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Original proof print of the book "Circulating Coins of People's Poland 1949-1990" by Marek Krzewinski. This is the first of only five proof pieces, and it is the basis for the final version of the book. Inside you can find handwritten corrections, deletions and additions by the author. The piece was presented at the Collectors' Fair in Lodz and the Warsaw Collectors' Exchange in 2026. It has c...
Krotkie Morowego Powietrza oraz sposobów uchronienia się tegoż y leczenia w nim Opisanie, ku pospolitemu dobru od doświadczonych Lekarzów Wynalezione, y do druku w roku 1710 podane a teraz z przy przydaniem użytecznych Receptacje Reprukowane. W Poznaniu 1770 W Drukarni J.K.M. Y Rzpltey Collegii Societatius Jesu. 16.5 cm, k. nlb. 12, signed A2, A3, B, B2, without covers. Good condition. M...
Mussolini Benito/ Memoirs from the time of war/ Poznan 1931/ Published by R. Wegner/ publisher's binding, full canvas with ornaments, stained top edge of pages/ black and white illustrations on separate pages/ p.191/ very good condition, few rust spots along the title page. Very nice piece. Binding designed by Tadeusz Różankowski ''Rojan'' in art deco style. The front cover features the moti...
A Treasury of Perpetual Riches, That is, the Affections or Interior Acts of the Sacred Virtues [...] from the Italian before into the Latin: and now into the Polish Style for the greater benefit of the clergy translated by an Augustinian Priest [...] in Cracow in the Printing House of Nicholas Alexander Schedel, I.K.M. Ordin: Typogr,. R.P. 1699. On the second sheet (A2) the dedication of the t...
English-language editions. Catalogues from 1990, 1991 and 1998.
Used. 254p. Suomen Numismaattinen Yhdistys.
Polish publications Poniewierka Tomasz - Tymfs minted during the reign of Jan II Kazimierz. Cz. II - Kraków, Knight Press 2025, ISBN 9788090975811 51 pages, A5 format, soft cover, printer's condition. The second part of the "Guide" catalogues 181 variants of tymfs minted at the Cracow mint between 1663 and 1666. Each moment is accompanied by an enlarged photo with, among others, an enlarged i...
Polish publications Poniewierka Tomasz - Tymfs minted during the reign of Jan II Kazimierz. Cz. I - Bydgoszcz, Knight Press 2025, ISBN 9788011071356 53 pages, A5 format, soft cover, printer's condition. In the first part of the "Guide" 129 variants of tymfs minted in Bydgoszcz between 1663 and 1666 are catalogued. Each moment is accompanied by an enlarged photo with, among others, an enlarged ...
Authorized translation by Marja Rafalowicz-Radwanowa. Warsaw 1936 Księgarnia Popularna, pp. 359, [1], 20 cm, half cloth binding. Slightly damaged cover, ownership signature, ownership stamp, minimally cracked book block near covers, pieces nicely preserved. The second part of a trilogy about Emilka, a heroine somewhat less well known than Anne of Green Gables, hence the pre-war editions are m...
[Foreword] This book, the typescript of which was brought to me by a stranger, a young author, one of the leaders of the Jewish Uprising, I read in one breath, not breaking away from it for a moment. - I, I am not a writer-he said. - It has no literary value. However, his non-literary story achieves what not all masterpieces manage to do. It gives in serious, accurate, restrained words, free o...
Reder Rudolf/ Belzec/ Cracow 1946/ Provincial Jewish Historical Commission/ series: Books of the Provincial Jewish Historical Commission in Cracow, no. 4/ softcover publisher/ black and white illustrations, initials/ pp. 64/ good condition, folds, rubbing and minor undercoating of cover, pages slightly yellowed, dusty page trims Cover and illuminated letters in the text by Abba Fenichel, as we...
Anecdota i dowcip wojenny/ Warsaw 1943/ KOPR (Propaganda Commission operating at the Home Army), printing TWZW (Secret Military Publishing Company)/ publisher's booklet binding/ p.43/ 9 illustrations in the text/ good+ condition, dust ruins on the binding, small scratch on the veneer of the spine, traces of glue along p.1. Very rare. "Anecdotes and War Jokes" (Warsaw, February 1943) - a rare u...
FOREWORD - EXCUSE The preface is used to introduce the various people who will be talked about in the book. Meanwhile, in that book Christopher and his friends have already been introduced to you, you know them well, and in this book they will be saying goodbye to you. So in this case it will be the opposite. When we asked Pooh: "Say, Pooh, what is the opposite of a preface, that is, a little ...
