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2015Best.-Nr. 52986Leiden: Brill 2015. First edition. Octavo. xviii 320pp. Index. Pictorial buckram with lilac/gray spine lettered in white. A fine but ex-library copy with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block. Studying Religions with the Iron Curtain Closed and Open. The Academic Study of Religion in Eastern Europe offers an account of the research focused on the origins development and the current situation of the Study of Religions in the 20th century in countries such as the Czech Republic Poland Slovakia Hungary Estonia Latvia Ukraine and Russia. Special attention is devoted to the ideological influences determining the interpretation of religion especially connected with the rise of Marxist-Leninist criticism of religion. Publisher Contents: The Czech journey to the academic study of religions: From the critique of religion to its study /; Tommáš Bubík --; Searching and finding: A history of the Slovak study of religion /; David Václavík --; The development of religious studies in Poland: History and the present state /; Henryk Hoffmann --; The history and recent trends of Religionswissenschaft in Hungary /; András Máté-Tóth and; Csaba Máté Sarnyai --; Estonian study of religion: A historical outline of the 20th century developments /; Ülo Valk and; Tarmo Kulmar --; Development of the study of religion in Latvia in the 20th century /; JÄnis Priede --; The history of the scientific study of religion and current state of religious studies in Ukraine /; Liudmyla Fylypovych and; Yuriy Babinov --; The outline of religious studies in Russia: Did Soviet religious studies really exist /; Ekaterina Elbakyan. OCLC Volume 149 in the Brill's series "Numen Book Series. Studies in the History of Religions. Brill unknown
1930Best.-Nr. 48783's-Gravenhage: Heinz & Co 1930. Review Copy. Softcover. Very good condition. Octavo. 359 20pp. X plates. Original ochre cloth with gilt lettering on covers and spine protected by modern mylar. Lightly textured cream endpapers. Title page printed in red and black stamped "Recensie Exemplaar" with N. V. Boekh. v.h. W. P. van Stockum & Zoon label pasted below red publisher's device. Cover design by Josef Hoffmann. Welcome addresses by Dr. Hainisch Trade Minister and Ex-President Alfred Roller Director of the Vienna Arts % Craft School and Josef Hoffmann architect and head of Planning Department. Elaborate publication introducing Austrian arts & crafts including the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts Wiener Werkstätte its extensive curriculum and faculty including Franz Cizek and Josef Hoffmann and the products created in various departments the Vienna Porcelain Factory Augarten and other branches like tapestry carpets silk chairs and small furniture glass and silver products jewelry a piano by Joseph Frank built by Bösendorfer clothing fashion ceramics accessories cabinets lamps typography posters and iron work. The guide is profusely illustrated with b/w photographs of products throughout. Ten color plates depict the work of Michael Powolny ceramic Lucia Stadelmeyer and Elsa Engel-Meinfelden ornamental fabric an original design for toys by Emmy Zweybrück-Prochaska rendered lithographically with gilt decorative overlay Joseph Binder poster Ernst Ludwig Franke poster Ernst Ludwig Franke corporate logos two plates Otto Exinger poster Atelier Kosel poster and Gaertner and Klose two designs for posters. Contains list of Institutes Schools and Museums and epilogs by Hainisch Hoffmann and Roller indices by subject and names and tables of illustrations as well as addresses and bibliography. With twenty pages of advertisement at rear some of them illustrated. Text in German French and English. Binding with very light wear along edges and lightly rubbed. Stamped "Recensie Exemplar on front free endpaper and title page. Starting slightly at page 161. Original watercolor with slight thumbprints at corners not affecting image. Heinz & Co unknown
