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20 cm, pp. 262, [2], illustrations, library pp. binding. Piece no. 620. on the title p. record number, on the back of k. tit. and on the last one stamps of the bibl. Pages clean, overall good condition. including A collection of short stories, some of which were written in the 1920s, including the oldest story "July Night". Volume dedicated to Józefina Szelińska. It is one of the most outsta...
Apteczka Lekarstw Domowych : Ktore każdy człowiek maiąc w niebytności Medyka snadno poratować zdrowie może : Tak z herbół iako też y z zwierząt bardzo doświadczone, tak dla Ludzi iako y dla bydła, Zebrana współoprawne z rękopisnymi zapiski lekarza z XIX wieku/ Lublin 1757/ druk. Jesuits/ binding in full leather by Jerzy Budnik/ [54] unnumbered pages, [59] unnumbered manuscript p...
Polish publications Michal Bishop - Banknotes my passion. Notebook II 1916(1917) - 1923(1924), Kielce 2024, ISBN 9788362509355 116 pages B5 format, soft cover, autograph of the author on the title page. More than 70 colorful, often enlarged photographs, a collection of treatises on various aspects related to the production and issuance of Polish banknotes. The author presents and describes in ...
Polish publications Szparło Adam - Letters of the "little People's Republic". Issues 1974-1993, Olmonty 2022, ISBN 9788396584205 60 pages of A5 format, soft cover, banknote catalog with a breakdown of the series and their rarities, additionally a handy card with a list of the series and their rarities
20 cm, pp. [4], 234, [1], illustrations, p. f. o.b. Good condition. Cover illustration signed J.Tom. Series: Library of Sparks, vol. 24.
29.5 cm, pp. 23, color illustrations, wrappers. ownership signature on title p., 1 card taped, otherwise good condition.
24.5 cm, p. [42], color illustrations, original cloth binding. Very good condition. A beautiful piece. 7th edition.
Typographer J.K.Mć. 17 cm, pp [6], 206, [12], cloth binding not much later; spine damaged, first 3 pages and last 14 with traces of flooding; on front pastedown handwritten entry:"received from my grandfather Antoni Migdalski d 16 VI 1888 J.Migdalski", on title p. stamp: Rudolf Rozwadowski. After k. title. print. dedication of the author To [...] Xięzna [...] Anna z Xiążąt Sapiehow Jabło...
22 cm, p. 100, f. nlb 5, 12 fold tabs, cloth back cover. Stamps on the endpapers and on the last sheet, otherwise good condition. Contents: Part one: Theory of making beer. On the making of malts. On the sugar element. About vinney fermentation. Part two: About the malt house. About the drying room. About the composition of malt. A vat of malt. About the cold room. About the winney vat. About ...
A well-known and respected item.
Polish publications Koziczyński Jerzy - Polish Banknotes / Polish Paper Money, Lucow Collection, Volume V (1944-1955); Warsaw, 2010, ISBN 9788392333272 320 pages, hardcover with gilt and wrappers, A4+ format; lavishly illustrated catalog, rarity designation next to each item
29 cm, pp. 24, color illustrations, original pg. binding. good condition. Issue 1.
20.5 cm, pp. 133, [3], illustrations, original cover. Cover glued with tissue paper, with registration sticker, folds loose, otherwise good condition. Cover, illustrations and layout graph. Atelier Graf. Girs-Barcz in Warsaw.
15.5 cm, pp. LXI, 540, 19 maps, 8 plans, 1 fold. map, original publisher's cloth binding, ownership signature on title page. With a set of maps and plans of the cities of Lviv, Yaroslavl, Przemyśl, Lublin Zamosc, Lutsk, Ternopil, and Stanislawow. Very good condition. Two volumes were published, in addition to the one offered here, the first to appear was: Northeastern Poland, 1935.
Twain Mark/ Adventures of Huck. Translated from the original by T.Prażmowska. With a preface by J.A. Święcicki/ Warsaw 1898/ Bibl. Dzieł Wyborowych/ first edition/ art binding by Jerzy Budnik, half leather/ vol.I-II, set/ p.208;183/ very good condition, collectible Artistic binding by Jerzy Budnik (on the leather overlapping the back cover the signature INTROLIGATOR- Jerzy Budnikreflected ...
20.5 cm, pp. 369, [14], pp. binding, period. On title p. stamp: Roman Jasielski. Bookstore. Stanislawow. ex. no. 680. good condition. Edition 1 appeared at the end of 1938, already dated 1939. A continuation of the novel The Fifth Stage.
29 cm, pp. nlb. 16, color illustrations, wrappers very good condition. Issue 1.
