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Stuttgart: Wilhelm Meyer-Ilschen, 1920. First edition. Loose leaf portfolio. Very good condition. Folio. Double page, 86 plates. Original quarter cloth over ochre illustrated paper board portfolio with black lettering on cover. Title page with publisher's device. on the order of the Württemberg Center for Industry and Trade, edited by the Information Center for the Construction Business. Contains eighty-six exemplary measured drawings (13 1/4 x 8 1/2") of details useful for the construction business, e.g. banisters, doors, arcades, etc., printed to heavy stock paper. Text in German. Portfolio with light wear along edges, small closed tear across middle of foredge flap.

Schweinfurt, Germany: SKF Kugellagerfabriken GmbH, 1953. First edition. Softcover. vg. Quarto. 62 (1)pp. Original photo-illustrated wraps with orange and black lettering on cover. Endpaper with photomontage. Designed by Willi Vogt with photographs by Uhlenhuth, Theisen (Schweinfurt) and Weizsäcker, Petershans (Stuttgart). Addressing the company employees and friends of the ball bearing manufacturer SKF in Schweinfurt, this publication documents the destruction caused by W.W.II. and the rebuilding efforts as they pertains to the city and in particular the SKF factory. 70% of the city of Schweinfurt and the factories were destroyed in fifteen air raids starting on August 17, 1943. Next to the numerous sepia-toned photographs documenting the overwhelming destruction, plans showing the progress of the rebuilding of the ball bearing factory in various architectural drawings, including photo-illustrated diagrams reflection the changes in the factory staff from 1945 to 1952. Includes data and photographs… Read More

New York: Maimonides Octocentennial Committee, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. 52, 27, [1], 32, 31, [1]pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on front cover. Free front endpaper signed by Louis I. Newman of the National Advisory Council of the Maimonides Octocentennial Committee, and dated March 1936. Pictorial title pages. Remarkable work compiling four essays in commemoration of the octocentennial of Maimonides' birth. Moderate age-wear on binding with spine and edges darkened. Very minor age-toning along paper margin. Binding in overall good, interior in good+ to very good condition.

New York: Maimonides Octocentennial Committee, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. 52, 27, [1], 32, 31, [1]pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on front cover. Original wrappers bound in. Complete collection of 4 pamphlets published by the Maimonides Octocentennial Committee, to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the birth of the preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher and one of the greatest Torah scholars and physicians of the Middle Ages. Previous owner's signature on free front endpaper, and dated 1935. Binding and interior in overall very good condition. Leo Shubow's copy.

Chicago: The Black Cat Press, 1937. Limited Edition. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. xvi. 58pp. Gilt decorated blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Head and tail of spine and corners slightly rubbed. Listed are in 7 chapters books about individual private presses, their designers and publishers, books containing data on presses, reviews, histories, and aticles in perioicals. One of 250 copies. Foreword by Will Ransom. In very good condition.

Frankfurt et.al: Peter D. Lang, 1980. Softcover. vg. This book is inscribed by the author at free front endpaper: "To Professor Ridley. With compliments, Renate Haas. 9/2/80." 8vo. 362pp. Wrappers. Fascinating study of Middle English lamentations of the dead. Based on a PhD-dissertation. With appendix, list of abbreviations, bibliography, English summary and alphabetic keyword registry at end. Minor age wear to binding. In German, with a summary in English at end. Very good condition. Part of a series: Sprache und Literatur (Regensburger Arbeiten zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), Band 16.

Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 1984. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. 25.1: xvi,890pp. 25.2: x,894-1885pp. Dark green cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dustjackets. Minor scuffing to boards. Slight bumping to bottom edge on Vol.I. Minor creasing and scuffing to dj's. Two tiny stains on pages 894 & 895. An enormous work on the rise and decline of the Roman Empire. This series "Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt - Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung," was published in 31 parts, each part consisting of several volumes. Editors were Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase. Near fine condition.

