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Author: Czesław Miłczak Publisher: NUMIS POLAND Krzysztof Klitończyk For sale: a set of two volumes of the iconic catalog by Czesław Miłczak—an invaluable source of knowledge for collectors and enthusiasts of Polish paper currency. Volume I and Volume II contain detailed descriptions and illustrations of Polish banknote designs from various historical periods. Each banknote is accompani...
Currently, this is the best two-volume study of the stock issues of interwar joint-stock companies. The catalog includes 5,044 shares identified at the time, which were issued by 1,090 companies. The catalog contains 476 scans of the most interesting, attractive, and rare shares. It is precisely Leszek Koziorowski’s catalog that auction houses use when citing literature on historical securit...
Polish Publications Jerzy Koziczyński – Polish Banknotes / Polish Paper Money, the Lucow Collection, Volume III (1919–1939), with the author’s bookplate No. 024—with space to enter the owner’s name, Warsaw 2005, ISBN 839133614X 264 pages, hardcover with gilt lettering and dust jacket, A4+ format, illustrations and rarity ratings in the text, excellent illustrations, a very rare and ...
Polish Banknotes – Designs, Volumes I and IIAuthor: Czesław MiłczakPublisher: NUMIS POLAND Krzysztof KlitończykNow for sale: a complete set of two volumes of the iconic catalog by Czesław Miłczak—an invaluable source of knowledge for collectors and enthusiasts of Polish paper currency.Volume I and Volume II contain detailed descriptions and illustrations of Polish banknote designs fro...
Hardcover Number of pages: 125 It includes an autograph by the author, Zdzisław Sawicki
Hardcover A4 format Number of pages: 581
The latest edition, 2nd, revised and expanded. This publication was released in a very limited print run of 60 pieces; according to the author, there will be no further reprints. All pieces are numbered and signed by the author in his own hand—the piece offered in this auction is number 54 A4 format ~21.5 x 30.5 cm, 415 pages Published in Warsaw, 2019 The catalog includes the author’s anno...
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, *Another World: Soviet Notes*. Foreword by Bertrand Russell.London, 1953; Published by Gryf Publications Ltd., 169–171 Battersea Church Road, London, S.W. 11; Printed by Gryf Printers Ltd. Paper, burgundy publisher’s cover, 234 pp., [5], size 21 x 14 cm. Good condition: cover detached from the block, minor tear at the bottom of the spine, on p. 215 a paper loss ...
Polish Banknotes – Designs, Volumes I and IIAuthor: Czesław MiłczakPublisher: NUMIS POLAND Krzysztof KlitończykNow for sale: a complete set of two volumes of the iconic catalog by Czesław Miłczak—an invaluable source of knowledge for collectors and enthusiasts of Polish paper currency.Volume I and Volume II contain detailed descriptions and illustrations of Polish banknote designs fro...
Polish publications Szymczyk, Maciej (ed.) – Treasury Notes from the Time of the Kościuszko Uprising, Duszniki-Zdrój 2024, ISBN 9788360990773 123 pages, format approx. 21 x 21 cm, softcover. The first contemporary catalog of its kind describing banknotes from the time of the Kościuszko Uprising. The catalog presents, among other things, the economic situation in the Polish lands in the se...
Bruno Schulz, *The Hourglass Sanatorium*.Warsaw, 1937; Published by: “Rój” Publishing Society; Printed by: M. Arcta Publishing House Printing Plant; Illustrations by the author; Copy no. 311 [or 341, the middle digit is faintly printed] Secondary binding, cloth, with the original front cover preserved but without the dust jacket, 262 [2] pages, format 19.6 x 14.7 cm Condition: cloth bindi...
Number of pages: Paperback Published: April 28, 2015, in London
A notebook, missing the last few pages (perhaps 2); no author or dates; in Polish. Written by several people; various handwriting styles, generally legible.Paper cover, 72 pages, 3 loose sheets, size 22 x 17.7 cm.Condition: front cover has paper loss, is torn, at least the last 2 pages and the back cover are missing; numerous signs of wear, stains, dirt, and yellowing. Among the approximately ...
General Government Identity Card.Document issued on July 3, 1943, to Maria Cielecka (née Sojecka), born August 27, 1860, in Ostrówek, residing in Warsaw at 204 Czerniakowska Street. 6 pages, photograph preserved, size 14.1 x 9.6 cm. Good condition: some soiling, a small water stain at the bottom, minor cracks at the folds.
