[N.p. probably Szolnok or Budapest]: [s.n.], 1956. 210 × 297 mm. Printed poster. A welder works on tracks. The governmental poster was made by the Soviet-installed “Magyar Forradalmi Munkás-Paraszt Kormány” (Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Government of Hungary), led by János Kádár, that attempted to suppress the revolution in Hungary after..... More
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[Budapest]: György Kapus (Budai-nyomda), [1937]. Original, vintage poster. Printed on green paper. Illustrated with the emblem of the Party. 475 × 315 mm. Original program poster of the United Hungarian National Socialist Party, a call for a workers’ congress, and the announcement of the speakers. The poster announces the..... More
![Photoalbum] Emlékeim a Tanácsköztársaság idejéböl. / Emlékeim a Tanácsköztársaság...](/pictures/thumb/681.jpg?v=1443499872)
Amateur photoalbum. More than hundred black and white, vintage photographs. Each image with typed label and in painted frames. In red leatherette binding with handmade illustration of front panel, the coat of arms of the Red Bicycle Infantry. 45 album card leaves, separated with tracing paper. The photoalbum was compiled..... More
Budapest: Radó, (1943 or 1944). Lithographic poster. Printed in black. Notes in blue pencil on the verso. 95 × 31 cm. Advertisement poster of the 1943 UFA film, the Titanic. Showing the letters of the word Titanic as if they were sinking into the deep dark, while bubbles of air..... More
En Çaragoça [Zaragoza]: Por Diego Dormer en la Freneria Vieja, Año 1638. Title page with woodcut illustration of a warship. First edition. In later marbled paper. [4] p. A bibliographically unrecorded, contemporary Spanish report on the Siege of Fuenterrabía of 1638. In 1638 June, as part of the operations..... More
[N.p. probably Szolnok or Budapest]: [s.n.], [1956]. 210 × 297 mm. Printed poster. A well-dressed man carries newspaper with headlines “Leaflet; Strike; Appeal”. A duck gaggles out of his shouting mouth as the symbol of fake news. The governmental poster was made by the Soviet-installed “Magyar Forradalmi Munkás-Paraszt..... More
[Prague]: [Historickym ustavem CSAV v Praze], 1968. First edition. In publisher’s wrappers, with the original black dust jacket. [Complete:] (6), IV, (1)–35, 37–54, (1 [blank]), 55–494, and 56 unnumbered pages with photographic reproductions scattered in 8-page gatherings. A contemporary collection of documents concerning the first week of the Warsaw Pact..... More
Warszawa: Brathetwo–B’Nei-B’Rith, 1932. First edition. Limited edition, printed in 400 copies. With five photographic reproductions. In publisher’s grey wrappers. 89, (7) p, and 5 plates. Publication of the Warsaw lodge of B’nai B’rith, the world’s oldest Jewish service organization, published on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the foundation..... More
Budapest: Magyar Kommunista Párt, Szociáldemokrata Párt és a Szabad Szakszervezetek közös kiadása, 1945. First edition. In original photographically illustrated paper, printed in red and black. VIII, (5), 5–136 p. Edited by Róbert Byssz, using photomontage in the manner of El Lissitzky and Rodchenko. Showing the Soviet-styled celebration of May Day..... More
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Nürnberg: Joh. Hofmanns, 1685. First editions. Two works in one volume. In contemporary limp vellum. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Both works illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and numerous plates. Extremely scarce and only editions on the Ottoman Empire, both published in 1685, during the time of its greatest extent, under..... More
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[N.p.]: [S.n.], [1977]. Contains chiefly color illustrations. First edition. In original blue cloth with gilt title and ornament on front panel. Inscribed to Moshe Dayan. 344 pages and [1] leaf folded plate. The second cruise book (July 7, 1976 – February 7, 1977) of the USS Nimitz, inscribed by Commanding..... More
[Poland]: Early 1940s. Handwritten map of the Lodz ghetto with legend, marks and signs in red, green, and black ink, and pencil. Drawn on a contemporary German, mimeographed map, printed in black. Handwritten legend in Polish. 55 cm × 39 cm. Handwritten map of the Lodz Ghetto, drawn by a...... More
Hungary: 1946. 1 page. Mimeographed copy in blue. Text in Hungarian. 210 × 297 mm. Calling the Jews to buy the Zionist Shekel in order to participate in the election of the delegates of the Twenty-second Zionist Congress in Basle, the first Congress after the Holocaust and the last during..... More
