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1947ref. 72540Berlin: Lithographed by the Adjutant General OMGUS 1947. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth-backed boards. 32cm. Endsheets browned. No Jacket. This monthly report is accompanied by several separately titled and paginated reports German Governmental Organization and Civil Administration; Trade and Commerce; Reparations and Restitution; Public Welfare Bimonthly Welfare; Communications; Displaced Persons Stateless Oersons and Refugees; Statistical Annex; and Economic Data on Potsdam Germany. Lithographed by the Adjutant General OMGUS hardcover books
ref. 45183NP: NP. Hardcover. vg. Quarto 9 1/2 x 9 1/4". 53 leaves with tissue guards. Original three-quarter bolted brown and red cloth photo-album with gilt ruling on spine. Collection of ca. 300 original b/w photographs in variant sizes depicting architectural motives in Nuremberg Munich Stuttgart Berlin Potzdam Warsaw Odessa and France spanning the 1930s 1940s and 1950s. The photographs vary in sizes from 2 1/4 x 2 1/4" to 9 1/4 x 6 3/4" - the striking photographs are taken and captioned by Adolf Emilius. The collection contains three photographs with Adolf Hitler. One with Albert Speer and Franz Struff another with Hitler in the Nuremberg opera house in 1937 and one showing Hitler at the construction site of the Zeppelinwiese. Starting with a section depicting buildings in Nuremberg and Stuttgart the album shows the German Garden Show the VW factory the German Toy Fair 1953 various city institutions and businesses from the 1950s. Professional settings like the Settlement Exhibition in Munich Ramersdorf 1934 one and two family homes in Nuremberg and surrounding areas by architects Fritz Mayer and Hans Kern including details like entrance lighting and flower windows. Siemenshaus in Nuremberg a border police station in Vorarlberg the Catholic church in Bludenz City Hall Nuremberg the Cathedral and the Arc de Germanicus of Saints the opera house and the dome in Aachen. A section of photographs of Berlin show the Shell headquarters the sculpture of the group of runners at the Olympia Stadion the Ufa Palace in 1938 decorated for the main event Riefenstahl's Olympia film. There is the iron construction of the ship draw works at Niederfinnow the Arcs de Triomphe in Brandenburg and Munich the Berlin Dome and the Charlottenburg Castle the broadcasting center the Haus der Deutschen Kunst and the State Opera in Munich the Sanssoucie castle in Potsdam and the Brandenburg Gate. Contains a group of four sepia-toned photographs of wooden buildings designed by the architect Julius Schulte -Frohlinde for the Olympic Games 1936 in Berlin. Some of these buildings Rheinlandhalle Berliner und Hamburger Halle depicted here were transported to Nürnberg after the Olympic Games and reassembled on the Nazi Rally Grounds in the northeast part of the city called the KdF-Stadt Kraft durch Freude City. They were used by the organization to entertain the attendants of the NSDAP Rallies in 1937 and 1938. The center of this city was a bell tower also depicted here playing the key note of the KdF every thirty minutes: "Freut Euch des Lebesn Enjoy Life." The second half of the photo-album contains some 120 b/w photographs incl. few photographic postcards depicting exteriors and interiors of buildings associated with Nazi institutions or events e.g. three photographs of models including of the Haus der Kunst München the Soldier Hall and High Command of the Army Dresden design W. Kreis and the Advanced School of the NSDAP at the Chiemsee design Hermann Giesler. It includes photographs of the exhibition "Siedlungsausstellung" in Munich showing the sample settlement Ramersdorf the epitomization of the National Socialist settlement idea. In short order 192 single family homes were built in the Munich district of Ramersdorf under the direction of the architect Guido Harbers. However the propaganda effect the officials had hoped for didn't materialize and the homes were sold after the exhibition. In addition there are photographs of the interior of the Nuremberg Congress Hall design by Lauterbach 5 1/2 x 7 1/2" the old Kongreßhalle the Luitpold arena a plaster model of the Kongreßhalle 1937 one of them with Hitler Speer and the architect Ruff the side arcade of the stadium at the Zeppelin Field the entrance of the Palais of the Reich President design Speer the Gau-building in Nuremberg design Ruff the Reich Chancellery various interior and exterior views the office of the Führer a sculpture by Arno Breker the entrance to the Reich Chancellery a series of 12 photographs of showing the construction of the new Reich Chancellery in 1938 the construction of the Zeppelin Field one of them with Adolf Hitler 1936 the grandstand of the Zeppelin Lawn a fatigue duty muster a lighting rehearsal a demonstration of the Wehrmacht various government buildings in Breslau Minsk and Nuremberg 21 photographs showing the construction of the Zeppelin Lawn concluding with eight photographs 4 1/4 x 6 1/2" of the construction of the Zeis Factory in Jena. Text in German. Starting after the first leaf with the second leaf loose. Some creasing of tissue guards. Overall in very good condition. NP hardcover books
