Dresden: 1930. Five original, vintage black and white photographs. Ca. 230 × 167 mm. A collection of five vintage photographs of the Second International Hygiene Exhibition. Photographic documentation of Fritz Tschakert’s Transparent Man, the main attraction of the 1930 Dresden exhibition, as well as the exterior and interior of the... More about Collection of Five Photographs of the International Hygiene Exhibition in Dresden, 1930

Paris: Chez Marcilly (Didot), (ca. 1840). With 12 hand coloured illustrations. First edition. In publisher’s pink boards, each side pictorial, housed in slipcase with engraving on each side. 127, (1) p., and a hand coloured engraved frontispiece and 11 hand coloured engraved plates. 67 × 48 mm. A tiny book... More about Le petit naturaliste

Warszawa: Brathetwo–B’Nei-B’Rith, 1932. First edition. Limited edition, printed in 400 copies. With five photographic reproductions. In publisher’s grey wrappers. 89, (7) p, and 5 plates. Publication of the Warsaw lodge of B’nai B’rith, the world’s oldest Jewish service organization, published on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the foundation..... More about Stowarzyszenie Humanitarne “Braterstwo–B’Nei-B’Rith” w Warszawie 1922-1932. [The...

Budapest: “Kosmos” Müintézet Kö- és Könyvnyomda és Hírlapkiadó Részvénytársaság, 1896. First edition. With 41 text illustrations, mainly black-and-white photographic reproductions. Ornamented with initials and tail-pieces. Text in Hungarian. In publisher’s cloth, gilt and red ornamentations on the front panel, gilt title on the cover and the spine, embossed ornamentation on..... More about Mexico. és utazásom a Trópusokon

Paris: Baudouin, Imprimeur de l’Assemblée Nationale, (1790). First edition. Published unbound. 2, (2) p. Official order to commemorate the decree of March 8, 1790 with festivities. The decree of the National Assembly on March 8, 1790 granted full legislative powers to the Colonial Assembly, gave Saint-Domingue and all French... More about Caption title:] Extrait des registres des délibérations de l’assemblée provinciale du Sud de...

[S. l.]: [S.n], 1973. Original, vintage poster. Printed in black-and-white. 205 × 289 mm. Signed poster by the Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde artist, Károly Halász (1946–2016). The poster shows the black-and-white photographic reproduction of the documentation of Halász’s 1973 performance, “Museum”. His performance took place at a gathering of..... More about Museum, 1973

Budapest: Anonymus (Általános Nyomda és Grafikai Intézet), 1945. First edition. In original paper. 57, (7) p. Béla Kádár (1877–1956) was a Hungarian avant-garde painter, Holocaust survivor. This early post-Holocaust publication contains 24 drawings by him, showing his personal experiences of the terror. Kádár lost his wife and 2 sons in..... More about Dies Irae. Huszonnégy tollrajz. [Dies Irae. Twenty-Four Drawings

10 leaves of contemporary manuscript. The lawsuit started in 1769 because of the dam that was built for millers by Kempelen on his property in 1763. The lack of water and the drought in 1768 caused damages on György Apponyi’s property who accused Kempelen and Klobusiczky and claimed for 5000... More about Contemporary Extract of the Litigation Regarding the Demesne and Dam of Vödröc. (György...

Paryż [Paris]: Instytut Literacki, 1980. Signed and dated by the author (in 2002) in ink on the first blank leaf. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 246, (2) p. A signed copy of Miłosz Czesław’s autobiographical novel. Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) was a Polish poet, novelist, essayist, and translator. He received..... More about Rodzinna Europa. [Native Realm

[Kraków?]: Oficyna Literacka, 1985. First edition of the Lebenstein illustrated, Polish “Animal Farm”. Samizdat edition. (2), 5–48, (4) p. and 10 plates with mounted offset colored illustrations. Illustrated Polish samizdat edition of Orwell’s classic, “The Animal Farm”. Jan Lebenstein (1930–1999; born in Poland and lived most of his life..... More about Folwark zwierzecy. / Folwark zwierzęcy. Przełożyła Teresa Jeleńska. Ilustrował Jan...

Budapest: Magyar Irás (Kisfaludy-nyomda), 1922. With 8 full page illustrations by Erzsébet Csöre. The publisher’s logo and the illustration on the title page by Lajos Csabai Ékes. First edition. In publisher’s half leather with gilt title on spine. The original, illustrated wrapper bound into. Numbered (16/200 of 600), signed by..... More about Szerelem, harc, hit. ([Kelö nap sorozat 1.] Kelő nap sorozat 1.) [Love, Fight, Faith. (Rising...

Ca. 1900. In contemporary cloth, gilt title on front panel with ornament. More than 60 drawings (5 of them full page and coloured) on 24 leaves. The private sketchbook of a female student of art, Ida Stauber. Contains motifs and ornamentations, among them five full page, coloured ornaments. More about Ida Stauber's Sketchbook