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Wien: gedruckt mit Schulzischen Schriften, 1769. First edition. In contemporary leather. Spine gilt, with red title vignette. Edges tinted. Woodcut headpiece on A1. Pages ruled with woodcut frame. Light brown stains on the plate. Otherwise clean. In fine condition.. First edition. In contemporary leather. Spine gilt, with red title vignette. Edges tinted. Woodcut headpiece on A1. Pages ruled with woodcut frame. (*)1 [title page, verso blank], a-b8, c6 [i.e. (24) leaves] and 1 folded plate. A curious and scarce treatise on glassblowing and the making of scientific glass objects. The book is illustrated with an engraved plate, showing a glassmaker or lampworker at his working table, surrounded by examples of his craft, various scientific apparatuses, a Cartesian devil, a glass eye, and elaborate glass-figurines and a centerpiece, whose technique of making, together with the detailed instruction for manufacturing thermometers, hydrometers, barometers is described in the text. The author of Die… Read More

Budapest: Kosmos (Radó), 1934. First Hungarian edition. In original illustrated paper. In fine condition.. First Hungarian edition. In original illustrated paper. 64 p. First Hungarian edition of the Anti-Fascist, Communist pamphlet. With a foreword by Gregory Bienstock.

Spain, Early 19th century. An important 18th-century manuscript text of historical and legal interest, related to the privileges and grants of the House of Moctezuma. Manuscript text, in brown ink by a neat hand. Text from the second half of the 18th century, a somewhat later copy. On early 19th-century laid paper (watermarks: A. Romani T.; Bartolmé Costas - for the genealogy table). In contemporary, green, half maroquin binding, gilt spine. Panels covered with marbled paper. Blank title vignette on the front panel. Binding worn and damaged at the extremities. The first leaf and the genealogical table are creased in the middle vertically. Inside clean and firm, in very good condition.. An important 18th-century manuscript text of historical and legal interest, related to the privileges and grants of the House of Moctezuma. Manuscript text, in brown ink by a neat hand. Text from the second half of the 18th century, a somewhat later copy. On early 19th-century laid paper (watermarks: A. Romani T.;… Read More

[Paris]: [Barba], 1804. First edition. In later blue wrappers, shelfmark vignette to the front. In fine condition.. First edition. In later blue wrappers, shelfmark vignette to the front. The entry on the Rochambeaus, excerpted from Galerie militaire. Entry on Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725-1807) and his son Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau (1755-1813). Jean-Baptiste was a French nobleman and general whose army played the decisive role in defeating the British army at Yorktown in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War. His son, Donatien-Marie-Joseph was also a French military commander, serves as an aide-de-camp to his father in the Revolutionary War, and later participated in an unsuccessful campaign to re-establish French rule in Martinique and Saint-Domingue. Excerpted from the 6th volume of the Galerie militaire, ou notices historiques (Barba, 1804).

1.: à Zuric: chez jean George Naigueli [Naderman's imprint covered with H. J. Godefroy's pasted label], [1802].[1 (title page)] [2 (blank)] 2-183 [1 (blank)] p.; 2.: A Zuric: Chez Jean Georg Naigueli [imprint covered with Agu.te Le Duc'S pasted label] ], [between 1802 and 1810]. PN 6; [1 (title page)] [1 (blank)] 95 [1 (blank)] p.; 3.: A Zuric - A Paris: chez Jean George Naigueli. - chez Naderman, Rue de la Loi, ancien passage du Caffé de Foi. Enregistré à la Bibliotheque Nationale, [1804 or 1809]. [1 (title page)] [2 (blank)] 2-63 [1 (blank)] p. 4.: Early 19th-century manuscript score: [4] p. (last blank), 1802. 1.: à Zuric: chez jean George Naigueli [Naderman's imprint covered with H. J. Godefroy's pasted label], [1802].[1 (title page)] [2 (blank)] 2-183 [1 (blank)] p.; 2.: A Zuric: Chez Jean Georg Naigueli [imprint covered with Agu.te Le Duc'S pasted label] ], [between 1802 and 1810]. PN 6; [1 (title page)] [1 (blank)] 95 [1 (blank)] p.; 3.: A Zuric - A Paris: chez Jean George Naigueli. -… Read More

[Germany]: [Self-published by the artist.], 1921. Limited, numbered. 11 linocut plates printed on tracing paper in black. Each plate mounted on cardboard. 9 plates of illustration, 1 plate of double-page and 1 plate of single-page text. Last plate signed and numbered by the artist in pencil. In original illustrated folder, designed by the artist. Folder slightly worn and rubbed, with a light mark in red pencil on the cover. Pages yellowed. The linocuts are in fine condition. Overall in very good condition.. Limited, numbered. 11 linocut plates printed on tracing paper in black. Each plate mounted on cardboard. 9 plates of illustration, 1 plate of double-page and 1 plate of single-page text. Last plate signed and numbered by the artist in pencil. In original illustrated folder, designed by the artist. 11 plates. Composition size varies, mostly 115 × 95 mm. Page size 200 × 255 mm. A portfolio of expressionist linocuts by the German painter, Heinz Baden (1887-1954). The linocut series was inspired… Read More

Budapest: Kelet Népe, 1938. First edition. In original illustrated wrappers. In fine condition. First edition. In original illustrated wrappers. 152 p. Inscribed. Saller Jenőnek dedikált példány. Rajzos, színes, kiadói papírborítóban.

