Search Results: Authors starting with F from Foldvaribooks

Kostantiniyye [Constantinople]: Mekteb-i Bahriye-i Sahane Matbaasi, 1868. First edition. Text in Ottoman Turkish. In publisher's half leather. The panels are decorated with floral ornamentation. Spine rubbed with small damage to the tail and the head. Covers slightly worn, panels bumped at corners. Early twentieth-century inscription on the front flyleaf in black ink. Light foxing here and there. Overall in very good condition.. First edition. Text in Ottoman Turkish. In publisher's half leather. The panels are decorated with floral ornamentation. (1), (1)-62, (1), (63)-81, (1) p. Extremely scarce, first edition of Mühendis Faik's memoir about his adventurous travel from Constantinople to Basrah through Brazil, Africa, and India, the first American expedition of Turkish marines. (Özalp, 2006.) Two Ottoman warships, called Bursa and İzmir departed Constantinople in September 1865, with the assignment to get to Basrah. Due to a storm, the ships lost their way and thus only reached their… Read More

Budapest, 1968. First edition. In origianl paper. In fine conditon. Catalog illustrated with black and white pictures and reproductions. Catalog illustrated with black and white pictures and reproductions. First edition. In origianl paper. 6 + 4. page (with list of artefacts). Catalogue of the first solo show of Fajo.

Berlin: Phot. Gesselschaft, 1886. Only edition. In original cloth folder. In near fine condition. Only edition. In original cloth folder. 1 p., 10 plate. The portfolio contains 10 reproductions of paintings by Julian Falat representing a bear hunt given in honor of the King of Prussia. Julian Falat, (1853-1929) was one of the most prolific Polish painters of watercolor and one of the country's foremost landscape painters as well as one of the leading Polish impressionists. Mouchon, nr. 1128. Very rare. Inscribed to Mr. Gasiorowski.

Budapest, 1930. Holograph score. Score in pencil, instructions in red ink. Dedicated to the Hungarian singer, Margit Balányi. Text in German. In contemporary half cloth. Gilt title on spine. Spine somewhat worn with a small damage at the head. Pages yellowed due to acidic paper. Slightly overtrimmed at the upper margins with no effect on legibility. Overall in very good condition.. Holograph score. Score in pencil, instructions in red ink. Dedicated to the Hungarian singer, Margit Balányi. Text in German. In contemporary half cloth. Gilt title on spine. (2), 200, (4) p. Unique holograph score by the Jewish-Hungarian composer, Géza Falk. Géza Falk (1899-1945) was a Hungarian musicologist and composer, and the intendant of the Jewish High School in Budapest. In his compositions, he used traditional Hungarian Jewish tunes and motifs. Falk is known for his string-quartets, songs, oratorios ("A furulyás" [The Flutist], "A kinyilatkoztatás" [The Revelation], "A kínai fuvola" [The Chinese Flute])… Read More

Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1920. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Margarete Bechert's bookplate on front flyleaf. In contemporary half cloth. Original wrapper mounted on front panel. First pages somewhat stained, p. 6-7 restored with tape. Otherwise fine, clean copy.. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Margarete Bechert's bookplate on front flyleaf. In contemporary half cloth. 340 [2] p. First edition of Fallada's first book, inscribed to his sister. The German writer, Hans Fallada (born Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen; 1893-1947) became known after the publication of his first novel, Der junge Goedeschal. Present copy is inscribed by the author to her sister, Margarete Becher. As he first used his pseudonym for this book, he signed it "R. H. Ditzen-Fallada". .

Budapest: Löbl D. és Fia, 1913. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers, designed by Géza Faragó. In fine condition.. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers, designed by Géza Faragó. (4) p. With Faragó's colour image on the cover of this scarce movie program. Movie program for 1913, the cinema played the German movies "Mephisto - Ein Maskenbild", "Der Arzt wider Willen" and "Des Alters erste Spuren" (Im vorgerückten Alter) and the Italian film "Il regalo di Polidor". Cover designed by Géza Faragó, the greatest Hungarian master of graphic art in Art Nouveau style. .