Zwierciadło Zakonnosci Od S. Bonawentury [...] Sporządzone. a teraz Przez iednego Kapłana OO Reformatow S. Franćiszka Prowincyey Małopolskieyy [...] z Łiaćńskiego na Polskie translate y wystawione [...] 1688. w Krakowie w Druk. Mikołaia Alex. Schedel. 12 cm, pp. [32], 574, [1], 2 illustrations, opr. parchment. of period. Binding loose. Good condition. On the reverse of the title page....
Decorated with four engravings. Reprinted from 1829. Warsaw 1829 at the Printing House of A. Gałęzowski, pp. [2], 112, [6], 3 plates with illustrations, 17 cm, half leather binding of period. Deteriorated cover, ownership signature, stamps, LACK of one illustration, lightly soiled pages, two pages torn. Stanislaw Jachowicz (1796-1857) - writer, poet, one of the first authors of works for chi...
Naruszewicz Adam/ Tauryka, czyli wiadomości starożytne i poźnieysze o stan i mieszkańcach Krymu do naszych czasów][and] Dyaryusz podróży Stanisława Augusta króla na Ukrainę, w roku 1787/ Warszawa 1805/ Edycya T. Mostowskiego po dozorem M. Chmielewskiego/ semi-sheathed binding,/ p. [26], 5-540 [2]/ very good condition, small hole on the leather overlapping the back cover, yellowing ch...
GIŻYCKI Jerzy - BIALI I CZARNI Fragmenty kolonjalne.Gebethner and Wolff publishing house, Warsaw 1934. black and white illustrations. Dimensions 20.5x15 cm; pages 368. Hardcover (slight soiling, stains, scuffs). Slight soiling of pages. Stamps, ownership signatures.
Author: Wat Alexandertitle: Unemployed Lucifer storiespublishing series: no informationplace of publication: Warsawyear of publication: 1927publisher: F. Hoesicknumber of pages: 206type of binding: bookletformat: 18 cmadditional information: Piece bearing a dedication by Alexander Watt to Andrzej Czibor-Piotrowski on the pre-title page. The dedication is dated 1955.additional information [cont...
polish publications Marcin Sawaniewicz - Catalogue of Malbork Trajaks of Sigismund III Vasa, Orneta 2023, ISBN 9788394259754 66 pages fromatu A5, softcover
29 cm, pp. 47, color illustrations, p. f. original, ownership signature on title page, good condition.
Album prepared and published by the Culture and Press Department of the 3 D. S. K. in August 1945. Inside, a huge number of photographs of little known photos of the 3 D.S.K., each photo signed in 3 languages - Polish, English and Italian. Softcover, horizontal format, 126 pages, all bound with red and white string. Condition as in the photos.
[Kossak Zofia]/ Golgotha/ Warsaw 1942/ Publishing House of the Front of Rebirth of Poland/ softcover publisher/ p.46/ good condition, loss and scuffing on front cover. Uncommon. A conspiratorial pamphlet by Zofia Kossak devoted to the martyrdom of Polish society under German occupation. It is not a complete picture of the war, but a consciously fragmentary, "hot-written" record of the sufferin...
by: Brzechwa Jantitle: Flea Szachrajkaillustrator/cover design: Irena Kuczborskapublishing series: no informationplace of publication: Warsawyear of publication: 1957publishing house: Czytelniknumber of pages: [64]type of binding: linenformat: 18 cmadditional information: Illustrations in the textadditional information [cont:] FIRST-PRINT. Piece with dedication by Jan Brzechwa on pre-title pag...
Herling-Grudziński Gustaw/ The living and the dead/ Rome 1945/ first edition/ Published by the Division of Culture and Press of the 2nd Corps/ Series: Library of the "White Eagle"/ softcover publisher/ pp. 78/ good+ condition, slight soiling and rubbing of the binding, a small notation in crayon on the front cover, a slightly torn preface page, small soiling of the pages in places. On the bac...
Kraushar Alexander/ Warsaw at the time of the Four-Year Sejm in the paintings of Zygmunt Vogel/ Poznan-Warsaw [1921]/ Published by St. Adalbert's Bookstore/ art binding in half leather, original booklet cover glued in/ p.67, (3), 71 reproductions in sepia on separate pages/ very good condition, small loss of leather on the spine, slight rubbing of the edges of the binding Interwar art binding ...
