2026 San Francisco Book Fair
57th California International Antiquarian Book Fair
27 February - 1 March 2026
Pier 27, The Embarcadero
Stand 212
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1"Where in Europe would one find an eighth-century manuscript, with known provenance from the twelfth century onwards?”Daihannya sutra scroll. Vol. 168.Japan Nara, late Nara or early Heian period, ca. 800 CE.
InquireA complete volume (168) of the famous Mahaprajnaparamita Sutra, measuring more than eight metres; sister volumes survive in major institutional collections. Copied in an accomplished black hand on insect-repellent yellow-dyed kozo paper (kihada) in the late eighth century.
The Daihannya was among the most widely transmitted Mahayana texts in …
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![Zuenpuo Xumi Pusa Suoji Lun [Aryavasumitra bodhisattva samghiti shastra - The Collected Treatises of the Venerable Vasumitra].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/img-bn68475-324x324.jpg)
2Pre-Gutenberg printing: the earliest substantive Korean book in private handsZuenpuo Xumi Pusa Suoji Lun [Aryavasumitra bodhisattva samghiti shastra …Korea, 1011-1082 CE.
InquireAn 11th-century Korean woodblock sutra printing: a highly rare copy of the 'Kaibao' Tripitaka, the first printed Tripitaka, from the 'Chojo' (Chudiao) Tripitaka collection of Korea.
The Chojo Tripitaka was commissioned by the Goryeo King Hyeonjong in 1011 when the nomadic Khitan people invaded Gaegyeong (now Kaesong). It was completed in 1087, …
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![[Buddhist Imbutsu: 72 images of Amida Buddha].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/img-bn68595-324x324.jpg)
3The earliest surviving printed image of the Buddha[Buddhist Imbutsu: 72 images of Amida Buddha].Kyoto, Joruri-ji Temple, Heian period, early 12th century.
InquireAn early Japanese devotional image sheet (imbutsu), bearing seventy-two small iterations of Amida Buddha seated in meditation, stamp-printed on extremely fine mulberry paper.
Images such as these belong to a broader practice of merit-earning through the multiplication of Buddhas and bodhisattvas, where the very act of producing and circulating …
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![Decretales Gregorii IX [with gloss of Bernardo Bottoni of Parma]. Constitutiones novellae Innocentii IV [with gloss of Bernard of Compostella iunior]. Latin manuscript on vellum.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/img-bn63979-324x324.jpg)
4The most important 13th-century textbook of canon law: a magnificent manuscript on vellumDecretales Gregorii IX [with gloss of Bernardo Bottoni of Parma]. Constitutiones …Probably Bologna, ca. 1260 3rd quarter of the 13th century CE.
€ 135,000.00An imposing folio manuscript of the most important legal textbook of the 13th century, in its original binding, and with extensive glosses and annotations.
The Decretals of Gregory IX became the fundamental text of canon law, controlling many aspects of secular as well as clerical life. This was what the Pope intended when in 1230 he ordered …
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![Wuliang yijing [Sutra of Innumerable Meanings].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/img-bn68571-324x324.jpg)
5Gold-on-indigo Kamakura sutra scroll, dated 1274Wuliang yijing [Sutra of Innumerable Meanings].Japan, Kamakura period colophon dated 1274 CE.
InquireA sumptuous Kamakura-period shakyo of the Sutra of Innumerable Meanings, copied throughout in gold on indigo-dyed paper, a material combination reserved for the most solemn offerings, nearly eight metres in length.
Written in Chinese characters, the canonical script of Japanese Buddhism, the text is laid out in regular columns of seventeen …
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![[Carmina, Epodes, Carmen Saeculare, et Satirae].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/img-bn68387-324x324.jpg)
6Northern Italian palimpsest Horace with historiated author portrait[Carmina, Epodes, Carmen Saeculare, et Satirae].Northern Italy probably Milan or Bologna, mid-14th century.
