(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
Budapest: Hungária, (1943). First edition. In original wrappers, with woodcut title vignette on front cover, printed in red and black. 67, (9) p. László Reiter (1894–1945) was a Hungarian graphic artist, book designer and the director of the Amicus bibliophil publisher. This booklet shows his Art Deco and modernist woodcut..... 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
Paris: Simon de Colines apud Arnoul L'Angelier et Charles L'Angelier, 1541. First edition. With 13 full-page woodcut illustrations. A woodcut coat-of-arms on the verso of the title page, woodcut initials throughout. In contemporary, blind-stamped leather binding. Coll.: aa4 a-k8 l6 (l6 blank). Pag.: ff. [4] 85 [1]. First edition of..... More
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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
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