Käfer Und Schmetterlinge Weisheit Aus Dem Lande Des Khalifen. Signed by Barth
by Barth, Hermann
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Berlin: Alfred Schall. Good with no dust jacket. 1901. Hardcover. Vii + 128 pps. Tan cloth boards with beautiful gilt and teal blue decorations with Arabic and German script, spine has gilt and red. Covers have a bit of shelf soil and wear but quite minor. Inside has lovely golden floral endpapers with the bookplate of Victor de Guinzbourg, sometime WWII spy and proverb collector. On the blank facing the title page there is a very faint inscription in blue ink with Hermann Barth's signature. Each page has lovely blue floral borders. A very pretty book with nice provenance. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 128 pages; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- Leaf and Stone Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6151
- Title
- Käfer Und Schmetterlinge Weisheit Aus Dem Lande Des Khalifen. Signed by Barth
- Author
- Barth, Hermann
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Alfred Schall
- Place of Publication
- Berlin
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- Middle East, Caliphate, Islam, Proverbs, De Guinzbourg
- Bookseller catalogs
- First/Limited/Signed Editions; History: Middle East/Near East; Language - German; Proverbs, Maxims, Aphorisms;
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About the Seller
Leaf and Stone Books
Biblio member since 2005
Toronto, Ontario
About Leaf and Stone Books
Formerly Greekdrama Books Specializing in classical, medieval and ancient languages, history and cultures; antiquarian and unusual books; and interesting used books. We also carry many early printed books, particularly in the subjects of classics and religion, including incunabula and manuscripts.
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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