Polish old prints

The Sobieski Antiquarian Bookstore is a unique place on the map of Poland, where the shelves are bent under the weight of books in original publishing bindings, leather spines shine with the glow of ancient gold, and between them you can find unique, valuable Polish old prints, often bound in leather. The collection of books we have built has several thousand volumes. We invite you to cooperation.

[Marcin Kromer's Polish Chronicle] Kromer Marcin - Polonia: Sive De Origine Et Rebus Gestis Polonorum Libri XXX, [Kolonia] 1589

17-06-2024

[Marcin Kromer's Polish Chronicle] Kromer Marcin - Polonia: Sive De Origine Et Rebus Gestis Polonorum Libri XXX, [Kolonia] 1589 . A rare book and a valuable old print at the same time.

[Constitutions]. Constitucie Statuta Y Przywileie Na Walnych Seymach Koronnych Od Roku Pańskiego 1550 Áż Do Roku 1637 Uchwalone. Kraków 1637. W Drukárniey Andrzeiá Piotrkowczyká

10-06-2024

[Constitutions]. Constitucie Statuta Y Przywileie Na Walnych Seymach Koronnych Od Roku Pańskiego 1550 Áż Do Roku 1637 Uchwalone. Kraków 1637. W Drukárniey Andrzeiá Piotrkowczyká "The best of the best" section, i.e. creme de la creme, "The best of the best" not only from our offer, but the...

[Outstanding Polish Renaissance setting by the Master of Medallion Portraits from Poznan] Nicephori Callisti Xanthopuli - Scriptoris Vere Catholici 1553

15-11-2023

[Outstanding Polish Renaissance setting by the Master of Medallion Portraits from Poznan] Nicephori Callisti Xanthopuli - Scriptoris Vere Catholici 1553 "The best of the best" section, i.e. creme de la creme, "The best of the best" not only from our offer, but the best on the market. Extremely...

Radziwiłł; Treter - Jerosolymitana Peregrinatio ed. 1753. Peregrination to the Holy Land.

26-07-2023

Radziwill; Treter - Jerosolymitana Peregrinatio ed. 1753. Peregrination to the Holy Land. The "Best of the best" section, i.e. creme de la creme, "The best of the best" not only from our offer, but the best on the market. Extremely rare items, valuable and sought-after prints, real white ravens.

[Piotr Skarga - Zywoty Swiętych] Surius - De Probatis Sanctorum. T. I-VI plus Suplement (complete set) 1570, Poznan Renaissance knurled binding with images of saints, bookbinder Mc or Melchior Nering

19-05-2023

[Piotr Skarga - Zywoty Swiętych] Surius - De Probatis Sanctorum. T. I-VI plus Suplement (complete set) 1570, Poznan Renaissance knurled binding with images of saints, bookbinder Mc or Melchior Nering Today in the "Best of the Best" section, an old polonicum print published in 1570 (!) in...

Zawacki - Processus Iudiciarius Regni Poloniae 1619. Coat of Arms of Henryk Bruhl

28-04-2023

Zawacki - Processus Iudiciarius Regni Poloniae 1619. Coat of Arms of Henryk Bruhl

Herculis Saxoniae - Medicinae 1682 Polonica, Zamosc Academy, Polish quilt

31-03-2023

Herculis Saxoniae - Medicinae 1682 Polonik, Akademia Zamojska, kołtun polski Nowy wpis do działu "Najlepsze z najlepszych" przynosi opis rzadkiego poloniku, chociaż nie stricte polskiego starodruku. Polecamy uwadze.

Coat of arms of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, or Napoleon I - the god of war and bibliomaniac.

26-11-2022

Coat of arms of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, or Napoleon I - the god of war and bibliomaniac.

Gorowski - Protokol albo opisanie zaszłych czynnosci na delegacyi od stanów Rzeczypospolitej na Sejmie Ekstraordynaryjnym Warszawskim/ Protocol or description of the activities performed on the delegation from the states of the Republic to the Warsaw Extr

13-10-2022

Gorowski - Protokol albo opisanie zaszłych czynnosci na delegacyi od stanów Rzeczypospolitej na Sejmie Ekstraordynaryjnym Warszawskim/ Protocol or description of the activities performed on the delegation from the states of the Republic to the Warsaw Extraordinary Parliament Warsaw 1775-6 Vol....

Statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1693. Rare Polish legal print from 328 years ago!

11-08-2021

Statut Wielkiego Xięstwa Litewskiego. Statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1693. Rare Polish legal print from 328 years ago! "The best of the best", that is creme de la creme is a section where we present extremely rare items, valuable and sought-after prints, real white ravens - not...

Decorative impressions on the bindings, i.e. super-libraries on antique books.

15-01-2019

Best of the best. Decorative impressions on the bindings, i.e. super-libraries on antique books. Superexlibris (Latin super - higher, ex libris - from books) - a special form of a bookplate, a book's proprietary mark, which is part of the bookbinding decoration. Today we are going to present a...

Szczerbic - Articles Securitatis ... Speculum Saxonum or the Saxon Law and Mydeburg. Rare Polish legal old prints.

08-11-2018

Best of the best. Szczerbic - Articles Securitatis ... Speculum Saxonum or the Saxon Law and Mydeburg. Rare Polish legal old prints. "The best of the best", that is creme de la creme, is a section where we present extremely rare things, valuable and sought-after prints, real ravens.

Medical old prints.

28-09-2018

Best of the best. Medical old prints. Due to the fast approaching finale of the "3rd Book and Antique Prints Auction" of Antiquarian Sobieski, we will present you three thematically related antique prints that have entered the catalog of this event ....

First edition of "Pan Tadeusz" by Adam Mickiewicz, or how it was with this Tadzio ...

12-09-2018

First edition of "Pan Tadeusz" by Adam Mickiewicz, or how it was with this Tadzio ... The catalog of our next auction, which will take place on Saturday, October 6, 2018, includes the Paris edition of "Pan Tadeusz" from 1834 ... The first edition of "Pan Tadeusz" had a circulation of 3,000...

Nicholas of Błonie from 1488. Polish incunabula in the European state of preservation.

13-07-2018

Nicholas of Błonie from 1488. Polish incunabula in the European state of preservation. It is worth noting that only 1-2 incunabula appear at Polish auctions during the year in domestic turnover. Due to our historical achievements, the state of preservation of Polish incunabula, which is rich in...

Best of the best. Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum. A treasury of the writing achievements of the Polish brothers.

21-06-2018

Best of the best. Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum. A treasury of the writing achievements of the Polish brothers. For a long time, we want to share with you on our blog the best works from an investment point of view, because the most rare Polish old prints or hardly available Polish monks, the...

A Book is the best Gift.

20-07-2017

A book the best gift "Reading books is the most beautiful fun that mankind has come up with." Wisława Szymborska, polish poet and essayist. Nobel Prize laureate for 1996.

Why is it worth buying first editions, first prints and early editions of literature.

07-06-2016

Why is it worth buying first editions, first prints and early editions of literature. The value of the first editions of twentieth-century novelists on the global book market has increased significantly over the past dozen or so years.