1937Best.-Nr. 49068Berlin: Comité Nacional para el Fomento del Turismo en Alemania/ Reichausschuss für Fremdenverkehr 1937. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. Folio. 26pp. Illustrated orange and brown wrappers with brown lettering on the front cover. This Spanish-language publication was issued by the German government during the years of the Third Reich to promote tourism in the county. The publication is profusely illustrated throughout with photographic reproductions and drawings in b/w. This issue includes articles promoting the wintery landscape and winter sports of the area of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps where the then recent 1936 Winter Olympics were held as well as the 20th anniversary of the German railway catering company Mitropa the anniversary of the death of English-German racial philosopher Houston Stewart Chamberlain and articles on the Carnival celebrations in the country. Include images taken by infamous Nazi photographer and publisher Heinrich Hoffmann. Striking art deco front cover design by German designer Ottomar Anton back cover by Edwin Henel. Wrappers with light foxing to the front cover and moderate foxing the back cover. Book block dis-bound from wrappers. Interior wrappers with foxing as well as title page. The rest of the pages are quite clean save for some minor sporadic smudges and minor age toning. Wrappers in good interior in very good condition overall. Comité Nacional para el Fomento del Turismo en Alemania/ Reichausschuss für Fremdenverkehr unknown
1932Best.-Nr. 47555Zofingen Zurich: Verlags AG Zürich Ringier-Verlag 1932. Softcover. Very good condition. Folio 15 x 11". 8pp. Original wraps with photo-illustrated design and white and black lettering on cover protected by modern mylar. Features a full page photograph of the Gold Medalist in Los Angeles Ellen Müller-Preis on the cover. Contains a blurb praising the new world champion and gold medalist in foil fencing a naturalized Austrian born in Germany into a Jewish family. In Germany she had been living in the shadow of another foil fencer Helene Mayer also born to a Jewish father and only one of two athletes allowed to compete in the 1936 Olympics by the Nazis. Among others Müller-Preis beat in Mayer run to win the gold medal in Los Angeles and she was credited with the longest Olympic span of any woman competing from 1932 until 1956. Müller-Preis wanted to fence for Germany in the 1932 Olympics but was rejected by the German Federation. She took on the Austrian citizenship and fenced for Austria instead winning the gold medal against Heather Guinness of England. In the 1936 Olympics in Berlin she won the bronze medal for Austria and again in 1948 during the London Olympics. The issue of the magazine is incomplete missing pages 861-876. Text in German. Light wear along edges and horizontal fold. Verlags AG Zürich (Ringier-Verlag) unknown
1938Best.-Nr. 47249Berlin: Zeitgeschichte-Verlag 1938. 151.-160. Tausend. Softcover. Very good condition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original photo-illustrated stiff wraps with red and white lettering on cover protected by modern mylar. Documentation and propaganda publication relating to the annexation of the Sudetenland the Northern mountainous region of Czechoslovakia after the Munich agreement of September 30 1938. Part of the large series of propaganda publications documenting Hitler's presence in various regions and interactions with his people. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs provided by Heinrich Hoffmann Reichsbilderstatter/ Photographer of the NSDAP. Henlein was a leading Sudeten German politician who joined the Nazi party and SS after the annexation of the Sudetenland and was appointed Gauleiter of the Sudetenland. The photographs depict Konrad Henlein and Hitler Sudentendeutsche refugees heading for Germany the meetings between Hitler and Chamberlain Mussolini Daladier the signing of the agreement the invasion of the Sudetenland cheering German population in Sudetenland Photos of Hitler's visit to the region a Hitler speech construction of military installations and various photographs with Hitler and thankful Germans of the region. Text in German. Very light wear along edges of wraps. Zeitgeschichte-Verlag unknown
1933Best.-Nr. 41640Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann 1933. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. Large quarto 11 1/2 x 9 1/4". 163-218 2pp Text 30pp Advertisement. