Rare Books in Hungary - Article rare book expertise

Rare Books in Hungary - Article rare book expertise

Times were changing after the defeat of the Turcs in Vienna in 1683. With the Treaty of Karlovitz the Ottoman troups were forced to leave Hungary – which was then dominated by the Habsburg Empire. Throughout the 18th century printing offices opened in Budapest, Eger, Poszony (Bratislava), Györ, Sopron, Esztergom, Temesvar and Munkacs (now Mukacevo in the Ukraine). The most famous and at the same time most unknown book printed in Hungary is János Bolyai’s „Appendix“ to the „Tentamen Juventutem…“ written by his father Farkas Bolyai and printed 1832-1833. Only 160 copies are known of this rare work on geometry.