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Polish publications Szparło Adam - Letters of the "small PRL". Issues 1974-1993, Olmonty 2022, ISBN 9788396584205, 60 pages 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 Piece autographed by the author
Dimensions of the classifier: 23 x 27.3 cm.
Munich 1946 - Oficyna Warszawska na Obczyźnie. 15.5x21.5 cm, pp. 212, contemporary cloth bookbinding, with wire and embroidered camp number on the front, modeled on special pieces that were bound in "stripes" cut from original prison clothing; plus cloth slipcase. Good condition (stamps and numerical notation Ex Libris Domus Fawley Courtensis). A shocking publication written by three former A...
Dimensions of the classifier: 22.5 x 26 cm.
Polish publications Michal Bishop - Banknotes my passion. Notebook III 1919(1924) - 1938), Kielce 2025, ISBN 9788362509362, 120 pages B5 format, soft cover, almost 90 colorful, often enlarged photographs, a collection of treatises on various aspects related to the production and issuance of Polish banknotes.
Dimensions of the case: 24 x 26 x 9.5 cm. Inside the cassette 6 trays with the number of places: 1x 7x71x 4x42x 3x33x
The latest study by Czeslaw Miłczak. Pieces new, unwrapped from foil. The most complete and best catalog of Polish banknotes - a publication that goes beyond the framework of a typical catalog study, constituting a handy encyclopedia of knowledge about Polish paper money. edition Warsaw 2023format B5
Dimensions of the case: 24 x 26 x 9.5 cm. Inside the cassette 6 trays with the number of places: 2x 5x52x 7x72x 6x6
Polish publications Michal Bishop - Banknotes my passion. Notebook II 1916(1917) - 1923(1924), Kielce 2024, ISBN 9788362509355 116 pages in B5 format, soft cover, over 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 detail the issue of banknotes of the General ...
Edition: Moscow 2022336 pages
KOWALEWSKI Zbigniew - The mortal enemy of Christianity. Warsaw 1943; Glob Publishing House. 4, s. 61, [3]. Broch. Top 652. Front and back cover corner loss, edge tears, cover tears at staples, page corners creases. Illustrations in the text. Anti-Semitic publication.
edition: Gdańsk 2000335 pages
1846 Chronicle of the Noble Manors Collected for the fifty-year anniversary of the sad events of February. Jasło 1896; Nakł. Author. 8, pp. 443, publisher's age-toned cloth, gilt on spine.Coat of arms stamps "Biblioteka Radziechowska". On the cover a library sticker - "Bibljoteka Radziechowska". Good condition. The first wider study of the Galician massacre made on the basis of memoirs and e...
BADECKI Karol - The Collections of Boleslaw Orzechowicz. Described ... Lviv 1922. publ. by Muzeum Narod. 8, pp. XIX, [1], 83, plates 30. cloth binding with preserved booklet cover. Good condition. Ekslibris of R. Chrząstowski. Cover brochure. Designed by Rudolf Mękicki. Description of the rich collection of paintings, weapons, porcelain, furniture, clocks.
TOLKIEN J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] - Expedition. Translated by Maria Skibniewska. Warsaw 1961; Czytelnik. 8, pp. 526, [2], loose map 1. pamphlet, wraps. Lord of the Rings, [ch. 1]. Minor staining of upper block trim, staining of last page in spine. First Polish edition of the first part of Tolkien's famous Lord of the Rings trilogy. Tolkien began work on the novel during World War II. It was publ...
Reference catalog for the minting of Stanislaw August Poniatowski. New, unwrapped from foil. edition: Szczecin 2016 format ~ A4 442 pages
Munich 1946: Oficyna Warszawska na Obozyźnie. 15x21.5 cm, pp. 212, publisher's hardcover. Very good condition. A shocking publication written by three former Auschwitz prisoners - Janusz Nel Siedlecki, Tadeusz Borowski and Krystyna Olszewski. One of the first books to describe the crimes of the Auschwitz German concentration camp from the perspective of the survivors. The authors present the ...
Dimensions of the case: 24 x 26 x 9.5 cm. Inside the cassette 6 trays with the number of places: 1x 6x64x 5x51x 7x7
A very rare set of Numismatic News from the years: 1957(from the beginning of publication in the post-war period) to 2006, in bookbindings. In the entire set, two notebooks are copies (I/1957, II/1973). From 1965 onward with preserved publisher's covers. In addition, it contains "Findings of coins in the Polish area according to the data of the Leningrad archives".
Set of memorabilia of Stefan Główczewski[ 1897-1967] - Participant of the Polish-Bolshevik war. Awarded the Cross of Valor and the Medal of Independence. Bibliophile, traveler. In independent Poland he lived in Tczew. He worked as a revenue officer. (https://fundacja100.pl/krzyz-i-medal-niepodleglosci/lista-odznaczonych/stefan-glowczewski). 1) Legitimation No. 43 [Command of the Siberian Inf...
