Legszebb varos a vilagon: Budapest (The most beautiful city is Budapest) Original drawing
Around 1925. 19 x 24 cm. Lajos Tary (1884-1972) was a Hungarian painter. More
Around 1925. 19 x 24 cm. Lajos Tary (1884-1972) was a Hungarian painter. More
Marosvasarhely: 1881. Only edition. In later paper cover. 55 p. Includes many works by Bolyai. More
Marosvasarhely: 1882. In original paper. 24 p. The list includes Bolyai's Tentamen, what was published by this printing house. More
Budapest: Sachs Frigyes, 1904. In modern half leather. First Hungarian edition. 128 p. Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya ( 1850 – 1891), was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was a pioneer for women in mathematics around the world – the first woman..... More
Budapest: Rath Mor. 1892. First separate Hungarian edition. In contemporary cloth made for Adolf Kohner. 77 p. One other book bound after it. In 1840, Eötvös published his study in the Budapest Review. The journal edited by Szalay L. has only two issues. It was printed in German in 1841..... More
Budapest: Szent István-Társulat. 1927. First edition. In original wrappers. 136 p. Tagore had extensive Hungarian relations, between 1920 and 1925 about 30 works were published in Hungarian. In October 1926, he arrived to Hungary for a Central European tour, where he spent a longer time in Balatonfüred and, met Miklós..... More
Budapest: Ajtai K. Albert. 1905. In contemporary half cloth. XIX, 331 p. 30 plates. More
Budapest: Franklin, 1911. In original cloth. 47 plate. (24 p, with photos). The International Hygiene Exhibition was a world's fair focusing on medicine and public health, held in Dresden, Germany, in 1911. The leading figure organizing the exhibition was German philanthropist and businessman Karl August Lingner [de], who had..... More
Warsaw: Literarische Bletter, 1936. Illustration by Ichiel Tynowicki. In original wrapper. [3] ff., 9-45 pp., [1] f., The second book of poems by the Yiddish poet Moshe Schulstein (1911-1981), inscribed to the author Avraham Braizblatt (Warsaw, July 1936) on the front flyleaf. Ichiel (Jerachmil, Jakub) Tynowicki, native of Białystok..... More
Kőszeg: 1843. In contemporary cloth. 269 p., 139 + [5] p. (3 band in one volume). First Hungarian edition of the Das nationale System der politischen Oekonomie. Very rare. More
New York: Gaer, 1949. In original cloth with wrapper. 342 p. Inscribed to Mátyás Rákosi. „To Deputy Premier Rakosi with many thanks for the interviews - and my best wishes George Seldes nov. 1. 1949”. The last chapter in the book (Appendix 6): Rakosi Speaks on Tito, Russia, the U.S...... More
Budapest: Revay, 1906. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. In original cloth. 334 p. William Andrew (Willy) Pogany was a native of Hungary and his first studies in Budapest and Paris were in engineering. Success in caricaturing led him to pursue and art career, first in London and then in America. His..... More
[France]: [1841]. Manuscript in ink and watercolors. In contemporary red maroquin binding by Chezaud (signed on spine). Panels and spine richly gilt, front panel with the initials L. M. ff [35 (of which 17 watercolors)]. (ca. 245 × 315 mm.). A beautiful, mid-19th-century, watercolor-illustrated book on botany. The text on..... More
Stockholm: Norstedt & söner. First edition. In original wrappers. (2),IV,63,(1) s. The writing was prompted by Halley's comet's passage past Earth in 1835. More
Lemberg (Lviv): Friedman Press, In original wrappers. Issue 1: [2], 64, [2] pp. + [2] plates, Issue 2: [2], 62 pp. + [4] plates, Two issues of the quarterly for literature, art and culture – "Tsushteyer" (a literary anthology of Galician Yiddish writers, published in Lemberg during the years 1929-1931)..... More
Warsaw: Basach, 1932. In original wrappers. 18 pp. Cover illustration by M. Kohansky. Rare. One copy only in OCLC. More
Berlin: "Iddish" Publishing House, "Ever" Press, Around 1922. 70, 222 p. Two issues of the literary-artistic anthology, which was previously published in Kharkiv during the years 1917-1919. With works by Moshe Broderzon, Bal-Makhshoves, Yonah Rosenfeld, Daniel Tsharni, and others, with several illustrations by El Lissitzky, Yosef Tchaikov, Marc Chagall, and..... More
Jerusalem- Berlin: Ophir publishing, 1923. 12 p. Ten fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, and others, translated into Hebrew by Haim Nachman Bialik. Each tale is accompanied by a color illustration by Tom Seidmann-Freud. More
Warsaw: "Przeglądu Budowlanego, 1933. In original wrappers. Stanisław Hempel (1892–1954) was a Polish engineer, known for his innovative wooden, steel and concrete structures. More
Warsaw: Librairie Militaire Principale. 1939. Illustrated throughout with photomontage. 4, s. [113]. A rare Polish photobook published just before the outbreak of World War II aimed to show the might of the Polish Army, Navy, and Air Force. In the style of similar Soviet works. More
[Budapest]: 1958. In original half cloth. 95 p. Inscribed by Béla Kondor to Jenő Barcsay. More
Madrid: Alonso Victor Panoja, 1654. In contemporary limp vellum. ff. [1 (woodcut frontispiece, verso blank)] [1 (letterpress title page, verso blank) [1 (“Ex.mo Señor”)] [1 (Distrito de la Audiencia […])]–4 [1 (“Armas que se d. First edition of the exceedingly rare work displaying the governing structure of the Spanish Indies..... More
[Basel]: [Gewerbemuseum], [1928]. First edition. Unbound as published. Illustrated with 6 mounted b/w photographic reproductions. 20 p. Scarce guide for the 1928 Neues Bauen travelling exhibition of the Deutscher Werkbund. The Neues Bauen exhibition, together with 1927 „Die Wohnung” (Weißenhofsiedlung) show in Stuttgart were the highlights of the Deutscher Werkbund..... More
Around 1870. In contemporary frame. István Türr (Italian: Stefano Türr, French: Étienne Türr), (1825 – 1908 ) was a Hungarian soldier, revolutionary, canal architect and engineer, remembered in Italy for his role in that country's unification and his association with Garibaldi. In the later years of his life became known..... More
Estoril: 1957. Printed, signed. With envelope and a printed photo. Töreky Géza (Baja, 1873 – Luzern, 1961) a Kúria elnöke. A Horthy-rendszer igazságszolgáltatási apparátusának hírhedt képviselője volt. A két világháború közötti Magyarország egyik meghatározó büntető bírája, aki a szigoráról volt híres. More