With 72 hand-coloured plates. First French edition of Cruz Cano Y Olemedilla's popular Spanish work, with 72 hand-coloured plates. The collection o...

Exceedingly scarce enlightenment philosophy. A sammelband of four scarce first editions by the influential Enlightenment philosopher Giambattista V...

The true offprint of the final paper on the discovery of nuclear fission. The true offprint, in the orange wrappers, of the third of Hahn and Stras...

Stamped by 'The Estate of Andy Warhol' and 'The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.'Andy Warhol's mother, Julia Warhola was an artist...

An exquisitely bound copy of Berlèse's monograph on the camellia with superb coloured engravings, from the celebrated Fairhaven Library.Abbé Loren...

Unusual art nouveau floral design. A striking Art Nouveau design portfolio, unusual for using photography to depict geometric floral arrangements.T...

Superb association copy - inscribed to André Breton. A superb association copy, inscribed by the author to André Breton on the half-title, 'à André...

A fine copy of Jean Dubuffet's LeR DLa CaNpaNe paR DUBUFe J, published to raise money for his Compagnie de l'Art Brut. The title is a phonetic spe...

Chance witness reveals. Life is Good & Good For You in New York changed the parameters of what a book of photographs could be, representing Wil...

Inscribed to Owen R. Lovejoy. An important presentation copy in a remarkable example of the rare dust-jacket, inscribed: 'To Owen R. Lovejoy / for ...

Edition of 100. Ulises Carrión is a key figure in Mexican conceptual art as an artist, editor, curator, and theorist of the post-1960s internationa...

Galileo rehabilitated. The first collected edition of Galileo's (1564-1642) works to include his famous Dialogo defending Copernicus' heliocentric ...

Important history of entomology. This important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exoti...

The best of the 'jesuits' editions. The highly regarded first Glasgow edition of the 'Jesuits' text. This set handsomely bound with the gilt arms o...

One of the greatest 18th-century botanical books. One of the greatest eighteenth-century botanical books, with 100 fine hand-coloured plates after ...

Early work on tissue culture by a pioneering female cell biologist. First edition of 'the first German textbook that provided detailed instructions...

Important work on Constantinople. The first edition, complete with the text volumes.Pertusier (1779-1836) was in Constantinople from 1812 as aide-d...

Complete set of Provoke - vol i inscribed by Takanashi. Provoke was co-founded by Nakahira, Tatsuma, Okada Takahiko, Takanashi Yutaka, and Taki Koj...

The precursor to bohr's quantum theory. First edition of this significant work that lays out the empirical formulae governing the frequencies of at...

Infiniment rare, surtout en couleurs' (Thiébaud). A remarkable series of lithographs of horses, beautifully hand-coloured. A group of these plates ...

Inscribed with a drawing. An early presentation copy of Araki Nobuyoshi's most important work, inscribed to Asahi Sonorama Chief Editor Tatsuo Shir...

Rare. Raffles became lieutenant-governor of Java in 1811, and governor of Sumatra shortly thereafter, gaining renown for his benevolence and his o...

With an additional photograph. Jack Smith is a key figure in the cultural history of Downtown New York; his influence is foundational in the histor...