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 about 1 Maj 1953
[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 about Aki sztrájkra bujtogat, az a tőkések, ellenforradalmárok szószólója!!! [The Strike...
[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 about Album der K. und K. Schiffshebeformation
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 about Armistice of Villafranca, July 12, 1859. (Telegramm zur “Arader Zeitung”
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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 about Boris Petrovsky’s Photo Album] Dr. Borisz Petrovszkij professzor elvtársnak szeretettel a...
[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 about Botrány! Zsidok pénzelik a Hungarista “Magyarság”-ot! [Scandal! Jews Financing the...
![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 about Caption title:] Décrets de la Convention Nationale, Des 27 Juillet & 7 Août 1793, l’an...
![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 about Caption title:] Loi Qui fixe la disposition des Couleurs dans les différens genres de Pavillons,...
![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 about Caption title:] Pétition des patriotes déportés des Isles Martinique, Guadeloupe et...
[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 about Che per necessità di Giustizia, e per Convenienza di Stato sia indispensabile a S. R. Imperio la...
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 about Collection of Five Photographs of the Ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto
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 about Constitutions des treize États-Unis de l'Amérique. Nouvelle édition
[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 about Das Brittische Reich in America; Oder: Kurzgefaßte Beschreibung der Engländischen Pflanzstädte...
[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 about Documents on the Terrorist Activities of American Agents in Czechoslovakia
(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 about A három szövetséges nagyhatalom: a Szovjetunió, az Amerikai Egyesült Államok és...
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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 about Huynh Tan Phát] Huỳnh Tấn Phát Signed Greeting Card for New Year. 1970
![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 about In Hebrew:] Hurban Yahadut Varsha. [Liquidation of Jewish Warsaw. According to Official Documents...
[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 about Jobboldal! A mi oránk üt! A Magyarságért. A bolsevizmus ellen. Nagygyülés. [Right Wing! It...
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 about KZ - Bildbericht aus fünf Konzentrationslagern
[N.p. probably Szolnok or Budapest]: [s.n.], [1956]. 210 × 297 mm. Printed poster. A group of children led by a peasant-dressed woman, in front of a destroyed kindergarten (“Ovoda”). The governmental poster was made by the Soviet-installed “Magyar Forradalmi Munkás-Paraszt Kormány” (Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Government of Hungary), led by..... More about Legyen meleg szerető otthonunk! [Let A Warm, Loving Home Be For Us!
![List of Holocaust Survivors.] A türkheimi (Bajorország) volt koncentracios-tabor magyar...](/pictures/thumb/27.jpg?v=1557482875)
2 vintage, contemporary mimeographic pages. 11 names added to the list by unknown hand in ink. Lists more than 100 survivors, their dates of birth and addresses. Most of the people were from Budapest. The Türkheim KZ or Kaufering VI was a subcamp of Dachau concentration camp, it was... More about List of Holocaust Survivors.] A türkheimi (Bajorország) volt koncentracios-tabor magyar...
(Budapest): (1950). In original, modest burlap with red fringes. Title page printed in gold. Contains 45 original photographs, in various sizes ca. 220–230 × 160–170 mm. 24 album card leaves, separated with tracing paper. The unique and representative album – most likely a present to a comrade – is showing... More about Magyar Munkásmozgalmi Intézet Múzeuma. [Museum of the Institution of the Hungarian Labour...
[N.p. probably Szolnok or Budapest]: [s.n.], [1956]. 210 × 297 mm. Printed poster. A tall policeman in the cloth of the former State Protection Authority grasps a dumpy, resentful “profiteer” in his hand. The governmental poster was made by the Soviet-installed “Magyar Forradalmi Munkás-Paraszt Kormány” (Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Government..... More about Még egy spekulánssal kevesebb! [One Less Profiteer!
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 about Mlot. Organ Socjal-Demokratycznego Związku Zawodowego Robotnikow Przemyslu Metalurgicznego w...
[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 about Munkáddal segitsd a közlekedés gyors megindítását. [Work For the Rapid Re-Establishment of...