We’re launching a programme of events to celebrate ten years of our Time Travel series. With the upcoming release of Moscow 1962 by Andrea Branzi (andrea_branzi) – our 25th title – we mark a highlight in a long journey through discovery, memory and imagination. Save the date and join us for the events to come! Photo credit: francescospallacci #humboldtbooks #timetravel

I Am Only the Housekeeper, But I Don’t Know… retraces the contemporary interventions undertaken by Luca Lo Pinto and Olaf Nicolai during the exhibition of the same name they curated in 2022 at Jože Plečnik (1872–1957)’s former home in Ljubljana, on occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Slovenian architect. Plečnik was a key figure of the Modernist movement in architecture and creator of numerous buildings and monuments around the city of Ljubljana. The curatorial duo invited twenty-five internationally recognised Slovenian and foreign artists, allowing them to enter the house of the architect through their own works to commemorate Plečnik’s oeuvre and place its reading into a different and more contemporary context. Drawing inspiration from a fictionalised letter ascribed to Urška, Plečnik’s hypothetical governess, the exhibition creates new perspectives within the house and accepts that “things can be a certain way, and that they can also be different,” as stated in Urška’s letter. Join us Thursday Oct 16 at COMMERCE (commerce__commerce) at 6:30 PM for the book launch! I Am Only the Housekeeper, But I Don’t Know… Edited by Luca Lo Pinto (lucalopintoo) and Olaf Nicolai Texts: Olaf Nicolai Photographs: Giovanna Silva (giovannamuzzisilva) Design: Julie Peeters (juliempeeters), Laura Martens (laura.martens1) 2025 English 24 x 34 cm 40 pages Colour, B/W ISBN 9791280336293 #humboldtbooks #jozeplecnik

See you in Turin! From Friday until Sunday you can find us at CAMERA TORINO (cameratorino) for the first edition of Letti in CAMERA – La Fiera. Come and say hi! #humboldtbooks #cameratorino

“If you called him at five in the morning, after a quarter of an hour he would be ready, with all the spontaneity of a hen that has just left the coop to rummage in the meadow. He was a man of average height and solid build, yet with no heaviness about him: his was the body of a man tempered by hard and sweaty labour. He was no stranger to fatigue. He never did things by half measures. And the same goes for his spawning of offspring too: nine children. He was capable of drawing his flowers from the first light of dawn through until sunset. For Ernesto was drawing…” Excerpt from “Un disegnatore di erbe” / “The Plant Drawer”, text by Graziano Papa from the book “Flora Ferroviaria” / “Railway Flora” Both the Italian and English editions of the book are available on our website and in bookshops. #ernestoschick #floraferroviaria #railwayflora #humboldtbooks

See you in Athens! From tomorrow until Sunday you can find us at Athens Art Book Fair (athensartbookfair) at Stoa Tristato. Come and say hi! #humboldtbooks #athensartbookfair

Out soon! INCOMPIUTO: The Birth of a Style / La nascita di uno Stile (New Edition) Edited by Alterazioni Video (alterazionivideo) and Fosbury Architecture (fosburyarchitecture) Photographs: Alterazioni Video, Gabriele Basilico (gabriele.basilico) Texts: Alterazioni Video, Marc Augé, Marco Biraghi, Fosbury Architecture, Davide Giannella (davide_giannella), Filippo Minelli (filippominelli), Wu Ming, Leoluca Orlando, Antonio Ricci, Salvatore Settis, Robert Storr, Paul Virilio Design: Valerio Di Lucente (valeriodilucente) incompiutosiciliano #humboldtbooks

Out soon! Mosca 1962 Andrea Branzi A journey to Moscow in 1962 that captures the image of a city marked by the Cold War and a portrait of its people and their bond with the capital. Photographs: Andrea Branzi (andrea_branzi) Texts: Gian Piero Piretto (gianpiero1952), Angela Rui (angelarui) Design: Teresa Piardi – Maxwell Studio (piarda) #andreabranzi #timetravel #humboldtbooks

Happy Birthday, Alexander von Humboldt! Born on 14 September 1769, Humboldt was a visionary – a naturalist, explorer, scientist, and a poet – often regarded as the first traveller of the Modern Age. Today we celebrate by bringing to life his illustration of the Chimborazo volcano from “Geographie der Pflanzen in den Tropen-Ländern”, recounting his five-year voyage through Central and South America with French botanist Aimé Bonpland. When they ascended the volcano in 1802, Chimborazo was believed to be the highest mountain in the world. Explore the world of Humboldt Books on our website. #alexandervonhumboldt #humboldtbooks

“This series on Sicilian festivals is something else. He was fascinated by that world, that visual, social and cultural climate. I find many photographs in it that make me envy him, ones that I long to have taken myself. But they are still very much his own photographs, so very Berengonian: simple and deep, subtle and empathetic.” Excerpt from “Gianni Berengo Gardin’s Sicily Near and Far”, text by Ferdinando Scianna (ferdinandosciannaofficial) from the book “Sicilia 1966/2008”, part of our Time Travel series. The book is available on our website and in bookshops. From September 11 to October 25, it will also be available in Paris at Polka Galerie (polkagalerie), on the occasion of Gianni Berengo Gardin’s solo exhibition “Vera fotografia”. #berengogardin #ferdinandoscianna