(Prague): (1952). Original photo album. With 39 vintage, black and white photographs. In original artistic half leather binding with four raised bands, and painted ornamentation on front cover of the logo of the factory in a red star. On 40 album card leaves (last 14 blank). Fancy photo album, created..... More
Krakow: 16th century. Five iron tools with different stamps. Housed in mid-century, custom made casket, covered in red cloth. Title vignette and imaginary bookbinder’s coat of arms mounted on the lid. Covered internally with red plush and silk, the bottom is designed with concave shapes for the tools. Sample on..... More
![Item #1541 [Granting of Citizenship of the City of Spoleto.] Illustrissimo, et R.mo DD. Comiti...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1541.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553786989)
Spoleto: 1663. Manuscript on vellum. In very finely tooled, gilt, painted, red leather armorial binding. Spine and all edges are gilt. Marbled pastedowns. Written in golden and dark ink. Dated: 6 August 1663. Twelve lines, with a golden double line around the mirror and golden ruling. Title page with with..... More
[St Albans]: [St Albans Press; Schoolmaster Printer], [1481/2]. Fragment of four incunable leaves. The leaves are mounted on the rear flyleaf of a copy of the facsimile edition of The Boke of Saint Albans (London, 1881) by a narrow paper stripe. The custom made half vellum binding was made in..... More
Sevilla: Andrea Pescioni, 1582. First edition. With 35 woodcut illustrations, some recurring. Decorated with heraldic woodcut on the title page, numerous woodcut initials and a tailpiece, and woodcut printer's devices on 4¶4 and on the last leaf. Text printed in two columns. In 19th century, empire style, red morocco binding..... More
![Item #1918 Cuaderno de Poesia Negra. [Black Poetry Notebook.]. Emilio Ballagas, Ernesto Gonzalez...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1918.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1606134104)
Havana: [S.n.], 1934. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to José Ardévol. Limited, printed in 500 copies. Cover and six woodcut illustrations by Ernesto Gonzalez Puig and Domingo Ravenet. n original, illustrated wrappers. In protective cloth open case. [42] p. and 6 woodcut illustrations. Scarce, richly illustrated Cuban..... More
Tallinn: Eldono de Esperanto-Asocio de Estonio en Tallinn, 1931. Cover and illustration by Jaan Vahtra. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with a full page linocut. Text in Esperanto. 78 [2] p., and a photographic frontispiece. Striking cover and a full page illustration by Jaan Vahtra (1882–1947), the chief..... More
[Southern France or Northern Italy?]: [late 13th century]. Manuscript on vellum. Written space approx. 65 × 95 mm; overall leaf size ca. 90 × 125 mm. Text in two sizes of gothic textualis, written in dark brown ink, rubrics in red. Bifolium; [4] pages. Unusual 13th-century breviary fragment combining the..... 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
[Munich]: Oficyna Warszawska na Obczyznie, 1946. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Krystyn Olszewski, one of the authors. Numbered. In publisher’s cloth, designed by Anatol Girs, cut from concentration camp uniform, a badge of the political prisoners mounted by sewing on the front panel. 212, (4) p. Extremely scarce inscribed..... More
Antverpiae [Antwerp]: Ex officina Christophori Plantini, Architypographi Regij [Plantin], MDLXXXI [1581]. First edition. In later vellum, panels with painted subtle Turkish floral patterns ruled with embossed geometric pattern and a gilt line. Raised bands on spine embossed and gilt, title lettered in black and red ink. Woodcut printer’s device on..... More
![Item #3803 [Libri duo de clementia. With Calvin’s Commentary.] L. Annei Senecae, romani...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
Parisiis [Paris]: apud Ludovicum Cyaneum sub duobus Gallis in via Jacobaea [Louis Blauwbloem], 1532. First edition. In near-contemporary black calf binding with double gilt fillet border on the covers, each board gilt-stamped with the bachelor supralibros of Jacques-Auguste de Thou—an oval laurel wreath enclosing his family arms (a chevron and..... More
![Item #1966 A kerék. 1936. IX. évfolyam 1–3 szám. [The Wheel. 1936. Year IX., Issue 1–3.]....](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1966.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1610358800)