The Tatra RACE arranged by the Cracow Automobile Club. Cracow [1928]. Sport Committee of the K.K.A. 8, p. [31]. broch. Good condition. On the front cover a composition by Zofia Stryjeńska (a young highlander with the Automobile Club emblem). Title and fragments of text also in French and German. Guidebook issued before the international auto race on the Lysa Polana-Morskie Oko route. Brochure...
REYMONT Władysław [Stanisław] - Chłopi. A novel. With 20 color illustrations by Apolonjusz Kędzierski and 75 graphic embellishments by Z[ygmunt] Kamiński. Vol. 1-2. Warsaw [1928]. Nakł. Gebethner and Wolff. 4, pp. [4], 384, [1], plate 10; [4], 450, [1], plate 10. ov. fl. decor. SPKL 190. Bindings slightly rubbed, minor local browning of first pages of vol. 2 and end pages of vol. 1, yel...
Novák Emil : Korunovace a korunovační ražby - 5.díl, Veduta Štíty 1997, 242 stran, brožované, téměř
Dimensions of the classifiers: 23.3 x 30.5 cm.
Francis Joachim Radziszewski - Binding. Divine Comedy, Krakow, 1909, book by D. Alighieri - Divine Comedy. Ex-Libris by Jan W. Gora. Published by Warsaw, circulation of Gebethner I Wolff, Krakow. 1909. Dimensions 212 x 14, 715 pp. Hardcover, leather, beautifully decorated with gold and black embossing. Book complete. Signature of bookbinder F. J. Radziszewski embossed on the outside of the bin...
Novák Emil : Korunovace a korunovační ražby - 4.díl, Veduta Štíty 1995, 169 stran, brožované, téměř
KOWALEWSKY Zbigniew - Żydzi się przedstawiają się! Warsaw 1944 Glob Publishing House. 8, p. 24. broch. Top 652. good condition. Cover title: "Jews present themselves to us". Occupation anti-Semitic print. Pages 9-10 replaced by publisher (trace of card removed, another one pasted in slightly smaller format).
[Biblia Gdańska] Biblia swięta: to iest, the Books of the Holy Scriptures of the old and new covenant from the Jewish and Greek Language into Polish diligently and faithfully translated, and now according to the Gdański exemplar reprinted. Estr. XIII, pp. 18-19. The Polish 17th-century Reformers, despite the publication of the Brest and Nesvizh Bibles, felt the need to put into circulation ...
GARCZYŃSKI Stefan - Poezye ... T. 1-2. Paris 1833. published by the author. 16, s. 144; 144, [2]. total opr. fawn. Slight rubbing of the corners of the covers, good condition. Own signature. Kajetan Morawski. A two-volume collection of poems by S. Garczyński; at the end of vol. 2, on pp. 133-138, the poem "Reduta Ordona" by Adam Mickiewicz with the subtitle "Story of the Adjutant" and dedica...
WOJACZEK Rafal. Season of Song (1st ed., dedication), Krakow 1969; pp. 76, author's dedication on title page, softcover, tattered, st. db.; dimensions 122x200 mm.
XXVII International Tatra Rally. 5th elimination of the European Rally Championship, Zakopane [...]. Zakopane, 25-26 July 1970 [Subp.] Organizing Committee. Single-sided print on sheet 86x60.8 cm. In the upper part, emblems of the Polish Motor Association, the Tatra Rally and the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme. Cont. course of the routes of both stages of the rally and appeal for ...
Militký Jiří : Pražská mincovna 1526 - 1856, Muzeum hlavního města Prahy, 182 stran, brožované, téměř
REYMONT Wł[adysław] St[anisław] - Chłopi. A contemporary novel. With a likeness of the author according to a portrait by M. Jakimowicz. Vol. 1-4. Warsaw 1914. Nakł. Gebethner and Wolff. 8, pp. [6], 347; [6], 384; [6], 480; [4], 394. gilt leather binding, upper gilt trim. Very good condition. A special piece, printed on thick fine paper (each volume twice as thick as the standard edition)....
LEM Stanislaw - Plan Anti-V. Illustrated by J. Mieszkowski. Katowice [1947]. Books for All. Folio, pp. 15, [1]. brochure. Every Week Novel, no. 57. Good condition. An early short story by Stanislaw Lem published in a notebook publishing series. It was to be included in a planned collection of this author's short stories, "Intelligence and Atoms," prepared in 1949 by the private Krakow Publishi...
