![Item #453 [Caption title:] Décrets de la Convention Nationale, Des 27 Juillet & 7 Août 1793,...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/453.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1432049547)
Evreux: J. J. L. Ancelle, 1793. First edition. Published unbound. 4 p. Decree of the National Convention about slave-trade; the declaration of William Pitt as enemy of mankind; and a decree on sylviculture. 1º. Qui autorise le Ministre de la Marine à faire marquer & exploiter les Bois propres..... More
![Item #451 [Caption title:] Pétition des patriotes déportés des Isles Martinique, Guadeloupe...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/451.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1432048582)
(Paris): Limbourg et Comp. (1794). First edition. Published unbound. 7, (1) p. Petition concerning the situation of the colonies within France, financial matters and a statement of fidelity toward the one and inseparable France. Not in Sabin. More
[Vienna]: Vídeň, [1913]. First edition. In original, green wrappers. 20 p. 1 plate. Czech publication, commemorating Marx on the 30th anniversary of his death. With a reproduction, depicting Marx. Extremely scarce, WorldCat locates only one copy, in the IISG, Amsterdam. More
![Item #52 Mai-Karte Nr. 1., 2. (Die Bezwingung Mammons [The Defeat of Mammon], Völkermai...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1405431622)
Wien (Vienna): Verlag der “Neuen Glühlichter”, Druck von Johann N. Vernay, (ca. 1890). Chromolithograph. 140 × 90 mm. Considered the first May Day (Mai-Feier) postcards printed in Europe. May Day or International Worker’s Day is the commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre which was a demonstration that took place on..... More
Warszawa: [S.n.], 1907. First edition. Complete. 8 p. with 1 leaf of the financial report of the Union. The only issue of the official newspaper of the Polish Trade Union of Metalworkers. This worker’s organisation belonged to Rosa Luxemburg’s political party the “Socjaldemokracja Królestwa Polskiego i Litwy” (SDKPiL; Social..... More
48 original, vintage, black and white photographs. Image size: 55 × 40 mm. In original red cloth. 12 album card leaves. Unique photographic documentation of the 1919 May Day celebration in Budapest. Showing the parades, demonstrations, propaganda posters, buildings and statues that arose in the 1919 Hungarian Soviet Republic, a...... More
Waitzen (Vác): Anton Gottlieb, 1803. First edition. Text in German. Published unbound. 8, (8) p. The first publication of the first school for deaf children in Hungary, that has been opened in 1802. The founder of the institution was a Hungarian nobleman, András Cházár and the first director Antal Simon..... More
Russia: 1917. A collection of 7 original, vintage photographs, documenting the Russian Revolution in Tomsk, taken around 1917. The images vary in size (approximately 80 × 120 mm) and capture key moments from the revolutionary demonstrations. Two photographs are labeled in Hungarian, “Tomsk, Revolution.”. Original vintage photographs documenting revolutionary demonstrations..... 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
Budapest: Muskát Miklós könyvnyomdája, (ca. 1907). Printed advertisement. 62 × 46,5 cm. “Társadalmi forradalom” was the first and only Hungarian anarchist newspaper. It was found, edited and later sponsored by the anarchist count Ervin Batthány. The newspaper was run for five years between 1907 and 1911, 94 numbers were published..... More
![Item #3281 [Tractatus de officio fiscalis.] D. Francisci de Alfaro, Fiscalis Quondam Procuratoris...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3281.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1722173205)
Matriti [Madrid]: ex officina Francisci Martinez [Francisco Martínez], Anno 1639. Second edition. Text in Latin, printed in two columns. In contemporary limp vellum with thongs. [12] 352 [56] p. Scarce Spanish legal work for the Audiencias in the New World. Francisco de Alfaro (1551–1644) was a significant Spanish jurist..... More
Roma: Per Luigi Perego Savioni Stampator Vaticano incontro la fabbrica de S. Agostino, [1789]. First Italian edition. In contemporary green blank wrappers. Contemporary Italian translation of a scarce Spanish proto-feminist work. Josefa Amar y Borbón (1749–1833) was born in Madrid into a family of physicians on her father's side..... More