InquireA large-sized, elegant codex containing a substantial 14th century humanistic school manuscript of Horace's works, decorated in a northern Italian workshop and retaining a striking historiated initial showing the poet, bust length in scholar’s cap and orange robes against a flecked night sky.
The mise en page and pen flourished initials - …
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![[Sino-Tibetan leporello with Sanskrit dharanis and protective mantra diagrams].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/img-bn68582-324x324.jpg)
7An imperial commission: bilingual Sanskrit-Chinese dharani with 30 full-page woodcuts[Sino-Tibetan leporello with Sanskrit dharanis and protective mantra diagrams].Beijing, c. 1415 Ming dynasty, Yongle period.
InquireAn outstanding survival of the highest artistic quality, a Yongle-period inner-palace cinnabar-printed Sino-Tibetan block book, devised as a portable engine of protection and merit for elite ritual performance.
A deluxe concertina-format ritual compendium, presenting fourteen dharanis and related recitation texts in Sanskrit (Ranjana/Lantsha, …
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8Viennese humanist edition of the Malacca victory letter of Manuel I, with Spiegel’s prefaceEpistola potentissimi ac invictissimi Emanuelis Regis Portugaliae & …Vienna, 16 Sep 1513.
€ 45,000.00Excessively rare second Latin edition of the celebrated and highly important letter from King Manuel I of Portugal (1469-1521) to the recently-elected Pope Leo X, reporting on the conquest of Malacca, Goa and Diu in India. The Vienna issue, printed by Hieronymus Vietor and Johannes Singriener, appeared within weeks of the Roman editio princeps (dated …
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![In hoc opere contenta: Arithmetica decem libris demonstrata. Musica libris demonstrata quatuor. Epitome in libros Arithmeticos divi Severini Boetii. Rithmimachie ludus qui et pugna numeroru[m] appellatur.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/img-bn68540-324x324.jpg)
9Medieval mathematics from number theory to music and gamingIn hoc opere contenta: Arithmetica decem libris demonstrata. Musica libris …Paris, 7 Sept. 1514.
€ 9,500.00A compilation of four medieval and Renaissance treatises on mathematics and its applications, from number theory to music and gaming. Including the work of Jordanus de Nemore (or Nemorarius, d. after 1250), a German contemporary of Fibonacci credited with inventing the use of letters for variables in equations, this volume was formerly part the of …
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10The founder of the Portuguese colonial empireDocument signed ("El Rey").Lisbon, 3 Nov 1514.
€ 18,000.00A Royal privilege issued for Dona Mécia de Noronha, Countess of Vila Nova de Portimão, confirming a life annuity of 100,000 reais previously purchased for her by her husband, Count Martinho de Castelo Branco, from Dona Maior de Sotomaior.
A characteristic survival of the administrative culture of the Lisbon court, in which fiscal grants and …
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11The first model book of the German Renaissance, with distinguished provenance and magnificently boundEin Frembds und wunderbars Kunstbüchlin allen Molern, Bildschnitzern, …Strasbourg, 1538.
€ 85,000.00First edition of the first model book for artists. Heinrich Vogtherr's popular model book comprises some 700 designs of headwear, hands and feet, armour, weaponry, and columns. The woodcuts of heads, hands and feet are shown in various different attitudes, and the male and female headgear includes contemporary and historical costumes, including some …
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![[Crónica de los Reyes Católicos]. Comienza la Coronica de la muy alta y muy excelente princesa doña Isabel hija del muy alto y poderoso rey don Juan el segundo de Castilla [...].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/img-bn68207-324x324.jpg)
12Manuscript chronicle of the reign of Isabel la Católica[Crónica de los Reyes Católicos]. Comienza la Coronica de la muy alta …Spain, first half of the 16th century.
€ 38,000.00Unique manuscript copy of the famous chronicle of the reign of Isabella I of Castile, predating the first printed edition of 1565. Prepared by at least three distinct hands, this manuscript surpasses the printed text, also including a chapter on Isabella's descendants, an account of her death, and portions of her testament and codicilio not present …
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13Nuremberg Reformation sermon miscellany with rich medieval cuttingsFranconian manuscript miscellany of Reformation sermons, charmingly decorated …Probably Nuremberg, 1554.
