Budapest: February 5, 1951. A unique album with 30 black and white original photographs on 18 album card leaves, separated with tracing paper. In red leatherette binding. This photo album was supposedly given as a farewell gift to Boris Vasilyevich Petrovsky (1908–2004) the Soviet surgeon, who worked in Hungary between..... More

(Prague): Knihy Dobrých Autorů, 1929. First Czech edition. In original, photographically illustrated cover, designed by Vladimir Golovin. The gatherings are unstapled as customary for Czech paperbacks of the time. 101, (3) p. Vladimir Golovin’s striking surrealist photomontage on the cover of the rare Czech first edition of the science fiction..... More

Budapest: Forum Nyomda, 1932. First edition. Inscribed by both authors to Kálmán Rozsnyay. With Rozsnyay’s posessor’s inscription on the title page. In publisher’s wrappers. 31 [1] p. Early poems by Gábor Devecseri and Gábor Karinthy, inscribed to Kálmán Rozsnyay. Preface by Zoltán Somlyó. Devecseri nyolc és Karinthy hat..... More

Brussel: Around 1865. 9 x cm. Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824–1882) was an Austro-Hungarian journalist, memoirist and early human rights campaigner. Kertbeny is renown for coining the words homosexual and heterosexual in 1869, in his anonymously published open letter (entitled “Das Gemeinschädliche des §143 des preussischen Strafgesetzbuches vom 14. April 1851 und..... More

München: Gedruckt bey Franz Seraph Hübschmann, 1802. Bond together by a blue paper band, as published. 31, (1) p. A very early edition of the libretto of Haydn’s oratorio Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons) which was premiered in Vienna in 1801. The libretto was prepared by Baron Gottfried van Swieten..... More

New York: Farlag Matones, 1925. With six illustrations and numerous initials by Boris Aronson. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, printed in red and black. Folded. 40 columns (on 10 leaves). First edition of Peretz Hirschbein’s Yiddish children’s book illustrated by Boris Aronson(1898– 1980), the Ukrainian-born American graphic artist and..... More

A Constantinople [but Paris]: De l’Imprimerie d’Ibrahim Pacha (Et se vend a Francfort, Chez J. G. Eslinger), First edition. In contemporary marbled paper. Typographic and woodcut head and tailpieces. 100, - 700, 60, 15 [1775]. [4] 212 p. First edition of Lancelin de Laval’s stories about Muhammad's private life and..... More

Around 1864. 15,9 x 64,6 cm, Album print on 3 sheet. An extremely rare panorama print of Palmyra by Vignes. Vignes was a French admiral and one of the first photographers in the East. Because of his familiarity with the Middle East, Vignes was selected to accompany the archaeologist..... More

1903: Socialdemokratiska Arbetarpartiets Förlag, Stockholm. Swedish edition. In original paper. 40 p. A very rare and early edition of Communist manifesto in Swedish. Translated in 1886 by Axel Danielsson. The translation revised and completed by Kata Dalström in 1903. More

[S. l.]: [S.n], 1973. Original, vintage poster. Printed in black-and-white. Signed in the upper left in pen. With three photographic reproductions. 205 × 289 mm. Signed poster by the Hungarian artist, Sándor Pinczehelyi (b. 1946). The poster shows three black-and-white photographic reproductions of the documentation of Pinczehelyi’s..... More

Kraków: Zwrotnica, 1926. First edition. Association copy. In original, typographical paper, printed in peach and black. Cover designed by Władysław Strzemiński. With a lengthy inscription by the author on the otherwise blank title page to Edward Kozikowski (1891–1980; Polish poet and writer). (16) p. Strzemiński’s striking cover design for the..... More

Hamburg: Verlag der Kommunistischen Internationale (Hamburger Volkszeitung), 1922. First edition. In original paper. 32 p. With (2): Varga, Jenő (Eugen Samuilovich Varga): Mit adott Németországnak a “Totális Mozgósítás”? [What “Total Mobilization” Gave To Germany?] Moszkva, 1943. Idegennyelvű Irodalmi Kiadó (Iskra Revolucija). 19, (1) p. First edition. In..... More