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
Bookseller reference : 1153 ISBN : 0030323894 9780030323898
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