Budapest: Légrády Testvérek Műintézete, 1916. Lithographic poster. Mounted on paper. Lithographic poster. Ca. 92 × 62 cm. The image, an Austro-Hungarian soldier of the Great War sits in the window of probably a train to the front and inspecting the map in the newspaper "Pesti Hírlap", occupies the upper two-third of the poster within a black border. The title "Pesti Hírlap" in red is integrated and positioned across the top edge of the blue background of the image. The text under the image in white and green reads as "a világháború leghűbb krónikása naponta közöl a hadihelyzetet ismertető pontos térképeket és szakszerű magyarázatokat" (the most faithful chronicler of the world war presents accurate maps and professional comments). There are two known variants of the poster. The other version differs from our copy in the green part of the text, that reads "naponta a hivatalos jelentések alapján pontos térképeket és szenzációs ismertetéseket közöl" (presents accurate… Read More

largest: 710x425 mm., smallest: 270x225 mm. With small tears at the edges of the sheets, small gaps of a few inches that do not affect the drawings, except for one of the blueprints inside the Temple of Heroes.. largest: 710x425 mm., smallest: 270x225 mm. Between 1929 and 1931, the entire surroundings of the Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest were renovated. At that time, the Jewish Museum was erected, also the Temple of the Heroes of World War I, and a garden surrounded by a colonnade. Based on the preliminary information , the community commissioned László Vágó to prepare the final plans. Eventually, however, the architect Ferenc Faragó became Vágó's helper Ferenc Faragó planed several apartment buildings in Budapest (eg Fejér György utca 8 in the 5th district). the modern building of the Margaret Island Tennis Club or the Gellért Terrace on the north-eastern side of Gellért Hill. The well-respected Alfréd Hajós answers the Circular Question of Theater Life concerning young… Read More

Budapest: Legrady Testverek, 1910. Some missing on the margins. Some small tears.. 94 x 61 cm.

Budapest: dr. Szebeny József tanácsnok (Budapest székesfőváros házinyomdája), 1944. Original printed poster. With the coat of arms of Budapest. Issued by the Mayor of the Capital City of Budapest. Tanned due to acidic paper. Folded once. Small tears to edges. Overall in good condition.. Original printed poster. With the coat of arms of Budapest. Issued by the Mayor of the Capital City of Budapest. 32 × 48 cm. Withdrew of the licence of the Jewish taxi drivers and transporters, the taxi and transport companies. Ákos Farkas was the mayor during the most difficult time for the Jewry of Budapest. He decreed numerous anti-semitic edicts and he was very active in the ghettoization of the Jews in Budapest that started in November 1944. As the Red Army approached Budapest, Farkas fled to Germany in late December, 1944. He was captured by the US troops and as war criminal extradited to Hungary in 1946. He was sentence 10 years imprisonment, he died in the prison in 1955. .

[Mahe?], 1909. Autograph notes in a vintage folder. Notes in colored pencil and ink on 16 different-sized leaves. 37 manuscript copies of maps on tracing paper, in different sizes, many colored, and one printed map, augmented with several toponyms in pencil and ink. Drawn on different quality tracing papers, of which one is very fragile, some dented or torn, with no significant loss. Some text leaves are chipped. Some maps are folded, generally in fine, very good condition. Overall in very good condition.. Autograph notes in a vintage folder. Notes in colored pencil and ink on 16 different-sized leaves. 37 manuscript copies of maps on tracing paper, in different sizes, many colored, and one printed map, augmented with several toponyms in pencil and ink. An important collection of the author's carto-bibliographic notes and maps related to the first monograph of the Seychelles Islands. Albert-Auguste Fauvel (1851-1909), was a French explorer and naturalist, and the author of the first monograph of… Read More

Bratislava, 1935. In original paper. In very good condition. Artistically Restored. In original paper. 1931 2,4,5,7,8-9,10), 1932 1-12, 1933 1-6, 1934 1-10, 1935 1-5, 1936 1, includes 2 special issue. Almost complete set of the important Hungarian-language left-wing avant-garde magazine published in Czechoslovakia. With many photomontage and illustrations (Georg Grosz). The editor Zoltán Fábry was a writer, who also worked for the avantgarde periodical Periszkop and Korunk.

