Budapest: Népszava Könyvkereskedés kiadványa, [1911]. Original vintage postcard. Printed at Seidner Plakát és Cimkegyár. Designed by Mihály Biró. Litograph. 91 × 138 mm. Anti-war, labour movement propaganda postcard of the Social Democratic Party of Hungary, designed by Mihály Biró (1886–1948). More
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Jerusalem: Turgeman (or Turgemon), 672 [1919 or 1920]. First Jerusalem edition (second overall; first in Odessa, 1912). In publisher’s printed wrappers. Illustrated. [6] 3–161 [3] p. The first translation of the Arabian Nights into Hebrew, consists of sixteen selected stories. This scarce collection of sixteen selected stories is the first..... More
Stockholm: Tryckt hos Carl Delén; C. F. Marquard, 1802; 1800. First editions.Two books in one volume. In 19th-century half leather, gilt spine. Binding artistically restored. [11] 10—180; [2] 178 p. First Swedish edition of Dubroca’s Les femmes celebres de la revolution, bound with an unrelated translation. Dubroca’s book includes..... More
Kostantiniyye [Constantinople; Istanbul]: Mataa-yi mire, 1288 AH [1871 AD]. First edition. In publisher’s green printed wrappers. [44] p. The only 19th century written record about the situation of Muslims in Brazil. This travelogue is the second of two known accounts of the first voyage ever made to the American..... More
Paris: Alliance Graphique; L. Danel [printer], 1935. Original, vintage poster. Colour lithograph. Size: ca. 100 cm × 62,5 cm. Cassandre’s iconic Art Deco poster. Normandie, Cassandre’s striking poster design of the Art Deco era, became of the most well-known posters of all time. Designed in 1935 as an..... More
[Spain]: [after 1752]. 18th-century manuscript. Text in Spanish. 24 handwritten pages in ink, in three different hands. ff [12]. 18th-Century Spanish manuscript about the Spanish involvement in the French Geodesic Mission of 1735 and the Ellipsoid Model of the Earth. The manuscript is an interesting collection of contemporary reports..... More
En Madrid: en la Imprenta Real: A la Calle del Carmen: Por Mateo de Llanos / Hallaràse en la Puerta del Sol en casa de Juan Martin Merinero, Librero; y an Palacio, Año 1683. First edition. In modern half cloth. Woodcut device on the title page. Ornamented with a woodcut..... More
Pesten [Pest]: Lauffer és Stolp kiadó könyvkereskedés tulajdona, [1858]. Illustrated with twelve lithograph plates and two text illustrations. First edition. In somewhat later half cloth, gilt spine. 175 [1] p. and 12 tinted lithograph plates [frontispiece included]. John Xantus de Vesey (1825–1894) was a Hungarian exile naturalist and zoologist. He..... More
[Strasbourg]: [Johann Knobloch], [1508]. First edition. . In later hard paper binding. Knobloch’s woodcut device at the end. Provenance: Shlomo Simonsohn’s bookplate on front pastedown. ff. [100]. Scarce first edition of this collection of Gregory of Nazianzus’ ten letters. An early Johann Knobloch imprint, with his woodcut device at..... More
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Budapest: Kiadja a Természettudományi Társulat Könyvkiadó Vállalata, 1873. First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s green cloth, bound into two volumes, gilt-stamped spine titles, panels with blindstamped device. 2 v. XIV, [2], 303, [1] p. and 1 folding plate; VII, [1], 361, [3] p., and a plate with Darwins portrait, protected with..... More
[New York]: New Directions, [1964]. First edition. Association copy, inscribed by Miller to his Polish translator. In publisher’s photographic binding. vi [2] 216 p. Inscribed association copy of the first edition of Miller’s selected works on writing. Inscribed to Miller’s Polish translator, Zygmunt Łanowski “For my old friend from..... More
[New York]: New Directions, 1947. First edition. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his Polish translator. In publisher’s red cloth, with the original illustrated dust jacket, designed by Simon Greco. Photographically illustrated. xxxvii 427 [1] p. Inscribed association copy of the first edition Miller’s memoir, the second volume of..... More