Translated from French and supplemented with brief geographic and statistical notes on Poland and its inhabitants by Heinrich Elsner. 21.5 cm, pp. 112; 113-224, 4 tab. copperplates: including title page; [1], 225-328; 96; 97-192; 193-288; [1], 289-344, 8 tab. copperplates, Seven volumes: original publisher's covers, each with vignette. Z. 1 with rust spots on cover, other covers clean. Pages i...
Polished by Włodzimierz Topoliński. 20 cm, pp. VII, 231, [1], illustrations, p. f. oryg. illustrated cover signed J.Tom. Good condition. Series: Iskier Library.
Amsterodami 1607 Exusum in aedibus Iudoci Hondij. Editio Secunda qua et ampliores descriptiones et novae Tabulaae Geographicae accesserunt. Parts 1-2 [of 3-4] in 1 vol. folio: 48 cm, title sheet, pp. [6], 2 k: portrait of Mercator and Hondius. Errors in pagination. p. [10], p. 177 (including 65 maps: colored copperplate engravings), p. [12]: Index. Renaissance, knurled, parchment binding: six-...
20.5 cm, pp. 23, [1], black and white illustrations, wrappers. edition of 100 copies this, no. 63. very good condition. The thirteenth book of Pan Tadeusz, an erotic parody of the final fates of the main characters attributed to the 19th century satirist Włodzimierz Zagórski.
Polish publications Szymczyk Maciej (ed.) - Treasury tickets from the time of the Kościuszko Uprising, Duszniki-Zdrój 2024, ISBN 9788360990773 123 pages, format approx. 21 x 21 cm, soft cover. The first contemporary catalog of its kind describing banknotes from the time of the Kosciuszko Insurrection. The catalog presents, among other things, the economic situation of the Polish lands in the...
Lit. art. by W. Główczewski, Warsaw. 27 cm, f. nlb. 12, color illustrations, pp. oryg. Binding slightly damaged, block loose, pages clean. On the binding the date of issue 1925. Rare.
21 x 30 cm, pp. 90, [2], color illustrations, original fep. Very good condition. Nice Piece; Books:1-4.
Printer's condition of the item Published in London 2000 Binding : hardback. Pages : 532
18.5 cm, pp. 28, ppb. of period. Good condition. Enclosed is a handwritten letter, dated Zakopane 25/ II 924. and an announcement of Wł. Bieńkowski's funeral on November 5, 1926.
20 cm, pp. 271, illustrations, p. f. oryg. Illustration of the cover and illustrations in the text were made by Karol Ferster, on the title page under the pseudonym Charlie. Good condition.
20.5 x 30 cm, pp. 70, [2], color illustrations, original cloth binding. very good condition. Nice Piece; Books:1-3.
21 x 29 cm, pp. 47, color illustrations, pp. oryg. Edges of binding slightly rubbed, otherwise good condition.
Dimension: 39.5 x 26 cm, frontispiece (copperplate signed: Andr[eas] Stech delin. 1670, L[ambert] Visscher sculp. 1674), 1 k. title, p. [34], 195, p. [11], XXV, p. [1]: Errata, 1 eng. in text, 8 plates; 1 k. tit., p. [2], 101 plates ( incl. 1 ff.); period leather binding: marbled leather, 7-poly spine with maroon signboard with gilt titling, gilt decoration, page edges stained maroon. Print pe...
Kromer Marcin/ De origine et rebus gestis Polonorum Libri XXX. Recogniti ab autore. Vna cum funebri eiusdem authoris Oratione, Sigismundi Regis uitam compendiose complexa & aliquoties iam prius edita. Accessit modo iudicium Francisci Robortelli Utinensis, de authore et libro/ Basileae (Basel) 1558/ Printed by Ioannes Oporinus/ period binding, leather-covered board with embossing, later har...
19.5 cm, pp. 208, [2], 6 tabs, wraps. Cover slightly stained, with registration sticker, 4 pages with spots, otherwise good condition. With a foreword by Julian Ejsmond. With 6 illustrations by S. Sawiczewski and a vignette by M. Szczepkowski.
32.6 cm, pp. IX, 168, [1], 21 full-page illustrations, 3 maps: including 1 fold-out, cloth binding: signed with sticker: C.W.Vogt & Sohn, Berlin, dark green leather, marbled paperboard, gilt decorations, six-panel spine with gilt decorations and titling; original boards, gilt page edges, silk bookmark. On the front pastedown exlibris of the Nesvizh Ordinance Library with the Radziwill coat...
21 cm, pp. 23, illustrations in the text, wrappers original. Inside front cover and title page with soiling from rusty staples, otherwise good condition. Nazi propaganda print.