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Remarkable issue of this renowned German architecture magazine with articles on Ulfert Janssen and Heinz Wetzel's WWI Memorial project in Bad Berka 2 pages with 5 b/w photographic reproductions and 3 plans; Alfred Daiber's Ortskrankenkassen Local Health Insurance Ressource Center in Stuttgart 19 pages with 27 b/w photographic reproductions and 14 plans and floor plans; Swedish physician and author Axel Munthe's Villa San Michele on the Isle of Capri Italy 7 pages with 12 architectural drawings 6 photogravures 4 floor plans and 1 plan; a lengthy article on furnishing small rooms with 46 b/w photographic reproductions depicting furniture by Hungarian architect and furniture designer Kalman Lengyel p.191-220; a 4-page article with 22 b/w photographic reproductions of chairs; and the last two pages contain the b/w drawings of two modern kitchens by Hans Müller and Margot Gerster. Includes 3 color plates of Interior design by Oskar Fischer Rudolf Frank and Hans Müller. Head and tail of spine slightly chipped. Text in German. Wrappers in overall good interior in very good condition. WITH 8 larger loose leaves 11 7/8 x 9 1/4" reproducing 11 of the 46 photographs featured in the article on furnishing small rooms. Also included are 3 original silver gelatin prints of furniture by Kalman Lengyel. Two of the photographs measure 7 x 9 3/8" and one is 6 1/2 x 8 7/8". Each print has the following stamp at verso Lengyel 78 Av. Pasteur Vanves Seine. Julius Hoffmann unknown
1937Best.-Nr. 40282Berlin: Freiheitsverlag G.m.b.H. 1937. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. Quarto. 64pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over blind stiff wrappers. A collection of 45 photogravures documenting Mussolini's 5-day official visit to his friend and ally Adolf Hitler in Germany in late September 1937. Many of the photographs featured in this work were taken by Hitler's personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. Striding side by side the two dictators and partners of the Berlin-Rome Axis are seen touring Munich where they laid wreaths on various Nazi monuments. Among these was the Feldherrnhalle in Königsplatz which held the bodies of 16 Nazi heroes killed in the 1923 Munich Putsch. The next series of photographs were taken in the little village of Lalendorf where Hitler and Mussolini witnessed the most impressive military manoeuvres of post-WWI Germany. The following images show the two leaders visiting the mighty Krupp munitions works at Essen. Two photographs of Benito Mussolini attending a luncheon given by Göring and his wife at their famous hunting lodge Karinhall are placed between the largest series of pictures showing the two men during the grandiose Berlin celebrations in their honor. Indeed an estimated crowd of 650000 people attended the demonstration organized on the Maifeld the polo ground adjoining the Olympic Stadium. At the official tribune Mussolini delivered a speech where he spoke of the awakening of Germany through the Nazi revolution Bolshevism the common enemy and Germany's friendly stand during the Ethiopian War. The speech ended with a stress on the 115 million Germans and Italians and the need for them to unite "in one single unshakable determination." Closed tear and soiling at back cover of dust-jacket. Moderate abrasion along fore-edge of DJ. Clear and minor water-staining along fore-edge of the first 32 pages not affecting lettering. Text in German gothic script. DJ in overall good- wrappers and interior in good to very good photographs in very good condition. Freiheitsverlag G.m.b.H. unknown
1937Best.-Nr. 39388Berlin: Zeitgeschichte 1937. 106. bis 130. Tausend. Softcover. g to vg. Quarto. Unpaginated. 92pp. Stiff wraps in original attached photographic dust jacket showing Hitler in Berchtesgaden with his residence Berghof in the background. Profusely illustrated with 100 b/w reproductions of photographs by Hitler's personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann 1885-1957. The photographs show Hitler mostly in private settings at the Berghof / Obersalzberg with Nazi officials workers admirers children traveling relaxing at a picnic giving autographs visiting Landsberg prison Karinhall as well as images of the exterior and interior of the Berghof. Between 1932 - 1941 Heinrich Hoffmann published several propaganda works such as this for the German public and for foreign countries to show how 'well liked' and 'popular' the Führer was in Germany at the time. Introduction by Wilhelm Brückner. From dj flap: "Professor Heinrich Hoffmann zeigt in diesem prächtigen Bildband den Führer wie ihn nur seine engsten Mitarbeiter sehen und erleben: abseits vom Alltag fern der lärmenden Welt in seiner ganzen reichen warmen Menschlichkeit und Güte. Stille Stunden mit Büchern zeigt dieses neue Werk einsame Spaziergänge in den bayerischen Bergen Stunden mit Klein und Groß allüberall in Deutschland vertraute Gespräche mit alten Kampfgefährten und im Zusammensein mit einzelnen Volksgenossen die nie rastende Hilfsbereitschaft des Führers.wieder bringt es eine Fülle schöner ergreifender Aufnahmen; wieder ist es von unschätzbarem dokumentarischen Wert." Very minor scuffing and creasing on DJ. Text and captions in German. Dust jacket in overall good wrappers and interior in very good condition. Zeitgeschichte unknown
