Londres: Por R. Ackermann, 1824. ,iv,101,[3]pp. plus frontispiece folding plate and engraved title page. 12mo. Contemporary quarter calf and paper boards. Moderate rubbing and wear to boards. Some toning and scattered dampstaining internally. A scarce Spanish-language London imprint concerning basic agriculture, produced for the Ackermann family of publishers. During the..... More

San Francisco: George Lanson, 1916. 272,xxxi pp. Original printed wrappers. Chipping to corners and spine ends, light wear. Front inner hinge reinforced. Minor wear and soiling internally. A brief history and directory for the French in California, complete with illustrations, advertisements, and a wide array of information. The directory contents..... More

Havana: Imprenta del Gobierno y Capitania General por S.M., 1845. 68,[4]pp. Disbound. Some insect damage to gutter of title page, ample staining throughout, mostly minor foxing. A very rare mid-19th century Cuban imprint translating into Spanish a work by German philosophical historian, Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann, entitled Manual of the History..... More

Philadelphia: Lemko Press, 1929. Lithographed folding map, approximately 32 x 40 inches, printed in pink and black. Housed in original red wrappers printed in black. Modest wear along folds, a couple of small separations at crossfolds, light marginal toning. Wrappers with minor spine and edge wear. An extremely rare map..... More

[Various locations in Cuba, Europe, and the United States: 1923-1962]. [113] leaves of scrapbook cardstock, illustrated with 388 photographs, chiefly silver gelatin photographs, several colored or in color, in mounting corners. Most captioned in Spanish. Square folio. Contemporary brown cloth, spring-loaded spine, front cover stamped, "CUBA." Joints split but holding..... More

Duluth: Finnish Daily Publishing Company, 1917. 112pp. Original printed wrappers. Contemporary ownership inscription to title page. Some wear to corners and spine ends. Scattered staining and dust soiling. Evidently a Finnish translation of sections from Iliodor's longer, anti-Rasputin screen published in Moscow the same year. The author, Hieromonk Iliodor, born..... More

Paris: 1852. [4],xvi,720pp. Half roan and marbled boards, spine gilt. Corners bumped and lightly worn, extremities rubbed. Binder's ticket on front pastedown. Moderate foxing. Seconde edition entierement refondue. Substantial medical compendium classifying all orders of hallucinations including those "compatible with reason," along with sleepwalking, mania, delirium tremens, nightmares and dreams..... More

Paris: En Casa de Jules Renouard, 1828. [4],iii,256pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with leather label. Corners worn, boards scuffed, lower half of volume dampstained. Moderate soiling and foxing to text. A distillation manual designed to bring the arts and sciences of France to the New World. The work opens..... More

Valladolid: 1885. 28pp. plus folding table. Original grey printed wrappers. Wrappers with two moderate losses at fore edge; slight tear at fore edge, into the text. Minor wear else. Extremely rare first edition of the founding statues of a printing house employing inmates of the Hospital for the Poor in..... More

Washington DC: April 2, 1895. [4]pp. on a single folded sheet, with two small photographs tipped in. In German. Quarto. Old folds, some separation along central horizontal fold, small chip to first leaf, minor soiling. One photograph chipped. A sad document detailing the plight of a mother and son who..... More

London, England: Labour Information Office / United States Information Service, 1955. 29pp. Folio. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Noticeable toning and spotting to wrappers, minor edge wear. Light toning to first text leaf. A rare collection of offprints of three articles which first appeared in the English publication Labour News from..... More

[Various locations in Europe, mostly France: 1916-1918]. 206 original black-and-white photographs, between 3.5 x 2.5 inches and 5 x 7 inches. Occasional minor wear, light chipping, or short tears to images, but most are in very good or better condition. An informative collection of contemporary photographs detailing the impact of..... More