Original blue cloth with gilt-stamped, framed illustration on cover, gilt-stamped lettering and ruling on spine, protected by modern mylar. Frontispiece with printed tissue guard. Publisher's device on title page. An extensive report on travels in Persia by Jackson, a Professor of Indo-European languages at Columbia University. The main purpose of his 1903 voyage was the study of the customs and religion of the Zoroastrian people. Jackson had been presented with a valuable collection of Zoroastrian manuscripts as a donation to Columbia University in recognition for his lectures on the ancient manuscripts during a stay in India and Ceylon in… Read More

London: Sands & Company, 1903. Hardcover. g. 8vo. ix, 152 pp. Green cloth binding with gilt design. With illustrations from photographs and from drawings and tracings by the author, 55 b&w plates. Corners bumped. Head and tail of spine bumped. Signature of former owner present. Sticker of former bookseller affixed to inside front board. Hinge cracked, but holding soundly. Overall, in good condition.

Alexandria, Va: Harry W. Wade, 1923. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Softcover. vg. 8vo. [2],73pp. Stapled wrappers as issued. Small stamp of previous owner on inside of front wrapper. A complete guide to the old city with explanation and map of markers. Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs. Very good condition.

New York: Richard R. Smith, Inc, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. g. Octavo. XVI, 299, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers over black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Free front endpaper inscribed by F. J. Foakes Jackson, and dated 14 Oct. 1930. Printer's device on title page. First edition of this captivating work being a veritable mine of information concerning the religious and political history of Israel during the turbulent first century of the Common era. Some age wear on wrappers with spine and edges age-toned. Endpapers and half-title page sunned. Very minor age-toning along paper margin. Wrappers in overall fair to good-, binding and interior in good+ to very good condition.

London: Edward Arnold, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. g. 8vo. xii,347,8pp. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Head and tail of spine slightly chipped and rubbed. Scuffing, rubbing and some discoloration to boards. Boards are protected by clear plastic cover which is taped to inside of front and rear board. Bookplate of previous owner to inside of front board. Several essays by members of the Jesus College in Cambridge with an introduction by W.R. Inge. Overall in good condition.

London: W. H. Allen and T. M'Lean, 1841. Hardcover. Good+. Folio. [6 = frontispiece, title, dedication], 18, 16pp. Hand-tinted (green and yellow-ochre) lithographic frontispiece; hand-tinted lithographic title; 23 unnumbered hand-tinted lithographic scenes (one tint) with captions; 1 text engraving (minarets at Ghuznee). Later full forest green pebbled morocco over wooden boards, with floral motifs elaborately tooled in gilt; recessed diamond lozenge at both boards; gilt-tooled spine; gilt dentelles; light blue paper endleaves with gilt stars; edges gilt and gauffered; green silk ribbon marker. Light to moderate foxing throughout (more so at text leaves and at margins; most plates largely unaffected). A good or better copy, very handsomely bound. A collection of 23-hand colored lithographic plates based on sketches made during the opening campaign of the First Anglo-Afghan War by Sir Keith Alexander Jackson, a captain in the British Fourth Light Dragoons. The accompanying text prepared by Jackson… Read More

Munich and London: Joseph Albert, 1874. First edition. Hardcover. Very good+ condition.. 1/200. Folio. 4 leaves, iv (i), 194 (2)pp., 60 Albumen prints, including frontispiece. Original purple pebble-grain cloth, rebacked with brown pigskin, spine lettered and ruled in blind and gilt, blind paneling to covers, front cover lettered and ornately paneled in gilt, and beveled edges. Gilt edges. Silk moire endpapers. Frontispiece. Contemporary penciled ownership signature of Colonel Jams M. Wilson on front free endpaper. Laid in small (2 x 3 1/2") silk "card" with decorative gilt-frame paper, and red lettering printed to silk "Die besten Glückwünsche (With best compliments)" on front, and inked handwritten text on back: "Unsern folgsamsten Gönnern: Herrn u. Frau U.S. Consul Wilson von E. und F. Schlegel (To our most compliant patrons: Mr. and Mrs. U.S. Consul Wilson from E. and F. Schlegel)," protected by modern mylar. Contents include chapters of the rise, development and decline of religious drama,… Read More

Hannover: Orient-Buchhandlung Heinz Lafaire, 1924. Softcover. g. 8vo. 98pp. Original wraps. Creasing and sunning to wraps. Tail of spine chipped. Two-inch closed tear along tail of spine on front wrapper. Inscribed by previous owner on title-page. One b/w photograph. Text in Gothic. Wraps in fair, interior in very good condition.

