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Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1972 ¶ Includes entries for fifty-six dictionaries of Common Germanic, Gothic, Old Icelandic, Old English, Old High German, Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Late Latin, Middle High German, Middle Low German, Middle Low German, Early Modern High German, and Modern High German, 1834-1972 (pages 45-51). ||| Collation: In 8s (210 x 146 mm): Pp. 197 [198]. Binding: Printed wrappers. References: ISBN 3503007288; LCCN 73350523. ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below. .

First edition (only edition) of this important bibliography, giving not just the authors and titles of all 212 individual volumes and parts 1855-1913, but also descriptions of their contents and some hints at their importance. It also identifies the authors of a number of works published anonymously. (Series: Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College [1855- ], volume 75, part 2.) The present copy is lightly annotated in pencil on pages 210-14, perhaps at Harvard, perhaps about 1920, updating the checklist slightly, and noting that this Contents itself is now "Out of print".

White Plains, N.Y.: Kraus International Publications, 1984 ¶ ONLY EDITION. An annotated bibliography of 2,527 items; with indexes of authors, languages, and subjects. Einar Haugen was the foremost North-Germanic philologist in America; and his introduction here is an outstanding general history and survey of Scandinavian dictionaries 1510–1980 (pages 1–52), with a bibliography of the subject (53–61). Out of print. ||| Collation: In 16s (229 × 150 mm): Pp. xxii, 387. Nine full-page facsimiles. Binding: Publisher's blue buckram gilt. Reference: Balay Guide to reference books (1996) AC190. Provenance: Gift inscription from T. A. O. Hamilton (Kraus International Publications), December 1990. Condition: A fine copy..

Leipzig: M. W. Kaufmann, 1907 *** ONLY EDITION; including seven fables in German, adapted from the Talmudic masekhtot Berakhot and Sanhedrin, midrashim Rabbah and Yalkut, and sefer Sha'are teshuvah (13th century CE). The author was a physician and educator in Kurland (Courland), now part of Latvia. The statement 'Neue Folge' (New series) on the titlepage refers to his earlier compilation Hermon: Erzaehlungen aus Talmud und Midrasch (1907). *** It hardly needs saying that Jewish children's books printed in Germany before the Second World War are nowadays VERY SCARCE. Indeed only two other copies of this book have been located, one in America and one in Israel. -- Collation: In 8s (182 x 127 mm): 48 leaves, paginated [I-V] VI, [7] 8-94 [95-96]. Binding: Publisher's gray-green cloth lettered in white and stamped in blind, maroon-cloth upper cover lettered in white, green laid endpapers, top-edges stained blue, others trimmed & plain. References: OCLC 541702. Not in RLIN. Condition: Very good. .

New York: Lew David Feldman / House of El Dieff, Inc,, 1971     ¶ Only edition of this important catalogue; featuring the first leaf of Doyle's autograph notes for A study in scarlet; the autograph manuscripts of four Holmes stories, two Sherlockian plays, and other works; and eight original drawings by Sidney Paget; all at dream prices. Seventy-six items, annotated, priced.   ||| Cover title.  Collation: 216 x 108 mm: Eight leaves, paginated 1-16.  Illustration: One facsimile (F. D. Roosevelt letter 1942, printed on the lower wrapper recto).  Binding: Pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Very good, discreet date-stamp on the lower wrapper recto.  Reference: OCLC 26522182 (misdated "196-"). Not in De Waal (1974). .

Djibouti (Djibouti), 1985     ¶ A fine miniature portrait of the famous novelist, designed by Jean-Paul Veret-Lemarinier, of Forges les Bains near Paris, printed by Éditions de l'Aubetin (Switzerland), and issued at Djibouti on 24 June 1985. This is a DELUXE PROOF specially printed for the philatelic market: Such proofs are typically issued in very small numbers.   ||| Collation: Deluxe proof 130 x 100 mm (5 x 4 inches) overall, the stamp 49 x 27 mm lettered in French with Arabic, denominated 80 F, signed in print Veret-Lemarinier lower left and EDILA lower right, lithographed in colors within a sunken panel 70 x 50 mm on thick, coated (glossy) paper unmarked, broad margins, ungummed as issued.  Condition: Mint; eminently frameable.  Reference: Cf Scott (Djibouti) 601.  .