Budapest, 1995., Apprentice Print Shop Tótfalusi
The author's own edition in 1000 copies. 29 cm, 216 pages, 3 coloured and 19 black-and-white map appendixes, 45 graphics and photos. Prefaces in Hungarian, German and English. Title descriptions of 542 Kogutowicz-maps. Indexes of themes, names and geography. The author has been dealing with the famous Hungarian cartographer's biography since 1968. He has found out about family's Polish place of origin, Manó's birthplace, has collected documents of his activities in Vienna, Sopron, Paris and Budapest, how he created Hungarian cartography. The volume is an authentic description of Hungary 100 years ago, it also includes the title descriptions of the 542 Kogutowicz-maps now available. György Kisari Balla, 1237 Budapest, Hrívnák Pál u. 49., Telephon: 36-1-285-7988.


Manó Kogutowicz: The Great Hungarian Cartographer

Budapest, 1997., Pintér Print
The author's own edition in numbered 500 copies. Edition in Englis, 29 cm, 174 pages. 6 coloured and 18 black-white map appendixes, 46 graphics and photos. Prefaces in English and German. Title descriptions of 542 Kogutowitcz-maps. Index of themes, names and geography. György Kisari Balla, H-1237 Budapest, Hungary, Hrívnák Pál u. 49. Tel.: 36-1-285-7988.


Drawings of fortresses dated from Turkish times, in Stockholm

Budapest, 1996., Apprentice Print Shop Tótfalusi
The author's own edition in 1000 copies. 29 cm, 198 pages. Two coloured and 129 black-and-white map appendixes, 27 photos. Prefaces in Hungarian, German, Swedish and English. Title descriptions of 122 castle-drawings and maps. Indexes of themes, names and geography. The author was asked in 1975, to identify the drawings of the fortresses of Turkish times, kept at the Royal War Archiv in Stockholm, most of them being related to Hungary. The volume presents the medieval histrory of Sweden, Turkey and Hungary, the drawing of maps, copies of the 122 fortress-drawings and maps, and it answers the question how these drawings of Hungarian fortresses could have got to Stockholm.


Hundert Festungspläne in Württemberg

Budapest, 1998., Pintér Print
The author's edition in 500 numerated copies. Edition in Hungarian and German language. 29 cm, 188 pages, 17 coloured and 104 black and white map enclosures, 23 photographs. Introduction in Hungarian, German and English, the title descriptions of the 100 maps, anme and geographical register. The volume contains the history of the Turkish wars, the explanation of map designing, copies of the 100 fortress plans and maps.

György Kisari Balla, 1237 Budapest, Hrívnák Pál u. 49., Telephon: 36-1-285-7988.

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