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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...
APOCALYPSE Translated from the Greek by Czeslaw Milosz illustrated by Jan Lebenstein Paris 1986 The edition of the Book of Revelation was published in an edition of one thousand pieces numbered 1 to 1000. This number 547. To Czeslaw Milosz on the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth. Numerous color illustrations in the text and at the end 16 plates on chalk paper. Cover with composition of t...
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.
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, ...
LIST OF WORKS SZUKALSKI i HORNED HEART STRAIN Cracow 1936 The biological vigor of the Nation is expressed in the multiplicity of ways and means by which the so-called talent manifests itself. Inventing a new and more effective machine gun, or writing a wonderfully bawdy Psalm of Solomon in the Bible, or devising an over-smaller microscope, or giving a new mental formula to facilitate the highl...
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....
JOZEF IGNACY KRASZEWSKI THE OLD TALE A novel from the 9th century with 24 drawings by E.M. Andriolli with portrait of the author Warsaw 1899 Good condition: beautiful publisher's binding slightly rubbed, gilt edges of pages, pages minimally soiled. Binding signed on the back face with a dry-erase stamp Karol Wójcik Krakow. Number of pages: 435 Format: 24x16 cm
KAROL MAY SZUT Travel novel with illustrations Publisher "By Land and Sea" Lviv 1910 First Edition. Kara Ben Nemsi and his friends face their greatest challenge - the leader of a dangerous band named Szut. This is a remarkable tale of a pursuit whose roots are in Africa and culminates in the mountainous landscapes of Albania. Penetrate into worlds full of danger, intrigue and unexpected twists...
VERNE JULIUSZ THE TREASURES OF THE VOLCANO Fantasy novel in two parts with 12 illustrations Translated by K. Bobrowska Third edition Thousand 11-15 Poznan 1925 Very good condition. Number of pages: 498 Format: 20x13 cm
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...
KAROL MAY FROM BAGHDAD TO ISTANBUL Travel novel with illustrations Publisher "Through Land and Sea" Lviv 1909 First edition. Kara ben Nemesi and Haji Halef Omar travel the caravan route that leads from Baghdad to Istanbul. They travel through the vast territories of the Ottoman Empire, meet the tribes of that land, learn about their beliefs, culture and customs. On the route they experience ma...
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...
KAROL MAY OAKS AND DACTS Travel novel with illustrations Publisher "By Land and Sea" Lviv 1910 First edition. O Africa! Welcome me, land of mysteries! I am to ride your naked and empty steppes on a noble steed, on a swift dromedary your parched Hammada, I am to wander under your palm trees, look at your fatamorgans and greening oases, think of your past, lament your present and dream of your f...
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...
FREDRO ALEXANDER THE ART OF DABBLING Poem in IV songs in verse from 1817. With contemporary illustrations by Edward Guerard. Precedes the thing about Eros in Fredro's poetry. Printed in Suwalki (actually Lviv) 1926 This edition appears as a private printing in an edition of 300 numbered named pieces, corresponding to the number of subscribers, and is not intended for public sale. Reprinting of...
KAROL MAY THROUGH WILD KURDISTAN Travel novel with illustrations Publisher "By Land and Sea" Lviv 1910 First edition. Kara Ben Nemsi and his faithful friend, Haji Halef Omar, fight a battle against the clumsy commander of the fortress guards in Amadije Selim Aga and his cynical superior Ishmail Bei. Condition of preservation very good: publisher's binding slightly rubbed and soiled, spine with...
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
Dimensions: height 25 cm Condition as in the photos.
KAROL MAY THROUGH THE LAND OF SKIPETARS Travel novel with illustrations Publisher "Through Land and Sea" Lviv 1909 First Edition. Kara Ben Nemsi and his companions cross the Balkans, heading for the land of the Skipetars. Their trail is followed by the dangerous criminals Barud el Amasad and Manach el Barsha. Good condition: publisher's binding slightly rubbed and soiled, pages clean. Number o...
KS. ZYGMUNT CHEŁMICKI IN BRAZIL Notes from the trip. With numerous illustrations in the text. Complete in two volumes. Warsaw 1892 First edition. In 1891 he traveled to Brazil to study the situation of Polish emigrants in that country. The fruit of this trip was the book In Brazil, in which he refuted emigration mirages, showing a brutal picture of Polish emigrants suffering hunger and misery...
Dimensions: height 25 cm Condition as in the photos.
KAROL MAY THROUGH THE DESERT Travel novel with illustrations Publisher "Through Land and Sea" Lviv 1909 First Edition. Is it true, sihdi, that you want to remain a giaur, unfaithful, more despised than a dog and more arousing disgust than a rat that feeds only on carrion? - Yes. - Sihdi, I hate infidels and wish them to find themselves after death in the jhenna, where the devil lives. You, how...
LEON HR. TOLSTOJ ANNA KARENINA Translated from the seventh edition of the original by J.W. Complete in III volumes. Warsaw 1898-1900 First edition. Good state of preservation: period half leather with gilt titling on spine, binding with minor rubbing and soiling, a few folds loose, pages clean. Number of pages: 331+439+366 Format: 21x14 cm Rare.