Number of pages: 535 Hardcover Author: Jarosław Dutkowski
Hardcover There is a crease in the right corner of the cover
Number of pages: 330 Hardcover Author: Tadeusz Iger
On the other hand, there is a slight wear Number of pages: 523 Author: Kai Lindman
Polish publications Witold Borowski – Crown Coins of Casimir IV Jagiellon, 1447–1492, Sieraków 2025, ISBN 9788397701205 192 pages, B5 format, hardcover. A new and detailed approach to the typology of Casimir Jagiellon’s coins
KRUPKA, Władysław; POL, Krzysztof; TEYSZERSKI, Romuald — RISK. CAPTAIN ŻBIK, PART 1. First edition. Warsaw 1968, Sport i Turystyka Publishing House. Illustrations and graphic design: Zbigniew Sobala. Paperback in approximately B5 format, color cover, price printed on the cover: 10 zł. Visible signs of wear, dirt, and scuffs on the cover, occasional creases, and minor damage to the edges....
KRUPKA, Władysław; POL, Krzysztof; TEYSZERSKI, Romuald — RISK. CAPTAIN ŻBIK, PART 2. First edition. Warsaw 1968, Sport i Turystyka Publishing House. Illustrations: Zbigniew Sobala. Paperback, color cover, price printed on the cover: 10 zł. Signs of use and storage, scuffs and dirt on the cover, occasional creases, and minor damage. The second issue of the first story in the “Captain Ż...
Hardcover Number of pages: 138 Autograph by the catalog's author
Content in both Polish and English Hardcover Number of pages: 406 Author: Jarosław Dutkowski
Diploma/form printed and filled out by hand (including the autographs of the general and committee members): “The White Banner—Noble Deeds” Halina Wroczyńska was among the founders of the banner for the 2nd Regiment of Greater Poland Uhlans, established on April 28, 1919, by Order No. 114 of the General Command for the former Prussian partition. [signed] Commander-in-Chief: Dowbor-Muśn...
Official Train and Flight Schedule. Summer 1939. Published by the Ministry of Transportation. Printed by the Polish Association of Railway Bookstores “Ruch.” p. 912, (6). Height: 20.4 cm. Softcover, publisher’s binding. Scuffs and stains on the cover, creased corners, localized wear. Minor stains. The official railway and air transport timetable of the Second Polish Republic, valid from ...
Polish publications Marian Gumowski (ed. Antoni Domaradzki) – The Gdańsk Mint, Gdańsk 1990 219 pages and 37 plates, approximately B5 format, softcover
VOLUME II: The Former Russian Partition  Hardcover  Number of pages: 345 REPRINT
Hardcover Number of pages: 135 Signed by Robert Jadrych with a dedication
Number of pages: 535 Hardcover Author: Jarosław Dutkowski
Catalog of Temporary Paper Currency from Polish Territories, 1919–1924—Gdańsk Pomerania and the Free City of Gdańsk An essential catalog for collectors of emergency banknotes. Hardcover, dimensions: 21.7 x 30.1 cm, A4 format, 171 pages. Published in Warsaw, 2007
Yeży Yankowski, A Tram Down the Street. A Collection of Prose and Poetry.Warsaw, 1920; Published by: Wydawnictwo Futuryzm Polski; Printed by: Drukarnia Literacka, Nowy Świat 22. Paperback publisher’s cover, unnumbered pages 63, size 23.7 x 18 cm. Condition: the cover is almost entirely torn along the spine; the block is detached from the tattered spine; two leaves in the center are torn at...
[KRASIŃSKI, Wincenty, Krasiński Library] ROPELEWSKI, Stanisław—Polish-French Dictionary. Dictionnaire polonais-français. Volume I (A–M). Berlin, [ca. 1843]. B. Behr Bookstore. pp. [2], 1017. Height: 15 cm. Period binding: half-leather, spine with gilded title and ornamentation, cloth covers with an embossed cartouche and a count’s crown. On the title page, an oval heraldic ownership ...
Polish Publications Katarzyna Pągowska – Numismatics of the Polish People’s Republic. Circulation, collector’s, and proof coins. An exhibition from the collections of the Museum of Central Pomerania in Słupsk, Słupsk 2019, ISBN 9788395130854 63 A5-size pages, softcover, illustrated catalog, print run of 100 copies. The catalog is divided into three chapters covering coins issued betwe...
Bolesław Prus (born Aleksander Głowacki), *Lalka*. A novel in three volumes, with a portrait of the author. Volume I, Volume II, Volume III.Warsaw, 1890; Published by Gebethner and Wolff; Printed in Kraków—by Wł. L. Anczyc and Company, under the management of J. GadowskiIn three separate volumes, uniform cloth binding with embossed stripes; pages in Vol. I: [3], 431, [1], with 1 portrait...