InquireSubstantial Nuremberg Reformation sermon miscellany, completed in 1554 and notable for its elaborate, playful use of medieval manuscript fragments - painted initials, borders and fleuronnée - recycled from 12th to 15th century vellum books and cleverly arranged into an original decorative design.
Eleven sermons have been identified as by …
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14The most reliable guide to the notoriously difficult mathematical game of medieval and Renaissance EuropeNobilissimus et antiquissimus ludus Pythagoreus (qui Rythmomachia nominatur) …Paris, 1556.
€ 12,500.00First Latin edition, expanded from the original 1554 French one. "Boissière considered himself a mathematics teacher and used the game of Rythmomachia as a vehicle for teaching arithmetic" (Tomash). Rithmomachy, or the "Philosophers' Game", was a board-game popular from the Middle Ages through the end of the sixteenth century. Similar to chess but …
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![Tetrasticha in Ovidii Metamor. Lib. XV. [...] Schöne Figuren, auß dem fürtrefflichen Poeten Ovidio [...].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/img-bn68333-324x324.jpg)
15With an entry by Jan JesenskyTetrasticha in Ovidii Metamor. Lib. XV. [...] Schöne Figuren, auß dem …Frankfurt, 1563.
€ 12,500.00First edition of this fine suite of woodcuts by Virgil Solis. This copy was used for more than four decades as the friendship album of the Jena professor Jacob Flach (1537-1611) and his son Johannes.
Jacob Flach taught medicine, mathematics, and botany at Jena's Salana University, as a full professor from 1582 onwards. Most entries are dedicated …
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16The most sublime mathematical game of medieval Europe, presented for a Renaissance princeRhythmomachiae sive arithmomachiae ludi mathematici ingeniosissimi descriptiones …Erfurt, 1577.
€ 8,500.00A rare work combining two treatises on Rithmomachy, a board-game popular from the Middle Ages through the end of the sixteenth century. Notoriously complicated but highly celebrated due to its potential to illustrate sublime mathematical principles, Rithmomachy was roughly similar to chess, but with each piece assigned a numerical value. It was considered …
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17A slave revolt in the MediterraneanVerdadera relacion de la vitoria y libertad que alcançaron quatrocientos …Perpignan, 4 December 1590.
€ 6,500.00First and only edition. One of the earliest printed accounts of Mediterranean slave revolts, prepared in Catalan by the Dominican friar and rector of the University of Perpignan, Miquel Llot de Ribera (1555-1607). A fine example of the popular "relaciones de sucesos" - ephemeral reports that served to disseminate current political and religious events …
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![Gosannen kassen emakimono [Illustrated Chronicle of the Later Three Years War in Mutsu Province].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/img-bn68525-324x324.jpg)
18Pre-Edo emaki of samurai warfare, ex Franklin and Lefty LewisGosannen kassen emakimono [Illustrated Chronicle of the Later Three Years …Japan, 16th century CE or earlier late Muromachi or Momoyama period.
€ 165,000.00Pre-Tokugawa painted narrative handscroll, assessed by Dr James Ulak (Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution) as 16th century or earlier, making it a genuine pre-Edo survival rather than an Edo-period antiquarian re-creation. A category whose rarity beyond Japan Colin Franklin expressed with characteristic bluntness: an emaki exhibition "has never …
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![Tadhkirat al-Kahalin [Memorandum for Oculists].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/img-bn68370-324x324.jpg)
19From the Sbath collection: the most important Arabic ophthalmology manualTadhkirat al-Kahalin [Memorandum for Oculists].Ottoman Syria, 16th century CE.
€ 165,000.00The standard handbook of ophthalmology in Arabic medicine, preserved here in a complete Levantine doctor's copy from the famous collection of Paul Sbath.