Font. Polish printing house in Kyiv. 19 cm, pp. 158, [1], outer cover preserved, cloth binding, gilt titlepage on spine. Good condition.
foreign publications Shull Hugh - A Guide Book of Southern States Currency. History, Rarity, and Values, Atlanta 2007, ISBN 0794822339 434 pages, format approx. 15 x 23 cm, softcover, a richly illustrated catalog of U.S. banknotes with color photographs, along with rarity determinations and valuations for several states of preservation. The author has provided a detailed overview of paper mone...
Edited by the Society's faculty. 32 cm, nos. 1-14, 16-24, cloth binding in 1 vol. Good condition. No. 15 missing.
Set of three separately bound "Warsaw Newspapers" from 1852 ; notebook I no. 39 - 68; notebook II no. 69-102; notebook III no. 103 - 129 / Warsaw 31.01. - 16.05. 1852 / half-canvas bookbinding; stained page trims / generally good collection condition; rubbing on covers; foxing; soiling; notations in pencil and crayon; dampstain marks in places; break on p. 7 no. 83, p. 1 no. 118; tear on p.5 n...
Yearbook of the Insurgent : National, Social, Economic and Cultural-Educational Affairs No. 1-52 / 01.01.25.12.1938 / half-canvas binding; pastedown softcover publisher's covers / very good condition; some foxing and minor soiling here and there; small scuffs on margins of several pages; holes on back pastedown Yearbook of the Insurgent: National, Social, Economic and Cultural and Educational ...
25 cm, f. nlb. 18: color chromolithographs, publisher's binding: blue satin, gilt decoration and titling on face and spine, original boards preserved. Binding material faded, rubbed at edges, gilt on spine rubbed, some pages with text browned in places but pages with mirrors clean, clear with preserved vivid colors, overall good condition. A nice, impressive piece, one of the best preserved pi...
Election leaflet of the National Election Committee of Democratic Parties from the 1919 parliamentary elections (the first in the Second Republic). The illustration depicts a worker being bitten by a Jewish-Bolshevik snake dragging a crowd of obedient mob behind him. At the top, the caption: the Nation of Poland! Socialists led by Jews with money from Lenin, Trotsky and Spartacus are leading ...
20 cm, pp. 224, illustrations, p. f. oryg.Drawings in the text and front cover made by Kamil Mackiewicz. Bibljoteka Iskierek. second edition, 1st ed. published in 1929.
Sienkiewicz Henryk/ Quo Vadis. A Novel from the Times of Nero/ Warsaw 1896/ Gebethner and Wolff/ binding in half leather/ vol.I-III, complete/ pp.309,253,345/ good condition, occasional soiling in the text, p.113 of vol.I with some denting (not detrimental to the text), pale brown discoloration of some pages (especially in volume one). Contemporary bookbinding in half leather. Spine 5-poly, in...
Polish publications Oleński Jan - Ogólnopolskie kartki zaopatrzeniowe z lat 1976-1989, Warsaw 2010, ISBN 9788392333289 130 pages in B5 format, softcover, richly illustrated first study of Polish food and commodity cards from the PRL era, very interesting for anyone interested in the PRL times
HERBAPOL - Collection of 90 packages for herbs and herbal products of the Herbapol factory - 1950s. Packages dissected and collected in the form of a catalog - stapled but with the possibility of unstapling the block - not glued. Packages in two formats : about 17 x 21 [cm] - 51 pieces and 21 x 24 [cm] - 39 pieces Preserved in overall very good condition. Each package contains a graphic illust...
Saint-Exupery Antoine de/ The Little Prince/ Warsaw 1947/ Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza "Płomienie''/ first edition/ half cloth binding, spine and corners made contemporary by bookbinder, both cardboard covers original/ pp. 93/ illustrations by the author in the text/ very good condition, minor scratches to the binding, ownership stamp on title p., minor crayon mark on p. 7, minor scuffing of a f...
Englert Juliusz L./ Marshal Józef Piłsudski. Commander - Chief of State - First Marshal of Poland/ London 1991/ publisher's cloth binding, gilt quote by J. Pilsudski on front cover face. Gilded titling on spine/ pp. 260/ numerous black & white and color illustrations/ very good condition-, slight rubbing on edges of binding, lightly soiled top edge of pages Piece bears personal dedicatio...
Polish publications Koziczynski Jerzy - Polish Banknotes / Polish Paper Money, Lucow Collection, Volume III (1919-1939) - with an ex-libris with a place to write your name, Warsaw, 2005, ISBN 839133614X, richly illustrated catalog, with each item an indication of rarity 264 pages, hardcover with gilt and wrappers, A4+ format
Var. A. 14 cm, pp. [4], 381, 20 plates depicting 20 important virtues in the form of emblematic tapestries (peristromata). Exlibris of Craigie Hall, Scotland. Age-toned sc. binding, spine with minor damage, crack at top, inside pages clean, copperplates with strong colors. Overall good condition. Variant A [BN] 1st edition. Rare. InScriptorum seu togae et belli notationum fragmenta the author ...
