Budapest: Magyar Királyi Természettudományi Társulat, 1932. First edition. With 49 text illustrations, mostly full page photographic reproductions. Text in Hungarian. In publisher’s printed wrappers. (8), 260 p., and two plates. Richly illustrated travel memoir of the Hungarian zoologist and ethnologist, Lajos Bíró who travelled to Papua New Guinea at the..... More

Budapest: Victor Hornyánszky, 1938. Printed red, yellow and black, ruled with gilt ornaments. Text in English. 137 × 215 mm. Bláthy’s chess composition “White to play and mate in 10 moves”, and his and Mrs. Bláthy’s Christmas greetings on recto. With the solution of the problem on the verso... More

Zagreb: Merkantile, 1929. First edition. In original Constructivist cover. 67, (1) p. Bonifačić (1901–1986) was a Croatian politician, émigré journalist and critic. After Word War II he emigrated to Brazil where he became the editor of Croatian émigré newspapers. He died in Chicago, USA. More

Budapest: Studium, 1928. With 259 photo. First edition. In original cloth. 93 p. József Imre ophthalmologist, university professor. From 1907 trainee, then assistant professor at the Ophthalmological Clinic in Budapest. From 1918, he was professor of ophthalmology at the University of Bratislava, then Pécs, and head of the ophthalmology clinic..... More

[Budapest]: Fotoélet Nagykönyvtárának kiadása, 1944. First edition. In publisher’s, photographically illustrated wrappers, printed in red and black. Designed by József Németh. (64) p. Informative publication about nude photography. With 30 full page, black and white photographic reproductions of works by the leading Hungarian photographers among them József Németh, Kálmán Szöllősy..... More

Budapest: Pantheon Irodalmi Intézet R-T (Globus), (1927). With several text illustration and many reproductions. First edition. In modern half cloth, publisher’s paper bound into. 86, (2) p., and 27 plates. Theoretical and practical study on advertisement, with numerous text illustration and several reproductions of posters and other forms of advertisements..... More

Budapest: Budai István (Dr. Móricz Miklós nyomda), [1946]. First edition. Text in Hungarian and English. In publisher’s half cloth. Title vignette mounted on front panel. 72 p. First edition of this architectural album, the oeuvre of the Olgyay brothers. The Olgyay brothers, Victor and his identical twin brother Aladar..... More

Leipzig: Dr. Willmar Schwabe, Centralhalle, 1872. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Schwabe to councilor Wenzel Emanuel Hikisch. Text in German, English, and French. XXXII, (1)–351, (1) p. First edition of Dr. Schwabe’s trilingual book for homeopathic pharmaceuticals, the first generally applicable and recognized compendium of quality specifications for homeopathic..... More

[Budapest]: [S.n.], [1909]. First Hungarian separate edition. Short note in pencil probably by Stein’s hand on front cover “A szerző megbízásából” (Author’s commission). In publisher’s printed wrappers. 30 p. First Hungarian separate edition of Stein’s report on his second major expedition to Central Asia between 1906 and 1908. Stein..... More

Brno: Vil’na Hromada, 1928. First edition. In publisher’s typographically illustrated wrappers. 24 p. Striking typographically illustrated cover for essays about Ukraine’s political situation. The publication includes two articles in Czech about the political situation and social movements in Ukraine at the beginning of the 20th century. The authors are..... 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