NACHRICHT VON EINER NEUEN THIERPFLANZE. Bound with as issued: BOLTEN, EPISTOLA DE NOVO QUODAM ZOOPHYTORUM GENERE. by BOLTEN, Joachim Friedrich.:

Berlin & Wien: Urban & Schwarzenberg. Very Good. 1932-33. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean tan cloth. Leather spine with gilt titles. Leather protected front corners. Texts tight and clean. Zugleich fortsetzung des Biographischen Lexicons der hervorragenden Arzte aller Zeiten und Volker. Erster Band 1932, Aaser - Komoto mit 80 Bildnissen. Zweiter Band 1933, Kon - Zweig, Nachtrage und Berichtigungen, mit 80 Bildnissen. X-lib, book plates on front endpaper. Library marking on spine. Ink stamp on page edges. Bottom edge of cloth lightly rubber, leather spine intact. Vol. #1, leaf 797 & 799 have a very small piece missing from bottom front corner which does not affect the text. ; Ex-Library; Portrait Illustrations; Thick Large 8vo; 1741 pages .

Rare special edition printed on jap vellum and limited to 25 copies (no. XXI )signed by the illustrator and translator of an edition of 350 copies.Overall size c.10. x 6.5/8 inches c.25.5 cm. x 17.cm. Bottom of spine bumped o/w very good with contents fine. Books signed by the artist Ephrahim Moses Lilien are scarce.

1803 Almanac anti-French Revolution Propaganda Portraits Politics Louverture

The 'Friedens-Almanach of 1803' or 'Peace Almanac' was one of the concluding volumes from one of the most credible and successful anti-revolutionary publications series of all time. This German periodical was published to encourage readers to go against the political goals of the French Revolution. This volume includes portrait engravings of dozens of European political and military figures.

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Friedens-Almanach von 1803: Als Schluss und Supplement des Revolutions-Almanachs
Göttingen: Dieterich, 1803.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o [2], VIII, 228
o 21 engraved plates
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Language: German
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Binding: Leather; tight & secure
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Size: ~6in X 3.5in (15cm x 9cm)

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First thus : Hamburg: Hofmann, 1805, 1805. Second edition expanded and improved. Very good.
365 pages, 58 line drawings in the text. Moderately browned. Very good condition.
Book is more than 200 years old and text block in outstanding condition. Previous owner's signature on title page is that of Louis Tronchin, colonel in the Swiss Federal Army.

Beautifully bound special edition of selected poems by German poet, Karl Krolow presented alongside with English translations by Kevin Perryman. These selected poems were published by Babel on the occasion of Krolow's 70th birthday. The translations were authorized by Karl Krolow and are printed here for the first time. Celebrated along with Krolow's work are signed poems by Gunter Grass, George Mackay Brown, Walter Helmut Fritz, and Gunter Kunert. A limited edition of just 30 copies. A very scarce copy,

Zurich: Heidegger und Comp., 1744. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. 109, [i.e. 149], [1]. Pages are generally clean with occasional mild scattered marginal foxing. Small stain on title page. Bound in period papered boards or faux-vellum (rubbed). A piece of paper covering is missing from bottom rear board. An old receipt for purchase of the book, dated 1925 is loosely inserted. Johann Jacob Breitinger (1701-1776) Influential Swiss-German literary critic whose writings, along with those of Johann Jacob Bodmer, helped to inspire a transition from Baroque to Modern German Literature. In 1740 Breitinger published his "critische Dichtkunst" (2 vols), a direct challenge to the classical viewpoint of leading Leipzig critic Johann Christoph Gottsched. Breitinger argued (contrary to Gottsched) that the poet’s passion should not be hindered by artificial rules (i.e. rhym). The feud which ensued with Breitinger and Bodmer on the one side and Gottsched on the other helped to… Read More

Wien & Leipzig: Urban & Schwarzenberg. Very Good. 1884-88. Hardcover. Clean blue cloth. Maroon spine label with gilt titles. Texts tight, clean & intact. Medical biographical dictionary. Approx. 4,000 pages. 80,000 physicians listed. International in scope. Erster Band: 1884, 718pp. Lindsley - Revillon. Zweiter Band: 1885, 712pp. Chavet - Gwinne. Dritter Band: 1886, 718pp. Haab - Lindsley. Vierter Band: 1886, 718pp. Lindsley - Revillon. Funfter Band: 1887, 718pp. Revolat - Trefurt. Sechster Band: 1888, 1056pp. Treiber - Zypen. Nachtrage und Erganzungen. Und unter Special Redaction Dr. E. Gurlt. Volume #1, pages 416 - 465 are age toned. A few lightly age toned edges at the beginning & ending of the other volumes. German text. Rare Section; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .

Deutche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart, 1928; First Edition; Signed; 8vo, 274 pages plus a six page catalog at the back. Somber novel depicting the inability of a returning soldier to maintain his family’s long-standing tradition of farm life. Ina Seidel (1885-1974), acknowledged as the leading woman writer of her era, was admitted to the Prussian Academy of Arts in 1930, the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1948, awarded the Goethe Medal in 1932, the Grillparzer Prize of the City of Vienna in 1941, the Wilhelm Raabe Prize of the City of Braunschweig in 1948, and the Great Art Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1958. At her death in 1974 she was credited by her contemporaries as being the last upholder of 19th century tradition. Text in German. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good dust jacket that has two small closed edge tears and moderate spine tan. Signed and dated on the f.f.e.p. by the author Nov. 15, 1927, before publication. Additionally laid-in is a handwritten and signed letter of thanks from… Read More

1803 Almanac anti-French Revolution Propaganda Portraits Politics Louverture

The 'Friedens-Almanach of 1803' or 'Peace Almanac' was one of the concluding volumes from one of the most credible and successful anti-revolutionary publications series of all time. This German periodical was published to encourage readers to go against the political goals of the French Revolution. This volume includes portrait engravings of dozens of European political and military figures.

Item number: #7925
Price: $599
various
Friedens-Almanach von 1803: Als Schluss und Supplement des Revolutions-Almanachs
Göttingen: Dieterich, 1803.

Details:
·
Collation: Complete with all pages
o [2], VIII, 228
o 21 engraved plates
·
Language: German
·
Binding: Leather; tight & secure
·
Size: ~6in X 3.5in (15cm x 9cm)

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Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1919. First edition. De Luxe edition, limited to 100 numered copies printed on Butten, signed by the author and illustrator. Copy number 9, bound in full suede leather with raised bands, gilt spine titles and ornaments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilting and ribbon marker. Published Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1919. 8vo., 312pp., illustrated with 10 tissue-guarded stone lithographs by Wilhelm Plunnecke. Signed by author on limitation page, and each lithograph signed by Plunnecke. Some sunning to the spine, minor rub at the crown, else fine. Scarce. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine. Illus. by Plunnecke, Wilhelm. 8vo.