German Language

Nurnberg: Johann Andreas Endter & heirs of Wolfgang, 1668. Hardcover. Good. Fine full-page engraved plates (65) numbered 1-63 with 2 bis plates (45 & 47) + 1 text illustration +full page elaborate copperplate coat of arms of Leopold I by C.N. Schurtz.. Folio old vellum (spine split repaired, front cover nearly detached). Bookplate of Bibliotheca Prieseriana (showing books on shelves) and small library stamp on pastedown. Titlepage in red and black with printer's mark of 2 female supporters with sun shining on clasped book with monogram AEW. Titlepage +36pp including full page copperplate coat of arms of Leopold I by C.N.Schurtz +1762pp + 34pp indices + [2]pp errata with a few part-lines of loss to lower outer corner & tatty edges. Double column Gothic type with shoulder notes throughout. Two marginal tears with loss hardly touching print & first page of dedication with cropping to outer edge, some corner creases, else clean and no worming/no foxing/no ink marks. Despite its huge bulk the book block… Read More

Philsadelphia: J. Kohler Text is in German Script and Not Dated. Leather Spine w/gilt spine lettering/deco, black boards w/gilt lettering, 846, 75, 221, 25 pages. Wonderfully tooled binding is Firm. Covers have edge rub to leather, corner wear to boards. Interior Pgs are Clean w/foxing to inside cover, 1st fep. Title in German reads: Des Hocherleuchteten Lehrers, (Herrn Johann Arndts) Weilangeneral - Superintendenten des Furstenthums Luneburg: Sechs Bucher Vom (Wahren Christenthum): Welche Handeln Von Heilsamer Busse, Herzlicher reue und leid Uber die sunde und wahre. *Oversized- Xtra shipping applies. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Munchen: Verlag Albert Langen, 1923. Volume one only. 4to size brown clothbound hardcover with brown titles on cover and spine. 439 toned pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white illustrations and a few color illustrations throughout. Many full page illustrations. Many very explicit erotic illustrations. Das individuelle problem mit 350 abbildungen und 51 beilagen. Text is in German. This fragile book is shaken with loose stitches starting at the top and extending about three inches down and getting progressively tighter as they get to the bottom. Half inch tears to top of and bottom of sunned spine; worn corners, large tears along left side of spine. Some full page illustrations have a blank tanned reverso the pages following the tanned reversos are also tanned. Bookseller's penciled notation and creases to corner on fep; tiny spot on inside front cover with transfer to fep; we note at least two pages with finger marks in the margin and several pages with quarter inch to… Read More

1908. A. W. von Schlegels. Translated by Friedrich Gundolf. Text throughout is clean and unmarked, pages very lightly tanned. Light brown boards are sturdy - showing edgewear and moderate scuffs and stains of age. Spines in poor condition - all but Vols I and IV have been taped either to protect them or to hold them on Vol. I spine is detached and hinges weak. Previous owner's label on front pastedown all volumes. Each volume 10-1/4" x 6-1/2" x 1-3//4"

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 with 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

The book pictured is the copy being sold. The shocking absence of the binding boards may give the buyer opportunities that a buyer of this book with the original binding would not have. The book itself is in very good condition; the text is tight, gold gilt edges on the top, side, and bottom glitter. There is damage to the front flyleaf, but by the half-title page that fraying damage ends and is minor. There is light tanning of the paper at the edges. All the engraving have intact onion skin protection.Given the absence of any binding, this copy may be have more value by extracting its 36 engraving and the other prints. I hope that someone might be willing to rebind this book; giving you the opportunity to blend your style preference and the original 19th ornate style.This of course is a beautifully printed book, 257 pages.As this book weighs nearly 5.5 lbs., this book might require additional postage for expedited, international, or combined orders.

An overview of Swiss military horse dressage

To be over a hundred years old, this book is in remarkably good condition. There is some wear to the cover and the corners are worn and bent. There is writing on the inside front cover and the first page.There are also markings on the pages inside the book. Tanning of pages. A beginner's book for the study of the German language. From the German alphabet, quantity and pronunciation, division of words into syllables, and German script, this begginers book provides lessons and exercises.

Original coloured lithographic covers overall size c.8.1/4 x 6.5/8 inches (c.21 x 17 cm.) pps. 130 illustrated with 32 original coloured lithographs by G.A.Mathey including some full page. Text in German. Corner bump o/w very good in the original gold covered slip/case which is somewhat worn and rubbed.

Printed at the Spamerschen Buchdruckerei in Leipzig and designed by Carl Otto Czeschka including decorated end-papers in colour, double title page and 3 full page illustrations. Overall size c.7.1/2 x 5.inches. c.19 x 12.5 cm. pps 218. Text in German. Spine darkened and boards slightly soiled and rubbed, bookplate on verso of title page but a very good copy internally near fine. Typical decorations by one of the Wiener Werkstatte / Wiener Secession leading artists.

BERLIN AND LEIPZIG: I.C.A. MAYER, 1786 RARE MEDICAL BOOK IN GERMAN, 10 COPPERPLATES AND GREAT DETAIL ON INTESTINES, MUSCLES AND LIGAMENTS. BOOK HAS A DARK BROWN COVER DESIGN WITH WEAR ON EDGES. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. THICK PAPER WITH LIGHT FOXING INSIDE. PAGES ARE TIGHT AND IN GOOD SHAPE, COPPERPLATES HAVE NICE ART AND ARE FOLDOUT. MAYER WAS A COURT COUNSELOR AND PROFESSOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE IN FRANKFORT. GREAT COLLECTOR ITEM. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

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.

NEW YORK: HERAUSGEGEBEN VON UMERIFANIFCHEN, 1863 RARE BOOK, NICE LOOKING BLACK COVER, DESIGN ON FRONT, GOLD PRINT SPINE, RIBS ALONG SPINE. LIGHT WEAR AROUND EDGES. PREVIOUS OWNER HAS FADED WRITING IN FRNT. NO OTHER MARKINGS THROUGHOUT. LIGHT FOXING FRONT AND BACK FEW PAGES. HEAVY BOOK, 3.58 POUNDS. INCLUDED ARE CARDS DATING BACK TO 1909, PLACE MARKERS AND HAIR TIED WITH RIBBON. aLL WERE IN THE BIBLE. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

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.

710pp (+178pp Appendices/Index). German language. 1st Edition. Near Very Good condition. Bumping to boards, and vertical crease/crack to spine covering. Tight, bright, and complete internally. Notes/newspaper clippings to both pastedowns and endpapers. Picture of Wilhelm Grimm pasted to verso of title page. First edition of Part I (Part II was not published until 1854) of this influential work on Germanic and Norse mythology, religion, superstition, and magic. By one half of the brothers Grimm.