Budagyöngye (drawing with a photo)
Budapest: 1930s. 230x320 mm. More
Budapest: 1930s. 230x320 mm. More
Berlin: Hermann Reckendorf, 1929. First edition. Presentation copy to Erwin and Maria Piscator. In original cloth, with the original photographically illustrated dust cover. 125, (3) p. Inscribed to Erwin Piscator the German Avant-garde theater director and his wife Maria-Ley Piscator the dancer and modernist choreographer. Richter's influential study on..... More
[Germany]: [S.n.], [N.d.]. Photo postcard. Signed by Leni Riefenstahl. Ca. 85 x 135 mm. Signed photo postcard of Leni Riefenstahl. More
Berlin: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1930. Cover design and typography by Jan Tschichold. First edition. Inscribed by Tschichold. In original photographically illustrated wrappers. 11, 60, (5) p. Presentation copy, inscribed by Jan Tschichold the typographer of the brochure. Moholy-Nagy’s first photography monograph, with 60 full page plates of photographs, photomontages..... More
London: Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (Harrison and Sons Ltd.), [1926]. With two photographic plates. First separate edition. Association copy, inscribed by the author to Bernát Heller. In publisher’s printed wrappers. pp. 361–384, and 2 plates. An association copy of Géza Róheim paper on the Hungarian folk custom..... More
Original, vintage, black and white photographs. Each with the stamp of “Film Polski” on verso, with credits. Ca. 180 × 130 mm. Eight original stills from Roman Polanski’s 1962 drama film. “Knife in the Water”, regarded as one of Polanski’s finest movies, is his first feature-length film. It is..... More
[France]: [around 1896]. Original, vintage b/w x-ray image printed on photo paper. Size: ca. 180 × 240 mm. A very early example of the use of radiography in the field of anthropology; one of the earliest x-ray images of an African man. During the late 19th century in..... More
Praha (Prague): KSC [Komunistická Strana Ceskoslovenska] (M. Schulz), [1946]. With 86 black and white photographs. Typographical layout by Zdenek Rossmann. First edition. Text in Czech. In publisher’s photographic wrappers. (8), (52), (4) p. An early post-Holocaust publication, a photo-book showing the horror of the Austrian concentration camp, Mauthausen-Gusen... More
[Budapest?]: [Rottler István], [1930s]. Six original black and white photographs. In fine condition. In different sizes: 190 × 180 mm, 200 × 145 mm, 235 × 135 mm, 225 × 170 mm, 195 × 170 mm, 190 × 168 mm. Six vintage advertisement photographs of Art-Deco shop window designs for..... More
Berlin: Ch. Claesen & Cie. Buchhandlung für Architektur und Kunstgewerbe, [1890?]. First edition. Text in German and Hungarian. In two volumes. In publisher’s half cloth folder, with printed front panel. 1 [title], 1 [foreword], 30 plates; 1 [title], 30 plates. [= 3 text and 60 photographic plates in 2 volumes.]..... More
Washington: 1839. First edition. No binding. 93 p. In the May issue of the Democratic Review contains Samuel Morse’s report (pp. 517-520) on the images Daguerre had demonstrated to him in March, 1839 in exchange for Morse demonstrating the telegraph to Daguerre.In his essay, Morse, famous for the invention of..... More
Kibbutz Lehavot HaBashan: 1967. 15 vintage, black and with photos, approximately 180 × 130 mm. Mounted on black album card leaves. With 3 pages of typed text in French about the history of the kibbutz. In blue leatherette album with gilt floral ornament to panel. With a dedication in French..... More
31 original, vintage, black and white photographs. In different sizes: 90 × 120 mm; 115 × 85 mm; 140 × 90 mm. In different sizes: 90 × 120 mm; 115 × 85 mm; 140 × 90 mm. Thirty-one original, vintage photographs of the construction of the People’s Stadium (Népstadion)... More
Dated on verso: December 7, 1924. Original vintage photograph. Captioned in Russian on verso in pencil. Mounted on grey cardboard (280 × 210 mm), image size: 220 × 158 mm. Scarce photograph of an early, wooden version of Lenin’s Tomb. After Lenin’s death in January 21, 1924, the..... More
Paris: [Société française de photographie] Imprimerie de Mallet-Bachelier, 1861. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 51, [1] p. Scarce early catalogue of the fourth exhibition of the Société française de photographie. The Société française de photographie is one of the world's oldest photographic societies. It was founded in Paris, in 1854..... More
24x17 cm. Vintage photo on original board. More
Fort Sill, Indian Territory. Photographs of Indian Celebrities, Stereoscopic Views, Etc. Around 188. 10,6 x 6,3 cm. W.S. Soule (1836-1908) was a photographer of the American West. As from 1869 Soule became the post photographer at Fort Sill, a United States Army post north of Oklahoma. The fort was first..... More
Warszawa (Warsaw): Spółdzielnia Wydawniczo-Oświatowa “Czytelnik”, 1950. With numerous photographic reproduction. First edition. In original half cloth, with the photographically illustrated dust jacket. (108) p. Propaganda book about Lenin. Foreword by Stalin. Showing the course of his life through photographs, and creating the iconography of the father of the Soviet Union..... More
[Zagreb]: [Ivan Standl], [1880–1881]. Photographic album with 25 original, vintage black and white photographs, mounted on cardboard leaves. Each leaf bears Standl’s embossed seal, the images otherwise unlabelled. In original leather binding with gilt ruling at edges. Spine gilt with raised bands. Front panel with ornate metal corner pieces, bimetal..... More
Warsaw: "Przeglądu Budowlanego, 1933. In original wrappers. Stanisław Hempel (1892–1954) was a Polish engineer, known for his innovative wooden, steel and concrete structures. More
[Budapest]: [Published privately by István Solte, printed at Viktória nyomda], [1934]. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, printed in red and black. Publisher’s advertisement on the verso of the front and rear covers, printed in red. 31, (1) p. Very early anti-fascist propaganda publication, with a photo-montage on the cover..... More
1931. Sulkowsky's handwriting on the vack. Between 1928 and 1936, Sulkowsky and his friend Gyula Bartha traveled around the world on a sidecar Harley-Davidson motorcycle. He visited sixty-eight countries, which also produced a 16 mm film report on his 170,000-kilometer journey. After returning home, he wrote a book about his..... More
Budapest: Az Atheneum Részvénytársulat kiadása, 1897. First edition. Illustrated with sixteen full-page black-and-white photographic reproductions. Text in Hungarian. In somewhat later cloth with embossed horizontal lines running through. [6], 133, (1) p. and 16 plates. Richly illustrated travel memoir of the Hungarian vintner, hunter and writer, member of the parliament..... More
Budapest: Általános Nyomda, Könyv- és Lapkiadó Rt. 1928. First edition. In original paper with photographic label on front cover. 100, (4) p., 28 plates of photographies. Olga Szentpál (1895–1968) was a Hungarian pioneer of modern dance, choreographer, teacher and theoretician of dance. After her studies at the Hungarian Academy of..... More
Moszkva (Moscow): Idegennyelvű Irodalmi Kiadó, 1944. With 13 photographic illustrations. First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s, illustrated wrappers. 22, (2) p. and 4 plates. First Hungarian edition of Simonov’s report on the Red Army’s discovery of the Nazi death camp at Majdanek. With 11 reproductions of the famous images, taken after..... More