Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Ernst Vohsen 1909. First edition. 28x19cm 11pp text and 74 collotypes on 38 plates thick cardstock recto only. Text in German introduction by Robert Schultze. Publisher's black and gilt stamped cloth boards worn and stained. Binding shaken hinges starting and top of text block pulling away as common for this volume. Ownership stamp of Ernö Metzner to top edge of several preliminaries else clean internally with some bumped upper corners. A good copy. <br /> <br /> Scarce collection of ethnographic photographs from the German Solomon Islands specifically Bougainville and Buka. The images include daily life activities and culture of the indigenous tribes as well as scenic shots of the islands themselves. All pictures were taken by K. J. Schaffrath construction engineer for the German imperial government in Herbertshöhe now Kokopo. <br /> <br /> Interesting ownership stamp of Ernö Metzner 1892-1953 Austro-Hungarian born director art director and production designer perhaps used for research in one of his many films. <br /> <br /> We identify two auction results in the last 10 years for this uncommon volume. Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen) unknown
Saunders College Publishing. International second edition. Paperback. Very good. VGC.Saunders College Publishing1990. International second edition.Large format paperbacka couple of creasesnicks and scratch on the cover in VGC.Illustrated with many colourb/w photosdrawingsdiagramstablesstats.Nice and clean pages with a small nick on the outer edgessome creases on the edges of the pagesname written inside the edge of the front cover.Nice and clean book with light shelf wear on the back cover.1205pp including Appendix A:Dissecting termsAppendix B:Abbreviationsglossaryindex and two pages with the Metric System.Note:This is very heavy bookapprox. 2.6 Kg. Saunders College Publishing paperback
Paris: Chez F. Louis 1810. xii 202pp 2. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt and blind 'Collège de Parthenay' in gilt to upper board. Rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. An early nineteenth-century Parisian edition of Mary Collyer's née Mitchell 1716/17-1762 immensely popular English prose translation of Salomon Gessner's 1730-1788 dramatization of the biblical tale of Adam's son Abel Der Tod Abels Zurich 1758 first published in 1761. . 12mo. Chez F. Louis hardcover
New York NY: Harper & Brothers 1886. Hardcover. First edition; 7 1/2 x 5; pp. 14 1-267 4 pp. publisher's advertisements; brown cloth over boards illustrated in silver and black; minor worn spots to tips of spine and corners; illustrated with maps including a color frontispiece and wood engravings; very good or better condition.Solomon Bulkley Griffin 1852 - 1925 was a journalist and managing editor of "The Springfield Republican" from 1878 until 1919. He wrote his current book while traveling through Mexico describing the scenery the people and the problems of society and government from the "standpoint of American citizenship." Chapters included the politics of the country its natural resources Mexico's art religion and family customs etc. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers hardcover
New York: Society of Jewish Bibliophiles 1961. 26pp. Beautifully bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine and marbled endpapers. Was presented before the founding members of the Society of Jewish Bibliophiles assembled in Cincinnati for the dedication of the new Library buildings of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion on June 10 1961. This edition is limited to 250 copies. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. Society of Jewish Bibliophiles hardcover
Hardback. New. The scripts that Faulkner wrote for film and television constitute an extensive and until now thoroughly underexplored archival source. Stefan Solomon not only analyzes the majority of these scripts but compares them to the novels and short stories Faulkner was writing at the same time. hardcover
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