1949ref. 41912NP: Édition du Service Géographique des T. O. A. 1949. First edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Oblong folio 11 7/8 x 16 3/4". 50 ie 51 leaves. Original quarter purple cloth over gilt-stamped burgundy paper covered boards with gold lettering to front board.Photo-illustrated title page. Edited by the High Command of the French Army in Occupied Germany this work is a pictorial survey of the Red Army from 1941 the beginning of the German invasion to 1949. Includes photographs of the Soviet Military Commanders battle scenes during WWII the political organization weapons and material the satellite armed forces etc. Illustrated with no less than 231 photogravures and two b/w illustrations depicting the Order of Lenin and the Soviet Union's coat of arms this book was published as a supplement to "Notes sur l'Armée Russe" also published by the High Command of the French Army in 1949. Covers bowed with minor and sporadic soiling. Upper margin of front cover partly creased. Small abrasions to cloth at head of spine. Text and captions in French. Binding in overall good- interior in very good condition. Édition du Service Géographique des T. O. A. hardcover books
1904ref. 28007Berlin: Carl Heymanns Verlag 1904. First edition. Softcover. fair. Original printed wrappers with printer's device on front wrap and title page. IV 72pp. Rare work being a survey on the employment of assistants apprentices and unskilled workers in trading posts of commercial establishments not related to sales. This work compiles reports from the chambers of commerce business associations and trade unions as well as laborers given in 1903 and completing the 1901 survey. Some age-wear on wrappers with chipping and closed tears along edges of front cover. Back wrap missing. Unknown number of pages at rear missing. Text in German Gothic script. Front wrap in overall fair interior in good to very good condition. Carl Heymanns Verlag unknown books
1769ref. 52694Wien: Johann Thomas Edlen von Trattnern 1769. First Edition. Folio pp. xvi 282 lvi Illustrated with 27 engravings in the text & 3 folding engraved plates included in the pagination. One of the plates was misfolded and is consequently slightly frayed at the lower edge with an old paper repair at the foredge not affecting the print area. Woodcut and typographic ornaments and initials. Text in German black letter with glosses in Latin. Bound in contemporary calf spine gilt little rubbed and recently rebacked red edges. Woodblock printed end papers. Some toning to the text The binding is a little rubbed but still a very good crisp and clean copy. Laid in: MARIA THERESA; EMPRESS. Autograph Note Signed "Maria Theresia" on black rimmed mouring paper to paymaster Mayer in German concerning her son's pension requesting 500 ducats or sovereigns and in a postscript written at lower edge and vertically at upper edge adding that the letters would follow in the evening. 1 page 12mo mourning stationery; some staining affecting signature but still legible folds. Vienna circa 1776. Maria Theresa was the eldest daughter of emperor Charles I and of Elizabeth Christina of Brunswick. At the death of her father in 1740 she became the sole heiress of his dominions of the house of Austria. Upon her accesion to the throne the neighboring countries tried to capture parts of the empire which led to the Wars of Austrian Succession which finally concuded with the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748. This is the famous criminal code of Maria Theresa which used torture as a means of "eliciting truth." Her insticts were absolutist and she would allow nothing that limited state power even as she reformed the education system and worked to better the lives of her citizens. And she did not forbid torture. Torture was only to be used in capital and very serious criminal cases. Included in this volume are very graphic illustrattions of instruments of torture thumb-screws stocks racks burning candles leg vices winches the Viennese shoe! with detailed and precise instruction of their use. According to the Britannica this edition was suppressed by Prince Kaunitz chancellor of the state and an advisor to the Empress. Torture was formally abolished in the empire in 1776. Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg. Maria Theresa and her husband Francis I Holy Roman Emperor had sixteen children including Queen Marie Antoinette of France. Maria Theresa was the absolute sovereign . She promulgated financial and educational reforms promoted commerce and the development of agriculture and reorganised Austria's ramshackle military all of which strengthened Austria's international standing. Johann Thomas Edlen von Trattnern unknown books
