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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...
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 ...
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
REYMONT Władysław St. - Chłopi. Volume I-II [second edition 1906] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION].
525 EUR
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...
Dimensions: height 28 cm, 935 p. Jozef Bromski (1872-1937) - Polish Catholic priest, Semitist, religious scholar, local government activist, dean of the Faculty of Catholic Theology at Warsaw University. He was educated at the Bible School in Jerusalem and later at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. From 1921 he taught Akkadian and Sumerian at the University of Warsaw; he was a forerun...
Dimensions: height 28 cm, 878 pp. Book in original bookbinding, cloth cover, half leather spine with gilt and embossing. Ludwik Marian Piotrowicz (born August 19, 1886 in Nowy Wiśnicz, died August 23, 1957 in Zakopane) - historian of antiquity; creator of a rich scientific output including archaeology, papyrology, history of civilization of the ancient East, analysis of political ideologies, ...
Dimensions: height 28 cm, 1112 pp. Book in original bookbinding, cloth cover, half leather spine with gilt and embossing. Tadeusz Walek-Czernecki (1889-1969) - Polish historian, professor at the Jagiellonian University, specialist in medieval history, history of political system and law, and editing of historical sources. He studied history and law at Jagiellonian University, as well as in Vie...
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...
Polish publications Szymczyk Maciej (ed.) - Treasury tickets from the time of the Kościuszko Uprising, Duszniki-Zdrój 2024, ISBN 9788360990773 123 pages, format approx. 21 x 21 cm, soft cover. The first contemporary catalog of its kind describing banknotes from the time of the Kosciuszko Insurrection. The catalog presents, among other things, the economic situation of the Polish lands in the...
LEGITIMATE of the Silver Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari - 1st Brigade of the Polish Legions.
351 EUR
ID CARD OF THE CROSS OF THE VIRTUTI MILITARI SILVER ORDER For Major Edward Wojciechowski of the 1st Brigade of the Polish Legions. The cross awarded for bravery in the battle of Lowczowek. State of preservation: canvas with rubbing and with a trace of moisture in the upper corner, center with slight soiling. - Format: 11.8x8.3 cm Rare.
London 1943; M. I. Kolin. 12.5x18.5 cm, pp. 49, publisher's softcover. Very good condition. First edition. collection of texts directed against Adolf Hitler and Nazi ideology. Hemar - a prominent poet, satirist and émigré publicist - created this book already in exile in Great Britain, as a literary weapon in the fight against totalitarianism, the barbarism of war and the hypocrisy of Nazi p...
Dimensions: h 29 cm, 1026 p. Book in original bookbinding, light damage in the form of loose pages. Linen cover, half leather spine with gilt and embossing. Jan Konstanty Dąbrowski (born December 21, 1890 in Krosno, died July 17, 1965 in Cracow) - Polish historian, professor at Vilnius and Jagiellonian Universities, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Member of the editorial board of "C...
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...
Polish publications Michal Bishop - Banknotes my passion. Notebook II 1916(1917) - 1923(1924), Kielce 2024, ISBN 9788362509355, 116 pages B5 format, soft cover, more than 70 colorful, often enlarged photographs, a collection of treatises on various aspects related to the production and issuance of Polish banknotes. Piece autographed by the author
KAROL MAY OLD SUREHAND Travel novel with illustrations Publisher "By Land and Sea" Lviv 1910 First Edition. Two friends Old Shatterhand and Winnetou stand up to defend the settlement of Bloody Fox, attacked by Comanches. As they head to relief, they meet the mysterious hunter Old Surehand. It turns out that they can help him, too, to solve a family secret. They have to face the hellishly dange...
Dimensions: height 28 cm, 484 pp. Book in bookbinding, cloth cover, half leather spine with gilt and embossing. Józef Feldman (1899-1946) - historian, professor at the Jagiellonian University. Student at the Jagiellonian University in 1917-1922 (law and history); moreover, in 1918-1919, he also did volunteer service in the Academic Legion. Since 1937 he became an associate professor, at the s...
Dimensions: height 28 cm, 655 pp. Book in original bookbinding, cloth cover, half leather spine with gilt and embossing. Józef Feldman (1899-1946) - historian, professor at the Jagiellonian University. Student at the Jagiellonian University in 1917-1922 (law and history); moreover, in 1918-1919, he also did volunteer service in the Academic Legion. Since 1937 he became an associate professor,...
Dimensions: height 28 cm, 494 pp. Book in bookbinding, assembled from originally published notebooks 68-73. Linen cover, half leather spine with gilt and embossing. Kazimierz Piwarski (1903-1968) - historian, researcher of modern and recent history, rector of the Higher School of Pedagogy (WSP) in Cracow, professor at the Jagiellonian University from 1946 and at the University of Poznan from 1...
