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Responce a un certain Escrit, publié par l’Admiral & ses adherans, pretendans couvrir et excuser la rupture qu’ils ont faite de l’Edict de Pacificatio[n], & leurs nouveaux remuemens & entreprinses co[n]tre l’Estat du Roj, & le bien & repos de ses subiectz.
A Paris: Chez Claude Fremy, en la rue sainct Jaques à l’enseigne S. Martin, 1568. First(?) edition. Papered spine. ff. [36]. Scarce Wars of Religion document, related to the Peace of Longjumeau. The Peace of Longjumeau marked the end of the brief second French Wars of Religion, signed by..... More
[Album velezradcu.] Album velezrádců. Velezrádné rejdy Čechů za hranicemi. S předmluvou Floriana Zapletala, štábního kapitána Českosl. vojska na Rusi a byv. redaktora „Čechoslováka“ v Petrohradě. [An Album of Traitors: The Treacherous Intrigues of Czechs Abroad.]
V Praze [Prague]: Alois Hynek, 1919. First edition. In contemporary half cloth with gilt embossed title on the spine. Panels covered with marbled paper. Marbled edges. Decorated endpapers. XXI [1] 263 [1] p. The black book of the arch-traitors to Austria-Hungary, listing nearly 1400 persons including James Joyce, Tomáš Garrigue..... More
A Magyar Szabadság Mozgalom emlékkönyve. [Kiadatlan gépirat] (Memorial book of the Hungarian Freedom Movement. [Unpublished typewriter])
1946. In original cloth. 77 p. (only recto). Unique document Tartalpm:„Névmutató és a Magyar Szabadság Mozgalom" tagjainak rövid életrajza, A Magyar Szabadság Rádió kora, A Magyar Szabadság Mozgalom megalakulása, Harc a tollal…, Munkában a náciellenes propaganda!, A mozgalom szerepe a kiugrásban, Munkában a biztonsági csoport, Egyenleg 1944 október 15-én..... More
Original Caricatures about the Hungarian Parliamentary Election, 1931.
1931. Two sets of painted designs. Altogether fifteen caricatures. ca. 190 × 230 and 240 × 320 mm. Fifteen caricatures about elections, mocking the process, the participants or making wordplay jokes related to the election. Published in “Kis Újság” an illustrated political daily newspaper which was ideologically close to the..... More
Het Achterhuis. Dagboekbrieven 12 Juni 1942 – 1 Augustus 1944. Met een woord vooraf door Annie Romein-Verschoor. Tweede Druk.
Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, [December 1947]. First edition, second impression. In original cardboard, printed in orange. With the scarce, illustrated dust jacket. ix [1] 252 [2] p., (1) photographic frontispiece and (2) photographic plates. First edition second impression of The Diary of Anne Frank. “One voice speaks for six million..... More
Photographic Portraits of Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Wien: Carl Pietzner, (late 1800s). Vintage photographic portraits mounted on two cardboard plates (175 × 245 mm and 155 × 245 mm) with the embossing of the coat of arms of Austria-Hungary. 330 × 245 mm. Scarce vintage photographic portraits of Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830–1916) and Empress Elisabeth..... More
[Decree Against Smuggling by Foreign Jews, on November 11, 1767.] Von Gottes Gnaden Friedrich Fürst zu Waldeck, [...].
(Arolsen): (1767). 4 printed pages. (4) p. The fact that commercial passports were not issued to Jews in the principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont resulted in flourishing black markets. By this decree that forbade the trade of foreign Jews, Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1743–1812) tried to..... More
A NATO államok rakéta-atomfegyvereinek jellemzése és alkalmazásuk elvei. Felderítésük és megsemmisítésük lehetőségei. (Characterization of NATO States' Missile Nuclear Weapons and Principles of Their Use. Possibilities of their detection and destruction.) Top secret
Zrínyi Miklós Katonai Akad, 1964. In contemporary half cloth. 48 p. with 3 plate. Published by the Hungarian military school, for the exploratory students. Numbered. Printed in 250 copy. More
Original Mugshots and Police Photograph of Juan Díaz de Garayo.
[Vitoria]: [between 1879–1881]. Four original, vintage photographs. Albumen silver print. Ca. 110 x 147 mm; 113 x 146 mm; 94 x 134 mm; 55 x 85 mm. A collection of original, vintage photographs of the Spanish serial killer, Juan Díaz de Garayo, known as "The Sacamantecas" ("The Fat Extractor”), comprising..... More
Mémoires de guerre. L’appel. 1940–1942. L’unité. 1942–1944.
Paris: Librairie Plon les Petits-Fils de Plon et Nourrit, [1954]; [1956]. First editions. First two volumes of Mémoires de Guerre (of three, third volume appeared in 1959). First volume numbered, inscribed by the author. In publisher’s original wrappers. [6] 680 [4] p., and a folded map; [6] 712 [2] p...... More
Bombazáporban Európa kultúrája (The culture of Europe in a bombshell)
Budapest: Centrum, 1943. Illustrated with many photographs. In original paper. A publication presenting the devastation caused by the English and American bombings on German and Italian monuments. More
Piesni zalobne getta. [Ghetto Dirges.]