1938Best.-Nr. 39779Berlin: Zeitgeschichte-Verlag 1938. First edition 1st print 1. bis 50. Tausend. Softcover. g to vg. Quarto. 6pp Text; 56pp Photographic plates. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over blind wrappers. First edition first print of this photo-book documenting the 29 days between Germany's annexation of Austria on March 12 1938 and the April 10 referendum crowning Hitler's achievement. The referendum question was: Do you agree with the reunification of Austria with the German Reich that was enacted on 13 March 1938 and do you vote for the list of our leader Adolf Hitler The result was reported as 99.73% in favor with a 99.71% turnout. The 73 striking b/w photographic reproductions depict Hitler during several speeches given throughout Germany and Austria and starting in Königsberg on March 26 in which he launched the referendum campaign. The Fuehrer is also seen addressing crowds in Leipzig Berlin Hamburg Köln Frankfurt am Main Stuttgart München Graz Klagenfurt Innsbruck Salzburg and Linz. His last address on the matter was held on April 9 at the Nordwestbahnhof in Vienna. The photographs were taken by Heinrich Hoffmann Hitler's personal photographer and they show the Fuhrer being greeted by and talking to large and enthusiastic crowds. Moderate rubbing along edges of wrappers. Text and captions in German. Wrappers in overall good interior in very good condition. Zeitgeschichte-Verlag unknown
1909Best.-Nr. 31997Berlin: NP 1909. Softcover. g to vg. Plans & drawings in various sizes all printed on light card stock some plans mounted. Seven of the ten are numbered. 5 plans/drawings annotated by Hoffmann 2 drawings signed by him 5 signed by Stadtbauinspektor / Magistrats-Baurat Tietze. Printed by "Gisaldruck v. Bogdan Gisevius Berlin." not numbered: 1 Large 46 1/2" x 59" Lageplan ground plan of the hospital also showing surrounding streets. Plan titled "Neubau des IV. Städt. Krankenhauses - Lageplan." Rudolf Virchow handwritten in blue crayon below title. Parts of folds as well as sporadic tears repaired with tape. Parts of edges chipped some closed tears along folds no missing pieces. 2 Drawing 13 3/4 x 16" showing the facade of the hospital mounted on 17 1/4 x 25" card stock. Signed by Ludwig Hoffmann with some of his annotations. 3 Drawing 16" x 21 1/2" of the "Operationshaus" mounted on 23 1/2" x 28 1/2" card stock. Signed by Hoffmann with his annotations. Numbered plans: # 4 - # 7 with original signature of Stadtbauinspektor Tietze dated 6. Januar 1909. Also with printed signature of the on-site architect Bietz Signatures accompanied with text: a "Revidiert und festgestellt: Berlin den 6. Januar 1909. Der Stadtbauinspektor: original signature "Tietze" Magistrats-Baurat. b "Die Richtigkeit und Uebereinstimmung mit der Ausführung bescheinigt: Berlin den 1sten Dezember 1908. Der Bauleitende printed signature of "Bietz" Architekt. 4 Blatt 1: 22" x 30" revised plan showing the foundation Revisionszeichnung Fundamente of the Doppeloperationshaus surgery building. With many handwritten annotations by the architect. Small number stamp on lower left margin. 5 Blatt 2: 26" x 30" revised plan showing the basement Revisionszeichnung Kellergeschoss of the Doppeloperationshaus. With architects handwritten annotations. Five-inch closed tear on upper left corner. 6 Blatt 3: 18" x 25" plan of the basement of the Doppel-Operationshaus. Lists rooms Raumbezeichnung and furniture Mobiliarbezeichnung. Small number stamp on lower left margin. 7 Blatt 4: 30" x 26 3/4" revised drawing of the ground floor of the Doppel-Operationshaus. Two-inch closed tear on right upper edge. 8 Blatt 5: 27" x 31" drawing of the attic Dachgeschoß of the Doppel-Operationshaus. Top left corner with closed tear almost detached. Bottom left corner creased. 9 Blatt 7: 25" x 26 3/4" drawing showing the facade Vorder-Ansicht cross- and longitudinal sections Quer- und Längsschnitt as well as details of the main cornice Hauptgesims and roof turret Dachreiter. 1/2" closed tear on bottom right corner. 