Berlin: Wiking, 1942. First edition. Paperback. g+. Quarto. 38pp. Original printed dust-jacket over blind wrappers. Scarce work on the Antiqua typeface class, a style of text used to mimic the hand. Antiqua typefaces are those designed between about 1470 and 1600, specifically those by Nicolas Jenson and the Aldine roman commissioned by Aldus Manutius and cut by Francesco Griffo. Antiqua letterforms were modelled on a synthesis of Roman inscriptional capitals and Carolingian writing. They are also known as Venetian types and occasionally as old style, differentiated from modern styles by the more or less uniform thickness of all strokes and by slanted serifs. The term "Antiqua" later came to sometimes be used for Roman type in general as opposed to blackletter, as in the Antiqua-Fraktur dispute in the German-speaking world. Antiqua's Germanic opposite is blackletter, in which the letter forms are broken or fractured. In 19th-and 20th-century Germany there was a dispute over whether German should be… Read More

Vienna: Verein fur osterreichische Volkskunde, 1901. Softcover. g. Small 8vo. 60pp. Original illustrated wrappers with brown lettering to front wrapper. Tears to head and tail of spine. Spine worn. Browning to wrappers and pages. Great work on Austrian folklore. Illustrated with 20 in-text b/w sketches, paintings and photographs. In German. In good condition.

Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1988. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. 184pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. In three parts: 1) A list of more than 500 words relating to parts of body, terms of relationship, material and spiritual culture, the numerals, some adjectives and some verbs. 2) Few grammatical notes relating to nouns, pronouns, adjectives, numerals, verbs and particles. 3) More than 200 short Ba'iso sentences. Volume 2 of the series "Studia Linguarum Africae Orientalis." Minor scuffing on binding. Tail of spine slightly bumped. Binding in very good, interior in fine condition. "From the last library of Wolf Leslau, no bookplate present."

Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1960. New Revised and Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. g. Ex-library. 8vo. xviii,520pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine. Staining to spine. Scuffing and minor discoloration to boards. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Some foxing to top- and fore-page edge. Ex-libris of Rafat Barghouti on inside of front board. Volume CV of "Harvard Economic Studies". Small stamp of "University of Southern California" on verso of title-page. Binding in good, interior in very good condition.

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, n/d. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. xv,332pp. Brown cloth with small gilt decoration on cover and spine in original dust jacket. Minor creasing to dj. Frontisportrait of Steinheim. "S. L. Steinheim's religious philosophy was the outgrowth of a deep spiritual crisis in which he first abandoned religion altogether in favor of philosophy." Also includes an annotated translation, with a biographical and analytical introduction, of the entire first volume of his four-volume work 'The Revelation According to the Doctrine of Judaism, a Criterion and selections from Volumes 2, 3, and 4. Near fine condition.

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, n/d. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. xv,332pp. Brown cloth with small gilt decoration on cover and spine in original dust jacket. Minor creasing to dj. Frontisportrait of Steinheim. "S. L. Steinheim's religious philosophy was the outgrowth of a deep spiritual crisis in which he first abandoned religion altogether in favor of philosophy." Also includes an annotated translation, with a biographical and analytical introduction, of the entire first volume of his four-volume work 'The Revelation According to the Doctrine of Judaism, a Criterion and selections from Volumes 2, 3, and 4. Signature of former owner, Harry M. Orlinsky, the famous Judaic and Semitic Scholar on front endpaper, otherwise book and dj are in near fine condition.

New York: Ktav Publishing House, Inc, 1979. Hardcover. g. Large 8vo. xx, 289pp. Cloth cover in original printed dust jacket. Dj slightly creased. Head and tail of spine bumped. Edge bumped. Overall in good condition.

Wittenberg: The Heirs of Johann Krafft the Elder, 1589. Second revised. Hardcover. Good+. Folio. [reversed parentheses]8 A-4B6 4C10 (= 444 leaves; blank 4C10). [16], 860 [i.e., 868; various error in pagination], [2, colophon (recto)], [2, blank]pp. Woodcut printer's device at title, a larger half-page version appearing as a vignette at the colophon; woodcut lettrines. Printed marginalia (noting various derivations of the root under notice). Occasional quotations in Greek and German. Contemporary calf, ruled in blind (lightly scuffed); contemporary manuscript paper spine label (partially perished). Contemporary bifoliate vellum manuscript strips, apparently of a student at Cambridge, bound into both joints. Tightly trimmed, very occasionally touching a letter in the printed marginalia; paper fault at 2P1 resulting in the loss of two or three letters. Clean text throughout; complete with final blank. Second, revised edition (variant with title dated 1589; colophon 1588) of this Hebrew lexicon… Read More

