Books and Manuscripts auctions

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
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...
Münzprägung des Kušanreiches, 1984Robert Göbl, Wein 1969. 153 Pages, 180 plates and 40 Tabels.
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
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 ...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
New Evidence for Sasanian Numismatics: the Collection of Ahmad Saeedi, 2004Rika Gyselen, Bures-sur-Yvette 2004, 144 pages.
[ZHP CampFUND ]. Seven bricks worth 20 and 50 zloty "For the Camp Fund of the OHZ - ZHP Section" probably from 1949. Bricks on uncut sheets 7x28.5 cm (3x20 zloty) and 9.7x29.7 cm (4x50 zloty). Text also in Yiddish. Very good condition.
Novák Emil : Korunovace a korunovační ražby - 5.díl, Veduta Štíty 1997, 242 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).
Novák Emil : Korunovace a korunovační ražby - 4.díl, Veduta Štíty 1995, 169 stran, brožované, téměř
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 ...
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.
Militký Jiří : Pražská mincovna 1526 - 1856, Muzeum hlavního města Prahy, 182 stran, brožované, téměř
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.
Asocijacija Nezaležnych Ukrainskych Mystictv. VII vystavka: Mykola Gluščenko. Kalatog. [Lviv?], II 1935. 16, p. [15]. broch. Tear and small loss of tissue paper cover, otherwise good condition. Includes biographical note, voices of criticism, list of 80 exhibited works, 5 black and white reproductions.
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...
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...
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...
VYSTAVA domašnogo promyslu v Kolomyi pid protektoratom Ich c. k. Vysokosti Archykn. Karolja Franca Josifa i Archyknjagini Zyta v dnjach 21-30 versenja 1912. Katalog. Kolomyja 1912 [is erroneously 1902]. Nakl. vystavovogo komitet. 8, s. 30, [2]. Broch. Lack of back cover. List and arrangement of exhibits at the exhibition of folk industry in Kolomyja.
[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...
Novák Emil : Korunovace a korunovační ražby - 3.díl, Veduta Štíty 1995, 233 stran, brožované, dobře
Polish publications Oleński Jan - Ogólnopolskie kartki zaopatrzeniowe z lat 1976-1989, Warsaw 2010, ISBN 9788392333289 130 pages B5 format, softcover, traces of flooding on the lower right corner of the book, richly illustrated first study of Polish food and commodity cards from the PRL times, very interesting for anyone interested in the times of the PRL
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...
PROCEDER legal woyskowy issued the year MDCCLXXV. In Warsaw 1775. 8, p. [2], 223[and co-published] woyskowe ARTICLES. Kriegs-Artikel. p. [2], 53. altogether opr. late psk. E. 25, 249 (residual description). Spine covered with linen, staining of first three pages, small trace of woodworm at end. Parallel Polish and German text in both publications. Owner's signature. Seweryn Wisłocki. Infrequent.
foreign publications Harlan Michael - Roman Republican Moneyers and Their Coins 81 BCE-64 BCE, Citrus Heights 2012, ISBN 9780965456708 A 222-page B5 format, softcover, coin-illustrated study of the minting of the Roman Republic from the period 81-64 BCE, it provides a detailed description (along with images of the coins) of the activities of the 34 coinmakers of the time, with attention to wha...
JANUSZEWSKA Hanna - Lights. Illustrated by J[an] M[arcin] Szancer. Warsaw 1961, Biuro Wyd. "Ruch". 4, pp. 24. brochure. Slight corner crease on front cover, minor stains on back cover, very good condition inside. Story in verse.
Grant Michael : Římští císařové, životopisy vládců císařského Říma, 31 př.Kr. - 476 po Kr., Praha 2002, 387 stran, vázané, téměř
UCIECZKA z piekła. Warsaw 1944 Glob Publishing House. 8, pp. 32. broch. Top 662. good condition. Illustrations in the text. Anti-Soviet publication - testimonies of "refugees" from the T. Kosciuszko Division regarding Soviet rule in the eastern borderlands in 1939-1941. A short account is also devoted to Katyn.
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...
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...
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.
Češka Josef : Zánik antického světa, Praha 2000, 277 stran, vázané
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.
BARUCH Maksymilian - Pabianice, Rzgów and surrounding villages. Monografia historyczna dawnych majątr Kapituły Krakowskiej w Sieradzkiem i Łęczyckiem. Warsaw 1903. composition chiefly in Księg. E. Wende and S-ka. 8, p. X, [2]. 362, plates 8. bound in period psk. Lacking preface card. Spine slightly discolored, local minor stains inside, loss to the text of the lower section of Rev. 349/3...