10 Not numbered 16 1/4" x 22" drawing mounted on 28 1/4" x 23" card stock showing the facade longitudinal section main cornice and roof turret. Few annotations by architect. Two-inch closed tear on bottom edge. Unique collection of architectural plans & drawings by Berlin architect and Stadtbaurat Ludwig Ernst Emil Hoffmann. The architect attended the Kunstakademie in Kassel and the Bauakademie in Berlin where his teachers included Richard Lucae and Johann Heinrich Strack. After becoming a licensed government architect in 1884 he won a competition for the revised design of the Reichsgerichtgebäude in Leipzig. Hoffmann and Peter Dybwad worked on the monumental neo-classicist building from 1887-1895. A year later Hoffmann was elected city architect of Berlin being responsible for all types of public buildings in the city. Notable examples include the Märkisches Museum various public baths such as the Volksbadeanstalt Baerwaldstraße Berlin-Kreuzberg Volksbadeanstalt Dennewitsstraße Schöneberg Volksbadeanstalt Oderberger Straße Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg several bridges & fountains the Altes Stadthaus the Rudolf-Virchow-Krankenhaus and many others. On the initiative of Rudolf Virchow the fourth major city hospital was built between 1898 and 1906. Virchow was a German doctor anthropologist pathologist and politician known for his advancement of public health. He is considered as one of the founders of social medicine. The Virchow Krankenhaus was the last hospital that was built in the so-called "Pavillonstil." At the time the construction of the building cost 19 million Reichsmark. 57 separate buildings with 2000 beds were built on an area of 2906255 square feet. The staff buildings housed approx. 1000 employees doctors nurses and other personnel. Impeccable landscaping trees large green patches flower beds and benches gave the hospital grounds a park-like feel. Unique piece of Berlin architectural history by one of the most important German architects of the late 19th and early 20th century. NP unknown
1993Best.-Nr. 37680Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag 1993. First edition. Paperback. g to vg. Quarto. 214pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Striking study on the 1936 "Nazi Olympics" as deciphered through the images of Leni Riefenstahl's "Olympia." For two weeks in August 1936 Adolf Hitler's Nazi dictatorship camouflaged its racist militaristic character while hosting the Summer Olympics. Softpedaling its antisemitic agenda and plans for territorial expansion the regime exploited the Games to bedazzle many foreign spectators and journalists with an image of a peaceful tolerant Germany. Having rejected a proposed boycott of the 1936 Olympics the United States and other western democracies missed the opportunity to take a stand that - some observers at the time claimed - might have given Hitler pause and bolstered international resistance to Nazi tyranny. With the conclusion of the Games Germany's expansionist policies and the persecution of Jews and other "enemies of the state" accelerated culminating in World War II and the Holocaust. Leni Riefenstahl's "Olympia" was divided into two parts: Olympia Part I: Festival of the Nations and Part II: Festival of Beauty both released in 1938. The movies represent a tremendous aesthetic and technical cinematic achievement. Through a compilation of sporting images "Olympia" subtly underlined a tenet of all authoritarian regimes: that individuals must be turned into machines that act as required but do not think. At no point do the sportsmen and women in Olympia speak. After the war Riefenstahl - who hoped her films would continue to be shown - claimed that the Nazi government had no influence on "Olympia." This was untrue. The Nazi government commissioned and financed the films. Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels' diaries indicate that he was in contact with Riefenstahl about their progress though not always positively. "It is impossible to work with this wild woman" he wrote on one occasion. Wild though she may have been the films are utterly compliant. The fact that "Olympia" depicts such moments as the field hockey final in which India defeated Germany is sometimes mistaken by Riefenstahl's defenders as evidence of her editorial independence. It is the opposite. Riefenstahl's inclusion of the occasional German defeat fits squarely with Goebbels' instructions to the German press during the Games which were to create an impression of Nazi fairmindedness by reporting foreign as well as German victories. The Nazi obsession with race is constantly restated. "Two black runners against the strongest of the white race" muses "Olympia"'s commentator as he surveys the field for the men's 800m. On that occasion the black