Books and Manuscripts auctions

Münzprägung des Kušanreiches, 1984Robert Göbl, Wein 1969. 153 Pages, 180 plates and 40 Tabels.
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.
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...
Russian Coins of Catherine I and Peter II 1725-1730, 2001M.E. Diakov, Moscow 2001, 131 pages.
New Evidence for Sasanian Numismatics: the Collection of Ahmad Saeedi, 2004Rika Gyselen, Bures-sur-Yvette 2004, 144 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 ...
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.
[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 ...
The World of Islam: Oriental Coins and Their Values, 1977Michael Mitchiner, London 1977, 503 pages.
The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Vol 10: Handbook of Coins of the Southern Levant, 5-1 Centuries BC, 2010O. D. Hoover, Lancester/London 2010, 201 pages.
Roberto Delzanno, Sweden’s Royal Medals Gustav Vasa–Karl XV in Two VolumesRoberto Delzanno, Sweden’s Royal Medals Gustav Vasa–Karl XV in Two Volumes.Step into the grandeur of Sweden’s royal past with this comprehensive and beautifully illustrated reference covering three centuries of royal medals, from Gustav Vasa to Karl XV.-  Over 1,200 medals catalogued-  Richly detailed histori...
Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythian Coinage, Vol 4-6, 1975-1976Michael Mitchiner, London 1975-76, 579 pages.
Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythian Coinage, Vol 1-3, 1975Michael Mitchiner, London 1975, pages 1-282.
The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Vol 3: Handbook of Coins of Macedon and Its Neighbours, Part 1, 6-1 Centuries BC, 2016O. D. Hoover, Lancester/London 2016, 438 pages.
Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythian Coinage, Vol 7-9, 1976Michael Mitchiner, London 1976, pages 581-924.
BARĄCZ Rev. Sadok. Rys Dziejów Armiańskich, Tarnopol 1869, printed by Jozef Pawlowski; 317 pp, bdb. condition, hardback, half cloth binding, gilt title on spine, decorative cloth, 8o format. Very scarce. Sadok Barącz (1814-1892) - Dominican friar, historian and writer. He was born in Stanislawow in an Armenian family. He joined the Dominicans in 1835 after studying philosophy and theology ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Eesti Sõjalised Autasud ja Rinnamärgid 1918-1940, 2005Aleks Kivinuk, Tallinn 2005, 463 pages.
Medals of the Russian Empire, Part 7: 1894-1917, 2007Mikhail E. Diakov, Russia 2007, 431 pages.
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Vol V, Ashmolean Museum Oxforf Part II: Italy-Lucania(Thurium)-Bruttium, Sicily, Carthage, 1969British Academy, London 1969.
The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Vol 3: Handbook of Coins of Macedon and Its Neighbours, Part 2, 6-1 Centuries BC, 2017O. D. Hoover, Lancester/London 2017, 338 pages.
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...
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...
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.
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...
SZAJNOCHA Karol. Two years of our history. 1646. 1648. narrative and sources, print. E. Winemaker, Lviv 1865 and 1869, volumes I-II (complete); XXIV + 368 pp. and XII + 396 pp., st. bdb., hardcover, half leather, rubbed, gilt title and designs on spine, page edges spotted, format 8o. Karol Szajnocha (1818-1868) - Polish historian, writer and social activist. He was born in Lviv to a family of ...
MEMORIES of an insurgent of 1863 and 1864. (Boncza - Chmielinski - Bosak and Krzywa). Published and supplemented with footnotes by Zygmunt Lucjan Sulima. Lviv 1881, Polish Bookstore. 8, pp. 174, psk. period binding, gilt lettering on spine. Bibjoteka Pamiętników z Powstania 1863 i 1864. t. 1.Mier and Bończa coat-of-arms exlibris and Radziechów imprint on the facing page . Coat of arms stam...
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...
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 [...]." ...
Regester of villains of Sanok castle 1554-1638. Published (...). Lviv 1891; Nakł. Historical Society. Print. Wł. Łoziński. 8, pp. XVI, 263, [3],opr. psk. of period. Materyały Historyczne. T. I.Coat of arms stamps "Biblioteka Radziechowska". On the cover a library sticker - "Bibljoteka Radziechowska". Includes: Regester of villains; List of names of persons and places; List of legal things...