OFFICIALANNUAL comprising a list of the chief authorities of the empire and of all the authorities and officials of the Kingdom of Poland for the year 1862; Warsaw, in the printing house of J. Jaworski; fold-out General budget of income and expenses of the Kingdom of Poland for the year 1861; 18 nlb. + 551 + 201 + CXXXVIII pp, st. db., hardcover (separately), cloth, embossed, gilt title and de...
Elegy for a departure. (1st ed.). Paris 1990. literary institute. 8, pp. 47, [1], wraps broch. Original Library of "Culture". Volume 460. Condition b. good. The seventh volume of poetry by Zbigniew Herbert. The Elegy for Departure contains 19 poems, making it the volume with the smallest number of works in the Author's oeuvre. Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998) - Polish poet, essayist, playwright, c...
Češka Josef : Zánik antického světa, Praha 2000, 277 stran, vázané
OFFICIAL telephone directory of the city of Krakau. Supplementary edition May 1944. krakau 1944. german post of the east. 4, p. 32. brochure. Loss of upper right corner of front cover of brochure, otherwise good condition. Own stamp. Occupation telephone book of Cracow - "Amtliches Fernsprechbuch für die Stadt Krakau. Zwischenausgabe Mai 1944." Text also in German.
Rare print on notgeldy from the collection of Tadeusz Solski. Cover of fragile paper interrupted at edge, pages loose. edition: Lviv 1928 format: 17.5 x 25 cm 15 pages + 8 pages of engravings
KREMER Hannes - From the life of a Soviet citizen. Warsaw 1943, Glob Publishing House. 8, pp. 23, [1]. broch. Top 653. covers slightly stained, paper yellowed. Illustrations in the text. Anti-Soviet occupation propaganda publication.
KORSAK Włodzimierz - Cietrzew. Monografja. With a historical foreword by Juljan Ejsmond. Warsaw 1925. nakł. Myśliwska Spółka Wydawnicza. 16d, p. 64. bibliot. Mysliwska, vol. 3 [and] ŚWIĘTORZECKI Bolesław - Wolf. Monografja. Warsaw 1926; Nakł. Myśliwska Spółka Wydawnicza. 16d, pp. 118, [2]. Bibliot. Myśliwska, vol. 6-7 [And] GÜRTLER Władysław - Our winged predators. (Pigeon, spa...
HEARN Lafcadio - Chinese Fables. Translated from English and compiled by. For the young, by L. M. Brzozowska. With illustrations by Waclaw Radwan. Warsaw [1913]. L. Fiszer. 16d, pp. [4], 112, plates 4. oryg. pp. Grefkowicz 1609. rubbing of covers, tear of front pastedown, block loosened. Illustrations stylized as Far Eastern woodcuts.
My memoirs. Vol. 1 - 3. Paris 1964 - 1965. literary institute. 8, pp. 357, [1]; 439, [1]; 527, [1], wraps original brochure.Library of "Culture". T. 99.Good condition, uncreased creases and rubbing of covers. Includes, among others: Village and Youth; Politics in the Commune and in the County; In the National Sejm; In the Polish Circle and Vienna; The Rise of the Piast; The Outbreak of War; Th...
KAMIŃSKI Aleksander - Andrzej Małkowski. Katowice 1934. publ. "Na tropie". 8, pp. 144, [4], plate 7. oryg. fn. decorated with preserved booklet cover. Blazejewski 1387. bindings slightly rubbed, otherwise good. The ex-libris of R. Chrząstowski. Cover signed [Wladyslaw] Czarnecki [i.] Gorczycka. Includes chapters: Throbbing life, Morning Aurora, False step, Scouting epic, Shadows and splendo...
SPIS of the members of the Noble Club in Vilna for 1929. Vilna 1929. the "Pogon" publishing society. 16d, p. 11. broch. Good condition. Stamp. List of names of 128 members in alphabetical order.
DZIEDUSZYCKI Maurycy hr. Krótki rys dziejów i spraw Lisowczyków, 2 tomy, published by Zakład naukowy imienia Ossolińskich, with Jan Millikowski, printed by Jozef Schnayder, Lviv 1843-1844; part- . b. engraving based on a painting by Rembrandt, depicting a Foxhound on horseback; enclosed newspaper clippings from 1934 regarding the Foxhounds; 372 and 593 pp, b. w., traces of moisture, hardc...
SARBIEWSKI Michał Kazimierz - Lyricorvm lib[ri] IV. Epodon lib. vnvs alterq. epigrammat[vm]. Romae 1643. apud Hermannum Scheus sub Signo Reginae. 16, p. 299. period perg. binding. E. 27, 128. Binding slightly soiled, small trace of dampstain in corner of initial pages, overall good condition. Title page as in the Antwerp edition of 1634, though in a slightly larger format - stenciled composit...
