In Bonn: bey N. Simrock, [PN 368], [1803?]. Early Simrock edition. Title page without price, plate number and the words “Zugeeignet von” in handwriting. In contemporary cardboard, covered with marbled paper. Morocco title vignette on front panel. 16 p. An early Simrock edition (first by Artaria in the same year)..... More
First editions. Printed scores between 1812 and 1817 by Giovanni Ricordi. In contemporary green half vellum binding. Title vignette on front panel. Scarce early manuscript copies and printed first editions of Rossini and Mayr’s opera excerpts, from Albertine, Baroness Staël von Holstein’s collection. First editions of excerpts from Rossini’s..... More
Basileae [Basel]: Ex officina Hervagiana (Johannes Herwagen) [In colofon: Apud Ioannem Hervagium et Erasmium Frobenium Anno M. D. XXXVIII. Mense Martio. Anno M. D. XXXVIII [1538]. First Basel edition. Two volumes, in 18th-century uniform leather, spine with raised bands, compartments gilt, with title vignettes. Signatures: Volume 1: [flower]⁴ [alpha]¹⁰ a–c⁶..... More
[France?]: [Around 1800]. Manuscript score. Unbound. Oblong. N. [24] p. An early manuscript copy of the string quartet for Haydn’s Keyboard Concerto in G major. Haydn composed this keyboard concerto during his time at the Esterházy court, probably around 1770. It was premiered on 28th April 1784 in Paris..... More
Hungary: 1986. Gouache. and watercolor on board. 36 x 50 cm. Original cover design for the Hungarian first edition of Herbert's Dune. More
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A Bordeaux: Chez Michel Racle, Imprimeur de l’intendance, & de l’Hôtel-de-Ville, rue Saint-James, 1771. First edition. Unbound as published. 137 [3] p. Unrecorded publication of a legal case of inheritance of a planter family in pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue. This unrecorded legal brief contains the summary of an interesting and seemingly..... More
A Versailles: De l’Imprimerie de Ph.-D- Pierres, Premier Imprimeur Ordinaire du Roi, rue Saint-Honoré, No. 23, Juillet1789. First edition. In somewhat later blank wrappers. [4] 24 p. The extremely scarce first edition of the earliest version of the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a draft by Abbé Sieyès. This..... More
London: Stampa, 1800. Framed, behind black-lacquer passepartout & uniformly framed (behind glass). All ca. 26 x 21,5 cm. Alegorical representations of the major continents. The figure of America holds a flag and stands with an American Indian child in front of Niagara Falls, with her hand on a monument to..... More
Kharkiv: Around 1920. 12 x 17 cm. Vasyl Dmytrovych Yermylov (Ukrainian: Василь Дмитрович Єрмилов) (1894–1968) was a Ukrainian painter, avant-garde artist and designer. His genres included cubism, constructivism, and neo-primitivism. More
Hungary: Around 1900. Vintage photo. 19*18 cm. Jenő Zichy ( 1837 -1906, ), was a Hungarian nobleman, writer, orientalist and politician. At his own expense, he organized and led several scientific expeditions in the Caucasus to find traces of the Hungarians' origins. More
A Paris: Chez Maret, Libraire, Palais Égalité, Cour des Fontaines, L’an trois de la République, [1795]. First edition. In published blue wrappers. Two parts in one volume. Title vignette on spine, lettered in ink. 80; 35 [=135] p. A scarce document of the French revolution by an admirer of Washington..... More
Budapest: Stamp on the back, Around. 1920. Vintage print. 8 x 11 cm. József Pécsi (1889–1956) was a Hungarian photographer, known for his influential book “Photo und Publizität” (Photography and Publicity; 1930) wherein, by his own advertisement designs, promoted the blending of typography, design, and photography in avant-garde advertising. More
Budapest: Europa, 1961. Early Hungarian editon. In original cloth. 550 p. Signed. More
Kosice: Szlovák, 1922. First Hungarian edition. In contemporary halfcloth. 97 p. First Hungarian edition of this key work by Czech dramatist Capek, originally produced in Prague in 1921. The word “robot” was coined by Capek’s brother Josef, and the concept of the robot has its source in this play. More
Romania, Vienna: Around 1860. Vintage albumen print. Very early photo from the Banat. One of the first photographer who worked in Romania. Andreas Groll Born in 1812 in Vienna as a son of servants Anna and Joseph Paul Groll. I. In 1845-1853 he worked at the Viennese Polytechnic Institute..... More
Budapest: Vass, 1906. Early Hungarian edition. In later cloth. 441 p. With A fajok eredete [Kivonata az eredeti munkának.] (The Origin of Species [Extract from original work) Budapest: Vass Jozsef, 1905. Hungarian edition. . 95 p. In very good condition. A rare and early Hungarian edition of Darwin. More
Paris: : Se vend à Paris chez Depeuille, Rue Franciade, Section de Bon Conseil [François Jules Gabriel Depeuille], [1794]. First edition. Hand-colored engraving. In contemporary or near contemporary frame. Engraved by Louis Darcis, after Boizot (Boizot del.t : Darcis Sculp.t). Showing a black man with a red Phrygian liberty cap..... More
Budapest: Europa, 1945. First edition. In original paper. 45 p. Endre Barát (1907-1976) writer, journalist. His career began in the early thirties, and his poems were published by Zsido Jövő. He was a proofreader, editor and, in the 1950s, also an occasional manual laborer. He started out as a poet..... More
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Rome: mid-19th century. 8 volumes. 823 white plaster cast medallions each bordered with gilt paper, manuscript numbers added in ink, generally between 1.5 and 5 cm in diameter (some larger). Arranged and mounted in recessed double-sided faux book-boxes, lined with red paper. Manuscript list of contents (not entirely corresponding to..... More
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Paris: F. Bonneville del el Sculp, [1794]. Framed. Papar size: ca. 15 × 20 cm. Important public propaganda images commemorating the abolition of slavery in France in 1794. The abolition of slavery in Saint Domingue in 1793, a major achievement of the slave revolt, the Haitian Revolution, the..... More
Budapest: 1982. First edition. In original paper. 20 p. The samizdat periodical titled Sznob International [Snob International] had six issues altogether from 1981 and 1984. This issue was devoted to Tibor Hajas. It is illustrated by Júlia Szaniszló. and the cover photo. by János Vető. Printed in 500..... More
1932. 32,25×24,5 cm. More
[Impressus Lugduni (Lyon): [per Johannem De La Place (Jean de La Place)], M.CCCCC.XXIII [March 13, 1523]. Early Lyonese edition. In later vellum, using old material. ff. [12] cxcj [ie. 191]. A scarce and early Lyonese-edition of this medieval bestseller. The second edition of the Gesta in Lyon, the first..... More
Paris: Librairie de Peytieux, Galerie Delorme, 1824. . In contemporary leather. Panels with gilt floral frame, spine gilt with title vignette. Marbled endpapers. Marbled edges. (4) VII (1) 156 p. An extremely scarce work on the history of the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath. The book opens with a...... More
Vienna: 1929. 5 photographs – two photographs: 9.5X13 cm, two photographs: 22.5X17 cm and one photograph: 20X10 cm. Apparently, the photographs were taken during a performance of the play "Der Sänger seiner Trauer" (after "Yoshke Musikant" by Osip Dymov) in the Yiddish theater in Vienna, 1929. Three photographs are signed..... More