1940 Március.
Budapest: Ferenc Szeder (Világosság Rt.), 1940. With illustrated title page and text illustrations. First edition. Printed in red and black. (8) p. Magazine of the Hungarian Social Democratic Party. Illustrated by Ilona Kasitzky. More
First edition
(Automobiles De Dion-Bouton.) Voitures et Moteurs a Pétrole de Dion-Bouton. 36, Quai National Puteaux (Seine).
Wien (Paris): General-Vertretung für Österreich-Ungarn, Fritz Fürst (J. Barreau; J. de Masin), (1907). In original, illustrated paper in art nouveau style. With numerous illustrations, printed in sepia and black, typographical ornaments printed in green. (28) p., and 4 color plates. Introducing a car with single-cylinder engine (type: BG), four cars... More
![Avantgarda bez Legend a Mytu: Rozhlasovy cyklus o Patnácti Dilech. cast 1–14. [Avant-Garde without Legends and Myths: A Radio Series in Fifteen Parts. Part 1–14.]](/pictures/thumb/1437.jpg?v=1531414285)
Avantgarda bez Legend a Mytu: Rozhlasovy cyklus o Patnácti Dilech. cast 1–14. [Avant-Garde without Legends and Myths: A Radio Series in Fifteen Parts. Part 1–14.]
[Praha]: [Published privately], [1967.]. First edition. Samizdat. Five carbon copy booklets saddle stitched together. In original modernist wrappers, printed in red and black. Complete. Extremely scarce, private publication with the full transcript of all fourteen parts of the Czech radio play, Avantgarda bez Legend a Mytu. Avant-Garde without... More
![[Caption title:] Loi Qui fixe la disposition des Couleurs dans les différens genres de Pavillons, ou autres marques distinctives usitées sur les Vaisseaux, de guerre et sur les Bátimens de commerce. Donné à Paris, le 31 Octobre 1790. [Décret de l’Assamblée Nationale, du 24 Octobre 1790.]](/pictures/thumb/1240.jpg?v=1501775373)
[Caption title:] Loi Qui fixe la disposition des Couleurs dans les différens genres de Pavillons, ou autres marques distinctives usitées sur les Vaisseaux, de guerre et sur les Bátimens de commerce. Donné à Paris, le 31 Octobre 1790. [Décret de l’Assamblée Nationale, du 24 Octobre 1790.]
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
Documents of the Terrorist Activities of American Agents in Czechoslovakia.
[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
Emil Kio Show. Poster of the Soviet State Circus. 1945.
[Soviet Union]: [S.n.], 1945. Original, vintage poster. Offset color print. ca. 59 × 84 cm. Original circus poster, advertising the show of Emil Kio (1894–1965) Soviet illusionist, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (Soviet Russia). More
![[Exhibition of International Modern Architecture. The Traveling Exhibition of the Deutscher Werkbund and a Selection of Czech Modern Architecture.] Vystava mezinarodni nove architektury. Putovni vystava korporavce Deutcher Werkbund a soubor ceslovenské nové architektury. Ustredni knihovna hlav. mesta Prahy. 15–31. V. 1929.](/pictures/thumb/1510.jpeg?v=1537543984)
[Exhibition of International Modern Architecture. The Traveling Exhibition of the Deutscher Werkbund and a Selection of Czech Modern Architecture.] Vystava mezinarodni nove architektury. Putovni vystava korporavce Deutcher Werkbund a soubor ceslovenské nové architektury. Ustredni knihovna hlav. mesta Prahy. 15–31. V. 1929.
[Prague]: Klub Architektu (Stavba) v Praze, [1929]. In publisher’s typographically illustrated wrappers, printed in red. Saddle-stitched. Modernist layout. 23, (9) p. Catalogue of the 1929 Exhibition of International Modern Architecture in Prague, organized by the Deutscher Werkbund and the Czechoslovakian Club of Architecture. The show was based on... More
![Folwark zwierzęcy, Komiks wg Orwella. [Animal Farm. Comics After Orwell.]](/pictures/thumb/749.jpg?v=1450367509)
Folwark zwierzęcy, Komiks wg Orwella. [Animal Farm. Comics After Orwell.]
(Warsaw): Gilosz & Azyl (Słowo), 1985. First edition, first issue (with price 120 zloty printed on rear cover). Oblong, format A5. Text in Polish. In publisher’s, illustrated wrappers. 31, (1) p. First edition of the comics based on George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Polish samizdat comics of Orwell’s Animal Farm... More
Informe sobre la mejora y aumento de la cria de caballos, dado al Supremo Consejo de Guerra, por los tenientes generales D. Antonio Amar, Manuel Freyre, el Marques de Casa-Cagigal y el Mariscal de Campo, D. Diego Ballestreros, extendido Por el citado Marques, individuo de la junta, y con arreglo á las opiniones de esta. Impreso con aprobacion de S. M.