[Katowice]: [Julian Wyderka, Odbito w Drukarni Wojewódzkiej, Katowice], 1946. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. 58, (6) p. and a fly errata-leaf, and photographic frontispiece. First edition of this collection of poems, “Ghetto Dirges” written by an escapee survivor of the Warsaw ghetto... More
[Lebanon] Carte du Liban d'après les reconnaissances de la Brigade Topographique du Corps Expéditionnaire de Syrie en 1860–1861. Dressée au Dépôt de la Guerre Étant Directeur Le Général Blondel Sous Le Ministère de S. E. Le Maréchal Comte Randon 1862.
Paris: Imp. Lemercier, rue de Seine 57. (Gravée per Erhard Schièble rue Bonaparte 42), 1862. Color lithograph map in 16 sections mounted with linen. Bookseller’s vignette on verso (A. Corion Succ.r de H. Dorlin, Paris). 74 × 96.5 cm. First edition of the most important map in the history of..... More
The People don’t know – The American Press and the Cold War
New York: Gaer, 1949. In original cloth with wrapper. 342 p. Inscribed to Mátyás Rákosi. „To Deputy Premier Rakosi with many thanks for the interviews - and my best wishes George Seldes nov. 1. 1949”. The last chapter in the book (Appendix 6): Rakosi Speaks on Tito, Russia, the U.S...... More
Az újjáépülő Margithíd. Zádor István rajzai (The rebuilt Margaret Bridge. Drawings by István Zádor)
Budapest: 1947. First editon. In original paper. 36 p. Signed by Erno Gero. Ernő Gerő 1898 – 1980) was a Hungarian Communist leader in the period after World War II and briefly in 1956 the most powerful man in Hungary as the second secretary of its ruling communist party. More
Exemption document for a Jewish person. Issued by Prime Minister Géza Lakatos
Budapest: 1944. Signed by the ministerial head of department. 1 p. Very rare document published by Géza Lakatos, the Prime Minister between August and October 1944. After the Sztójay government was replaced, Horthy appointed him prime minister on August 29, 1944, and secretly entrusted him with preparing the exit from..... More
Der Angriff. Aufsatze aus der Kampfzeit von Joseph Goebbels.
München: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Ehrer, Nachf. 1935. First edition. Association copy, inscribed to Adolf Hitler by the author. In publishers illustrated cloth, designed by Hella Koch-Zeuthen. 340, (5) p. Association copy of Goebbels’ 1935 book, Der Angriff, inscribed to Adolf Hitler: “Meinem Führer in Verehrung und Dankbarkeit. Dr. Goebbels..... More
Azt hiszik (They think that)
Budapest: AB Független Kiadó, 1985. Samizdat edition, first editon. Published in 1500 copy. In original paper. 66 p. Important book of poem by the iconic Hungarian poet. More
Igy láttam én. Versek (I saw this. Poems)
Ebelsberg (POW camp, America zone): 1945. Mimeograph with paper clip. No binding. 16 p. Poems by Gyula Kiss about the everyday camp life of prisoners of war, with caricatures by the Hungarian painter István Debitzky. It contains a separate poem about the banning of the Hungarian Prisoner of War newspaper..... More
A cenzúra esztétikája. [The Velvet Prison. Artists Under State Socialism.]
Budapest: AB Független Kiadó, 1986. Cover by László Rajk. First Hungarian edition. Printed in 1200 copies. In original, illustrated wrappers printed in red and black. 87, (3) p. Haraszti’s essay about the relation between art and artists and the totalitarian state, “the aesthetics of censorship, the symbiotic relationship between artists..... More
Le guidon general des finances, Contenant La conservation & interpretation des droicts sacrez & inalienables du domaine du Roy & coronne de France. Avec l'instruction du maniement de toutes ses finances, tant ordinaires qu'extraordinaires: Necessaire non seulement aux comptables d'icelles finances, mais aussi aux gens tant ecclesistiques, Nobles, Praticie[n]s, que autres, pour euiter aux saisies de leurs fiefs & temporels, ensemble cognoistre les torts & exactions que leur pourroient faire les Receueurs aians l'administration & recouurement à faire d'iceux droicts. Divisé en cinq parties. Par Jean Hennequin Champenois.
A Paris: Chez Abel L’Angelier, au premier pillier de la grand Salle du Palais, M. D. LXXXVI [1586]. Second edition (first in 1585). With woodcut initials, woodcut and typographical headpieces. In 17th century leather. Spine with five raised bands with red, gilt title vignette, compartments richly gilt. Gilt turn-ins. Panels..... More
TLS to Louis Nizer and Thomas Mann
State of New York- Executive Chamber Albany: 1939. January. 17. 1 page in frame with a photo of Lehman. « I am just in receipt of your letter of January 14th. As I have previously advised you on several occasions, it is impossible for me to attend the Award of..... More
A Zsidó-állam. A zsidó-kérdés modern megoldásának kísérlete. [Der Judenstaat. Versuch einer modernen Lösung der Judenfrage.]
Budapest: A Jövőnk kiadása, [1919]. First Hungarian edition (published in the same year by Fekete in Sighetu Marmației). In publisher’s wrappers. 75 [5] p. First Hungarian edition of Herzl’s pamphlet, The Jewish State. One of the most important texts of early Zionism, by Theodor Herzl (1860–1904), the father of..... More
[Cover title:] In Memoriam Baron Maurice de Hirsch. May 31, 1896, Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. A.
Boston: 1896. 10 unnumbered album card leaves, each protected with tracing paper. Calligraphed manuscript in ink, by H. C. Kendall (signed on the verso of the first leaf). In original black leather by Frank J. Barnard (signed on the recto of the last leaf), with clasp, gilt title on front..... More