NOWOSIELSKI ANTONI THE BORDERLAND ON THE DANUBE Sketches of the Ukrainian community in the 18th century. Complete in two volumes. Kyiv 1863 On a summer evening, after sunset, a robust and stout old man was walking uphill from the town, towards the village, making up for his strength with his legs, helped by a walking stick, equal in size to the small height of its owner. State of preservation:...
KAROL MAY IN THE RAVINES OF THE BALKANS Travel novel with illustrations Publisher "Through Land and Sea" Lviv 1909 First edition. The action takes place in the countries of the Ottoman Empire, in the wild landscape of the mountains of the Balkan Peninsula. The protagonists Kara ben Nemsi accompanied by Haji Halef Omar, Osko and Omar ben Sadek travel from Adrianople to meet the dangerous and my...
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: 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...
MODELS OF VIENNA BUILDINGS on 24 lithographic plates With an indication of the principles for marking their extensiveness and calculating their costs and with the addition the science of erecting buildings from depleted soil with a separate lithographic board obiasnioney By order of the Government Comm. Committee on Internal Affairs and Policy by A. Czaki adjunct government builder arranged an...
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.
STORIA DELLA POLONIA Fino agli ultimi tempi scritta dal dottore BERNARDO ZAYDLER Polacco Membro della regia società degli amici delle scienze in Varsavia, e di parecchie accademie letterarie italiane. Complete in two volumes. Florence 1831 One of the most beautiful and rich works dedicated to Poland. In the book engravings according to Polish and foreign illustrators: Orlowski, Oleszczynski, ...
TALES Historical Stories By Bogdan Bolesłąwita (Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski) with a foreword by by Adam Pługa Warsaw 1897 Good state of preservation: period half leather with gilded titling on spine, slight soiling and rubbing, pages clean. Number of pages: 152+158+184 Format: 19x13 cm
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...
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, 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 ...
RAILROAD DICTIONARY Containing words in the field of construction, equipment, maintenance and operation of railroads, train service, construction and repair of steam locomotives, carriages and railroad cars, signaling, telegraph and railroad electrotechnics; tariffs, cash and accounting as well as names of materials and tools used in railroads for use by Railway managers, engineers, technician...
KAROL MAY IN THE COUNTRY OF MAHDI Travel novel with illustrations Publisher "By Land and Sea" Lviv 1910 First edition. The series of works under the common title: "In the Land of the Mahdi" (Im Lande des Mahdi) is one of the darkest works of the outstanding writer. A multi-part, complex story unfortunately less popular than his other travel novels with equal emotions and adventures as in his b...
BOLESŁAW PRUS (Aleksander Glowacki) FARAON Novel Complete in three volumes Second edition. Warsaw 1901 Historical novel written by Boleslaw Prus and published for the first time in episodes in the pages of "Tygodnik Illustrowany" since 1895. The plot is set in Ancient Egypt and tells of the fate of Ramses XIII - a young pharaoh trying to learn the structures and mechanisms of state governance...
HOLY BIBLE it is all the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Covenants. From the Jewish and Greek language into Polish Urgently and faithfully translated. In Berlin 1863 State of preservation: period binding with gilt titling on spine, rubbing on face and spine, pages slightly discolored, stronger title page - foxing. - overall good condition. Number of pages: 908+295 Format: 23x15x6 cm
HENRY SIENKIEWICZ KRZYŻACY A NOVEL IN FOUR VOLUMES JUBILEE EDITION WARSAW 1900 EDITION BY GEBETHNER & WOLFF EDITION I The book was published in the jubilee year of Sienkiewicz's 25th anniversary of his writing career (hence the JUBILEO EDITION on the title pages) The novel was seen as a clear protest against the policy of Germanization carried out by the authorities in the lands of the Pr...
Dimensions: height 33 cm Condition as in the photos.
FOR SCOUTING SUMMER ACTION Set of 2 bricks in the amount of 50 and 100 PLN Graphic Works "Rotofot" Warsaw Wladyslaw Czarnecki 1946 Good condition: a corner loss in one print and a slight tear. Format: 20x16 cm
MARIA RODZIEWICZÓWNA DEWAJTIS Contemporary novel First Edition. The title page shows it as the second edition from the title of the first edition in "Kurier Warszawski" of 1888. Condition: period bookbinding rubbed and soiled, pre-title page slightly soiled, title page with a section of upper edge cut out - no damage to title, pages clean. Number of pages: 409 Format: 18x12 cm Rare.
Dimensions: height 22,5 cm Condition as in the photos.
ŻEROMSKI STEFAN pseud. Zych Maurycy SYZYFOWE PRACE Contemporary novel Printed by Towarzystwo wydawnicze w Lwowie Lviv 1898 First edition. A novel by Stefan Zeromski, which was first published in the daily newspaper "Nowa Reforma" from July 7 to September 24, 1897. The novel was initially to be titled "The Deliverer." Żeromski published it as Maurycy Zych. Also under this pseudonym, it was pu...
