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Paris: 1929. 1 p. Contributors included Tzara, Cendrars, Chirico, Krull, Kertesz, Moholy-Nagy, Tabard, , Eli Lotar, L. Bunuel. More
Paris: 1929. 1 p. Contributors included Tzara, Cendrars, Chirico, Krull, Kertesz, Moholy-Nagy, Tabard, , Eli Lotar, L. Bunuel. More
Spain: 1933. The Son of Kong (also known and publicized simply as Son of Kong) is a 1933 American Pre-Code adventure monster film produced by RKO Pictures. Directed by Ernest Schoedsack and featuring special effects by Willis O'Brien and Buzz Gibson, the film stars Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack and Frank..... More
Spain: 1936. Spanish. Dracula's Daughter is a 1936 American vampire horror film produced by Universal Pictures as a sequel to the 1931 film Dracula. Directed by Lambert Hillyer from a screenplay by Garrett Fort, the film stars Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden in the title role, and Marguerite Churchill, and features..... More
Netherlands. At Paul Citroen studio: 1936. Ink on paper. 14 x 12 cm. Moissey Kogan (1879-1943) was a Moldovan Jewish sculptor who lived int the Netherlands. The drawing is made when Moissey Kogan visited Paul Citroen's studio, who made some photo of him. More
Budapest: November 1944. 1 p. A Life-Saving Document Given to Miklós Herman of Budapest – November 1944 Igazolás – an employment certificate issued to Miklós Herman by a road and railway construction company in Budapest (Kaltenecker Ferenc, ut- és vasút építési vállalkozó). Budapest, November 30, 1944. Hungarian. Typescript..... More
Wien: Copyright by M. S. Vanderbilt, Eigenverlag d. Theater u. Kabarett “Fledermaus, 1908. Cover by Bertold Löffler. First edition. Musik von Sch. Konrad. In original paper. 31. With a beautiful advertising bookmark, illustrated by Löffler. Cover by Bertold Löffler. Bertold Löffler (1874-1960) began his studies at the..... More
Wien: Eigenverlag d. Theater u. Kabarett “Fledermaus”, 1908. Illustrated with 20 examples of musical notation. First edition. In original paper. 18 p. Cover by Bertold Löffler. Bertold Löffler (1874-1960) began his studies at the Reichenberg School of Drawing in Northern Bohemia, and continued with Franz Matsch, Carl Otto Czeschka..... More
Impresso en Cadiz: por Juan Lorenzo Machado, Año de 1670. First edition. In contemporary limp vellum. Title lettered on spine. ff. [6] [1 (engraved plate)] 245 [17]. A scarce Americana and Judaica, the life of a Portuguese converso who became a merchant in Lima. The life of Antonio de..... More
[Basileae (Basel)]: [apud Ioannem Frobenium], Anno M. D. XXV. [1525]. First edition. In later tooled leather. Woodcut device on title page, woodcut initials. Coll.: a4 b–k7 (k8 with woodcut device otherwise blank, missing); ff. [75]. The first edition of Erasmus’ Latin translation of Plutarch’s De curiositate, printed together with the..... More
Impressa en Madrid: : en casa de Querino Gerardo Flamenco, a costa de Blas de Robles librero, Año de. 158. First edition with the narrative of the Espejo-expedition, first Madrid edition. In later vellum, with ties, title lettered in ink on spine. Collation: Sign.: ¶12, A-Z8, 2A-2Z8; ff.: [12], 268..... More
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
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