Paris: 1969. 1 leaf (210 X 297mm), dactylograph on recto/verso, dated 30 September 1969. ¶ SCARCE ANTI-PSYCHIATRY MANIFESTO BY THE "GROUPE LETTRISTE," a French avant-garde movement which involved political theory, art, film, and poetry. "Lettrism" was founded in Paris in the mid-1940s by Romanian Isidore Isou. Lettrism was inspired by..... More

Sicily, Naples and Turin: 1733-1764. Together 6 items: 1 broadside (46 x 34.5 cm) + 5 bandi (folio sheets, each folded once, various sizes, various wear, some signatures clipped, others supplied in manuscript, assorted manuscript annotations, extracted from bindings). Small but very interesting collection of Bandi on the prohibition of..... More

Mexico City: 1759-1941. Altogether 33 items (plus 14 duplicate pieces of religious ephemera). Includes 5 monographs dating from 1759-1941, various bindings, various conditions (see below). INTRIGUING "COLECCION RELIGIOSA MEXICANA" totalling 33 items (of which 5 are monographs dating from 1759, 1833, 1857, 1933, and 1941), with a goodly quantity of..... More

New York: J.J. Augustin, 1944. First Trade Edition. Small 4to. [10], 120 pp., color frontispiece of the Dresden Codex, 39 plates. Original cloth, original dust-jacket protected by Brodart. Apart from minor wear, an unspoiled copy in very good state: dust-jacket NOT price-clipped, NOT ex-library! First Trade Edition, Review copy, with..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. First Edition. 32mo. 94 pp. (including integral 4-page advertisements for Harper's Half-Hour Series) + 2 pp. at end (advertisements for Wilkie Collins and Thackeray). Contemporary brown linen cloth, leather spine label (defective); paper stock toned; browning on first page of advertisements from offsetting of..... More

Paris: Librairie Ch. Chadenat, 1889-1898. First Edition. Together 21 catalogues in two volumes, numbered 2-22 (no. 1 "does not exist" - see below), all original wrappers bound in (mostly folded vertically in half, some chipped or a little soiled). Contemporary blue half calf over blue cloth boards (extremities rubbed but..... More

Ad 1-3: The Hague, Nijhoff, 1938-1964. Ad 4: Paris, Fondation Custodia, 1987. Ad 5: Amsterdam and The Hague, Nijhof, 1956 (facsimile reprint of the 1921 edition). Ad 6: Ibid, 1956, 1938-. Together 6 vols., large 4to., all bound in original publisher's cloth. In UNMARKED and UNSPOILED condition. NOT ex-library! BEAUTIFUL..... More

Brookfield, Mass. E. and G. Merriam, 1828. 8vo. 222 pp. Woodcut frontispiece + 2 full-page woodcut plates (found opposite pp. 108 and 144). Original SCALEBOARD binding: quarter sheep over thin scaleboard, both boards covered with blue printed papers (both quite rubbed, affecting legibility, board bowed). One half of the rear..... More

Broadsheet (297 x 200 mm). Printed in red on inferior paper (creased, frayed at margins). Preserved in a mylar sleeve. RARE MEXICAN SOCIALIST ANTI-FASCIST / ANTI-FALANGE BROADSIDE, PRINTED ON THE CHEAPEST PAPER POSSIBLE, INEXPLICABLY PRESERVED FOR AT LEAST 80 YEARS. The dating of the broadside can be determined by the..... More

Madrid: Ibarra, Impresor de Camara de S.M., 1821. 8vo (183 x 125 mm). [1] f., xvi, 240, 99, [1] pp. With an engraved portrait of the author. Title-page with 6 inexplicable pin-sized wormholes, front flyleaf with one (present nowhere else in the volume). Contemporary Madrid binding by Francisco Cifuentes: sheep..... More

Paris: Imprimerie veuve Berger-Levrault, 1845. First Edition. Large 4to (306 x 231 mm). 2 ff., 124 pp. With 17 plates lithographed by Delor after drawings by Joly. Bound in modern blue percaline cloth by Lobstein-Laurenchet, red morocco spine label gilt, original front cover wrapper preserved. Separate printing of the "Mémoires..... More

[Edo]: Kobayashi Tetsujiro (Maruya Tetsujiro), 1861. Broadsheet (365 x 25 mm) printed pochoir. The censor seal date is 1861.02. The artist signed his name: "Ikkeisai Yoshiiku ga" (in the woodcut). Margins repaired with Japanese tissue, small stamp on verso in lower left corner, ten small wormholes of which four can..... More

Pesaro: Amatina, 1767. First Edition. 4to. 2 vols. Vol 1: [6], I-CXXXVI, 1-307 = 449 pp. Vol 2: [I-II], III-XVI, 1-465 = 481 pp. Nineteenth century quarter-calf with marbled paper covered boards, quite worn along hinges and binding extremities, foot of spine with covered with black marker which extended onto..... More