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.
BRYAN Julien - Siege. Illustrated with photographs by the Author [1940] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION].
227 EUR
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...
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...
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. An account of captivity in the Soviet prisoner of war camp in 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 other POWs became v...
Dimensions: height 28 cm, 610 pp. Book in bookbinding, assembled from originally published notebooks 68-73. Canvas cover, half leather spine with gilt and embossing. Kazimierz Chodynicki (1890-1942) - Polish historian, professor at Vilnius and Poznan Universities; studied history and history of literature at Jagiellonian University, from 1918 taught medieval general history at the Free Polish ...
Warsaw 1937; Arct. 16.5x20.5 cm, pp. 167, (12), black and white illustrations in the text, map of the Iron Roads of the Republic of Poland as an appendix at the end of the book, publisher's hardcover, cloth with gilt. Good condition (replaced boards, rubbed gilt on spine). A richly illustrated publication devoted to the development of railroads in the Second Polish Republic, constituting a uni...
Heidrich Andrzej - Rulers of Poland. Watercolors from 1994-2005, Szczecin 2008, ISBN 9788387355586
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polish publications Heidrich Andrzej - Rulers of Poland. Watercolors from 1994-2005, Szczecin 2008, ISBN 9788387355586 95 pages format approx. 19 x 17 cm, hardcover, album with the artist's graphics - designs of contemporary Polish banknotes
Format:16x21cm. Pages:251.Soiled cover. Ownership signatures. Underlining in txt. Reprint from a series of articles printed in The Deaborn Independent from October 1920 to March 1921. Contains XXII chapters: How Jews in the United States hide their power, Jewish opinion on whether Jews are a nation, Jews or non-Jews in the New York financial world, The rise and fall of Jewish money power, Amer...
Spółdzielnia Wydawniczo - Oświatowa CZYTELNIK, Warsaw 1952, pp. 61, [1], dimensions 17 x 23.5, booklet binding, cover soiled, corners bent, ownership signature in red pencil on pre-title page. Cover and illustrations by JAN LENICA, on title page autograph by Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski
Mickiewicz Adam, Pan Tadeusz czyli ostatni zajazd na Litwie. Historja szlachecka z r. 1811 i 1812 we twelve books in verse.T. 1-2. Paris 1834 , Edited by Alexander Jełowicki with bust of the author. Pp. 3-250, 253, [2], [1] p. tab. with portrait; 3-300, [2]. Volume one lacks pre-title page, lacks Explanation pp. 251-252, signature on title page, initials on portrait, portrait trimmed to the d...
Brzozowski Marian, War in Poland of the Year 1831 by a Polish Officer described in the year 1832 1861 Lviv, in the Printing House of the Zakładu Narod. Im. Ossolińskich, 244 p., 19 cm. Ownership entries from the period and 1983 on the front pastedown. Minor discoloration visible. Half leather binding of the period with visible rubbing and a small crack on the spine. Reissue of a valuable, or...
KAROL MAY IN THE CORDILLIONS Travel novel with illustrations Publisher "Through Land and Sea" Lviv 1912 First edition. The second part of two interrelated novels about adventures in South America. Traveling the Cordillera, mountains full of dangers and mysteries, you will learn about breathtaking landscapes, exotic culture and interesting stories and characters. Condition + good: publisher's b...
KAROL MAY SLAVE CARAVAN Travel novel with illustrations Publisher "By Land and Sea" Lviv 1911 First Edition. One of the many adventure novels by Charles May in which the protagonist has many dangerous adventures in the deserts of North Africa. The protagonists are European naturalists who, while studying the fauna of Africa, become embroiled in a fight between a Negro village and Arab slave tr...
Warsaw 1931: Union of Blind Workers of the Republic of Poland. 15.5x23 cm, pp. 350, XXXIII, black and white photos in the text, color maps, large advertising section, inserts, publisher's soft cover. Good condition (minor soiling of cover, minor paper loss on spine). A guide that presents Poland's most important spas and tourist destinations in an accessible manner. Piotrowski describes the he...
KAROL MAY BLACK MUSTANG Travel novel with illustrations Publisher "By Land and Sea" Lviv 1910 First edition. The vicious Comanche chief Black Mustang plans to raid the settlement of railroad workers at Firewood-Camp. Winnetou and Old Shatterhand find out about the Comanche's intentions by accident. Time is very short.Fortunately, the Apache chief and Old Shatterhand can count on their friends....
Dimensions: height 25 cm Condition as in the photos.
