Venice? N. p., 1526. Title page with elaborate woodcut border of musical instruments and allegorical figures. With two woodcut initials. First edition. Text in Italian. Date and place of the dedication is June 10, 1526, Lyon. Precedes the bibliographical (Latin) first edition. Papered spine. (4º); A1–B4 (B4 is blank). “Dehortatione..... More

[Hungary]: (early 1900s). Original, vintage drawing in ink, mounted on blue cardboard. Signed. 222 × 297 mm. Original, Art-Nouveau ex libris design of the Hungarian graphic artist and painter, Attila Sassy, known under the pseudonym, Aiglon. Sassy is associated with the circles of modern artists in Paris..... More

Budapest: Népszava Könyvkereskedés, [n.d., ca. 1914]. Original, vintage postcard. Printed at Seidner Plakát és Cimkegyár. Designed by Mihály Biró. Chromolithograph. 92 × 141 mm. Anti-war propaganda postcard of the Social Democratic Party of Hungary, featuring Mihály Biró’s (1886–1948) striking illustration of “The Cannon Loader”, created originally for the anti-militarist congress..... More

[Lodz]: Warsztat Formy Filmowej, 1974. First edition. In original red wrappers. Xeroxed with several photographic and graphic illustrations. [8] 4 [1] 3 [38] 4 [8] p. Scarce catalog by the greatly influential Polish Neo-Avant-Garde group, Warsztat Formy Filmowej. The group Warsztat Formy Filmowej (Workshop of Film Form, WFF) was..... More

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

[Budapest]: Révai, [1948]. First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s half cloth with the original illustrated dust jacket, designed by Éva Kármán. 228 p. First Hungarian edition of Hemingway’s 1937 novel, To Have and Have not, with the scarce illustrated dust jacket. More

[Budapest]: Pantheon Kiadás, [1934]. First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s blue cloth. Guilt publisher’s stamp on cover. Gilt title on spine. Publisher’s stamp on half tilte. Flyleaf torn out. 256 p. Scarce first Hungarian edition of Aldous Huxley’s (1894–1963) novel, the “Brave New World”, which was originally published in 1932. More

Budapest: Magvetö, [2002]. Signed by Imre Kertész on title page in blue ink. In publisher’s cardboard with the original, typographically illustrated dust jacket, printed in color. 359, (1) p. Signed copy of Kertész’ 1992 fictional diary, Gályanapló (Galley Diary). Imre Kertész (1929–2016) was a Jewish Hungarian writer. In 2002..... More

Budapest: Singer és Wolfner, 1909. First edition. In publisher’s wrappers, typographically illustrated, with different designs by Lajos (Ludwig) Kozma. Housed in original hard paper folder with label. Frontispiece in each volume and 29 full page illustrations in vol. II by Kozma. 153 [7]; [78] p. Lajos Kozma’s Art Nouveau illustrations..... More

London: Printed for John Salusbury, at the Rising-Sun in Cornhil, M DC XC IV [1694]. First edition in Halley’s translation. In somewhat later leather. Spine with red title vignette. With several charts and woodcut diagrams. (4), 208 p. First English edition in Edmond Halley’s translation of Oughtred’s classic work, Clavis..... More

Basle: Adam Petri, 1517. Third edition of this anthology after 1513 and 1514. With contemporary marginal notes. In later paper. 122 leaves. Bartolus de Saxoferrato (1313–1357) was an Italian lawyer and professor of law at Perugia, one of the most prominent jurists of Medieval Roman Law. Chief among postglossators, or..... More

Krakow: Drukarnie Narodowa, 1945. With 25 reproductions of Tolkatchev’s drawings. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. 13, (3) p., a 12 illustrated plates. First edition of this collection of Tolkatchev’s illustrated reportage on Auschwitz and its liberation. One of the earliest illustrated books about the Holocaust. Zinowij Tolkaczew (Zinovii..... More