DZIEDZIC Józef - The Jew in the village. From the issues of the national future. Przemyśl 1913. circulation of the author. 8, pp. 72. broch. Spine covered with paper, covers rubbed, book stitched in the spine through the block, which makes it impossible to open it freely. In the introduction about the Polish countryside: "In her organism sits a foreign body - a Jew". Anti-Semitic edition.
Russian Coins of Elizabeth I and Peter III 1741-1762, 2002M.E. Diakov, Moscow 2002, 184 pages.
The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Vol 12: Handbook of Coins of Baktria and Ancient India, 5 BC - AD 1 , 2013O. D. Hoover, Lancester/London 2013, 389 pages.
Russian Coins of Catherine I and Peter II 1725-1730, 2001M.E. Diakov, Moscow 2001, 131 pages.
Школьные Медали CCCP, 2016M. C. Богданов, Ростов-на-Дону 2016, 197 pages.
WARDZIŃSKI Wladyslaw - The world conspiracy of Jewry in the light of the "Protocols of the Wise Men of Sion" presented. Cracow 1943. published by "Nauka i Sztuka". 8, pp. 46, [1]. broch. Top 664. good condition. Occupation anti-Semitic publication.
SOSNKOWSKI Kazimierz - Pilsudski's Legions. Canada (Toronto) 1964; Nakł. Zw. Narod Polski; Druk. w zakładzie wydawn. "Voice of Poland". 8, p. 22. broch. Good condition. On title page: "This publication contains the text of a speech by Gen. K. Sosnkowski sent by letter to London from Arundel, Que. for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the march of the First Cadre Company from Oleandr...
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...
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...
[FIRST]. The 1st Armored Regiment in combat. From Caen to Wilhelmshaven. Bruges, August 19, 1945; The Saint Catherine Press. 8, pp. 55, [1], plates 2, maps 3. broch. Wraps slightly rubbed, map at end with loss, underlining of text in pencil. Ex. uncut. Cover title, on p. 3: "On a regimental holiday". Includes, among others: Nine months of fighting of the 1st Armored Regiment, Operation Falaise...
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...
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...
(RADZIWI£ Boguslaw Prince). Life story of Prince Boguslaw Radziwill written by himself. From the manuscript published by Edward Raczynski. Poznan 1844, in the Garbarach printing house. 8, pp. 53, front cover missing. Traces of non. Rust stains on the pages. Exempl. uncut. Boguslaw Radziwill (1620-1669), Lithuanian equerry, starosta of Bar, general governor of Ducal Prussia in 1657-1669. Prote...
KOSSAK Zofia - Legnickie pole. Warsaw 1930, Krakowska Spółka Wydawnicza. 8, pp. [4], 285. ppb. of epoch with preserved booklet cover. Cover somewhat dusty and rubbed, local minor stains inside. Bibliot. stamp. Handwritten dedication by the author dated September 27, 1930 on the frontispiece page. Colorful cover by Lela Pawlikowska. Historical novel of the 13th century. Z. Kossak-Szczucka (18...
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...
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 [...]." ...
STUDNICKI Wladyslaw - The rule of Soviet Russia in eastern Poland 1939-1941. Warsaw 1943. published by the author. 8, p. 48. broch. Top 660. spine covered with paper. Covers slightly stained, paper yellowed, otherwise good condition. Published with the permission of the occupation authorities, a sketch of a Polish politician and publicist, a supporter of Poland's cooperation with the Third Rei...
[scoutpostcards ]. A complete set of 7 postcards by Marian Walentynowicz, the proceeds from the sale of which were earmarked for the publication of the Circle of Scouts and Girl Scouts 1910-45. London, XI 1971. On the first postcard St. George - patron saint of scouting. On the others humorous scenes signed in Polish on the back and in English on the view page (e.g., When the tent is too short...
CALLIER E[dmund] - Ostrzeszów county in the 16th century. Geographical and historical sketch. Poznan 1888, with fonts by W. Simon. 8, p. 48. binding in psk. gilt. Good condition. Brief description of the villages of Ostrzeszow County in Greater Poland. Infrequent.
SZEPTYCKA Zofia of Fredro - Pisma ... T. 1-2. Kraków 1906-1907. druk. "Czas" and W. L. Anczyc. 4, pp. 112, [3], plate 4; [4], 136, plate 2. altogether bound in period fl. Abrasions to edges and scratches to covers, several pages loose. First published collection of writings of Z. Szeptycka (1837-1904), daughter of Aleksander Fredro, with biographical introduction by Stanislaw Tarnowski. Conta...