Written by the Baghdad eye physician Ali ibn Isa al Kahhal (known in Latin Europe as Jesu Haly or Jesu Oculist), this was the most widely used Arabic manual on diseases of the eye: a practical, …
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![Ise Monogatori [The Tales of Ise].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/img-bn68474-324x324.jpg)
20The first Japanese illustrated book: a masterpiece of the Saga-bonIse Monogatori [The Tales of Ise].Kyoto, Saga suburb, 1608.
InquireThe first printed edition of the popular "Ise Monogatari" (or "Tales of Ise"). Published by Suminokura Soan (1571-1632), a wealthy entrepreneur, scholar, and art connoisseur, this is the first work of Japanese literature to be illustrated with woodcuts, and also one of the earliest to be printed with moveable type, a technique then newly imported …
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![Das Schach- oder König-Spiel. [...] In vier unterschiedene Bücher, mit besonderm fleiß, gründ- und ordentlich abgefasset. Auch mit dienlichen Kupfer-Stichen gezieret [...] Diesem ist zu ende, angefüget, ein sehr altes Spiel, genandt, Rythmo-Machia.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/img-bn68594-324x324.jpg)
21Chess classic with Jacob Sarratt and William Lewis provenanceDas Schach- oder König-Spiel. [...] In vier unterschiedene Bücher, mit …Leipzig, 1616-1617.
€ 18,000.00First edition, second issue, of the first German instruction book for chess players, a title reissue of the 1616 printing with only the date on the general title altered.
The book adapts and reorganises earlier continental material, including an Italian tradition ultimately dependent on Ruy López, while preserving valuable evidence for the …
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22The most notorious atheist text: feared for centuries, banned and burntDe tribus impostoribus / Traité des trois imposteurs / L'Esprit de Spinoza …Amsterdam, Berlin, Chemnitz, Ferney, Gießen, London, Paris, Yverdon and no place, 1669-1796.
€ 95,000.00An unparalleled collection of manuscript and print copies of the most infamous atheist text in European history, feared by the Church since the Middle Ages and subject to numerous bans and burnings. "On the Three Impostors" argued that Moses, Jesus and Mohammed were all deceivers who had duped humanity into believing in a non-existent God, and that …
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23The earliest printed book in Northern SámiDoktor Marten Lutter Utza Katekismusaz / D. Mort. Luthers Liden eller mindre …Copenhagen, 1728.
€ 15,000.00A rare first edition of a bilingual Northern Sámi catechism, the first printed work to appear in the language, predating the first grammar of the language by twenty years. The work of Morten Lund, a Norwegian missionary amongst the Sámi who was a talented linguist, this volume is a major monument in the linguistic history of the indigenous peoples …
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24A history of the Norwegian kings, from the Norse myths and Viking legends through the Middle AgesNemus genealogicum Norvagicum.Norway, c. 1750.
InquireA manuscript history of the Norwegian kings, tracing their lineage from the Norse mythological period through the Viking Age, up to the end of the Norwegian monarchy in the later Middle Ages. Apparently unique, the work compiles and compares a number of older sources, including Heimskringla, the largest and most celebrated of the medieval Norse chronicles, …
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25An authentic survival of Iceland's manuscript cultureIcelandic Prayer-Book.West Fjords, Iceland, c. 1770-1810.
InquireA manuscript prayer-book from the remote West Fjords of Iceland, in a contemporary binding and bearing the touches of family tradition, penned only a few decades after the passing of the poet. Containing prayers by the celebrated author and scholar of the sagas, Tyrfingur Finnsson, who lived locally at Staður í Súgandafirði, this manuscript's …
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26Machine intelligence, 1783Lettres de M. Charles Gottlieb de Windisch sur le joueur d'échecs de M. …Basel, 1783.
€ 9,500.00First French edition of Windisch’s report on Wolfgang von Kempelen’s celebrated chess-playing automaton, published on the occasion of its European tour of 1783. Windisch's account was issued in the same year as the German original; it is here translated by the great Swiss art dealer and engraver Christian von Mechel.
