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Powszechna Bookstore (Jonasza), Catalog of the Antiquarian Book Department of the Powszechna Bookstore (Jonasza). No. 2 [1912]
Title: Catalog of the Antiquarian Book Department of Księgarnia Powszechna (Jonasza). No. 2.
Author: Księgarnia Powszechna (Jonasza) [a Warsaw bookstore with an antiquarian section, publisher of a series of numbered sales catalogs].
Publisher: Warsaw, Księgarnia Powszechna (Jonasza).
Year of publication: 1912.
Format: 21 cm.
Number of pages: 64.
Binding: Paperback.
The catalog of the antiquarian book section of Warsaw’s Księgarnia Powszechna (Jonasza) belongs to the most ephemeral category of printed matter: commercial catalogs, which were created to be used once and then discarded. It served as a sales tool, including for mail-order sales—a list of offerings with prices sent to regular customers and collectors. The bookstore published these catalogs as a numbered series with a uniform, minimalist layout and similar length, which attests to the regularity of this undertaking. Individual issues have been preserved in library and digital collections, including the Mazovian Digital Library. Today, antiquarian catalogs are a valued source for the history of the Polish trade in old books. They document which titles were in circulation, how they were described and priced, and how collectors’ tastes evolved. For bibliographers and historians of the book trade, they are often the only trace of the circulation of many rare prints.
Provenance: on the first page, a stamp reading “Ł. Schmidt Bookstore-Antiquarian Bookshop. Poznań, Św. Marcin 77”—evidence that the catalog circulated within professional antiquarian circles. Catalogs from competing firms served as a source of information for booksellers regarding offerings and prices.
This is a rarely preserved Warsaw antiquarian catalog bearing the stamp of a Poznań antiquarian bookshop. A must-have for researchers of the history of Polish book trade and antiquarianism, historians of the book market, and collectors of Warsaw-related items and book trade ephemera.
The text block is intact, the paper is clean, and the machine-printed text is legible. The original paper paperback cover is preserved, with natural signs of aging typical of fragile ephemera of this kind.
Catalog ID: 1879x2-21-A-X
Title: Catalog of the Antiquarian Book Department of Księgarnia Powszechna (Jonasza). No. 2.
Author: Księgarnia Powszechna (Jonasza) [a Warsaw bookstore with an antiquarian section, publisher of a series of numbered sales catalogs].
Publisher: Warsaw, Księgarnia Powszechna (Jonasza).
Year of publication: 1912.
Format: 21 cm.
Number of pages: 64.
Binding: Paperback.
The catalog of the antiquarian book section of Warsaw’s Księgarnia Powszechna (Jonasza) belongs to the most ephemeral category of printed matter: commercial catalogs, which were created to be used once and then discarded. It served as a sales tool, including for mail-order sales—a list of offerings with prices sent to regular customers and collectors. The bookstore published these catalogs as a numbered series with a uniform, minimalist layout and similar length, which attests to the regularity of this undertaking. Individual issues have been preserved in library and digital collections, including the Mazovian Digital Library. Today, antiquarian catalogs are a valued source for the history of the Polish trade in old books. They document which titles were in circulation, how they were described and priced, and how collectors’ tastes evolved. For bibliographers and historians of the book trade, they are often the only trace of the circulation of many rare prints.
Provenance: on the first page, a stamp reading “Ł. Schmidt Bookstore-Antiquarian Bookshop. Poznań, Św. Marcin 77”—evidence that the catalog circulated within professional antiquarian circles. Catalogs from competing firms served as a source of information for booksellers regarding offerings and prices.
This is a rarely preserved Warsaw antiquarian catalog bearing the stamp of a Poznań antiquarian bookshop. A must-have for researchers of the history of Polish book trade and antiquarianism, historians of the book market, and collectors of Warsaw-related items and book trade ephemera.
The text block is intact, the paper is clean, and the machine-printed text is legible. The original paper paperback cover is preserved, with natural signs of aging typical of fragile ephemera of this kind.
Catalog ID: 1879x2-21-A-X