[N.p. but Warsaw?]: [S.n.; Samidat], 1984. Samizdat comics. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. Stapled. Price (250 Zloty) written on front cover. Corners bumped. Pages yellowed due to acidic paper. With a water stain to the lower corner of some leaves. Otherwise clean and firm. Overall in fine condition.. Samizdat comics. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. Stapled. 16 p. The first Polish underground comic, the story of the first 500 days of Solidarity, the first independent trade union in the Soviet Bloc. It was created by Wojciech Starzynski, Andrzej Witwicki written by Janowi Markowi Owsinskiemu and drawn by Jacek Fedorowicz. The comic became very popular in Poland and also outside the country and had several reissues and reprints already in the year of the first edition. It was officially published only in 1989. The present copy is a reissue of the first edition from 1984, the price is not printed on cover or on inner rear cover (but indicated in ink), and with the so-called "21 demands of… Read More

Sopron: Röttig-Romwalter, 1943. In original illustrated paper. Almost fine condition.. In original illustrated paper. 189 p. 44 illustration. The history of the 1936 French-Hungarian soil biological Sahara expedition.

Basileae [Basel]: Apud Thomam Volfium (Thomas Wolff), 1532. Second Basel edition. In later paper. Large woodcut printer's device on final page. Slightly over trimmed touching a few headings. Light stains on title page. Old ownership inscriptions of title page and second leaf. Paper tanned. Otherwise in fine condition.. Second Basel edition. In later paper. [88] p. Scarce Basel edition of this popular collection of Classic literature. First Wolff edition of these popular studies on Roman politics and government and on ancient Latin abbreviations, second in Basel after the 1523 Valentin Curio edition, whose preface is included here. USTC 669544.

Budapest: Hartleben, 1845. First Hungarian Edition. In contemporary cloth. Spine damaged. Inside foxing. In very good condition.. First Hungarian Edition. In contemporary cloth. IV, 231 p., 301 p. First Hungarian edition of The Last of the Mohicans. From the collection of Lajos Hegyeshalmi (1862-1925) politician, minister of trade and finance, member of the Hungarian parliament.

Szolnok: V.F.M.K., 1978. Original, vintage poster. Original, vintage poster. Printed in black-and-white. 206 × 296 mm. With the stamp of the artist and the gallery. Folded twice. In fine condition.. Original, vintage poster. Original, vintage poster. Printed in black-and-white. 206 × 296 mm. Vintage poster of the 1978 exhibition of the Hungarian Neo-Avant-garde graphic artist, Árpád fenyvesi Tóth (1950-2014), the most renowned personality of the mail-art movement in Hungary.

Vienna, 1620. In very good condition.

Spain, 1815. First edition. Unbound as published. Dated on the top of the first page, and numbered at the lower left corner in ink, by a contemporary hand. Printed on Santiago Serra's paper: watermark of an ornamented Maltese cross and the word "Capellades". In fine condition.. First edition. Unbound as published. [4] p. Royal order concerning the establishment and finance of schools in Indian communities in South America for the teaching of the Castilian language. This 1815 Royal order is a reinforcement and partly a reprint of a previous ordinance concerning the establishment of schools for teaching the Spanish language in the pueblos de Indios (January 28, 1778), and a supplement (November 5, 1782) which - as a response to the appeal of the Corregidor de la Provincia de Paria) - permits to finance these schools and provide the salary of the teachers by newly imposed taxes on the local indigenous communities. Apparently not all the desirable schools were established by 1815, and in a response… Read More

Buda: Typis Regiae Literarum Universitatis Hungaricae, 1825. In later paper. In very nice conditon, old collection stamp on the title page.. In later paper. 255 p. with the portrait of Peter Kubinyi. First editon. The first printed catalogue of the Hungarian National Museum's collection. First editon. Edited by Miller Jakab Ferdinánd (1749-1823), the first director of the museum. Very rare.