A Paris: Del’Imprimerie de Valleyre, pere, ruë de la Huchette, à la Ville de Riom, [1727]. First edition. Unbound as published. 8 p. A scarce 1727 pamphlet defending the controversial hoop skirt fashion; a bold assertion of feminine autonomy. “L’Apologie ou la Défense des Paniers” is a rare and..... More
Chuquisaca: Imprenta Boliviana, [1832]. Two woodcut figures on the title page. First edition. Unbound as issued, gatherings sewn together. V [1 (blank)] 40 p. An extremely scarce Bolivian imprint, Antonio José de Irisarri’s sharp critique on legal and social institutions. The third installment in the La Pajarotada series by..... More
Huesca: por Pedro Cabarte, Año 1612. First Edition. In later half leather. Pag.: ff. [8] 202 158 [8]. Coll.: *8 A–Z8 2A–2Y8 ¶8. A fervent defense of the Moriscos’ expulsion from Spain, offering essential insights into their customs and the prejudices of the time. Pedro Aznar Cardona’s Expulsion justificada..... More
France: c. 1825. Oval clear lead-glass plaque with serrated edges, enclosing a finely molded white sulphide cameo of President Boyer (inscribed “Pt. Boyer” at the base of the bust). The reverse is deeply sunburst-cut and polished. Original gilt-bronze suspension mount. Height 11 cm (excluding mount). Rare French cut-glass sulphide portrait..... More
Koethen (Leipzig). A. Wiede (Ernst Keil). 1849. First Polish edition (second overall). Papered spine. Light foxing. 40 p. The proclamation was first published in German, in December 1848 and it followed, presumably in a few weeks, the Polish edition. Early, scarce and important work of the founder of anarchism... More
Prága (Praha): Levá Fronta (Jav. Hoffmann), 1932. First edition. In publisher’s printed green paper. 32 p. First edition of Balázs’s essay. The printed version of a banned lecture on Marxism that he was to held in Bratislava in 1931. “Sarló” (Sickle), the publisher of this pamphlet, was a leftist Hungarian..... More
Paris: Gallimard, (1955). First edition. Limited, numbered one of 50 (of 56) copies. In publisher’s wrappers, printed in red and black, protected with tracing paper. 272, (8) p. Limited, first edition of Simone de Beauvoir’s collection of essays. According to Beauvoir the question “how the privileged may think about..... More
Budapest: Világosság rt. (1917). Lithograph poster, printed in red and black on yellow background. Mounted on canvas. Ca. 63 x 46 cm. Advertisement poster for “Népszava” (People’s Voice) the official newspaper of the Hungarian Social Democratic Party. With Mihály Biró’s (1886–1948) famous image of the “Red Man with Hammer”... More
Budapest: Népszava Könyvkereskedés kiadványa, [1911]. Original vintage postcard. Printed at Seidner Plakát és Cimkegyár. Designed by Mihály Biró. Litograph. 91 × 138 mm. Anti-war, labour movement propaganda postcard of the Social Democratic Party of Hungary, designed by Mihály Biró (1886–1948). More
![Item #223 Népszava. Itt az írás. [Népszava (People’s Voice). Here Is the Writing.]....](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/223.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1557482474)
Budapest: Népszava Könyvkereskedés. 1913. Llithograph postcard, printed in red and black. 140 × 90 mm. The postcard pictures the front page of the Social-democrat newspaper “Népszava” (People’s Voice.), with Mihály Biró’s (1886–1948) famous image of the “Red Man with Hammer”. Biró’s original poster was printed in 1911. More
![Item #3448 [Register of the deceased of the French Army in Saint-Domingue.] État des Officiers...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3448.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742841405)
[Saint-Domingue]: 1802. Manuscript document, 1 page, written on both sides. Certified and signed by Brigadier General Pierre François Joseph Boyer (1772–1851), Chief of the General Staff of the Army of Saint-Domingue. Stamped “État Major Général de l’Armée de St. Domingue.”. Signed death report by General Boyer documenting the demise of..... More
Potsdam: Verlag der H. Vogler’schen Buchhandlung, 1833. First edition. In publisher’s blue blank paper. xvi, 400 p. and an engraved portrait of Georg Rapp as frontispiece. Rare early German study of American migration, containing one of the earliest extensive contemporary descriptions of the Harmony Society under Johann Georg Rapp... More
London: Bund (Rosyjska Soc-demokratyczna Partja Robotnicza [Russian Social Democratic Workers Party]; Abraham Nathanson.), 1903. In original paper. Text in Polish. 22, [2] p. The publisher of this scarce booklet is the “Bund”, the General Union of Jewish Workers in Lithuania, Poland and Russia (Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln..... More