Silver Gold Nałęczy Zadźiergnienie, In [...] X. Pietro Gembicki Bishop of Cracow, Prince of Siewierz. By legal and just Universal Death Decree / From X. Ian Chrysostom Bodzęnty Gnieznieńskiego y Krakowskiego Kanonik, Z Kathedra Thumskiey Krakowskiey, Year of the Lord 1657. Dnia 18 Oktobra, Publikowanym y legitymowanym, Dobrze y Szczęśliwie Rozieriergnione y zerwane, [...]. [Cracow 1657]...
List pasterski Jasnie oswieconego [...] Xmieję Michała Jerzego Ciołka Poniatowskiego bishop of Płock, xiązęcie Pułtuskiego [...] do oboyga stanu tak duchownego, jak i swieckie dicezyi swojejy roku Panskiego 1775 [...] wydany. w Warszawie w Drukarni Nadworney J.K.Mci. 20 cm, pp. 94, [5], spine paper. of period. Title page. with slightly cut lower margin, dusty, with visible spot, with st...
Kaminski Aleksander [pseud. J.Górecki]/ Kamienie na szaniec. Opowiadanie o Wojtku i Czarnym/ Warsaw 1943/ K.O.P.R. (print), TWZW/ publisher's binding, soft/ edition of 2000 pieces/ p.67, [1]/ very good condition-, minor soiling of binding, slight discoloration on the last page. Rare. The cover was made by Stanislaw Kunstetter.On the colorful cover was a brick wall with painted Sign of Fightin...
compiled by. Dmochowski Jan / Mikołaja Kopernika rozprawy o monecie i inne pisma ekonomiczne and J.L. Decius Traktat o biciu coin / Warsaw 1924 / Gebethner i Wolff / cloth binding / pp. (CLXIV) 223 / good condition; soiling on covers; rubbing on spine; minor traces of dampstaining; minor soiling here and there; crossed out ownership marks; pen and pen notations The volume contains the economi...
30 cm, pp. 123, [4], full-page color illustrations on plates, black-and-white illustrations in the text, p. f. oryg.Ownership signature on title page, minor rubbing of binding corners, otherwise good condition. Contains tales: Samoan Sticks, The Tale of the Puss in Boots, The Tale of Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, About the Three Brothers and the Living Water, The Snow Girl, About the Fis...
And Haller is going... Zbiór piosenek żołnierskich / Warsaw 1919 / B. Grabowski/ publisher's booklet/ good condition, binding soiled, a few folds loose, margins of a few pages with small losses A small songbook with a distinctly patriotic, military and national character, consisting of songs and poems referring to the struggle for independence, historical memory and political events of the ...
Hardcover bookbinding. Format 23.2 x 17 cm, 219 pages + tables. Inside dedication dated 1990, most likely authored by a member of Prof. Gumowski's family. Exlibris by Witold Tokarski.
Ros Jerzy / Heroes of the North / Warsaw 1969 / Iskry Publishing House / publisher's cloth binding; illustrated, color wrappers; ornate cover pages / pp. 537 / black and white illustrations / very good condition; rubbing on the wrapper Graphically designed by Miroslaw Pokora. A fictionalized edition of Scandinavian mythology, based on the Elder Edda, the most important and basic source of know...
Mauclair Camille/ Florence. Authorized translation by Leopold Staff. With 75 engravings/ Lviv-Poznan [1926]/ Polish Publishing House/ art binding in half leather, pastedown original booklet cover by Ernest Czerper / pp . IX, [1], 255, [1]/ black and white illustrations on separate boards/ very good condition, minor rubbing of binding edges Artistic binding in half leather by Aleksander Semkowi...
Printing. W. L. Anczyc & Sp. Cracow. 17.5 cm, pp. XVI, 217, cloth back cover. Good condition. Issue 1. The first book edition came out in Lviv by the Publishing Society in about 1000 pieces and was published under the author's name. Includes: The Individual and the Nation. On the wilderness of our thought. National character. Our passivity. Political views and type of mental life. Austerit...
Brafman Âkov Aleksandrovič/ Źydzi i kahały. With an explanation by Teodor Jeske- Choiński/ Warsaw 1914/ in the printing house of the sons of St. Nemira/ softcover/ p.203/ good condition, rubbing, fraying and fraying of the edges of the cover, slight fraying in the text at places Piece from the collection of the district directorate for the Lodz province of the ''Development'' society. It ...
"Sztuka" 1897-1922 / editorial and artistic direction: Jan Bukowski, Stefan Filipkiewicz, Ignacy Pieńkowski / Kraków 1922 / publisher: Towarzystwo Artystów Polskich "Sztuka" / circulation: H. Altenberg & Gubrynowicz & Son / bookbinding in half leather / pp.[4], 34, XXIX, [3]/ 65 pages of plates in rotogravure/ very good condition-, traces of dampstaining in text part, one plate with...