GĄSIOROWSKI WACŁAW HURAGAN Historical novel Complete in three volumes. Lviv 1902 Condition: period binding, half leather with gilt titling on spine with rubbing and soiling, a few pages with edgewear, pages definitely clean. Number of pages: 321+325+257 Format: 20x15 cm
HENRY SIENKIEWICZ LETTERS FROM AFRICA IN TWO VOLUMES WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT FIRST THOUSAND WARSAW 1893 PUBLISHED BY SŁOWO First Edition. Beautiful and interesting Exlibris and stamp: Book collection of the Pokucki Museum of the Starzinski name in Kolomyia + Mogielnicka Library. Richly illustrated account of a trip to Africa which SIENKIEWICZ Henryk made with Tyszkiewicz Jan i...
JERZY ZULAWSKI WINNER Novel Warsaw 1910 First Edition. The Lunarians are waiting for the Old Man, whom they consider their deity, and believe he will return as a young man to help them defeat the Lunar autochthons - the sinister Sherns. When Mark, an Earthman, lands on the moon, he is immediately recognized as the awaited Victor. Soon, however, doubts arise among some representatives of the lu...
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...
POTOCKI LEON MEMOIRS OF MR KAMERTON Poznan 1869 Leon Potocki (1799-1864) writer, memoirist, literary man. The work is the result of archival research and travel in Lithuania. In the text: Volume I. I. On the origins of the Lithuanian nation - A glimpse of Lithuania as it was 40 years ago and as it is today II. Departure from Riga - Comparison of a Kurland inn with a Samogitian inn - Evening in...
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...
COOPER JAKÓB FENIMORE The five-book adventures of Hawkeye. Pogromca zwierząt czyli pierwsza ścieżka wojenna - Illustrated and cover designed by Mieczysław Majewski - Warsaw 1954 The Last of the Mohicans story from 1757 - Illustrated and cover designed by Mieczyslaw Majewski - Warsaw 1955 Tracker of Traces - Illustrated and cover designed by Roman Owidzki - Warsaw 1955 Pioneers - Illustrat...
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
MARIA DISSLOVA B. Director of the Lviv School of Home Cooking HOW TO COOK A handy manual of cooking A guide to all matters of nutrition Putting together a menu Arranging parties Table decoration Reviewed and completed by Mrs. Elizabeth 261 single and multi-color illustrations by cannon "Les Secrets Culinaires" by F. Nietlispach Awarded a gold medal at the International Exhibition of Cookery Ar...
LEON XIEGE SAPIEHA MEMORIES from 1803 to 1863. with a foreword by by Stanislaw HR. Tarnowski Edited, with appearance and exceptions from correspondence by Bronisław Pawłowski Cracow 1912 Leon Sapieha (1803-1878) - prince, one of the commanders of the November Uprising, decorated with the Order of Virtuti Militari (1831), Marshal of the Galician Sejm, Polish politician and economic activist i...
ELECTRIC RAILROAD KRAKOW ZAKOPANE Cracow 1939 The serious development of our tourism in recent years in the Tatra region, concentrating primarily near Zakopane, requires unconditionally to improve and modernize the passenger mass transport in this direction, so in the first line from Krakow to Zakopane. Good state of preservation: cover soiled, slightly torn, a few pages minimally stained. Num...
Catalog of Eagles from the Collection of Ireneusz Banaszkiewicz Volume 2, edition of 2023 in a small number of pieces. General condition as seen in photos. Dimensions : 24 cm x 16.5 cm
A magazine devoted to art and art criticism. SOUTH Vilnius 1923 Vol. V In the text woodcuts by Waclaw Wąsowicz and Wladyslaw Skoczylas. Good condition. Number of pages: 66 Format: 24x17 cm
STANISŁAW WYSPIAŃSKI WARSZAWIANKA Song of 1831 Second Edition Cracow 1901 Good condition. Number of pages: 48 Format: 21x15 cm
BOLESŁAW GÓRNY MONOGRAPH OF THE BIALA POWIAT Lublin Province Biała Podlaska 1939 With numerous illustrations in the text. State of preservation: contemporary binding, half leather with marbled boards, new boards, lower corner of pages with a moisture mark, - overall very good condition. Number of pages: 325 Format: 31x23 cm
DAS GENERALGOUVERNEMENT Reisehandbuch von Karl Baedeker Guide to the General Government, plans and maps of cities under occupation during World War II. Good state of preservation. Number of pages: 264 Format: 15x12 cm
FRUGAL COOKING Encyclopedia of household culinary knowledge and hygiene. 1000 ways of cooking, baking legumes, cakes, mazurkas, cupcakes, cakes, frying jams, juices, marmalades, making compotes, ice creams, vodkas, cooling drinks based on practical and long-term experience compiled by HELENA PEDENKOWSKA Cracow 1948 Good condition: cover slightly soiled, pages definitely clean, block slightly l...
Dimensions: height 25 cm Condition as in the photos.
Dimensions: height 23 cm Condition as in the photos.