22.5 cm, pp. 27, wrappers foxed, cover tattered. Contains, among other things: Conspiracy as an ethical problem. Conspiracy and Catholicism. The essence of Freemasonry. Conspiracy as a tool of selection.
Farago L. / Palestine in the audience; Palestine is burning; translation authorized by Zofia Poplawska / Warsaw 1936; Warsaw ca. 1936 / Contemporary Publishing House / publisher's half cloth binding / pp. 175; 187 / black and white illustrations in both volumes; map in the second / condition of vol. I good+; scuffs on spine; soiling on covers; condition of vol. II very good; minor scuffs on sp...
Warsaw 1928/ Academic Printing House/ one-sided print/ 11x15cm/ very good condition, corner bend Election leaflet of the Catholic-National Bloc from the parliamentary elections of 1928. The title "Joy in Israel" refers to the attitude of the Sanation authorities, serving Jewish interests and zealously seeking the support of these circles.
Kolberg Juliusz/ Atlas of the Kingdom of Poland. Atlas du Royaume de Pologne/ Warsaw 1827/ Instytut Litograficzny Szkolny/ folder from epoch with elements of original binding glued on face - Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Poland (double-headed eagle) on a sun dial/ maps [6], lithographs colored in epoch (two maps are missing for the set -Mazowieckie province andKalisz province )/ 22,5x30cm (fo...
20 cm, pp. [4], 488, [12], 1 fold. tabs, binding in period cloth: spine and corners of binding in brown leather, marbled cardboard; spine decorative, gilt with black signboard with gilt titlepage. Crayon notation on title page, otherwise good condition. A nice piece. Preserved plan of Vienna. The offered work was written in 1815, published only in 1821 in Warsaw under the pseudonym Citizen of ...
Fischer-Dückelman Anna/ The Woman Domestic Physician. A physician's handbook for nursing health and treatment in the family, with special reference to women's and children's diseases, midwifery and child nursing/ Vienna 1909/ by Anna Arming, Wilhelm Arming Wwy circulation and export bookstore/ cloth binding, original publisher's cover pasted on front cover face, gilt titling on spine, stained...
Anecdote and war joke/ Warsaw 1943/ KOPR (Propaganda Commission operating at the Home Army), printing TWZW(Secret Military Publishing Works)/ publisher's booklet binding/ p.43/ 9 illustrations in the text/ good+ condition, restorations of cover losses, corners gently bent, loss of corner of back cover. Very scarce. "Anecdotes and War Jokes" (Warsaw, February 1943) - a rare underground pamphlet...
Skarga Piotr/ Kazania przygodne y inne drobnieysze prace [...] Piotra Skargi [...] : na dwie części rozdzielone [...]/ Wilno 1738/ w Drukarni Akademickiey/ fourth edition/ artistic binding in full leather by Jerzy Budnik/ pp.[20] , 388, 293, 218/ ornamented initials, vignettes in woodcut/ good condition, ownership entry on p .tyt and first unnumbered page (then on next two traces of ink), sm...
20 cm, pp. 140, [4], illus. illustrations, paperboard opr. original with illustrated cover signed J.M. Szancer. Glued binding spine, fragment of a paper sticker on the front, otherwise good condition.
22 cm, pp. 201, [2], illustrations in black and white and color, original cloth binding, block cracked, some pages loose. Issue 3, with 46 figures and 12 plates in color.
Advertising printing - Klawe companies - Opotonin - printing Zaklady Graf. Polish Library, Bydgoszcz - [ Pharmaceutical drugs]. Very good condition. ca. 1920 Format : 12 x 17 [cm]
24.5 cm, pp. 372, 2 woodcuts, illustrations, charts, plans, including 3 color plates, 2 fold-out maps, wrappers, surviving original wrapper designed by Studio Lewit-Him, two woodcuts by Stanislaw Ostoja-Chrostowski. Wrapper slightly damaged, block cracked, overall good condition.
Skarszewski Leszczyc Wojciech/ Uwagi polityczne imieniem stanu duchownego do Zbioru praw polskich podane roku 1778/ Kalisz 1778/ w Drukarni J. K. M. y Rzeczy-pltey/ binding booklet/ p.[4],138/ good condition, paper loss on the spine, small traces of a worm on the first two unnumbered pages. Text clean, unfaded. Not listed on auction portal onebid.pl Memorial by Rev. Wojciech Skraszewski writte...