Shop

8°, XXV, 449 pp., dedication by the author to Ernesta Stern, dated October 5, 1892, on the blank page opposite of the title page, contemporary green Morocco binding with gold initials EES on the cover and embossed title in gold on the spine, raised bands, gilt linear turn-ins, contemporary marbled endpapers (the word ninth edition on the cover crossed out…

[Dead and Living Languages in Secondary Education]   A handsome example of a pamphlet on the subject, if dead languages should still be thought at secondary schools, written by Jewish educator Benjamin Levy. From the library of Ernesta Stern with a dedication by the author.   8°, 48 pp. with dedication by the author to Ernesta Stein on the first…

The Estado Novo regime’s conservative and patronizing view towards women in Mozambique. 4°, 16 pp. blue carbon copy of a typescript on yellow paper, printed recto only, yellow front and rear wrapper, lettering on the cover, stapled (rear sheet loose, light staining and foxing) (# 70489).

[Austrian Citizens' Calendar for the Year 1846, a Reading Book Intended for Ongoing Use. Factual Situation and Library Book] Vienna: Pichler’s Witve [i. e. Elisabeth Pichler][1845]. 8°. Lithographed portrait of Franziska Klähr as frontispiece, guard, IV, XXX with interleaved unnumbered printed templates for book-keeping between pp. 1-16, 315 pp. with interleaved 3 lithographed portraits, [8 pp.] index and advertisements, original…

A Slovenian pamphlet, published immediately after World War II, with short stories, poetry and artwork, is dedicated to women of the anti-Fascist movement and praises their effort, which was according to the introduction equal to men’s work.   Large 8°, 32 pp., 8 full-page black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers, stapled (minor foxing to the wrappers, but overall in…

  6 fascicules mimeographed text, all 4°. [1 pp.] title, 5 pp., 8 pp.; 8 pp.; 11 pp.; 7 pp.; 4 pp.; 6 pp., stapled (minor age-toning and foxing, but overall in a good condition).  

An early Polish book, supporting the women’s rights   8°. [4 pp.], 472 pp., contemporary three quarter grey linen binding with marbled boards, hand-written title on the spine, marbled edges (book plate of a Franciscan Library in Krakow with deaccessioned stamps on the inner side of the front board, stamps of the same library on the title page and inside…

  An extremely rare – seemingly unrecorded – late 19th Century ephemeral work promoting the Norddeutscher Lloyd Steamship Line, featuring a World Map of all its routes, a map of New York City and lengthy text on the line’s contemporary operations; published in new York likely to aide German travellers and immigrants – plus the World map features an interesting…

  An amazing Japanese celebration of the Early Aviation Age, being a large format World map that doubles as a ‘Sugoroku’ gameboard, inviting players to explore every part of the globe by either airplane or Zeppelin airship.   Colour print (Very Good, overall clean and bright, some light wear along old folds and at edges and some tiny holes at…

Rare - a seminal map used for strategic planning by German commanders during the Sinai and Levant theatre of World War I, a classified work created under the supervision of the orientalist Franz Gustav Taeschner for the German General Staff, it depicts all details necessary to inform broad military movement during one of the most dramatic and surprising campaigns of…

A rare broadside map printed in Fascist Croatia depicting the Eastern Front of World War II, critically noting the routes of oil pipelines, printed in the Croatian language in Zagreb shortly before the decisive Battle of Stalingrad.

  A pair of very rare posters made for the Nazi-occupation regime in Slovenia during the summer of 1944, marking the terror that the German V-1 missile attacks were inflicting upon London, and supposedly Sir Winston Churchill personally, intended as propaganda pieces to rally the Third Reich’s dispirited Slovenian collaborators at a point when the Nazis were otherwise losing the…