German Language

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

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.

German language hymnal and devotional book from early 19th century, written by the theologian Dr. Laurent David Bollhagen. Engravings on the front and back leather cover are worn but still clearly visible. Front cover engraved with owner's initials "A.R.", back cover with year of ownership, "1838.". Inside front endpaper contains short written timeline of names and dates on both sides. Green ribbon bookmark worn but still attached. Binding especially worn at junctures between spine and covers. Text complete and legible

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.

A fragment from Novalis which was first published by the Schlegel brothers in 1798 in Athenaeum first volume, first part. Finely printed in Koch Fette Deutsche Schrift on Deutschem japanpapier in blue and black in a total edition of 350 copies. This copy being 'Verlagsexamplar' (publishers copy) same as the 300 copies edition..Overall size c.10.1/4 x 7.3/8 inches. c.26 x 19 cm. pps. 40.Although undated, as the 5th. publication of Phaiden Druck, it would appear to be around the first year of the founding of the Phaiden verlag in 1923. Base of spine a little rubbed o/w a near fine copy.

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.

Freiburg im Breisgau: Friedrich Riederer, 11 December 1493. – First edition. The first complete rhetoric in German. Friedrich Ried(e)rer's (c. 1450-c. 1510) work has to be esteemed as a landmark in the domain of rhetoric. Comprising ars rhetorica, ars dictandi and ars notaria, Riederer's book was intended for the most important fields of communication in his time, where rhetorical knowledge was used: chancery writers, notary's and other offices, scholarly research and teaching, preaching, municipal judicature and administration. The text is extensively treating the classical rhetorical theory including translations of parts of Cicero's De inventione and other texts. Moreover, it contains also detailed manuals on epistles and on legal contracts, providing a number of models. Riederer was an interesting and erudite character, both active as a humanist writer and a printer. He ran the second printing press at Freiburg im Breisgau and this is his first dated book. It was very successful and was… Read More

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.

Rare two vol. set of first German Trade Hardcover Edition of Oswald Spengler's DER UNTERGANG DES ABENDLANDES. Umrisse Einer Morphologie der Weltgeschichte. München [Munich]: Oskar Beck, 1922, 1923. In two octavo Volumes: pp 559, 637. [THE DECLINE OF THE WEST]. A near fine example in cream coloured paper covered boards printed with black titles and graphics. Volume II is a subsequent printing of the 1st edition published in Munich by Beck in 1922. Volume I is a later printing of the first German printing by Beck who acquired the copyright from Braunmuller, the Viennese academic house that published the original 1st edition in 1918. Chipping and tear to spine of Vol. II dust jacket. No dj on Vol 1. Interior Fine. Provenance: Library of Henry Church.

Deutsche ErstausgabeDas Buch ist in einem sehr guten Zustand. Der Buchrücken ist nicht gebrochen. Das Buch ist auch nicht markiert.

One of 500 copies in very good+ condition of First Edition on Japanese laid paper of poetry collection by Stefan George, one of Germany's most important poets. Inspired by the French symbolist poet Mallarmé's vision of art for arts sake, George devoted himself to the production of highly refined, often hermetic, poetry for an elite audience. Gilt embossed purple linen boards. Top edge gilt. Binding intact. Slight sunning to cover. Text displays typography designed by with elegant hieratic, symbolic, decorative design combining with gothic elements with fin de siècle arts and crafts design by Melchior Lechter, (1865–1937) noted German book designer and painter closely connected with Stefan George's circle. Rare.

Deutsche ErstausgabeDas Buch ist in gutem Zustand, das Frontcover hat einen Knick. Science Fiction, Hrsg. von Wolfgang Jeschke, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag München, 1991

Berlin: Jüdischer Vlg,, 1927. First Edition . Original-Halbleder. Fine. 1927-1931. ERSTE ORIGINALAUSGABE in ORIGINAL-HALBLEDER: Hrsg.v. Georg Herlitz und Bruno Kirschner. Mit über 200 illustr. Beilagen , Karten und Tabellen. Vorsätze teils sehr leicht gebränt, obere Ecke von Band 5 leicht berieben .Aussergewöhnlich SCHÖN erhalten, selten in diesem guten Zustand zu finden! (siehe Fotos) - Flyleaves with minimal browning,upper corner of vol. 5 mildly rubbed ) see photos). . A VERY BEAUTIFUL WELL KEPT SET, RARELY FOUND IN SUCH A GOOD CONDITION. ( für dieses schwere Set entstehen zusätzliche Versandkosten, ca. $ 100 mehr als die automatische Angabe)