Sthlm (Stockholm): Boktryckerivara, 1953. First edition. In original, illustrated paper. 46, (2) p. Publication for May Day by Swedish and Danish artists. Contains poems and linocuts by various artists, among them Egil Malmsten, Victor Brockdorff, Henning Damgård-Sørensen, Adelyne Cross-Eriksson, Knud Hvidberg, Kasper Heiberg, Herluf Bidstrup and Svenolov Ehren. More
[N.p. probably Szolnok or Budapest]: [1956]. 210 × 297 mm. Printed poster. A well-dressed “capitalist” aggressively shouts, a moneybag in his hand, hidden behind his body. 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..... More
[Austria]: [ca. 1917]. With 50 (one double) original, black and white photographs. Each image is labelled. Vintage photo album. Bound by a black string. With printed, embossed title on the front panel. 13 album card leaves. Image sizes vary: ca. 160–165 × 115–120 mm. Album measures: ca. 320 × 475..... More
Arad: Goldscheider, (1859). 1 page printed poster. 225 × 155 mm. Official communication of the Armistice of Villafranca that ended the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859. The armistice was signed by Napoleon III and Franz Joseph I of Austria, and it had a crucial part in..... More
![Boris Petrovsky’s Photo Album] Dr. Borisz Petrovszkij professzor elvtársnak szeretettel a...](/pictures/thumb/40.jpg?v=1406607904)
Budapest: February 5, 1951. A unique album with 30 black and white original photographs on 18 album card leaves, separated with tracing paper. In red leatherette binding. This photo album was supposedly given as a farewell gift to Boris Vasilyevich Petrovsky (1908–2004) the Soviet surgeon, who worked in Hungary between..... More
[N.p.]: I. Tarr (Nyomatott Laiszky János könyvnyomdájában Esztergom), [December 1, 1938]. Illustrated with photographic reproductions and the emblem of the Hungarist movement. 1 double-sided folio. Printed on green paper. (2) p. Size: 315 × 470 mm. This large format single issue newspaper attacks the Hungarian Nazi journal “Magyarság” to be..... More
![Caption title:] Décrets de la Convention Nationale, Des 27 Juillet & 7 Août 1793, l’an second...](/pictures/thumb/453.jpg?v=1432094542)
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
![Caption title:] Loi Qui fixe la disposition des Couleurs dans les différens genres de Pavillons,...](/pictures/thumb/1240.jpg?v=1501775373)
A Paris: De L’Imprimerie Royale, 1790. First edition. Imprint from colophon. With a woodcut headpiece above title. Published unbound. 4 p. The law about the French Tricolor, the birth of the French flag. The royal, Paris edition. The Revolution of 1789 led to the need for a new..... More
![Caption title:] Pétition des patriotes déportés des Isles Martinique, Guadeloupe et...](/pictures/thumb/451.jpg?v=1432094542)
(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
![Caption titles:] Extrait des régistres du Conseil du Port-au-Prince. (Séance du 21 Julliet...](/pictures/thumb/1721.jpeg?v=1578417110)
[Au Cap François]. [Antoine Marie], [1764]. First edition. Sewn bound. 17, (3) p. Very early, unrecorded Saint-Domingue imprint. Printing in Saint-Domingue origins in the second half of the 18th century. The first printer who established himself on the isle was Antoine Maria (Cabon, 1919). Marie was born in Nantes..... More
[S.l.]: [S.n.], 1667. First edition. In contemporary vellum. Short title and date in ink on front panel. (8º); (2), 90, (2) p. The book concerned with the War of Devolution (1667–1668) the conflict between France and Spain over the possession of the Spanish Netherlands. After the Thirty Years'..... More
![A Collection of 11 Photographs Taken in Nazi Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald During the Liberation.]...](/pictures/thumb/1835.jpg?v=1600287166)
[France(?); taken in Germany]: 1945. 11 vintage, black and white photographs ( Size: ca. 240 × 180 mm.). Each with an unidentified collection stamp, the stamp of the “Ministère de l'Information” seven of them also with the stamp of “Service Exploration Photographique”. Together with two referring typewritten..... More
Austria: around 1822; 1830. Printed and handwritten documents: 2 printed documents (1 bifolio of printed Gaunerzinkens, ca. 1830; four-page printed police report “Beschreibung”, 1822); 3 handwritten letters, with the header “Das k.k. Kreisamt im Pusterthale und am Eisack”, 1830 (1; 3; 3 p); 1 lengthy handwritten report, 1830 (10 p.)..... More