Fiedler Arkady/ Island of loving lemurs/ Warsaw 1957/ first edition/ Państwowe Wydawnictwo "Iskry"/ softcover publisher/ pp. 139/ black and white photographs, map/ good condition+, slight rubbing and folds of binding, small loss on spine On the pre-title page, signature of Arkady Fiedler, dated May 10, 1959. Cover designed by Mieczyslaw Kowalczyk, while photographs included in the publication...
Chotomska Wanda/ Bajki z 1001 dobranocy/ Warsaw 1972/ first edition/ Nasza Księgarnia/ cardboard binding/ pp. 76/ numerous color illustrations/ good condition+, rubbing on edges of binding, folds on corners, ownership stamps on front pasteboard and titlepage, on several pages small stains On the pre-title page dedication and signature of Wanda Chotomska. Entry dated 19.03.2005. Illustrations ...
Wachholz Leon and Ciechanowski Stanisław / Technika sekcyi zwłok: protokół sekcyi i orzeczenie / Warsaw 1920 / Gebethner i Wolff / publisher's paper binding / pp. 237 / black-and-white illustrations / good condition; spine veneer torn; scuffs on edges of covers; minor soiling on front cover; soiling on back cover; 2 folds loose; folds loose; some soiling in places; visible sewing grid at p...
printed on one side/ no information about place of issue/ 1928/ 15,5x22 cm/ very good condition, small tears on margins Election leaflet of the Catholic-National Bloc, addressed to women, with a clear ideological and political character. The publication refers to the Jasna Gora vow of Polish women of May 3, 1926, treating it as a religious and civic obligation realized through participation in...
22 cm, pp. 106, [1], illustrations in the text and on tabs, original cover. Good condition. Cover drawn by Jan Wroniecki, illustrations in the text by A. Niemczewska and R. Przybyszewska. On the pre-title page. handwritten dedication by the author dated: ... d. 26.VII.1932.
Hardcover. Format 24.3 x 17.7 x cm, 118 pages. Exlibris by Witold Tokarski.
Author: Paszkowicz AdamTitle: I came back from Mauthausen.series publisher: no informationplace of publication: Lodzyear of publication: 1946publishing house: "Poligrafika"number of pages: 38type of binding: bookletformat: 20 cmadditional information: Illustrations.condition: bdb. [min. rubbing of corners of binding / nice copy].
10th Anniversary of the Polish Police (1915-1925). Lodz 1925. a one-day paper published through the efforts of the Committee for the Celebration to Commemorate the Anniversary of this in Lodz, in September of the year 1925. Printed at Zakłady Graficzne Bolesław Kostkowski i S-ka, Sp. Akc. in Lodz. P. 84. height 27.7 cm. Binding broch. With ep. Dirt and minor tears to the binding. Editor: Ale...
Zagórski Adam/ Polskie pieśni wojenne i piosenki obozowe/ Piotrków 1915/ Wydawnictwo Wiadomości Polskich/ Druk.: Czcionkami Drukarni Państwowej pod zarządem Departament Wojskowego N.K.N. W Piotrków/ publishing brochure/ p.78 [2]/ very good condition-, minor folds of page corners, minor yellowing in places A collection of Polish patriotic songs sung "in the camps" and in the units - from...
Hardcover. Format 24.5 x 18.5 cm, 233 pages + tables. Exlibris by Witold Tokarski.
Science of the Constitution of the 3rd of May 1791 / Poznan 1891 / Fonts and in the Commission of W. Simon / publisher's booklet binding; cloth spine reinforcement / pp. 64 / average condition; covers missing; scuffs on edges of several pages; break on title page; some soiling here and there; loose-leaf folder Booklet devoted to the history of the Constitution of the Third of May. It discusses...
Text of the law, explanatory notes, case law, recitals of the draft single pr. obj. of the Geneva convention, additional provisions, union, procedural, foreign exchange, models. 20 cm, pp. 461, fawn binding. good condition. Includes: Text of the law of bills of exchange. Bill of exchange drawn. Bill of exchange. Final and transitional provisions. Appendices.