BARĄCZ Fr. Sadok. A memoir of the Order of the aforementioned Bernardine Fathers in Poland, Lviv 1874; Printing House of the Ossoliński National Institute; autograph and seal of August Teodorowicz; 388 pp, bdb. st., hardcover, half leather, gilt title on spine, page edges marbled, 8o. format. Uncommon. Sadok Barącz (1814-1892) - Dominican, historian and writer. He was born in Stanislawow in...
Bruhl. A historical tale. By (...). Edited by the Redakcyi Biblioteka Warszawska. Vol. 1-2 in 1 vol. Warsaw 1875 (Wyd.1). Gebethner and Wolff. 8, pp. [4], 206, [4], 210, bound in period psk.On the front pasteboard the coat-of-arms exlibris of Mier and Bończa and the imprint of Radziechów. Coat of arms stamps "Radachowska Library". On the cover a library sticker - "Bibljoteka Radziechowska". ...
O Rzymie paganskim y chrzescianskim ksiag dvvoie x. Andrzey Wargocki wrote y do druku; przydane iest opisanie Domku Loretańskiegoy Naswiętszey Panny Maryey Matki Bożey y Miasta Weneckiego przez tego samego autora. Estr. XV-XVIII vol. 32 pp. 200 Printer's dedication: "To the Most Gracious Lord and Benefactor of my Iego Majesty P. Dobieslaw of Cieklin Cieklinskiemv, Chekhov Castellan [...]." ...
edition: Warsaw 2000200 pages
Receptarium Polonicum A collection of recipes for prescription drugs for use by doctors and pharmacists compiled by W. W. Glowacki, M.D. Between recipes advertising pharmacies and medical preparations Year of publication: Warsaw 1947, Pharmaceutical Publishing Institute s. 90, [33]. Format: 17 x 12.5 cm Binding: publisher's booklet Condition: consistent, no underlining or signatures [except fo...
CHWALEWIK Edward. Polish collections. Archiwa bibljoteki gabinety galerje muzea i inne zbiory pamiątek przeszłości w ojczyźnie i na obczyźnie w porządku alfabetycznym według miejscowości ułożone, wyd. J. Mortkowicz, Towarzystwo Wydawnicze w Warszawie, Warszawa-Kraków 1926; 2 volumes (complete); IX + 490 and 559 p., st. bdb., hardcover, half cloth, gilt title on spines, light rubbing...
Reprint of the first large catalog of Polish coins, the famous Czapski collection, in bookbinding. format: 28.5 x 21
Moscow 1916. main composition in the bookstore of "Gazeta Polska". 12.5x17 cm, pp. 32, soft cover. Good condition (soiling and small stains on the cover). One of the earliest attempts to systematize and describe the scouting movement in the Polish lands, with particular emphasis on its national specificity. The author presents Polish scouting as a national and educational movement, deeply root...
Novák Emil : Korunovace a korunovační ražby - 3.díl, Veduta Štíty 1995, 233 stran, brožované, dobře
Polish publications Koziczyński Jerzy - Polish Banknotes / Polish Paper Money, Lucow Collection, Volume III (1919-1939); Warsaw, 2005, ISBN 839133614X 264 pages, hardcover with gilt and wrappers, A4+ format; richly illustrated catalog, rarity designation next to each item
ZEGADŁOWICZ Emil - Circle. Fragment of a poem. Paris-Cracow 1926. Polish Society of Friends of the Book, Society of Book Lovers. 8, s. 42, [3]. Brochure. Grosinska 148. fold of back cover, otherwise good condition. Published 475 copies, this one without number. Full-page two-color woodcut by Tadeusz Cieślewski's son, woodcut ornament on front cover by the same author, PTPK emblem in woodcut ...
Photocopy of Munzen- und Medaillen-Sammlng in der Marienburg by Bahrfeldt. format: 29 x 21 cm
Warsaw 1906, Gebethner and Wolff. 11.5x18 cm, pp. (8), 347, (6), 384 [2 volumes], leather bookbinding of the period, with gilt and decorative lining. Good condition (erroneous numbering of volumes on spines, staining of bindings, minor staining of a few pages). Volume I and II (Autumn and Winter) of the second edition of Peasants, a novel by Wladyslaw Reymont, for which the author received the...
Staněk Jaroslav: Peníze v českých zemích, Praha 1995, 239 stran, vázané, téměř
Warsaw 1936 Institute of Polish Library Publishing. 17x24.5 cm, pp. 193, color illustrations, publisher's cloth binding. Good condition (small abrasions of the binding, ownership entry on the front pastedown, delicate crack of the block). One of the nicest editions of The Adventures of Sinbad. Graphic design: Atelier Girs-Barcz.