[Budapest]: Magyar Ruggyantaáru Gyár, 1936. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers by Tihamér Csemizcky. Numerous illustrations throughout. 36 p. Modernist illustration by Tihamér Csemiczky on the cover of a Hungarian automobile magazine. The magazine was published between 1928–1950 by the manufacturer of Cordiatic tires, containing articles about developments in..... More
[Rome]. [1867]. First edition. Comprising 52 albumen prints after Raphael’s Logge. Prints of varying size: most ca. 40 × 32 cm; eight large-format plates ca. 55–58 × 42 cm, covering nearly the full leaf; and six smaller ca. 35 × 28 cm. Mounted on card leaves. Captions consist of printed..... More
Budapest: Grill, (1935). First edition. Signed by Romola Nijinsky on half title. Limited up to 150, numbered in ink. The numbered copies printed on hand made paper, and bound into leather with gilt figural ornament on front panel and gilt title on spine. 223, (1) p. and 8 plates. The..... More
[Paris?]: “Le Matin”; Éd. Crété (Corbeil), [1901?]. Illustrated with several photographic reproductions, printed in various colors. First edition. Signed by Paul Gers on the first blank leaf. A unique, luxuriously bound copy for Franz Joseph I, in full red morocco with gilt-ruled panels. The dedication in French is lettered in..... More
![Item #1888 Kafatasi. Facia 3 Kisim 15 Bap. [The Skull. Tragedy in 3 Acts.]. Nazim Hikmet, Ali Suavi](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1888.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1603285105)
[Istanbul]: Semih Lütfü Sühulet Kütüpanesi, 1932. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, designed by Ali Suavi. 103 [9] p. Striking avant-garde cover and illustrations by Ali Suavı for Nâzım Hikmet’s play. Ali Suavı (Suavı Sonar, 1910 or 1913–1994), a modernist visual artist, designed most of Hikmet’s books’ avant-garde covers..... More
![Item #2430 [Cover title:] In Memoriam Baron Maurice de Hirsch. May 31, 1896, Boston,...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2430.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1637056576)
Boston: 1896. Calligraphed manuscript in ink, by H. C. Kendall (signed on the verso of the first leaf). Each page written in different calligraphy style. Text in English. With a mounted portrait, transferred on porcelain, of Baron Hirsch on the second leaf. Manuscript book. In original black leather by Frank..... More
Budapest: Világosság, 1930. Cover by Károly Dukai. First edition. In original binding. 60 p., 16 t. More
Sonderabdruck aus dem Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 1930. First edition. With 12 full-page and numerous other illustrations of Lajos Kozma’s works. In publisher’s half-cloth binding. 32 p. Scarce publication of Kozma’s work by Kner Press. With Kozma’s bookplate and book cover designs and book illustrations. Lajos Kozma (1884–1948) besides being one..... More
Budapest: Singer és Wolfner (Világosság könyvnyomda), 1909. First (text) volume with a frontispiece and initials by Kozma. Second volume with frontispiece and 30 plates by Kozma. First edition. Pinted in 1550 copies. In 2 volumes. In publisher’s typographically illustrated, hard paper wrappers, designed by Lajos Kozma. Housed in original hard..... More
Budapest: Horizont (Krausz J. és Társa Műintézet), 1926. The entire typography of the cover and the volume is the work of Lajos Kassák. First edition. In original paper. 115 p. + [2] p. + [4]. Iconic book by Kassak. More
[Paris]: [1772/73]. Manuscript on vellum, in almanac format. Contemporary French red morocco, the covers framed by a gilt triple-fillet border with small corner tools; at the centre of each board an oval recessed panel containing a hand-painted armorial miniature in gouache, protected by a transparent varnish. The arms are those..... More
[Berlin]: [Maximilian-Gesellschaft (text printed at: Officina Serpentis; lithos at: W. Lassally)], [1927]. With 21 original lithographs by Max Liebermann, three of them full page and the first is signed by the artist (on p. 3). First edition with these illustrations. De luxe edition, one of 325 numbered copies. Printed on..... More
![Item #2074 [In Yiddish:] Ale Mames Zaynen Sheyn. Yudel Mark, Yudl](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2074.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1617182245)
Nyu York [New York]: Kinderring bay dem Bildungs Komitet fun Arbeter-ring (Farlag Kinde Ring of the Educational Committee of the Worker’s Circle), [1939]. First edition. With four full-page illustrations and decorative initials. In publisher’s half cloth, with illustrated front panel. 48 p. Avant-garde cover; scarce book by, Yudel Mark, the..... More