[London]: [Wireless Press], 1918; 1919. Original, vintage typed telegraphs. “The Surrender” separately, the “High Sea Fleet” and the “Peace Treaty” mounted together. Mounted on hard paper, in passe-partout, unframed. Measures ca. 190 × 190 mm; 190 × 65 mm; 190 × 85 mm. Three original telegraphs of the Wireless Press..... More
[Basel or Geneva]: Vergelegt von: Dr. Rezső Kasztner, [1946]. First edition. Mimeographed typescript. In original printed cardboard, bound with black string. ff [1] XIII [1]–15 15a 16–191 [6]. Original copy of one of the most significant documents related to the Holocaust, and probably the most important document of the Hungarian..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1947. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his Polish translator. First UK edition. In publisher’s blue cloth, with the original printed dust jacket. 292 p. Inscribed association copy of Miller’s memoir, originally published in 1945. Inscribed to Miller’s Polish translator, Zygmunt Łanowski “who has..... More
[Soviet Union / Hungary]: [Around 1945]. 38 hand-colored drawings on the backs of military-issue postcards. Bound by string. 38 leaves [postcards]. Thirty-eight hand-colored, partly erotic and pornographic drawings by a Hungarian prisoner of war in the Soviet Union. A unique collection of cartoons of a Hungarian POW of the..... More
France(?): 19th century. Handwritten note in ink. Ca. 17 × 12,5 cm. An extremely scarce autograph note of Poland's national poet, Adam Mickiewicz. Adam Mickiewicz’s (1798–1855) exceedingly rare autograph, “Listy Prywatne” (private letters) on an envelope, with his son’s Ladislas (Władysław; 1838–1926) certificate in French: “Je certifie que les..... More
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London: Printed by Cianchettini & Sperati Importers of Classical Music [PN 18], [around 1810]. First edition. In 19th century cloth. [2] 68 p. First publication of the orchestral score of Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony. Symphony No. 41, the Jupiter Symphony is Mozart's last, longest, and most complex symphony, the final..... More
Austria: around 1822; 1830. Printed and handwritten documents: 2 printed documents (1 bifolio of printed Gaunerzinkens, ca. 1830; four-page printed police report “Beschreibung”, 1822); 3 handwritten letters, with the header “Das k.k. Kreisamt im Pusterthale und am Eisack”, 1830 (1; 3; 3 p); 1 lengthy handwritten report, 1830 (10 p.)..... More
Autograph postcard in ink, signed in Sorgues: May 1918. 137 × 90 mm. Braque’s autograph postcard send from Sorgues to his friend Paul Dermée. A cordial message from Sourges, where Braque was recuperating from the injury he suffered during the war in 1915: "Mon cher ami, je vous envoie..... More
[Leipzig]: gedruckt, bey Christoph Friedrich Rumpffen [Rumpf], [1707]. First edition. First edition. In later half vellum binding, panels covered with marbled paper. Woodcut initials and a headpiece. Engraved frontispiece and plates (many folding). 1 [leaf (frontispiece)] 54 [2] p., and 35 engraved plates. An extremely scarce illustrated German Baroque carpenter’s-..... More
[Germany / USA]: [April 1945]. 21 larger: ca. 88 × 60 mm (16); ca. 60 × 57 mm (4); ca. 115 × 70 mm (1) and 70 smaller: ca. 40 × 29 mm black and white photographs. Contemporary print. Ninety-one private, unpublished snapshots of the Post War Germany, including early..... More
[China/Hungary]: [1957; 1959]. 10 original, vintage, black and white press photograph. Sizes (1957): 255 × 190 mm and 255 × 130 mm; (1959): 195 × 230 mm. Ten vintage press photos, documenting the meetings of Chinese (among them Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai) and Hungarian Communist leaders in China, in..... More
[Russia; Japan; Venezuela]: [1917 and later]. 89 photographs, partly mounted into a scrapbook (bound into green cloth). In different formats: XX. Many captioned on verso in ink by Walker Smith. A private photo album of an American diplomat delegated to Revolutionary Russia in 1917 and later to Japan. Fifty-seven..... More
Düsseldorf: Schmitz & Olbertz, 1906. First German edition. Numbered, one of 600 copies. In unique, custom made, hand-painted vellum binding, by Lajos Kozma. Title on spine in gilt lettering. Upper edge gilt. Paste paper endpapers. Kozma’s signet on front flyleaf’s verso and another signet (supposedly of the owner: “CHW”) on..... More