Voitech Kubasta was an artist for Artia, a state-run import/export company in Prague. In the 1950s and 1960s, he engineered and illustrated pop-up books for Artia that were marketed throughout the world by Bancroft and Company of London. Kubasta created colorful, engaging designs that often accompanied fairy tales. 

Anderson, Hans Christian. Der fliegende Koffer [The Flying Trunk]. Hamburg: Carlsen Verlag, 1962 ([Prague]: Artia).

Some of his books, such as Christopher Columbus, are large format and contain a single pop-up.

How Columbus Discovered America. London: Westminster Books, 1960.