1919ref. 49707Paris. 1919. Official French printing of the Treaty of Versailles a document of monumental importance in American and world history. The treaty made with Germany at the end of the First World War concluded a war of unrivalled devastation while sowing the seeds for the Second World War just twenty years on the horizon. The United States guided by Woodrow Wilson's vision played a central role in the crafting of the treaty. The U.S. Senate refused to ratify the treaty however based on the objection of several senators to the Covenant of the League of Nations which was included as Part I of the settlement thereby largely removing American influence and involvement from the international scene in the inter-war period. The Treaty of Versailles was a wide-ranging and ambitious document which sought not only to address the immediate postwar settlement but to punish Germany for its actions in starting and prosecuting the war attempted to remake the map of Europe and created a supra-national political organization the League of Nations. The Covenant of the League of Nations comprises the first part of the treaty. The next most famous part is that dealing with reparations which includes Article 231 the infamous "war guilt clause." By this article Germany accepted the responsibility of her and her allies "for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies." The intent of the article was to affix legal and financial responsibility on Germany but it took on moral implications and was used by Hitler during his rise as an example of Allied perniciousness. Germany had to agree to pay reparations to the allies in the sum of 20000000000 gold marks the amount to be modified by a reparations commission in 1921. Germany also had to recognize the independence of Austria and agree not to compromise that independence in the future. Germany's borders were redrawn with Alsace-Lorraine being given to France West Prussia to Poland and other lands such as Danzig and the Saar Basin stripped away. She lost her overseas possessions the Rhineland was occupied and the German army was limited to one hundred thousand men and largely disarmed. Other provisions address issues of tariffs ports labor aerial navigation prisoners of war and more. As has been noted the many punitive measures of the Treaty of Versailles did much to fan the seeds of discontent in post-war Germany and to facilitate the rise of Hitler who publicly flaunted the provisions of the treaty throughout the 1930s. The refusal of the United States to ratify the treaty and participate in the League of Nations was a crucial part in the chain of events that led to the Second World War. A most important document here in an official French printing with the Protocol as a separate signature at the end. Folio. Original printed wrappers. Minor edge wear small nick on front cover. Very good. Untrimmed and unopened. In a cardboard chemise and slipcase. unknown books
ref. 18743HARRIS GERMANY Lisa. HARWELL HAMILTON HARRIS. Austin: 1991. 4to. Cloth dust jacket. xx 252 pages 24 plates. First edition. Upon visiting Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House in Los Angeles Harris was inspired to become an architect and merge with it his love of sculpture. Harris a young sculptor sought to create buildings as functional monumental sculture that moved into and out of nature. His life and work are insightfully chronocled by Lisa Germany in this monograph of a highly innovative American modernist architect. unknown books
1971ref. M13245Munich:: J.F. Lehmanns Verlag 1971. 1971. 8vo. 299 pp. Figs; some foxing. English text only. Printed wrappers. Ownership signature of Robert R. Sonnenschein. Very good. J.F. Lehmanns Verlag, 1971. unknown books
1982ref. 345256Stuttgart: Marxistisch–Leninistische Partei Deutschlands 1982. 31p. staplebound booklet 4.25x5.75 inches very good but for old price label on rear cover. Issued in the year of the Party's founding. Not found in OCLC as of March 2026. Marxistisch–Leninistische Partei Deutschlands unknown books
1982ref. 345295Stuttgart: Marxistisch–Leninistische Partei Deutschlands 1982. 11p. staplebound booklet 4.25x5.75 inches very good but for old price label on rear cover. Issued in the year of the Party's founding. Not found in OCLC as of March 2026. Marxistisch–Leninistische Partei Deutschlands unknown books
1940ref. 201029Berlin/New York: German Foreign Office 1940. Softcover. Good Wraps are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged with tape reinforcement at the upper spine; textblock edges are scuffed/smudged; inner hinge is cracked a bit. Off-white wraps with black lettering 2 preliminary leaves vii-clvi 549 pp including plates portraits maps. "The American edition of Documents on the events preceding the outbreak of the war is a faithful rendition of the German original with minor additions. These additions to the present volume are summaries of official German replies to the British war blue book the French yellow book and so forth. These will be found in the Supplement."--Page li. German Foreign Office paperback books