Hardcover Number of Pages: 223 The book is packaged in a cardboard box. The book contains annotations.
ID card, cardboard-and-cloth cover with the Polish coat of arms embossed on the front, 8 pages, size 12.7 x 8.3 cm.Condition: no photographs, soiled, minor creases.Stamps: factory—Military Artillery Fuse Factory; Factory Manager (signature: F. Pacjanowski?); Director of the Military Artillery Fuse Factory. Inside (form filled out in pen): Military Artillery Fuse Factory. ID Card No. 57, vali...
Polish Banknotes – Designs, Volumes I and IIAuthor: Czesław MiłczakPublisher: NUMIS POLAND Krzysztof KlitończykNow for sale: a complete set of two volumes of the iconic catalog by Czesław Miłczak—an invaluable source of knowledge for collectors and enthusiasts of Polish paper currency.Volume I and Volume II contain detailed descriptions and illustrations of Polish banknote designs fro...
On the title page: First Aid in Accidents Until the Arrival of a Doctor, Compiled by Dr. G.I. Turner [Google Translate: First Aid in Case of an Accident Before the Doctor Arrives —Compiled by Dr. G.I. Turner]St. Petersburg, 1894.Red cloth binding (publisher’s?), in Russian, 60 pp., [1], 16 plates, chromolithographs, 1 fold-out plate, format 16.4 x 11.4 cm. Condition fairly poor: binding wi...
The publication “The Warsaw Citadel: Pavilion X,” published in Warsaw in 1916 by the Aid Society for Polish Legionnaires and Their Families in Warsaw. The brochure contains six pages with reproductions of photographs depicting the buildings of the 10th Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel. The front cover bears the seal of the Aid Society for Polish Legionnaires. During the Russian partition, Pa...
After the establishment in 1944 of representative bodies—the National Councils—and their legal sanctioning under the Constitution of July 22, 1952, the National Councils established local honors in the form of badges for distinguished citizens. Subsequent legal acts following the state’s administrative reforms authorized the establishment and awarding of honorary badges. Local government...
Hardcover Number of pages: 591,485 Very interesting pieces for those new to numismatics
Journal, diary entries from 1820–1827 from the Lower Silesia region (Wrocław, Świdnica, Strzelce Opolskie, Kobierzyce, Wierzbice...) a total of about 30 entries, some illustrated
Polish Banknotes – Designs, Volumes I and IIAuthor: Czesław MiłczakPublisher: NUMIS POLAND Krzysztof KlitończykNow for sale: a complete set of two volumes of the iconic catalog by Czesław Miłczak—an invaluable source of knowledge for collectors and enthusiasts of Polish paper currency.Volume I and Volume II contain detailed descriptions and illustrations of Polish banknote designs fro...
Number of pages: 48 Paperback Exhibition at the NBP Money Center 2022
Number of pages: 315 Paperback
Paperback Number of pages: 76
Paperback Number of pages: 88 Signed by the Author
Polish Banknotes – Designs, Volumes I and IIAuthor: Czesław MiłczakPublisher: NUMIS POLAND Krzysztof KlitończykNow for sale: a complete set of two volumes of the iconic catalog by Czesław Miłczak—an invaluable source of knowledge for collectors and enthusiasts of Polish paper currency.Volume I and Volume II contain detailed descriptions and illustrations of Polish banknote designs fro...
One-Day Event of the Artillery Reserve Officer Candidate School, November 29, 1936, Włodzimierz.[no publisher: S.P.R.A. Cultural and Educational Circle?] Editors of the S.P.R.A. commemorative publication: Canon Jerzy Gadomski, Canon Leon Ter-Oganjan, Canon Jerzy Piechocki. The graphic designers were not credited; the cover designed for the first S.P.R.A. one-day newspaper by Feliks Topolski w...
Number of pages: 57 Paperback
Piece: 96/100 Hardcover Number of pages: 119 An excellent piece with a high number
One-Day Event at the Artillery Reserve Officer Cadet School, Włodzimierz, November–December 1930.Editors: Bombardier Eugenjusz Gulczyński, Bombardier Józef Cyrankiewicz, Bombardier Kazimierz Zdziarski, Bombardier Stefan Żurowski. Cover design by Bombardier F. Topolski. Caricatures and illustrations in the text by F. Topolski and W. Eysmont. Photographs by the K.K.O. Photography Section.P...
Number of pages: 412 Hardcover