Written at the height …
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27An elegant and extremely rare early example of vegetal paperLes Loisirs des bords du Loing, ou Recueil de pièces fugitives. Supplement: …Langlée près Montargis, 1784.
InquireA highly rare example of an early work printed on vegetal paper, from a printing of well under fifty copies. The invention of Pierre-Alexandre Léorier-Delisle (1774-1826), the paper was produced entirely from common plants in his paper-mill at Langlée near Montargis. As an example of the potential of this new technology, a small number of volumes …
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28Pink-paper issue bound with lime-bark paper impressionOeuvres."Londres" but: Montargis, 1786.
€ 12,500.00A striking document of late Enlightenment experimentation in paper-making: two impressions of Villette’s collected writings bound together, one on pink stock and one printed entirely on paper manufactured from lime-bark (this latter version also includes the three-page dedication to Charles Louis, marquis de Ducrest).
Issued with a false …
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29For me, I grant, sour wine is out of place; fill up my glass with sweetest, will you?Wine order in a secretarial hand with autograph signature ("Goethe").Jena, 17 Jun 1798.
€ 15,000.00Rare, signed wine order reflecting Goethe’s informed oenological tastes and domestic provisioning. Goethe requests “twelve Nösels of assorted dessert wine, middle quality; and six bottles of Wertheimer wine, 6 Nösels of Siracusa, 4 Nösels of Lunelle, and 2 Nösels of Tinto wine” (transl.), to be supplied from the princely cellar.
The …
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![Élémens de la grammaire française [...]. Adoptés par le gouvernement, pour les lycées et pour les écoles secondaires. Nouvelle édition.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/img-bn68668-324x324.jpg)
30Monumental embossed French grammar printed for the blindÉlémens de la grammaire française [...]. Adoptés par le gouvernement, …Paris, 1806.
InquireAn imposing, extremely rare edition, unknown until 2014, when three copies were discovered, one of which was acquired by the Bibliothèque nationale and featured prominently in its exhibition "Éloge de la rareté".
Charles-François Lhomond’s "Elémens de la grammaire française", the most widely used French grammar textbook of the late …
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![An Attempt to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player of Mr. de Kempelen. With an easy method of imitating the movements of that celebrated figure [...]. To which is added, a copious collection of the knight's moves over the chess board.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/img-bn68533-324x324.jpg)
31The secret of the chess-playing "Mechanical Turk"An Attempt to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player of Mr. de Kempelen. With …London, 1821.
€ 9,500.00First edition of a ground-breaking study in the analysis of machine intelligence, focusing on the "Mechanical Turk", an automaton chess-player that wowed audiences with its ability to defeat human opponents in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The work of the Austro-Hungarian inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734-1804), the …
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32Contemporary hand-drawn phrenology manualDe la Phrénologie. Tableau des facultés de l'intelligence, d'après la …Probably France, ca. 1830s.
€ 4,500.00An early phrenology manuscript entitled "On Phrenology: Table of the faculties of intelligence, according to the doctrine of Dr Gall". The manuscript shows three ink sketches of a human head, two smaller ones from the front and the back, as well as a larger sketch in profile, on all of which the 27 brain areals are marked which were claimed to perform …
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33Illustrated Persian yoga treatise with 40 miniaturesMuhit-i Ma'rifat ("Ocean of Knowledge" or Yoga).Mumbai, January/February 1832 CE = Jumada I 1237 H.
€ 85,000.00A rare treatise on yoga and esoteric knowledge, here in an illustrated copy produced in western India and richly augmented with approximately forty Indian School miniatures showing asanas and Hindu deities.
The colophon names the author as Ray Satidas, son of Ram Bhai, of the Khatri community, poetically known as “ Arif”, and records copying …
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34"Time is money!" The immigrant life in 1850s CaliforniaAn anonymous French letter from San Francisco.San Francisco, CA, 26 May 1852.