[N.p. probably Szolnok or Budapest]: [s.n.], [1956]. 210 × 297 mm. Printed poster. The image in oval frame shows a young, good-looking armed member of the National Guard (established by the Kádár-Government), in the background a school and waving children, and a factory with smoking chimneys. The governmental..... More
![Слово о полку Игореве.] Szózat Igor hadjáratárul a palócok ellen....](/pictures/thumb/660.jpg?v=1439911528)
Prága és Lipcse [Prague and Leipzig],. I. L. Kober. (On cover: Pest. Lampel Róbert.) [Printed in Prague by Friedrich Rohlíček.], 1858. First Hungarian edition. Lampel’s vignette on cover. In publisher’s wrappers, printed in green. (9), 6–42 p., (14 [pages of advertisement of the publisher, printed by Jaroslav Pospešil in Prague;..... More
Budapest: Független Magyarország, (1945). First edition. Inscribed. Text in Hungarian. In original illustrated paper, printed in brown and red. One of the first collections of Holocaust publications. Includes 18 drawings by the survivor artist, Péter Áldor (1904–1976). Inscribed to Mihály Borsa (born: Glück; 1906–1986), a Hungarian journalist, jurist and..... More
![Palmiro Togliatti cinquant’anni nella storia dell’Italia e del mondo. [...]. Mario –...](/pictures/thumb/51.jpg?v=1406866882)
(Rome): Editrice l’Unità - edizione fuori commercio (Graphocolor), (1965). With numerous photographical illustration, many colored. First edition. Non-commercial edition. Housed in red cloth folder. Luxury copy in red morocco, gilt ornamentation on boards and gilt inner edges. Gilt title and ornaments on spine. With the letter from Amerigo Terenzi. (290)..... More
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Upsaliae [Uppsala]: Excudebant Regiae Academiae Typographi, [1825]. First edition. Text in Latin and Swedish. With an engraved, folding map of Delaware Bay and the colony of New Sweden. The gatherings bound together by sewing, otherwise unbound. (4), 34 p., and an engraved, folding map. First edition of Carl David Arfwedson’s..... More
Au Cap François: Chez Marie, Imprimeur-Libraire bréveté du Roi pour l’Isle S. Domingue, à l’execution de tous autres [Antoine Marie], M. DCC. LXIV [1764]. First edition. Woodcut and typographical printer's ornament on the title page. With a typographical headpiece and initial. In publisher’s blank paper, bound by sewing. (2), 90..... More
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Aix: Imprimerie de la Vauve d’André Adibert, Imprimeur du Roi & du Départment, vis-à-vis le College, 1791. First edition. With a woodcut head piece. Published unbound. 3, (1) p. Law by the National Assembly concerning the legislation at Saint-Domingue and the rights of the colonial assembly and the governor of..... More
Paris: Auguste Klein, [Ca. 1867]. Original, vintage photographs. Albumen silver print mounted on cardboard. Reproduction by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri. Image dimensions: 55 x 88 mm; cardboard dimensions: 63 x 105 mm. Two rare, original, vintage carte de visite photographs about Maximilian I of Mexico’s vest and coat after his execution in..... More
(Genève): (Imprimerie Sonor), (1925). First edition. Published unbound. 11, (1) p. One of the earliest publication of the Geneva-based anti-communist organisation, the “International Entente Against the Third International”. It has been established by Théodore Aubert, the Swiss advocate and the entente had chapters in over 20 countries with the aim..... More
Wien: In commission bei Carl Gerold’s Sohn, 1896. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on a front cover. Text in English. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 32 p. Inscribed copy of the first edition of Stein’s report on the recently discovered travelogue of the Chinese pilgrim Ou-k’ong (Wukong; ca. 730–790), focusing on..... More
Paris: Auguste Picard, 1939. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front cover in black ink. Text in French. In publisher’s printed wrappers. (2), 263–268 p. Inscribed copy of Stein’s report about his aerial archaeological survey of ancient Roman limes in Transjordan and Iraq which he carried out in 1938..... More
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Estampades en Valencia: en casa de Joan Mey, Venen se en casa de Sanahuja Librer [Juan Mey], any. M. D. Lxvi, [1566]. First edition. Woodcut initials. In modern vellum, title lettered in ink on the spine. ff. [16]. Collation: a–b8. “The first catechismal work directed expressly at the instruction of..... More