[Germany / USA]: [April 1945]. 21 larger: ca. 88 × 60 mm (16); ca. 60 × 57 mm (4); ca. 115 × 70 mm (1) and 70 smaller: ca. 40 × 29 mm black and white photographs. Contemporary print. Ninety-one private, unpublished snapshots of the Post War Germany, including early..... More
1947. Original, vintage, black and white photographs. Size: ca. 170 × 110 mm. A collection of five photographs of the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto, taken during Herman Gilman’s visit in 1947. Three of the images are showing him and Józef Gitler-Barski among the ruins of the Ghetto..... More
A Paris: [s.n.], 1792. Second, revised edition. In two volumes. In original blue wrappers with white title vignette on spine. [4], (5), 6-323, (1) p.; (5), 6-317, (1) p. First appearance of the French translation of the 1787 Federal Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, published in the scarce, second..... More
[Leipzig?]: Leipziger Ostermesse, 1756. First edition. In somewhat later hard paper covered with paste paper. With woodcut initials and a headpiece. 40 p. and 2 hand-colored, folding maps (from Schreiber's Atlas Minor). Signatures: A–E4. Map size: 237 × 173 mm. Scarce and important German geographical work on the British and..... More
[Prague]: The Press Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, 1952. First edition. With 16 full-page photographic reproductions. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 34, (2) p., and 9 double plates. Scarce cold war document about the American terrorist activities in Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s. On October..... More
En Madrid: en la Imprenta Real: A la Calle del Carmen: Por Mateo de Llanos / Hallaràse en la Puerta del Sol en casa de Juan Martin Merinero, Librero; y an Palacio, Año 1683. First edition. In modern half cloth. Woodcut device on the title page. Ornamented with a woodcut..... More
(Budapest?): (S.n.), February, 1945. First edition. Text in Hungarian. In original wrappers. 16 p. Contemporary information brochure about the Yalta Conference and a summery of its key points. Detailed information about the Conference, the participants, the topics discussed and the agreements about the future of Germany (unconditional surrender, occupation..... More
![Huynh Tan Phát] Huỳnh Tấn Phát Signed Greeting Card for New Year. 1970](/pictures/thumb/241.jpg?v=1418361698)
Signed in ink. Printed in red, blue and golden. 1 bifolio. 105 × 175 mm. Huỳnh Tấn Phát (1913–1989) was a South-Vietnamese communist politician and revolutionary, member of the First National Assembly, Chairman of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Republic of South Vietnam (Prime Minister, 1969–1976), after the unification he..... More
![In Hebrew:] Hurban Yahadut Varsha. [Liquidation of Jewish Warsaw. According to Official Documents...](/pictures/thumb/1687.jpg?v=1565878174)
[Tel Aviv]: [S.n. but Reprezentacja Żydowsta Polskiego], October 1943. First edition. Text in Hebrew, except for the map which is bilingual (Polish-Hebrew). Former collection copy, related ink inscriptions on the title page, private bookplate on title page verso (Rabbi Yehuda Liv), stamp on the second leaf and on p. 28..... More
[Budapest]: Budai nyomda, [late 1930s]. Original, vintage graphical poster. 620 × 930 mm. Poster of a Hungarian nationalist, Anti-Bolshevik congress in the late 1930s. Four eminent members of the nationalist movements, Nazi parties or other organizations delivered the speeches, among them, vitéz László Csik who represented the Keresztény..... More
N. p. Amerikanischen Kriegsinformationsamt im Auftrag des Oberbefehlshabers der Alliierten Streitkräfte. (1945). Contains 44 photographs, taken during the liberation of five concentration camps: Buchenwald, Belsen, Gardelegen, Nordhausen and Ohrdruf. First photo publication in postwar Germany. (28) p. The aim of publishing this brochure by the American Office of War Information..... More
[Washington, D. C.]: Department of State. Division of Biographic Information. Office of Libraries and Intelligence Acquisition, August 4, 1950 [stamp on front cover]. First edition. Presentation copy “To the Royal Netherland’s Embassy. Compliments of the American Embassy, Moscow. USSR.” Ownership inscription of Carl Dietrich Barkman. In publisher’s printed green paper..... More