Paris: B.K Edit, 1880. Hardcover. g. Oblong octavo. 24 captioned stereoscopic plates, as issued. Mounted plates housed in contemporary cloth clamshell box, with blind tooling and gold lettering on top lid (Stereoskop- Galerie). Photographs of scenes from the life of Jesus constructed with clay figures, backed with hand-colored tissue to give startlingly dramatic effect when backlit. Complete collection of 24. Each plate measures 3 1/2" x 7" and is captioned in French, Spanish, Italian, English, and German. Minor rubbing along edges of clamshell box. Moderate abrasion to plates 2 (13 tiny holes punched to first stereoscopic view), 3 (0.5" closed tear), and 22 (0.5" closed tear). Box and plates in overall good+ condition. 1) The Nativity, the Sheperds' Adoration 2) Adoration of the Wise Men 3) The Flight in Egypt 4) Jesus with the Doctors 5) The Wedding at Cana 6) Jesus preaches upon the mountain 7) Jesus' Entry to Jerusalem 8) Jesus betrayed by Judas 9) Jesus is sentenced to death (1st station) 10)… Read More

Paris, London: Librairie de L'Art J. Rouam; Gilbert Wood & Cie, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. g to fine. Elephant Folio. 2pp., 12 parts with 4 plates each, all in original light blue illustrated wraps as issued; housed in it original green cloth portfolio with elaborate gilt decor, flowers and birds, and lettering on cover, beveled edges, with decorative paper-covered flaps; protected by modern mylar. The portfolio provides decorative ideas of artist Jules Hebert-Dys for ceramics, fabric, jewelry, furniture and house decor on forty-eight plates. The beautiful color motifs, with gilt and silver overprinting, depict birds, fish, cows, cranes, flowers, ceramics, wall decorations, umbrellas, jewelry, various fabrics, scarfs, panels, wallpaper, bookbinding, tea sets, an embroidered collar, dishes, etc. The album heralds the movement from the so-called Japonisme (Philippe Burty) to the sentimental glug of past pastiches to Art Nouveau. The plates were printed to "papier du Chine" by the lithographer… Read More

Sulgen: Niggli Verlag, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Folio. 246pp. Original decorative dust-jacket over half black cloth and paper covered boards, with white lettering on spine and black lettering on front cover. Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the "Vereinigung Schweizer Innenarchitekten VSI / Association Suisse des Architectes d'Intérieur ASAI" (Swiss Association of Interior Designers), this striking pictorial survey of 50 years of Swiss interior architecture depicts the work of 102 famous Swiss architects, such as: Max Bill, Mario Botta, Justus Dahinden, Patrick Devanthéry, Nicolas Goetz, Inès Lamunière, Rudolf Olgiati, and Peter Zumthor. This volume is profusely illustrated throughout with hundreds of floor plans, b/w and color photographic reproductions. Minor soiling on dust-jacket. Slight age-toning along paper margin. Text in French and German. DJ in overall good to good+, binding and interior in very good condition.

New York and London: Garland, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. xxvii, 965 pp. Orange cloth with brown lettering on front cover and spine. Thick, beige, decorative endpapers. Includes two prefaces, introduction, bibliographical references and three indices. Contents include: I. Animal Tales, II. Tales of Magic, III. Religious Tales, IV. Romantic Tales, V. Numskull Stories and VI. Jokes and Anecdotes. Book is in near fine condition.

Praha (Prague): Nakladatelstvi "Mir", 1948. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto. 108pp. [2] + 60 photographic plates. Illustrated b/w dust jacket with white lettering on the front cover, black lettering on the spine. Brown cloth over grey textured paper boards, with grey lettering on the front cover and black lettering on the spine. Cover illustration by Frantisek Maly. Photo-illustrated frontispiece. The book is a text and photographic documentation of the German occupation of Moravia (Czechoslovakia) during WWII. The first section of the work includes historical and personal accounts of the period, while the second section of the book contains a total of 60 plates of photographic reproductions on glossy paper. The subjects of the photos include German governmental buildings, German-controlled institutions and detention centers. Text in Czech. Dj with some rubbing and or chipping to corners, and head & tail of the spine. Some small creases and/or closed tears along the edges. Light staining… Read More