InquireA report on San Francisco, only four years after its annexation by the United States, discussing the life and institutions of a new, energetic and rapidly changing city. The style, the precision of the information provided and the expressions of concern over censorship in France, together with the provenance from a collection of journalistic correspondence …
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35A rare early Stations of the Cross in Cree SyllabicsChemin de la croix et autres prières à l’usage des sauvages des postes …Montreal, 1856.
€ 28,000.00Extremely rare first edition of a devotional handbook in the Cree language, printed entirely in Cree syllabics apart from preliminaries and captions. Prepared for the Hudson Bay posts of Albany, Savern [Severn], and Martin’s Falls, the work presents the fourteen Stations of the Cross, each accompanied by a hand coloured plate, followed by prayers …
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36One of the Pacific Northwest's very first dictionaries of a Native American languageA Complete Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon; to which is added numerous …Portland, Oregon Territory, 1856.
InquireAn extremely rare early copy of one of the first dictionaries of a Native American language from the Pacific Northwest. An essential guide for early US settlers and traders, it proved wildly popular, running through dozens of editions, but almost none of the earliest printings have survived. No copies are known of the first edition, and only one …
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![Kaladlit Okalluktualliait [Grönlandske Folkesagn].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/img-bn68507-324x324.jpg)
37The first collection of Greenlandic folk-tales, as told and illustrated by native InuitKaladlit Okalluktualliait [Grönlandske Folkesagn].Noungme Nuuk, 1859-1863.
€ 40,000.00A landmark collection of Greenlandic folk-tales, told and illustrated by native Greenlanders, printed on the first major printing-press in the country. The stories drew on centuries of oral tradition, and included topics such as conflict between the Greenlanders and the Norse colonists who settled the country during the Viking Age. These four volumes …
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38An early Lakota winter-count on muslinThe Lazelle Winter-Count.Fort Sully, South Dakota, 1877-1878.
€ 75,000.00A contemporary copy of a late eighteenth-century Lakota winter-count of the keeper Boíde, executed with his assistance by the U.S. Cavalry Lieutenant Henry Reed of Fort Sully. Lakota winter-count keepers were responsible for remembering the years in order, and produced pictographic tables to assist in recalling them. This example, the twin of another …
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39The dawn of the computer age, in the form of a bookLivre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe …Lyon, 1886.
€ 28,000.00A technical feat of bookmaking, weaving, and scientific ingenuity. Only approximately fifty - and no more than sixty - copies of this book were produced over two years; each page is entirely woven from silver silk thread, programmed into the Jacquard loom using over 200,000 individual punch cards, making this one of the earliest examples of what …
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![Coyijod Dagini-yin Tügüji [Tale of Choijid Dakini].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/img-bn68099-324x324.jpg)
40Illustrated Mongolian underworld tale in Old Mongolian scriptCoyijod Dagini-yin Tügüji [Tale of Choijid Dakini].Mongolia, late 19th to early 20th century.
InquireIllustrated Mongolian manuscript of the widely disseminated didactic "Tale of Choijid Dakini", a popular narrative that stages visions of hell to teach merit, sin, and the consequences of moral action.
Rooted in a Tibetan original composed no later than the early 16th century, the story entered Mongolian literary culture through a 17th-century …
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41Deluxe fabric-covered portfolio of surface designsFlächenschmuck.Vienna & Leipzig, 1901.
€ 20,000.00A cornerstone of Viennese decorative modernism and a key source for later Wiener Werkstätte practice, here in the rare deluxe binding variant.
In "Flächenschmuck", Kolo Moser gathers thirty colour lithographic plates of surface ornaments for wall decoration, furnishing textiles, endpapers, wallpapers, floor coverings, and related applications, …
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42Eddington on cosmic expansion, with Turing’s 1933 ownership signatureThe Expanding Universe.Cambridge, 1932.
€ 35,000.00First edition of Eddington’s influential treatise on cosmology, owned and signed by Alan Turing and dated "March 1933".