Barcelona: Por D. Agustin Roca, impresor de Cámara de S. M., 1818. First edition. In contemporary grey wrappers. (1 [engraved frontispiece]), (6), 5–101, (1) and 1 folded plate. Report on the development and improvement of horse rearing in Spain. More
![Jobboldal! A mi oránk üt! A Magyarságért. A bolsevizmus ellen. Nagygyülés. [Right Wing! It Is Our Time! For the Hungarians. Against the Bolsheviks. Congress.]](/pictures/thumb/1315.jpg?v=1505728134)
Jobboldal! A mi oránk üt! A Magyarságért. A bolsevizmus ellen. Nagygyülés. [Right Wing! It Is Our Time! For the Hungarians. Against the Bolsheviks. Congress.]
[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
![Kitab Alf layla wa-layla. [One Thousand and One Nights.]](/pictures/thumb/1370.jpg?v=1517586301)
Kitab Alf layla wa-layla. [One Thousand and One Nights.]
Bulaq [al-Qāhira]: al-Matba'ah al-kubra, 1251 AH [1835 AD]. First edition. Printed in Arabic. Each page framed by double rules. Large woodcut vignettes on the opening pages of both volumes. Two volumes. In somewhat later half leather. Spine with five raised bands. Title, volume number, and edition lettered gilt on spine... More
![A Marosvásárhelyi Ev. Ref. Collegium Könyvnyomdája Termékeinek jegyzéke 1786–1867. oktober 1-ig. [Catalogue of the Publications of the Marosvásárhely College Press from 1786 to 1st October 1867]](/pictures/thumb/1332.jpg?v=1510853011)
A Marosvásárhelyi Ev. Ref. Collegium Könyvnyomdája Termékeinek jegyzéke 1786–1867. oktober 1-ig. [Catalogue of the Publications of the Marosvásárhely College Press from 1786 to 1st October 1867]
Maros-vásárhelytt [Marosvásárhely]: Ny. Imreh Sándor Az Ev. Ref. Fötan. Gyorssajtóján, 1882. First edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 24, (2) p. Catalogue of the press of the Lutheran and Calvinist College of Marosvasarhely, where Farkas Bolyai worked as a professor for almost fifty years. The catalogue from 1882 includes... More
![[Photo Album of the Hungarian Branch of the Franck Coffee Company.] [Altenfestes.] Den Alter zur Ehr, den Jungen zur Lehr. 1939.](/pictures/thumb/1294.jpg?v=1504622265)
[Photo Album of the Hungarian Branch of the Franck Coffee Company.] [Altenfestes.] Den Alter zur Ehr, den Jungen zur Lehr. 1939.
[Budapest]: 1939. Photo album with 18 cardboard leaves and 17 black and white photographs, separated with tissue paper. The printed version of the speeches (seventeen-leave brochure), and the original letter, on the official paper of the company with its letterhead and advertisement at the foot. Photo album and related documents... More
![Sedm prazskych dnu. / Sedm pražských dnů. 21.–27. spren 1968. Dokumentace. Studijní materiál – pouze pro vnitřní potřebu. [Seven Prague Days.]](/pictures/thumb/1135.jpg?v=1498231746)
Sedm prazskych dnu. / Sedm pražských dnů. 21.–27. spren 1968. Dokumentace. Studijní materiál – pouze pro vnitřní potřebu. [Seven Prague Days.]
[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
![Stowarzyszenie Humanitarne “Braterstwo–B’Nei-B’Rith” w Warszawie 1922-1932. [The Humanitarian Association of The B’Nei-B’Rith Brotherhood in Warsaw 1922–1932.]](/pictures/thumb/1374.jpg?v=1519644457)
Stowarzyszenie Humanitarne “Braterstwo–B’Nei-B’Rith” w Warszawie 1922-1932. [The Humanitarian Association of The B’Nei-B’Rith Brotherhood in Warsaw 1922–1932.]
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
![[Слово о полку Игореве.] Szózat Igor hadjáratárul a palócok ellen. (Hösköltemény az oroszok öskorábul. / Hősköltemény az oroszok őskorábul.) Magyarította Riedl Szende. [The Tale of Igor's Campaign. Epic Poem From the Ancient Time of the Russians.]](/pictures/thumb/660.jpg?v=1439911528)
[Слово о полку Игореве.] Szózat Igor hadjáratárul a palócok ellen. (Hösköltemény az oroszok öskorábul. / Hősköltemény az oroszok őskorábul.) Magyarította Riedl Szende. [The Tale of Igor's Campaign. Epic Poem From the Ancient Time of the Russians.]