Berlin: Hans Heinrich Tillgner, n/d. Sonderheft (Special edition). Softcover. g. 4to. 32pp. Printed original wraps protected by modern mylar. Rare special edition of the German periodical Der Feuerreiter, honoring the German artist, poet and printmaker Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966). Meidner's works were part of the Nazi book burning in 1933, being Jewish he fled to England in 1939. Illustrated with an original numbered (63/100) etching (frontispiece) and two original lithographs by Meidner. Etching signed by Meidner in pencil, lithos with artist's initials. Age wear and creasing to wraps. 1 1/2" of backstrip on head of spine missing, tail of spine chipped. Wraps repaired with tape. Wraps almost completely detached. Waterstaining on lower right corner throughout, not affecting text or plates, same corner bumped throughout. Etching almost detached from book block. Top right corner of page 31 repaired with tape. Text in German, Gothic script. Wraps in fair, interior in overall good to very good condition.… Read More

Munkasz: Jakob Weinberger, 1902. Later printing. Hardcover. fair to vg. Octavo. 212, 168pp. Original brown quarter cloth over black paper-covered boards with embossed vignette on front cover and black lettering on spine. Decorative title page. Two books, Sefer Zot Zikaron and Sefer Zikaron Zot. The first is dedicated to explanations of the Torah and of the secrets of the oral tradition. The second book refers directly to the weekly Torah portions and provides interpretation. Text in Hebrew (Rashi script). Binding with lightly scuffed and wavy paper, light wear along edge and bumped corners. Front cover and spine loosely attached to block. Free endpapers cut vertically with one inch remaining at gutter. Light age-toning throughout block. Minor foxing of inside back cover. Binding in overall fair, interior in good to vg condition.

Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1929. First edition. Softcover. vg. Max Jacob. 8vo. 220pp. Illustre de lithographies originales et de nombreaux dessins par L'Auteur. Original tan wrappers. One inch tear to tail of spine. Minor wear to head of spine. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. This is the last volume of nine separately issued Livres D'Artiste, which provide a unique portrait of French life during the 1920's. Illustrated with 10 original full-page lithographs and in text drawings. Limited edition no. 165. Text in French. In very good condition.

Paris: Louis Broder, 1956. First edition, published posthumously. Hardcover. Fine condition. 130/150. Signed by Picasso on limitation page. Quarto. 126pp, 4 plates. Original white morocco with gilt lettering on spine and black geometric Maroquin applications on covers; doublures in red morocco with gilt monogram (L-P. L) at front. Gilt edges. Japan flyleaf endpapers. Original wraps and spine bound in. Binding signed J. Clasat. Second volume of the series "Écrits et Gravures." Addition twenty copies were issued with Roman numerals I to XX. One of several works by Jacob illustrated by Picasso. Like Picasso, Max Jacob lived in Bateau-Lavoir Rue Ravignan in 1907. He was one of Picasso's first and closest friends. Max Jacob narrates on Futurists, Surrealists, about his friends Apollinaire and Picasso and, of course, about Paul Guillaume as a collector of African art. Picasso made three drypoints for this book in honor of his friend who died at an early age on September 7, 1956. Text in French. Binding… Read More

London: W. Griggs, Elm House, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Folio. 16pp., 28 plates in chromolithography. Original black half-cloth over dark brown paper-covered, color-illustrated boards with elaborate decorative gilt framing, black lettering with decorative, heightened initials and gilt lettering on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Back cover with same decorative framing as cover and gilt decorative vignette. Gilt edges. Brown endpapers. The twenty-eight chromolithographic plates containing one hundred and twenty designs by W. Griggs. Decorative historiated initial in red. Extraordinary designs for enamel work on metal from Jaipur, considered to be the best work in this field. "The enamels of Europe and Persia are poor and lustreless in comparison with those of Jeypore, and in none of them is the fiery red, for which the latter is so remarkable, at all approached." (Hendley). The introduction by Hendley provides an interesting comparative overview of enamel work of the… Read More

Buenos Aires: Editorial Cosmopolita, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. fair. 8vo. 206pp. Half-cloth with lettering on spine over paper-covered boards in original illustrated dust jacket after a drawing by Arthur Reiss. Inscribed by author in blue ink on free front endpaper: "Ernst Deutsch. Zur Erinnerung an die Aufführungen von "Gespenster" - 31. Mai 1946, "Liebe einer Fremden" - 7. Juni 1946, "Gesellschaft" - 17. Juni 1946 und die "Abel' - Uraufführung am 24. Juni 1946 in der Freien Deutschen Bühne in Buenos Aires, P. Walter Jacob." Ernst Deutsch aka Ernest Dorian (1890-1969) was an Austrian actor, most widely known to English-speaking audiences as Baron Kurtz in the 1949 film-noir, The Third Man. "Rampenlicht: Koepfe der Literatur und des Theaters" (Spotlight: Heads of literature and theater) looks at leading artists in the world of literature and theater. P. Walter Jacob (1905-1977) was a director, actor and conductor. In 1933 he fled from Nazi Germany after he received warning of his impending… Read More