Written for a general scientific audience, "The Expanding Universe" was among the earliest comprehensive expositions of the relativistic and observational evidence for cosmic expansion following Hubble’s discoveries. Turing’s …
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43Exceptional Einstein signed portrait, inscribed with equations to his U.S. violin specialistVintage photograph signed and inscribed “Mr. F. M. Brown, Albert Einstein”, …Probably California, 1932.
€ 58,000.00An exceptional vintage portrait showing Einstein, pipe in mouth, standing on the deck of the Dutch steamship SS Rotterdam on his arrival in New York from Europe in April 1921. Captured at the height of his worldwide fame on his first U.S. visit, the image recalls the public reception that accompanied the transatlantic voyage, undertaken in part to …
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44Deluxe issue signed by Madame Chiang Kai-ShekSian: A Coup d'État. A Fortnight in Sian: Extracts From a Diary.Shanghai, May 1937.
InquireFirst edition, deluxe issue ("printed on specially prepared Chinese paper made by hand from bamboo fiber"), signed by Madame Chiang Kai-shek on the interleaf between half-title and title-page. The publication contains Soong Mei-ling’s account of the Xi’an Incident of December 1936, together with translated extracts from Chiang Kai shek’s diary …
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45Familial affection and frustrations of a film star10 autograph letters.New York, 1941-1959.
€ 18,500.00The great golden-era screen actress writes home in a collection of personal letters, in particular to her brother Sven and his wife Peg in Sweden. Informal and affectionate, Garbo does not sign off with her name but with "Kram" (hug), "Kram till er alla" (a hug to you all), or "Love". Although undated, the context places them during the Second World …
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46Rare signed photographPhotograph signed.No place, no date.
€ 2,500.00Fine head and shoulders photograph of the physicist.
Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German-American nuclear physicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner. One half of the prize was awarded jointly to Goeppert Mayer and Jensen for their model of the atomic nucleus. She was the second woman to win a …
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47The principle of Yin and Yang: "The heat makes me perspire"Autograph letter signed ("Bruce Lee").No place, ca. August 1964.
€ 35,000.00Submitting an article to Bill Evans of Black Belt magazine and explaining to him the symbolism of the seal of the Jun Gung Fu Institute, which "is the symbol of Yin and Yang in which the Yin & Yang (black [passive] & white [active]) are two interlocking [halves] of one WHOLE, each containing within its confines the qualities of its complementaries …
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48"our struggle for freedom and human dignity"Vintage photograph, inscribed and signed.New York City, 4 Apr 1967.
€ 20,000.00Signed vintage photograph, showing Martin Luther King standing outdoors in a profile half length pose addressing a predominantly African-American crowd who are gathered before him: "To Ray - God bless you in our struggle for freedom and human dignity. Martin Luther King Jr.".
A pencil annotation to the reverse by an unidentified hand (although …
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49Rare photo of Lennon, Ono, and Sean in Japan, inscribed to Hollywood icon Mae WestSigned photograph.No place, 1978.
€ 45,000.00Exceptional textured-finish 8 x 10 photograph of John Lennon with his family at a park in Tokyo during their summer trip to Japan in 1977, boldly signed and inscribed in black ink, "To Mae West, with love John Lennon, 78" and "Yoko Ono (& Sean)", with Lennon adding his iconic doodles depicting himself, Yoko, and their young son Sean. The reverse …
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50The "MacIntosh Word Processor": Steve Jobs sets the stage for desktop publishingDocument signed ("steven jobs") as Chairman of Apple Computer, Inc.Cupertino, California, 12 Jul 1982.
InquireAn agreement between Apple Computer, Inc. and (Kenneth) Randy Wigginton (b. 1959), as a semi-independent developer, for a "MacIntosh Word Processor" and the core editing routines.
Wigginton was one of the earliest Apple employees. He was still in high school in 1976 when he began in working with Steve Wozniak on the circuit design and ROM software …