JAŁOWIECKI Mieczysław - After the manors and villages of Lithuania. Sketch. Stone 1928 [dedication by the author]. On the cover a handwritten dedication by the author dated. 20.V.1928. p. 42. height 25 cm. Binding broch. With ep. Loss of binding, soiling. Annotated with numerous personal threads with Lithuanian memoirs of Mieczyslaw Yalowiecki (1876-1962), landowner, coat of arms, agronomist...
author: collective worktitle: Kapitan Żbik nr 17 "Złoty" Mauritiuseditor: script: Władysław Krupkaillustrator / cover design: Boguslaw Polchpublishing series: no informationplace of issue: Warsawyear of publication: 1971publishing house: Sport and Tourismnumber of pages: [32]type of binding: bookletformat: 25 cmadditional information: Kapitan Żbik - Polish militia comic book published in ...
[VISITORS]. Two different business cards of Edward Gierek. 1). Edward Gierek. Oblong format 10/6.5 cm. 2) Edward Gierek 1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party. Oblong format 12/6.5 cm. One business card of Stanisława Gierek. Format 9/5 cm. The business cards were made at the Experimental Printing House of Leon Urbanski's Fine Arts Studio.
Polish publications Jaroslaw Dutkowski - Złoto czasów dynastii Wazów (The Gold of the Wasa dynasty), Volume I, Gdansk 2015, ISBN 9788392745396 544 pages in B5 format, hardcover, paperback book (printer's condition), richly illustrated catalog of the gold minting of the Vasa dynasty
Wierzyński Kazimierz/ Wiosna i Wina/ Warsaw 1919/ first edition/ J. Mortkowicz Publishing House/ epoxy cardboard binding, publisher (?)/ pp. 95/ good+ condition, slight soiling of binding and rubbing at edges, small dent at top of spine, cracked spine at title page, Piece contains ex libris (on front pastedown) and ownership signature (on title p.) belonging to Kazimierz Czachowski, Polish li...
Idzkowski Adam/ Project of a road under the Vistula River to connect Warsaw with Prague/ Warsaw 1828/ Printing House of Lątkiewicz at Ulica Senatorska/ full leather artistic binding/ p.44/ 2 plates with black and white engravings/ good condition, minor yellowing in the text in places, traces of moisture on the side corners of the pages. Very rare. Publication last appeared at auction 6 years ...
[Macquer Philippe] - Dzieie Rzeczypospolitey Rzymskiey, od założenia Rzymu az do Cesarzow, krótkiem porządkiem lat opisane z franc. języka na polski przekładony. ... Volume one from the founding of Rome to the end of the Shoah. in Warsaw 1806 Nakładem i Drukiem Zawadzkiey Wdowy, w Starym Mieście ... 18.5 cm, pp. XVIII, 617, psk. period binding: spine of binding with small woodworm mark...
INTRODUCTION. "What a shell soaks in its youth, the same in its old age," says St. Thomas after Aristotle ¹), and the experience of nations of all centuries confirms the truth of these words. - says St. Thomas after Aristotle ¹), and the experience of peoples of all centuries confirms the truth of these words. The entire life of individual people and society depends on education in youth. Th...
Naruszewicz Adam/ Historya narodu polskiego/ Warsaw 1824/ Printed by N.Glucksberg./ vol. I, parts 1-3 bound in two volumes/ first edition/ bookbinding in half leather/ pp.[18], XXVI, 294, maps 4 (fold-out lithographs); [295]-848, XXXXIV, [4]/ good condition, visiblescuffing of signboards, map missing in second volume; unnumbered pages of part III mistakenly sewn into first volume; missing pp. ...
Memoir of the siege of Czestochowa 1655 Volume 1/2. Fifth edition. Paris 1867 Luxemburg Bookstore, pp. 64, 60, 13 cm, softcover. Slightly damaged covers, pieces uncut, a few rust spots. Augustyn Kordecki (1603-167) - monk, prior of the Jasna Gora Monastery, commander of the defense during the siege during the Deluge. A direct account of the defense of Jasna Gora against the Swedes, a defense t...
Wejnert Alexander/ Historical description of three kępa on the Vistula River near Warsaw (Polkowska, Bełk, Saska) from the earliest times until 1850/ Warsaw 1850/ Printed by the author, in the printing house of the Bank of Poland/ first edition/ epoch cardboard binding/ p.[4], 156/ fold-out table in lithography "View of Saska Kępa from the Praga side" Drawn from nature and lith.Alexand. Maj...
KUTRZEBIANKA Anna - Folk architecture in Zawoja. With II tables and 15 engravings in the text. Cracow 1931. published by the Ethnographic Museum in Cracow. S. [8], 55. height 30 cm. Booklet. Minor edgewear and soiling of the binding. Published by the Ethnographic Museum in Cracow, No. 4. An excellent monograph devoted to the timber construction of the Polish countryside.