Budapest: Fővárosi Könyv- és Lapkiadó R.-T, 1921. First edition. In publisher's ornamented wrappers, printed in red and black. Pages yellowed, due to acidic paper. Overall in fine condition.. First edition. In publisher's ornamented wrappers, printed in red and black. 48 p. The first Hungarian monograph on Tagore. Ervin Baktay (1890-1963) was a Hungarian scholar of Oriental studies, Indologist, a pioneer in popularizing Indian culture in Hungary. .

Koethen (Leipzig): A. Wiede (Ernst Keil), 1849. First Polish edition (second overall). Papered spine. Light foxing. Fine condition.. 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. Bakunin (1814-1876) was member at the Pan-Slav Congress which was held in Prague, on June 2, 1848 and ended 10 days later when Austrian troops bombarded the city. After the event he wrote "Appeal to the Slavs", in which he proposes that Slav revolutionaries unite with Hungarian, Italian and German revolutionaries to overthrow the three major European autocracies, the Russian Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. However this work is not merely a statement of Bakunin's Pan-Slavism but in many ways it anticipates his later anarchist attitudes (e.g. the peasants as revolutionary force;… Read More

Budapest: Corvina, 1948. First ed. In original paper. In very good condition, the cover and the letter is chiped.. First ed. In original paper. 106 p. The piece set to music by Kodály in 1948. and was presented at the Opera House. On the first page, the author's words of recommendation to the director at the time of the Opera House can be read: "To Aladár Tóth, who dared and undertook, I promise that he will not regret it tomorrow (even if today is turbulent) and I send this book with grateful, affectionate love to Béla Balázs Budapest. 1948 , III. 17." Add: Author's autograph letter to Aladar Tóth, in which he praises the merits of the recipient in connection with the play's presentation. 1 page, on the letterhead of the Hungarian State Opera House. Date: (Bp.), 1948. III. 19.

Madrid: por Diego Flamenco, 1624. First edition. In early 19th-century marbled calf, panels ruled by gilt frames, edges and spine gilt, red title vignette on spine. Marbled endpapers. Engraved, illustrated title page (by Juan de Diesa). Few woodcut initials and a large woodcut tailpiece at the end of the work. Printed in two columns. Contemporary ownership inscription of Geronimo de Ulloa on recto of second leaf. Ownership stamp of Aureliano Fernández-Guerra on verso of front free endpaper. Binding slightly rubbed at the extremities, a dent on the front panel. Some stanza numbers shaved. Pages toned due to aging. Margins of the title page artistically restored. Old shelfmarks on verso of front free endpaper and recto of second leaf in pencil and pen. Old notes and calculations on verso of title page (washed) and recto of second leaf in ink. Old marginal notes and underlines in ink throughout the first four quires. Misnumbered leaves corrected by an old hand in ink until f. 172. Occasional inkblots,… Read More

Havana: [S.n.], 1934. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to José Ardévol. Limited, printed in 500 copies. Cover and six woodcut illustrations by Ernesto Gonzalez Puig and Domingo Ravenet. n original, illustrated wrappers. In protective cloth open case. Spine slightly discolore. Some stains here and there. Overall in very good condition.. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to José Ardévol. Limited, printed in 500 copies. Cover and six woodcut illustrations by Ernesto Gonzalez Puig and Domingo Ravenet. n original, illustrated wrappers. In protective cloth open case. [42] p. and 6 woodcut illustrations. Scarce, richly illustrated Cuban avant-garde poetry book. The poems of Cuaderno de Poesia Negra are exemplifying the traditions of Afro-Cuban poetry, a subject Emilio Ballagas (1908-1954) studied in depth and later published two anthologies about the situation of Afro-American poetry and the economic and social conditions of Afro-Cubans. Present copy is… Read More

Dombovar: Author, 1921. In original paper. In publisher's stapled paperback with an inscription, a cover with a figurative-pictorial illustration/ Little bit damaged book spine. Pencil marks. In very good condition.. In original paper. 63 p.

Prága (Praha): Levá Fronta (Jav. Hoffmann), 1932. First edition. In publisher's printed green paper. Wrappers slightly chipped at extremities, creased at rear, inside fine. Overall in very good condition.. First edition. In publisher's printed green paper. 32 p. First edition of Balázs's essay. The printed version of a banned lecture on Marxism that he was to held in Bratislava in 1931. "Sarló" (Sickle), the publisher of this pamphlet, was a leftist Hungarian youth organization, based in Bratislava. Béla Balázs (1884-1949) was a Hungarian-Jewish film critic and aesthete, also a writer and poet. He is known as the librettist of Béla Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle" and the writer of the scenario for Bartók's ballet "The Wooden Prince". .