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...
London 1963. published by the Catholic Publishing Center "Veritas". 12.5x19.5 cm, pp. 320, black and white illustrations on separate pages, leather binding with gilt embossing. Good condition (minor rubbing of the binding, out-of-date library stamps, library sticker on the back cover). A collection of accounts, documents and testimonies from the period of the January Uprising. The anthology wa...
(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...
The Ancient & Classical World 600BC-AD650, Oriental Coins and Their Values, 1978Michael Mitchiner, London 1978, 760 pages.
Non-Islamic States & Western Colonies AD 600-1979, Oriental Coins and Their Values, 1979Michael Mitchiner, London 1979, 640 pages.
Carthaginian Gold and Electrum Coins, 1963G. K. Jenkins, R. B. Lewis, London 1963, 140 pages + plates.
Школьные Медали CCCP, 2016M. C. Богданов, Ростов-на-Дону 2016, 197 pages.
GIERTYCH Jędrzej. Hiszpanja bohaterska, Ossolineum, Warsaw 1937; author's handwritten dedication to Prof. W. Konopczyński (dated Sept. 6, 1937); fold-out map of Spain in two parts; 447 pp, bdb. st., hardcover, non-original, gilt title on spine, 16d. format.
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...
MISSALE Vratislaviense. Cracow 1505; J. Haller. [Cracouie impressum].... {print. Kasper Hochfeder} Impensis autem Johannis Haller et Sebastiani Hyber eiusdem ciuitatis ciues admodum bene meritos. Anno incarnationis dominice Millesimo quingentesimo quinto (1505). Decimo nono ante Kalendas Junii. (Cracow 1505. Kasper Hochfeder, Jan Haller). (32 x 24 cm), pp. [14], I-CXXX, [18 notes], [6], [1: fi...
EDITORIAL materyals for the history of the 1863-1864 uprising. Preliminary volume. Lviv 1888. druk. i Nakł. Drukarnia Ludowa. 8, pp. XLV, 275, [4], publisher's dust jacket, gilt lettering on spine.Coat of arms seals "Biblioteka Radziechowska". On the cover a library sticker - "Bibljoteka Radziechowska". Unw. rubbing of the binding. good condition. Includes, among others: Memorial Book of the ...
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". ...
Paris 1987 Literary Institute. Series: Library of "Culture", volume 425. 13.5x21.5 cm, pp. 294, soft cover. Good condition (minor rubbing of the spine, a few small spots on the cover). First edition. The publication presents the fate of the Polish nobility living in the territory of Ukraine in the 19th century. The author focuses on the turbulent period of the November Uprising and the January...
About Morskie Oko. The argument of Polish rights before the amicable court in Gradec. With a situational plan. Lviv 1906, Nakł. Author. From the printing house of W. Lozinski. 8 (large), pp. [4], 254, 1 plan on folding tablets, psk. period binding. Coat of arms stamps "Biblioteka Radziechowska". On the cover a library sticker - "Bibljoteka Radziechowska". The Morskie Oko dispute is a territor...
foreign publications Jones John Melville - A Dictionary of Ancient Greek Coins, London 1986, ISBN 0900652810 329 pages in B5 format, hardcover with wrapper. The book was created on the traditional principle of a dictionary from A to Z. discussing and explaining topics related to Greek numismatics - including the names of deities, figures, denominations, subjects and issues depicted on coins, t...
Atlas of the Animal State by Prof. Kurt Lampert compiled by B. Dyakowski Set of III parts: 1. part one: suckling animals. Second edition 2nd Part Two: Birds. Second Edition 3rd Part Three: Reptiles, Amphibians, Fish and Invertebrate Animals. A compendium of knowledge about the animal world. With numerous illustrations in the text and beautiful color illustrations on the plates Year of publicat...
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...
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...
History of Poland. T. 1 - 4. Kraków 1894-94. Nakł. J. Szujski's family. Printed by "Czas" Fr. Kluczycki & sp. 4, pp. XXII, [2], 346, [2], 10 typesetting plates; p. 422, [2], 1 typesetting plate; p. 564, typesetting plates; 837, bound in period psk. Works. Collective edition. Seriea II. VOL. I-IV. Coat of arms stamps "Biblioteka Radziechowska". Library stickers on covers - "Bibljoteka Rad...
foreign publications Jones John Melville - A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins, London 1990, ISBN 185264026X 329 pages in B5 format, hardcover with wrapper. The book was created on the traditional principle of a dictionary from A to Z. discussing and explaining topics related to Roman numismatics - including the names of deities, emperors of denominations, subjects and issues depicted on coins...
