Venice? N. p., 1526. Title page with elaborate woodcut border of musical instruments and allegorical figures. With two woodcut initials. First edition. Text in Italian. Date and place of the dedication is June 10, 1526, Lyon. Precedes the bibliographical (Latin) first edition. Papered spine. (4º); A1–B4 (B4 is blank). “Dehortatione...
[S.l.]: [S.n.], [n.d. but 1709]. First edition. In contemporary leather. Gilt spine with red title label. Edges of the panels gilt. Marbled endpapers. Tinted edges. (12), 308 p. Scarce publication related to the endgame of the Chinese Rites Controversy. Antoine Thomas (adopted the Chinese name of Ngan To...
Estampades en Valencia: en casa de Joan Mey, Venen se en casa de Sanahuja Librer [Juan Mey], any. M. D. Lxvi, [1566]. First edition. In modern vellum, title lettered in ink on the spine. Woodcut initials. ff. [16]. Collation: a–b8. “The first catechismal work directed expressly at the instruction of.....
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...
Budapest: Benkő Gyula (Rovó Aladár), 1918. First edition. With printed dedication to Georg (György) Lukács. In original paper. 47, (1) p. Balázs’ theoretical book on theatre, an antecedent to his books about film. This treatise was originally written to be lectured on a series of public talk that was.....
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...
Zagreb: Merkantile, 1929. First edition. In original Constructivist cover. 67, (1) p. Bonifačić (1901–1986) was a Croatian politician, émigré journalist and critic. After Word War II he emigrated to Brazil where he became the editor of Croatian émigré newspapers. He died in Chicago, USA.
Nürnberg (Nürmbergen): Johann Weißenburger (Joannem Weyssenburger), June 18, 1510. Woodcut on title by Wolf Traut, coloured by contemporary hand. First edition in German speaking territories, second in general (first in 1505, Paris, MarchantLaliseau). Papered spine. (32) p. a–b6, c4. Rare and curious book on sacerdotal celibacy. Geoffroy Boussard (1439–1522).....
(Paris): Gallimard, (1958). Presentation copy. In publisher’s paper. 221, (1) p. Inscribed by the French author Roger Caillois (1913–1978) to Iván Boldizsár (1912–1988) the Hungarian poet and writer. Boldizsár was the president of the Hungarian PEN Club from 1970 and President of the International PEN Club in 1984.....
Coloniae [Köln]: apud Peter Quentel, Anno XXXIII [1533]. With two large woodcut illustrations, the Virgin and Child on verso of title and woodcut of the author at end. Woodcut initials. First edition. In later gilt burgundy maroquin. Gilt floral ornaments and title on spine. Marbled endpapers. Gilt edges. Green silk.....
Budapest: ifj. Nágel Ottó, 1911. First edition. Complete run. The first issue printed by the Kner private press in Gyoma, the second by “Garai Mór és Fia” in Budapest. In publisher’s printed paper. 129, (3); (3), 134–256, (2) p. Scarce and important Hungarian philosophical review. The cradle of the progressive.....
Parisiis (Paris): Apud Simonem Colinaeum (Simon de Colines), 1530. Title within elaborate woodcut border, with initials S.D.C. and Geoffroy Tory’s Lorraine cross. Reprint of the printer's edition of 1525. First printed by Johann Froben in 1517. Papered spine. (8º) a–c8 (c8 blank); 23, (1 blank) leaves. Erasmus’ famous pacifist text.....
[Landshut]: [Johann Weißenburger], [1521]. Early edition. Papered spine. (8) p. (the last two blank). An early and scarce German edition of Erasmus’ diatribe on church music. The text is a translation of an excerpt from the Annotations and circulated widely among followers of Luther and Zwingli. The treatise...
Paris: Excudebat Christianus Wechelus [Chrétien Wechel], sub scuto Basiliensi, in uico Iacobaeo, Anno: M. D. XXXIII [1533]. First edition. Woodcut printer's device on title page and final leaf verso. Papered spine. 30, (2) p. A rare edition of the last two colloquies of Erasmus, Epicureus (The Epicurean), and Problema (A...
Strasbourg, Hagenau: Knobloch; Seltz, 1523–1528. Four works in one volume. In contemporary wooden panels with the traces of leather and a codex leaf on spine. Spine with three raised bands. The original copper clasps are presented. The title pages of the first three works (by Erasmus) with identical architectural borders.....
[Argentorati (Strasbourg)]: [In Aedibus Matthiae Schurerij (Matthias Schürer)], [Mense Aprili Anno Domini M. D. XIX. (1519 April)]. First Strasbourg edition. In somewhat later paper. Illustrated title page. 167, (1) p. Collation: A6, B4, C8, D4, E8, F4, G8, H4, I8, K4, L8, M4, N8, O6. Scarce and early edition of...
Jerusalem: Moriah, 1930. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed to Kitty Marx-(Steinschneider). In original wrappers. 24 p. Memorial speech, delivered by Scholem at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on the thirtieth day after Franz Rosenzweig’s death. Inscribed in Hebrew to Kitty Marx-Steinschneider (1905–2002), who was a close friend of Scholem...
Stara Rise na Morava: Dobre Dilo, 1929. With several text illustrations, one full-page, and five illustrated plates by various artists, including Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated grey folder, printed in red. Complete. Page size: 118 × 155 mm. Scarce portfolio of collected short stories and poems, with five...
Warszawa [Warsaw]: Czytelnik, 1970. Second edition. Inscribed by the author. in 1984. In publisher’s cloth, with the original dust jacket, both with Jan S. Miklaszewski’s illustration. 324, (4) p. Inscribed copy of Lem’s celebrated novel Głos pana (His Master's Voice). The first edition was published by the same publisher.....
Stockholm: Tryckt hos Johan Pehr Lindh, 1793. First Swedish edition. In contemporary blue wrappers. (8), 84 p. The first Swedish edition of Locke’s Epistola de tolerantia (A Letter Concerning Toleration) which was originally published in 1689 in Latin. It was translated into Sweden by Carl Delén (1767–1850) who was an...
A Paris: Chez Louys Billaine, au second Pilier de la grande Salle du Palais, à la Palme, & au grand Celar, M. DC. LXX. [1670]. First French edition. In somewhat later leather. Panels blind-ruled, spine with five raised bands, gilt, with red title vignette. Edges painted. (8), 165, (1) p....
London: Merlin Press, 1962. First edition. Inscribed. In original dust-jacket. 361, (1) p. George (György, Georg) Lukács (1885–1971) was a Marxists political thinker, aesthete, university teacher, politician, literary critic, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Lukács was among the most important and most influential philosophers of the era, the.....
Budapest: Franklin-Társulat, 1910. First edition. Presentation copy. Text in Hungarian. In original wrappers. 210 p. Lukács’s first book, the series of poignant and evocative literary meditations which includes the first serious assessment of the work and psychology of Søren Kierkegaard. “Soul and Form” is the groundwork for Lukács’ later work.....
Dated (February 26, 1946). Typescript letter, signed by Lukács in ink. One page. Folded. 205 × 145 mm. Lukács rejects the invitation to give a lecture on Attila József the Hungarian poet at the “Szabad Egyetem” (Free University).
Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, 1910. First edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers. (4), (1)–210, (2) p. One of the earliest works of Jan Lukasiewicz (1878–1956) the Polish logician and philosopher, who introduced mathematical logic into Poland, and who was a founding member of the Lwów–Warsaw school of logic (which was later made.....
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