Venezia/Venice 1475. Incunabula. Scarce, even with leaves missing. Very nice copy of the first Bible printed in Venice - we haven’t been able to find auction records of a complete copy sold since 1970. The missing leaves are - besides the two first - missing from various parts of the book, but the last leaf with the colophone is present. Book no. 771555

Raspische Buchhandlung, Nürnberg/Nuremberg 1785-88. "Pocket edition" of 250 plates from Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin's work on the American flora Selectarum stirpium Americanarum Historia, first published in 1763. 50 new plates added by the publisher. Book no. 800661

Mahadev Desai. Navajivan Press, Ahmedabad 1927-29. The scarce first editions of Gandhi's autobiography (written two decades before India's independence from Great Britain). They are bound in the special Indian Khadi cloth that Gandhi [1869-1948] promoted as part of the struggle for independence. It is almost impossible to find sets that have both parts in first edition, with the original cloth preserved AND with the wrappers intact. Book no. 831424