Poznan: 1918. 30 p. In the text of woodcuts by Stefan Szmaj, Jerzy Hulewicz, Władysław Skotarek and Małgorzata Kubicka. Cover by August Zamoyski. Zdrój (The Source) was the literary review of the Poznan Expressionist group, founded in 1917 and existed until 1922. More

Milan: Direction du Mouvement Futuriste, 1913. Designed by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. First edition. Original, vintage flyer. Apollinaire’s possessor’s stamp on the first page. Bifolio. 230 × 290 mm. Apollinaire’s copy of his famous manifesto, L’Antitradition Futuriste. In the 14th Futurist manifesto, dated to June 29, 1913, Apollinaire urges a...... More

Budapest: 1904. Handwritten note in ink, signed in Budapest: 26 January 1904. Text reads “Szíves emlékül” (“As a pleasant memory”). Ca. 18.5 × 11.5 mm. A signed, autograph score detail from Schumann’s Album für die Jugend Op. 68 No.12 Knecht Ruprecht by Béla Bartók. Around 1903–1904, Bartók gave numerous..... More

(Budapest): (Királyi Egyetemi Nyomda), (1943). First edition. Limited, numbered in ink (one of 200). Presentation copy, inscribed to Gyula Ortutay. Each woodcut signed by the artist. In publisher’s cloth. (14) p. (each woodcuts protected with an additional sheet). Twelve elaborate woodcuts, by Ferenc Bordás (1911–1982) the outstanding graphic artist, student..... More

A Amsterdam: Chez Adrian Braakman, 1701. First edition. In later marbled paper. Double-page engrave frontispiece. [4 (blank pages)] [2 (a double-page frontispiece] [76 (letterpressed pages)] [80 (pages of engraved tables) [4 (blank pages)]. Extremely scarce early eighteenth-century merchant’s handbook. Henry Desaguliers scarce handbook for merchants with explanations and tables..... More

V Praze [Prague]: Vydal Jan Laichter, 1938. Cover, and typographical design by Ladislav Sutnar. First edition. Printed in only 1,500 copies. In publisher’s photographic wrappers. 55, [9] p., and 32 plates. A scarce Czech reference book on modern garden design, with Sutnar’s cover design, featuring Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater... More

Pesten [Pest]: Füskúti Landerer Mihály’ betűire, 1792. First Hungarian edition. Woodcut device on title page and tail piece at end. In somewhat later green cloth, with red title vignette on spine. (8), 120 p. First Hungarian edition of Lessing’s 1767 comedy “Minna von Barnhelm oder das Soldatenglück” (Minna von Barnhelm..... More

[Warsaw]: Klub Futurystów “Katarynka, 1921. First edition. In original typographical wrappers. [16] p. Scarce Polish futurist book with striking typography. Stanisław Młodożniec’s (1895–1959) first book. Młodożniec was a Polish poet, and co-founder of the Polish futurist movement and the futurist club Katarynka in 1919, with Tytus Czyżewski and Bruno..... More

Warsaw: ReKontra, 1985. First edition. Text in Polish. A4 format, with drawings on pp. 3–44. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, printed in green and black. 44 p. Polish samizdat comics of Orwell’s Animal Farm. The original novel was banned in the Communist countries, but in 1985 two comics version were published..... More

Two pages handwritten letter in ink on folio. Dated and signed on 3. 1. 1934. Holograph letter by Paul Signac to a fellow painter. Signac (1863–1935) was a neo-impressionist painter, who developed the technique of pointillism together with Georges Seurat. More

Vienna [Wien]: Eder & Schrämbl, 1800–1822. With more than 1000 hand-colored engraved plates of illustration and 10 engraved frontispieces of which the first two are also hand-colored. First edition. Ten volumes (of eleven, wanting vol. 2.). In uniform, 19th century half leather binding. A fine uniformly-bound copy of this profusely..... More

Budapest: Kiadja a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, 1933. First edition. Text in Hungarian with abstracts in German. In publisher’s printed wrappers. VI, (1), (1)–602, (2) p. and 5 photographic plates. Scientific yearbook with Wigner’s first paper on neutron and contributions by Gábor Szegő and Alfréd Haar. With the first edition..... More