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
![Türkische Schau-Bühne […]; [Bound before:] [Francisci, Erasmus]: Der Türkischen Groß-Sultanen Ursprung, Macht und Herrlichkeit […].](/pictures/thumb/1432.jpg?v=1530566570)
Türkische Schau-Bühne […]; [Bound before:] [Francisci, Erasmus]: Der Türkischen Groß-Sultanen Ursprung, Macht und Herrlichkeit […].
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
Konrad Veidt.
Moscow: Kinopechat, 1926. With six photographic illustrations. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. 14, (2) p. Early Soviet-Russian, illustrated biographical pamphlet on Konrad Veidt in constructivist cover. In the 1920s Kinopechat, the Soviet state publishing house for cinema, published a series of booklets focusing on the popular foreign film... More
![Inimen. Luuletused. [Man. Poems.]. Hendrik Adamson.](/pictures/thumb/1496.jpeg?v=1535981751)
Inimen. Luuletused. [Man. Poems.]
Tartu: Noor-Eesti (J. Mällo), 1925. First edition. In original, illustrated paper, designed by Ado Vabbe. 62, [2] p. Ado Vabbe (1892–1961) was one of the most important and influential figures of the Estonian Avant-Garde, founder of the Estonian art society “Pallas” and tutor at “Korgem Kunstikool Pallas” (Higher Art School... More
![Ópium-álmok. Songes d’opium. [Opium-Dreams.]. Aiglon, Mihály Rónai, Attila Sassy.](/pictures/thumb/1379.jpg?v=1522167811)
Ópium-álmok. Songes d’opium. [Opium-Dreams.]
[Budapest]: [Privately published, printed at Világosság könyvnyomda], 1909. First edition. Limited, numbered (1/250/300). The artist’s father’s copy. In original, brown cardboard cover with blue title vignette, printed in black, bound with yellow ribbon. Illustrated title page, one plate with ex-libris illustration, eight litographic plates, and two text plates in Hungarian... More
![Rinktinės zydu apysakos. O[zeris] Finkelsteinas, Ch[ackelis] Lemchenas, G[enrikas] Zimanas. [Selected Jewish Stories.]. Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Asch, Dovid Eynhorn, Isaac Leib Peretz, Avrom Reyzen.](/pictures/thumb/1447.jpeg?v=1532099874)
Rinktinės zydu apysakos. O[zeris] Finkelsteinas, Ch[ackelis] Lemchenas, G[enrikas] Zimanas. [Selected Jewish Stories.]
Kaunas: Spaudos Fondo Leidinys, 1931. Illustrated with three black-and-white photographic reproductions of the authors’ portraits. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Untrimmed. 232, (2) p., and 3 plates. Scarce, Lithuanian edition of Yiddish literature. With modernist cover design. A collection of short stories by Yiddish authors, such... More
Carmina Barbata.
Tartu: Odamehe [Odamees] (Postimehe), 1921. With an illustration by Rudolf Paris mounted on second leaf. First edition. In original illustrated paper, designed by Ado Vabbe. 94, [2] p. Ado Vabbe (1892–1961) was one of the most important and influential figures of the Estonian Avant-garde, founder of the Estonian art society... More
![Üksinduse Saartele. [Desert Island.]. August Alle.](/pictures/thumb/1498.jpeg?v=1535982534)
Üksinduse Saartele. [Desert Island.]
Tartu: Odamehe [Odamees] (Paalmann), 1918. First edition. In original illustrated paper by Balder Tomasberg. 80 p. Balder Tomasberg (1897–1919) was an Expressionist, Symbolist painter. More
![Gospodica. / Gospođica. [The woman of Sarajevo.]. Ivo Andric, Ivo Andrić.](/pictures/thumb/1214.jpg?v=1501239175)
Gospodica. / Gospođica. [The woman of Sarajevo.]
Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 1945. First edition. Association copy, inscribed by Andrić to Zoltán Csuka. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 180 p. Association copy of Andric's 1945 novel “The woman of Sarajevo”, inscribed to his Hungarian translator, Zoltán Csuka. Ivo Andric (1892–1975) was a Yugoslavian writer who won the Nobel Prize in... More
![Popiól i diament. Powiesc. (Klub Dobrej Ksiazki I.) [Ashes and Diamonds.]. Jerzy Andrzejewski.](/pictures/thumb/1279.jpg?v=1503068730)
Popiól i diament. Powiesc. (Klub Dobrej Ksiazki I.) [Ashes and Diamonds.]
[Warszawa]: Czytelnik Spóldzielnia Wydawnicza, 1948. First edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 334, (2) p. First edition of Andrzejewski’s most famous novel, Ashes and Diamonds. Popiól i diament describes the political and moral conflicts between the Polish patriots of the Home Army and the evolving communist regime during the last... More