Prague

First edition of Breviarum studiosorum, Prague and Nuremberg, Johann Fridriech Rutiger, 1744 [with] New edition of De arte rhetorica. Cologne, Wilhelm Metternich, 1723 [with] Ars rhetorica. Cologne, Wilhelm Metternich, 1725. New edition.

 

Contemporary German binding in full blonde sheep. Smooth spine richly decorated and unlettered. Boards entirely covered with rococo ornaments forming a decorative composition. Edges gilt. Traces of ties. Lacking at one tie location. Tail slightly and partially worn. 3 corners bumped.

Rich rococo prize binding with very fine arms on the...

First edition in Czech, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Publisher's full gray cloth binding, smooth spine, with the illustrated dust jacket which has some marginal tears.
Provenance: from the library of Nadine Nimier, wife and widow of Roger Nimier.

First edition published in Prague at the request of the General Association of Students of Martinique.
Some leaves slightly creased at head.
Rare and handsome pamphlet concluding with this exclamation: "Vive la patrie antillo-guyanaise ! " ["Long live the Antillean-Guianese homeland!"]

First edition of this issue devoted to the centenary of the birth of Sholem Aleichem.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally soiled without gravity.
Contributions by Charles Dobzynski, Jacques Kuritzki, Sholem Aleichem, Pierre Paraf, Arnold Mandel, Eugénie Cotton...

First edition.
Copy partially unbound, a trace of adhesive tape at head of covers and spine.
Contributions by Henri Barbusse with an unpublished letter, Bella Chagall "Le magasin", Avrom Reisen "Deux nouvelles : La mère est-elle un ange ? - Une bonne affaire" ["Two short stories: Is mother an angel? - A good deal"], I. Opatochou "Un barde juif" ["A Jewish bard"]...
Issue illustrated with a portrait of Soutine by Modigliani.

First edition in French.
Spine and boards marginally sunned, handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Binding in full flexible green cloth, smooth spine decorated with double gilt fillets, two tears with small lacks at head and foot, some light scuffing to boards, lower corners bumped, marbled edges.
Work illustrated with 13 in-text figures and a folding plate at the end.
Some light foxing, two pen annotations on endpapers, one with some staining of no great concern.
Rare.

Extremely rare first edition of the exhibition catalog of paintings and photographs by Kalifala Sidibé and drawings by the Czechoslovak artist Václav Fiala at the Krasoumná Jednota Gallery in Prague.

[With:] 3 original 1930's German cigarette cards depicting 3 Sidibé paintings in color: "The Judgment of Pâris", "On the banks of the Niger River" and "Elephant Hunt". These are very rare reproductions of Sidibé's paintings, which have all but disappeared today. Each card is numbered and includes a short biography of the painter on verso.
Two of the paintings featured on the cards to our knowledge have never been reproduced in the rare...

First edition. Illustrated with 8 maps. Spine slightly faded, a very good copy.