Gyoma: Kner Izidor, 1918. First edition. In Publisher's, illustrated wrappers. Slightly chipped at edges. Occasional foxing. With a small stain on rear cover. Overall in very good condition.. Cover and illustrations by Lajos Kozma.. Cover and illustrations by Lajos Kozma. First edition. In Publisher's, illustrated wrappers. 200, (8) p. Printed by the Kner private press. The book was published in German in 1921 (Sieben Märchen; Rikola). Béla Balázs (1884-1949) was a Hungarian-Jewish film critic and aesthete, also a writer and poet. He is known as the librettist of Béla Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle" and the writer of the scenario for Bartók's ballet "The Wooden Prince". Lajos Kozma (1884-1948) besides being one of the chief Hungarian architects and interior designers of the first half of the 20th century was also a graphic artist and book illustrator. His architectural early works were created in Art Nouveau style but later, through Art Deco, he found his way to the International Modernism. .

Moszkva (Moscow): Idegennyelvű Irodalmi Kiadó (Foreign Languages Publishing House), 1944. First edition. In original paper. In fine condition.. First edition. In original paper. 43, (1) p. Béla Balázs' book of poems about homesickness, patriotism and the praising of the Red Army and Stalin. Written during his emigration in the Soviet Union. Béla Balázs (1884-1949) was a Hungarian-Jewish film critic and aesthete, also a writer and poet. He is renown as the librettist of Béla Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle" and the writer of the scenario for Bartók's ballet "The Wooden Prince". .

Budapest: Benkő Gyula (Rovó Aladár), 1918. First edition. With printed dedication to Georg (György) Lukács. In original paper. Cover damaged at extremities and on spine, otherwise in good condition.. 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 held by the "Vasárnapi Kör" (Sunday Circle), a group of progressive intellects in Hungary. Beside Balázs and others Béla Bartók, Georg (György) Lukács and Károly Mannheim held lectures at these events. Only two of them appeared in print, this pamphlet and Mannheim's presentation. Béla Balázs (1884-1949) was a Hungarian-Jewish film critic, aesthete, writer and poet. He is known as the librettist of Béla Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle" and the writer of the scenario for Bartók's ballet "The Wooden Prince". During his university… Read More

Wien-Leipzig: Deutsch-Österreichischer Verlag, 1924. First edition. In original, illustrated half cloth. In near fine condition.. First edition. In original, illustrated half cloth. 166, (2) p. Balázs's famous book on theory of films and cinema. Considered as the foundation of the so-called "film as a language" theory. It influenced the Russian filmmakers Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin too.. Béla Balázs (1884-1949) was a Hungarian-Jewish film critic and aesthete, also a writer and poet. He is known as the librettist of Béla Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle" and the writer of the scenario for Bartók's ballet "The Wooden Prince". The "Der sichtbare Mensch" was his first book about the theory of film and cinema, that followed "Der Geist des Films" (1926) and his involvement in filmmaking. He wrote the screenplay for G. W. Pabst's film of "Die Dreigroschenoper" (1931), and worked together with Leni Riefenstahl making the film "Das Blaue Licht" (1932). In the early 1930's Balázs was… Read More

Budapest: Márkus Samu Nyomdája, 1911. Press proof of an unpublished book. Printed only on rectos. With corrections in ink on several versos and on almost every printed pages. Numerous inset leaves with holograph corrections. Balázs's name and address in ink on flyleaf by his hand. In original green cloth. In fine condition.. Press proof of an unpublished book. Printed only on rectos. With corrections in ink on several versos and on almost every printed pages. Numerous inset leaves with holograph corrections. Balázs's name and address in ink on flyleaf by his hand. In original green cloth. 179, (1) leaves. Seven short stories by Béla Balázs (1884-1949) the Hungarian writer, poet, film maker and critic. This collection has never been published. From this proof only the last story "Történet a Lógody-utcáról, a tavaszról, a halálról és a messzeségről" (Story About Lógody Street, the Spring, the Death and the Distance) has been published in 1912 (Balázs lived in Lógody street until… Read More

Budapest: Révai, 1948. First edition. Inscribed by Balázs. In publisher's half cloth with original, illustrated dust jacket designed by Vera Csillag, the addressee of the dedication. Wrappers slightly chipped at extremities, but in very good condition. The book is in fine condition.. First edition. Inscribed by Balázs. In publisher's half cloth with original, illustrated dust jacket designed by Vera Csillag, the addressee of the dedication. 163, (1) p. The collection of Balázs' Chinese short stories, contains partly the same stories as his earlier book "Der Mantel der Träueme" (München, 1922). Foreword by Thomas Mann, a section from his essay "Ein schönes Buch" (in: Bemühungen; Berlin, 1925). Béla Balázs (1884-1949) was a Hungarian-Jewish film critic and aesthete, also a writer and poet. He is renown as the librettist of Béla Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle" and the writer of the scenario for Bartók's ballet "The Wooden Prince". Vera Csillag (1909-1997) was a Hungarian graphic artist,… Read More