A. Gregory Czaradzki IC. Trial of the Crown Land Law with Latin Folmularz pozwow y condemnat
1 617 EUR
A. Gregory Czaradzki IC, Sadowny Proces Sadowny Ziemskiego Prawa Koronnego z Formarzem łacinskim pozwow y condemnat 1620 in Poznaniv, in the Printing House of Jan Rossowski, 28 cm, 76 p. Piece in parchment binding preserved in good condition. A rare and valuable Old Polish legal treatise by Gregory Czaradzki, Doctor of Laws (IC - iuris consultus), concerning court practice based on the land l...
PIĄTKOWSKI Henryk & DOBRZYCKI Henryk - Andriolli in art and social life. Warsaw 1904; Nakł. H.Dobrzycki. Format:36cm. Pages:174 of 200. Destrukt: missing 8 plates and 26 last pages, soiling of publisher's binding, decorated linen. Traces of flooding. Gilded artist's name on the front and spine. Back cover decorated with blind-stamping. numerous illustrations in the text. At the end "Gene...
KOŚCIAŁKOWSKI Stanisław - Antoni Tyzenhauz. Podskarbi nadworny litewski. Volume I [London 1970].
57 EUR
London 1970. publishing house of the Academic Community of the Stefan Batory University of London. 14x22 cm, pp. 686, publisher's cloth binding. Very good condition (slight rubbing of the binding, minor soiling of the block edges). First edition. Prepared for print by Lidia Ciolkoszowa. Volume I of the work by Prof. Stanislaw Kosciałkowski, dedicated to Antoni Tyzenhauz (1733-1785), Lithuania...
Dyaryusz Seymu Ordynaryinego pod związkiem konfederacyi Generalney Oboyga Narodow w podwoynym posłów skład składonego w Warszawie od dnia 16. grudnia, roku 1791. T. I, cz. I. Warsaw, Drukarnia Uprzywileiowaney [Michał Gröll], [2] k., XII p., [6] f., 391 p., 35 cm. Title page with sizable loss to the text, stamp of Mieczyslaw Zbikowski on back pastedown. Original leather binding, cracked...
Dimensions: one volume 29 x 20 x 3 cm Encyclopedia staropolska - a two-volume (originally published in 16 notebooks) Polish historical encyclopedia published in 1937-1939 by Trzaska, Evert and Michalski publishing house. Another great encyclopedia on Old Polish topics after Zygmunt Gloger's four-volume Illustrated Old Polish Encyclopedia (1900-1903); Brückner was strongly inspired by this wor...
Cracow [1921]. Wave Publishing Company. 22x31 cm, pp. 55, black and white vignettes in woodcut, color pasted-in illustrations on separate pages (7), hardcover, contemporary half leather, additional slipcase. Good condition (minor local underpainting of pages). One of the most famous works of the Polish Enlightenment,first published anonymously in 1778 in Leipzig. This edition was illustrated b...
1916 r. - Book Postmarks of Poland (from Notes of an Old Philatelist); Petrograd : Print. Wł. Lesman
1 EUR
Dimensions: height 24 cm Condition as in the photos.
Nowosielski Teofil Humoresques Warsaw: Gustaw Sennewald, 1841 Edition I XI, 358, [2] pp. Format: 18 cm Binding in period First edition of Humoresques by Teofil Nowosielski (1802-1865) - a respected satirist, educator and publicist associated with Warsaw. A collection of humorous prose pieces and columns, showing with irony and perspicacity the social and moral realities of the Polish Kingdom i...
Dimensions: height 23 cm Condition as in the photos.
Warsaw 1935, Główna Księgarnia Wojskowa. 12x17 cm, pp. 51, black and white illustrations after the text, soft cover. Good condition (isolated page soiling, cover scuffs and dings). A booklet on the working conditions of a diver. In it, the author presents the principles of diving equipment, methods of submerging and ascending, ways of dressing and undressing from special clothing, and safet...
Warsaw [1930s]. Publisher of the Library of Traveling Novels for Young People. 13.5x19 cm, pp. 128, black and white illustrations, publisher's hardcover with cloth spine. Good condition (scuffing and soiling of the cover). Translated by Elwira Korotyńska.
Warsaw 1979, Youth Publishing Agency. 16x24 cm, pp. 63, color illustrations, publisher's softcover. Good condition (minor soiling and rubbing of the cover). First edition. Book XIII of the cult comic strip Titus, Romek and A'Tomek. Piece autographed by Papa Chmiel on May 20, 1979.