1924ref. 191502Paris: J. Schemit 1924. Hardcover. G boards show light shelfwear;all plates are present and in clean condition; plate #235 appears to be misnumbered; there is some light foxing. One volume from a two-volume set red boards with black lettering red cloth spines with black lettering. This volume has three red ribbon tie closures. Volume 2 viii text booklet followed by bw plates ccvii-ccccxv. Rear of volume 2 has a xxiv page booklet. Text is in French. Second volume Ferronnerie Ancienne 208 plates containing 2300 documents. Second volume has a table of content booklet in the rear listing all the plates for both volumes. Old publisher stock never privately owned. J. Schemit hardcover books
2008ref. 191817New York: Abrams 2008. Hardcover. VG light shelf-wear to boards; light rubbing to corners. spine ends bumped. dustjacket has edge-wear rubbing to corners & spine ends. blue boards w/ white printing. illustrated pastedowns & endpapers. 256 pgs w/ color illustrations. pictorial dustjacket w/ white printing. Wonderfully illustrated. "Dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day and scattered across the state from the East Texas town of Jefferson to El Paso from the cosmopolitan cities of Houston and Dallas to the grasslands of South Texas many of these houses are marked by their response to the Texas landscape."--WorldCat. Abrams hardcover books
1962ref. 192089Washington: The Gallery 1962. Softcover. Very Good. White wraps with color illustration. 23 pages : illustrations some color. Original woodcut laid into front of boof artists unknown. The Gallery paperback books
1980ref. 182535Stuttgart: Die Galerie 1980. Softcover. VG/G slight soiling on covers back cover rubbed ex-museum stamp and label. Illustrated cream card wrap. 41 pages : chiefly illustrations. Text in German. 3. bis 31. Juli und 1. bis 13. September 1980 im Skulpturengarten der Galerie Valentien Stuttgart : die Ausstellung steht unter der Schirmherrschaft des Institut français in Stuttgart. Die Galerie paperback books
1992ref. 176959Sigmaringen: J. Thorbecke 1992. Hardcover. VG/VG light shelfwear to boards and corners bumped. Red cloth boards with black lettering on front cover and spine black dust jacket with color illustrations white and gold lettering mylar cover xxx 503 pages profusely illustrated in bw and color. Text in German. "Ausstellung im Historischen Museum der Pfalz . vom 23. März bis 21. Juni 1992"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references. J. Thorbecke hardcover books
1990ref. 167311990. Softcover. VG small label on fron lower right cover. White wraps. 82 pp. Numerous bw plates. Text is in German. Primarily pictures and writings by German neo-expressionist A. R. Penck 1939-2017. with accompanying catalogue list. paperback books
ref. 26074Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. Hardcover. VG: Some small ink checkmarks and names in the list of paintings. Majority clean body pages and solid binding. Blue ill. boards. 411 pp. Profuse bw and color plates. Edited by Ingrid Mossinger Beate Ritter and Kerstin Drechsel. Comprised of as many of the women as possible painted by Picasso. Includes annotations of Picasso's favorite models. Contributions by many authors. Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz hardcover books
1990ref. 30231Dusseldorf: C.G. Boerner 1990. Softcover. VG ex-library copy with sticker and withdrawal stamp. Yellow ill. wraps. 67 pp. Profuse bw and color plates. Text in German. Explores the early work of Walter Gramatte. C.G. Boerner paperback books
1980ref. 317431980. Hardcover. VG light scuffing to cover ink mark on half title page. Blue cloth gilt lettering. 63 pp. 26 bw plates. Text in German. hardcover books
2003ref. 328802003. Softcover. VG. Glossy photographic wraps with white and red lettering. 122 pp. Profuse color plates. Text in German. Includes bibliographical references. paperback books
1974ref. 328061974. Softcover. G-: wear bumping and chipping to edges. corners curling. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Black ill. wraps. 143 pp. Numerous bw and color ills. Text in German. paperback books
2001ref. 331282001. Hardcover. VG- light scuffing to boards. Color-illustrated boards with white and yellow lettering. 160 pp. 109 color plates. Text in German. Catalogue of an exhibition from December 1 2001 to April 7 2002. hardcover books
1981ref. 22428.11981. Softcover. G: Wear to the edges and corners. Creases to the spine. The top two inches of the spine are lifted. The very top of the binding is loose but the remainder of the bindings remain in place and the pages stay solid together. Color wraps. 317 pp. 131 bw & color plates. Text in German Dutch and English. Lots of nice illustrations. paperback books
1988ref. 16084Stuttgart: Der Kunstverein 1988. Softcover. Good thin outer red wrap has tears and minor loss at extremities. Bright red wraps. 224 pp. 36 color numerous bw plates. Text is in German. A large format publication. Large crisp plates on glossy paper. Der Kunstverein paperback books