Rome 1944. the Culture and Press Branch of the 2nd Corps. Series: White Eagle Library. 13×19 cm, pp. 63, publisher's softcover. Very good condition. First edition. An account of captivity in the Soviet prisoner of war camp at Starobielsk, where the author was sent as a Polish officer in the fall of 1939. He was one of the few who was transferred to another camp, thus saving his life. The othe...
GĄSIOROWSKI Henryk. Guide to the Eastern Beskids, Książnica - Atlas, Lviv-Warsaw [after 1932]; 3 parts: 1)Volume One. Part I. Bieszczady, contains 5 fold-out diagrams and maps: 1. Bieszczady. Schematic map in scale 1 : 300,000; 2. Bieszczady. Diagram of marked tourist trails [...]; 3. Diagram of railroad communication in the Eastern Beskids; 4. Surroundings of Tuchla and Slawsk; 5. Diagrams...
foreign publications Sear David R. - Roman Coins and their values, London 1964, no ISBN. 288 pages + 8 plates, hardcover with wrapper, format approx. 15 x 22 cm, illustrated catalog of Roman coins with their valuations
New York 1940; Doubleday, Doran & Co. 20.5x26.5 cm, pp. 64, plates 48, black and white photos, publisher's hard cloth binding. Good condition (mild rubbing of the binding). First edition of the book Siege, which is an illustrated reportage documenting the siege of Warsaw in September 1939, by American photographer and filmmaker Julien Bryan (1899-1974). Being an eyewitness to the events, h...
foreign publications Sayles Wayne G. - Ancient Coin Collecting III. The Roman World - Politics and Propaganda, Iola 1997, ISBN 0873415337 198 pages B5 format, hardcover with wrapper. The third volume of a series of publications describing ancient and ancient numismatics. An illustrated, cross-sectional study this time of the minting of the Roman republic and empire (3rd century BC - 5th centur...
STATUTES of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. First, during the reign of His Majesty King Hospodar Sigismund III in Cracow in the year 1588 .... The second time in Vilnius, in the year 1619, ... The third time for His Majesty King Wladyslaw IV, in Warsaw in the year 1648.... The fourth time for the Supreme King ... John the Third in Vilna in the year 1698.... And now the fifth time, for the happil...
foreign publications Sayles Wayne G. - Ancient Coin Collecting I, Iola 1996, 087341442X 197 pages, hardcover with wrapper, minor soiling. The first volume in a popular six-volume series on ancient coins. The book contains dozens of tables, charts, maps and drawings and several hundred photographs of coins. The methods of identifying and attributing coins are presented in an accessible manner, ...
polish publications Śnieżko Grzegorz - Moneta w Polsce za panowania Bolesława III Krzywoustego, Warsaw 2021, ISBN 9788366463554 326 A4 pages, cardboard binding, plus CD, the first monographic study of the minting of a Polish ruler of the medieval era. It includes a meticulous analysis of coins, the images and inscriptions present on them, as well as the results of metallographic studies of ...
KRAUSHAR Alexander. The History of Christopher of Arciszew Arciszewski. Admiral and Commander of the Dutch in Brazil, Elder over the Crown Cannon during Wladyslaw IV and John Casimir.1592-1656, Volumes I and II, St. Petersburg 1892-1893; in Volume I, a portrait of Arciszewski, as well as a fold-out plan of the 1636 battle and a map of part of Brazil; first sheet missing and damage to several p...
CHOMÊTOWSKI Władysław. Diary of Stanislaw Jablonowski from the original manuscript from the library of the Ordynat hr. Krasinski, in the Printing House of Gazeta Polska, Warsaw, 1865; ex-libris of Aleksander Czolowski; 173 pp, bdb. condition, hardcover, cloth binding, gilt title on spine, decorative pastedown, 16d. format . uncommon. Wladyslaw Chomętowski (1829-1870) was a writer, poet and...