runners the US's John Woodruff and Canada's Phil Edwards took gold and bronze respectively. The most exhilarating section of the first "Olympia" film is the long-jump final in which black American athlete Jesse Owens faces the white German champion Luz Long. In the last of three jumps Long hits 7.87m: a new European record. The crowd is ecstatic as is Hitler himself who is shown applauding his champion. Then it is Owens's last jump. He composes himself. Sprints. Flies. Lands lightly in the sand. It's 8.06m a new Olympic record Owens already held the world record having jumped 8.13m in 1935. Tactfully Riefenstahl does not show Hitler's reaction to Owens's spectacular achievement. According to Albert Speer the Führer was "highly annoyed" but rationalised Owens's success within the terms of his pseudoscientific race theories. "People whose antecedents came from the jungle were primitive Hitler said with a shrug; their physiques were stronger than civilized whites." Moderate shelf wear along edges of wrappers. Text in German. Wrappers in overall good interior in very good condition. Aufbau-Verlag paperback
1942Best.-Nr. 34941München: Zentralverlag der NSDAP Franz Eher Nachf. GmbH 1942. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto. 702pp. Original gold-stamped orange cloth with Nazi eagle holding a swastika on front cover. Color frontispiece portrait of Hitler after a painting by Horn-Stauffer. Publisher's logo on title page. The Bavarian capital of Munich held a special place in the Nazi pantheon. It was the "Hauptstadt der Bewegung" - the Capital of the Movement - the birthplace of the Nazi Party. Throughout the Third Reich period Munich remained the spiritual capital of the Nazi movement with headquarters buildings museums to house the forms of artworks approved by Adolf Hitler and shrines to the attempted Nazi putsch in November 1923. These sites were used as the scenes of lavish annual memorial ceremonies and swearing-in ceremonies for new SS members. Illustrated with 20 photographic reproductions including 4 in full-color the buildings featured in this work are: - The "Brown House" the NSDAP's headquarters building in Munich. - The Königsplatz where in 1935 two "Honor Temples" were erected for the remains of the sixteen Nazis who died in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. - The "Führerbau" a major party office building. Hitler's office in the "Führerbau." - The two "Honor Temple" structures. - The "Verwaltungsbau der NSDAP" The Nazi party's administration building Very minor and sporadic staining on binding. Text in German. Binding in overall good to very good interior in very good condition. Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf., GmbH hardcover
1939Best.-Nr. 30844München: Amt fur Kommunalpolitik des Traditionsgaues Munchen-Oberbayern 1939. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Large quarto. 84pp. Original tan cloth with red lettering and illustration on front cover. Scarce propaganda book on the NSDAP community works in the district of Munich-Upper Bavaria profusely illustrated with numerous b/w and color photographic reproductions of nazis building bridges roads working in the fields etc. Minor age wear on binding with slight soiling on covers and lower corners bumped not affecting pages throughout. Previous owner's inscription on free front endpaper and dated 7.7.1940. Text in German gothic script. Binding in overall good interior in very good condition. Amt fur Kommunalpolitik des Traditionsgaues Munchen-Oberbayern hardcover
1939Best.-Nr. 24973München: Amt fur Kommunalpolitik des Traditionsgaues Munchen-Oberbayern 1939. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Small folio. 84pp. Original pictorial wrappers over cloth with red lettering and illustration on front cover. Scarce propaganda book on the NSDAP community works in the district of Munich-Upper Bavaria profusely illustrated with numerous b/w and color photographic reproductions of nazis building bridges roads working in the fields etc. Some chipping at head and tail of spine and along edges of wrappers. Dj slightly soiled. Minor age-toning along edges of binding. Endpapers slightly foxed. Text in German gothic script. Wrappers in overall fair to good binding in good to very good interior in near to fine condition. Amt fur Kommunalpolitik des Traditionsgaues Munchen-Oberbayern hardcover