DR. WŁ. FUSS - THE HUNTING LAW for the former Galicia and Lodomeria with the Grand Duchy of Cracow [1928]. Published by "Polska Książnica Naukowa" in Przemyśl. Format: 16x11.5cm Number of pages: 85 Condition: bookbinding, original covers preserved, numerous markings of text contents, pages soiled and yellowed
HUNTING LAW WITH COMMENTARIES. Decree of the President of the Republic of December 3, 1927. [1928] Compiled by Juljan Ejsmond and Stanisław Błonarowicz. Main composition: Pl. 3-ch Krzyży 12 Juljan Ejsmond, Warsaw. Format: 17.5x12.5cm Number of pages: 60 Condition: bookbinding, original covers preserved, pages soiled and yellowed
Rome 1946. the Culture and Press Department of the 2nd Warsaw Armored Division. 20x23 cm, pp. 256, black and white photographs, publisher's hard cloth binding. Good condition (minor rubbing of the binding). The first volume of a documentary photo album devoted to the 2nd Warsaw Armored Division, one of the key units of the Polish Armed Forces in the West, fighting as part of General Wladyslaw ...
KAROL MAY WINNETOU A red-skinned gentleman Travel novel with illustrations Publisher "By Land and Sea" Lviv 1910 First Edition. The main characters of this three-volume novel are Winnetou - the young, noble chief of the Apache Indian tribe, and his white friend, Old Shatterhand. The young warriors enter into a brotherhood of blood, through which - according to Indian beliefs - "their souls ent...
Munich 1945. oficyna Warszawska. 15x21 cm, pp. 37, publisher's hardcover. Very good condition (minor rubbing of the cover). First edition. The first post-war publication of Oficyna Warszawska, which was founded in 1938 by Anatol Girs and Boleslaw Barcz in Warsaw, was burned in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, during which Boleslaw Barcz was killed. The work of the poem's creator, Tadeusz Borowski, Wi...
Paris 1843, in the Printing and Lithography Company of Maulde and Renou. 15x23 cm, pp. (4), 204, frontispiece in intaglio, 44 plates (intaglio), half leather binding of the period, with gilt on the spine. Good condition (mild rubbing of binding, donor's entry on pre-title page, minor rust staining of pages (foxing), isolated soiling, small trace of dampstain in upper corners of last few dozen ...
SZUCHEWYCZ VOLODYMYR - Гуцульщина (Hutsul). Volume I [first edition Lviv 1899, 1901] [Ukrainian].
215 EUR
Lviv 1899, 1901 Shevchenko Scientific Society. 16x23.5 cm, pp. (6), 318, (2), black and white illustrations and photographs in the text, color illustrations on separate pages, cloth binding with decorations. Good condition (minor rubbing of the binding, minor loss of canvas on the spine, numerical notations on the movable part of the back pastedown, single slight soiling). First edition. Volum...
[ca. 1930]. 12.5x17.5 cm, pp. 3. Very good condition (delicate trace of a corner bend, minor soiling). Leaflet print containing the ideological declaration of the Obóz Wielkiej Polski - a radical political organization associated with the national movement. It was formed on December 4, 1926 in Poznan during a founding convention on the initiative of Roman Dmowski, activists of the People's Na...
Warsaw 1935, Główna Księgarnia Wojskowa. 21.5x27.5 cm, pp. 112, (4), black and white photographs and 1 color illustration on separate pages, publisher's leather binding, contemporary cloth slipcase. Good condition (minor rubbing of the edges of the binding, foreign dedication, exchanged stickers). Memoirs of General Mariusz Zaruski (1867-1941) from his sailing sea expeditions. The author - ...
Paris 1990 Literary Institute. Series: Library of "Culture", vol. 456. 13.5x21.5 cm, pp. 276, (4), softcover. Very good condition. First edition. Translated by Krystyna Tarnowska and Andrzej Konarek. Piece autographed by the author. "This is a book about the final crisis of communism. It contains a description and analysis of the progressive decay and increasing agony of both the system itself...
Warsaw 1998, Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts. 20.5x27 cm, pp. 427, black and white and color photographs in the text, soft cover with wings. Condition very good. Publication edited by Anna Frąckiewicz. In contents: "Order". - Genesis, ideas, program. The art of Ład interior in the interwar period. Furniture making of members of the "Ład" cooperative until 1945. Furniture making of "Ład"...
Cracow 2013. the National Museum in Cracow. 16.5x24 cm, pp. 272, (4), color photographs in the text, softcover. Very good condition (minor rubbing at bottom of spine). Publication accompanying the exhibition "Majolica of Nieborow" at the Gallery of 19th Century Polish Art in the Sukiennice, held in late 2013 and early 2014. Includes an introductory section and two main chapters - separately fo...
Album with photographs documenting the combat route of the 1st Armored Regiment of the Polish Armed Forces. Hardcover with illustrations. Dimensions : 20.6 cm x 27.1 cm, pp. 61 Overall condition visible on photos
Paris 1949. literary institute. 14x21 cm, pp. 320, (1), softcover. Good condition (ownership signature on title page, minor stains on cover). First edition. One of the most important testimonies (next to Herling-Grudziński, among others) of the fate and suffering of Poles in the face of the apparatus of the communist state. What lasting fruitfulness of this man, how much he accomplished. And ...