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... More about Dehortatione de la gentile theologia per Henrico Cornelio Agrippa, nella quale si di mostra,...

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..... More about Les Instructions, e ordinacions perals nouament convertits del regne de Valencia: fetes per […]...

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..... More about Dramaturgia. Az elsö szemeszter folyamán elöadta --. (Elöadások a Szellemi Tudományok...

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. More about Ljudi Zapada. Eseji o André Gideu i Henry de Montherlantu. (People of the West. Essays on André...

(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..... More about Le Mythe et L’Homme

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..... More about A Szellem. Filozófiai folyóirat. (Metafizika, Etika, Vallásfilozófa, Esztétika.) I....

[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... More about Herr Erasmus von Roterdams verteütschte Außlegug über dise wort Sant Pauls zu den von Corinth...

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..... More about Ratio seu methodus; Enchiridion; Modus orandi Deum; Gravissimae sacrilegii

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... More about In Hebrew:] Franz Rosenzweig ve-Sifro Cochav ha-Geullah. Divre azkarah she-neemru...

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..... More about Glos pana. [His Master's Voice

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..... More about The Historical Novel

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). More about György Lukács’ Signed Letter

Warszawa [Warsaw]: Nakladem Spóldzielni Ksiegarskiej “Ksiazka”, 1926[–1933]. Second Polish edition. 3 parts bound into two, the first title page and the last half title bound into, the translations of the usual prefaces (pp. I–[XXXII]) are bound before first part, unlike other copies. In contemporary half cloth, with title labels. (4)..... More about Kapital. Krytyka ekonomji politycznej. Tom I. Ksiega pierwsza. Przebieg wytwarzani kapitalu