1920Best.-Nr. 24429Leipzig: W. Drugulin 1920. Vorzugsausgabe. Limited numbered edition. Hardcover. vg. 1/120. Elephant folio. VIII 1032pp. & 13 unnumbered illustration pages. Gold-stamped full green calf with gold lettering on cover and spine in original dust wrapper and sturdy paper-covered green clamshell box. Gold-lined raised bands. All deckled edges. Inside of front and back board stamped with double gold borders. Binding designed by R. Hadl handcrafted by A. Köllner. Elaborate deluxe edition of Hoffmann's novel "Signor Formica". E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776-1822 was a German author composer draftsman caricaturist jurist and music critic. He was one of the major authors of the Romantic movement. Signor Formica was first published in 1820 and a year later was included in the forth volume of Hoffmann's work "Serapionsbrüder." His few literary works are stories in which supernatural and sinister characters appear in people's lives revealing grotesque and often tragic sides in human nature. This deluxe edition is illustrated with original artwork by the Hungarian sculptor and etcher Richard Hadl. The illustrations consist of one original signed full-page pencil drawing as well as 12 full-page- and 7 in-text drawings in aquatinta-manier. Additional signature of illustrator on limitation page. "Dieses Buch wurde im Jahre neunzehnhundert und zwanzig in der Offizin W. Drugulin in Leipzig gedruckt. Die Auflage beträgt einhundert und zwanzig numerierte Exemplare auf van Gelder-Zonen-Bütten. Nach Beendigung des Druckes wurden die Platten vernichtet. Dieses Exemplar ist Nr. XXXIV und wurde gedruckt für Freiherrn Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild. Durchgesehen: signed Richard Hadl." Printed on handmade van Gelder-Zonen paper. Foreword by Hadl. Text in German. This particular copy was printed exclusively for Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild 1899-1987 of the famous Rothschild lineage. Goldschmidt-Rothschild was also well-known for his extensive rare book collection. Slip with information on binding laid-in as issued. Very slight rubbing on head and tail of spine. Minor creasing on spine of dust wrapper. Slight scuffing on clamshell box tiny tear on top section on spine of box. 10mm offsetting from interior leather-lining on outer edges of front and rear free endpaper. Dust wrapper and clamshell box protected by modern mylar. Exceptional copy in a stunning binding. Fine condition. Scarce with dust wrapper. W. Drugulin hardcover
1923Best.-Nr. 13359Berlin: Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft 1923. First edition. Hardcover. g. 1/1000. 8vo. 150pp. Gilt decorated vellum spine over paper covered illustrated boards. Age wearing throughout binding. Corners bumped and worn. Some scuffing and minor abrasions to boards and spine. Fore page edge untrimmed. Illustrated title page. Hoffmann wrote this 3 act opera in 1799. Includes musical score. Text in German. Binding in fair interior in very good condition. Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft hardcover
Best.-Nr. 18655New York: Galerie Metropol ND. Softcover. vg. Sm. 4to. 164pp. Illustrated wrappers in original matching dust jacket. Slight creasing to parts of edges on wraps. Minor rubbing and few tiny closed tears on dj. Signed by previous owner on inside of front wrapper. Profusely illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs drawings and plans of the Sanatorium in Purkersdorf Austria. Text in English and German. Overall very good condition. The Sanatorium Purkersdorf was built in 1904-05 by the Austrian architect Josef Hoffmann 1870-1956. Hoffmann was a disciple of Otto Koloman Wagner 1841-1918 the founder and leader of modern architecture in Austria. It is an example of architecture from the "Wiener Sezession" Vienna Secession and paved the way for modern architecture. Galerie Metropol unknown
1914Best.-Nr. 2606300196Stuttgart Hoffmann 1914. Hardcover. Good. Volume 25. Folio derivative cloth graphic try color portfolio box. Green paint on flaps of portfolio box. Spray to spine head. 66 color plates. Catalog for European artists and craftsmen featuring Art Nouveau Jugendstil and Secessionist patterns heraldic motifs architectural details and decorative nature studies. Early signature on front cover. Stuttgart, Hoffmann hardcover
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Best.-Nr. 0854881972.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1984Best.-Nr. 1869318074Wendell Hoffman 1984. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Revised edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Wendell Hoffman hardcover
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