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2003ref. 322822003. Softcover. VG. Pictorial wraps. 400 pp. Profuse bw and color plates. Text in German. Substantial survey of the artist's life and work. paperback books
1905ref. 228179Dusseldorf: gedruckt Bei August Bagel 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Hardcover First Edition in brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering and decoration. No dust jacket. Back board has large area which has color loss to the material. Internally binding is sound but back hinge has broken through. although still attached to the text block. Pages are clean unmarked and complete. Also has three maps in the rear pocket. German text. Large oversize item will require additional postage. Professional packaging and prompt shipping. RBR Dusseldorf: gedruckt Bei August Bagel hardcover books
1943ref. 115437New York: German American 1943. Pamphlet. 29p. wraps and paper browned minor staining of the front wrap stamp of the "German American Emergency Conference Section San Francisco" on the front wrap. Text in English and German. German American unknown books
1866ref. 256892Leipzig: Otto Wigand 1866. paperback. good. Vom Verfasser der Schrift "Adhuc stat." 147 pages. 12mo yellow printed wrappers; page margins uncut wrappers chipped and somewhat soiled last 3 pages and back wrappers are creased in upper right corner margins. Leipzig: Otto Wigand 1866. Otto Wigand unknown books
1815ref. 256923Rostock: Adlers Erben 1815. pamphlet. very good. 14 pages. Slim 12mo 19th century plain green wrappers. Rostock: Adlers Erben 1815. Very good Adlers Erben unknown books
ref. 252956Kiel: Besten der Armen. pamphlet. very good. 10 pages. Slim 12mo bound in 19th century marbled wrappers. Kiel: gedruckt zum Besten der Armen n.d. circa 1785. Very good Besten der Armen unknown books
1908ref. 253637Frankfurt am Main: Fa. Mahlau & Waldschmidt 1908. pamphlet. good. No. 281. Dienstag den 18. August 1908. Quartal-Versammlung im Lokale der Bundesloge Zur Einigkeit. Pages 845-855. 8vo self-wrappers spine worn small tear in right margin of most pages several pages lacking bottom right corner margin first and last pages lightly soiled. Frankfurt am Main: Fa. Mahlau & Waldschmidt 1908. Fa. Mahlau & Waldschmidt unknown books
ref. 94001hardcover. very good. 90 color illustrations. 4to gray cloth slightly dust-soiled. Frankfurt: Umschau 1967. A very good copy lacking the dust wrapper unknown books
1769ref. 57355Wien: 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. Some foxed and toned lacks the front flyleaf. Bound in very rubbed contemporary calf still a very good tight copy. 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. 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 only is 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
1938ref. 55805Berlin: Herausgegeben Vom Wilhelm Limpert 1938. Calendar cloth binding at top with tear-off pages for each week. In German. Illustrated with pictures of children. Cover page detached o/w VG. Herausgegeben Vom Wilhelm Limpert unknown books
1919ref. 203190Berlin: Zentralrat 1919. First edition. Cloth. Pages somewhat toned; few pencil notations and marginalia; short closed tear to title page; exlibris stamp from former East German library on verso of title; extremities of covers rubbed; library label removed from base of spine still very good. 4to 277pp; contemporary buckram. Original documentation from this dark moment in the history of modern Germany the weeks of counter-revolution in Berlin that followed the murders of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg in January 1919. The councils that had been established by the 1918 revolution in the wake of Germany's disastrous defeat in the First World War were being swept aside by their own leadership. The rather hapless head of state Friedrich Ebert had allied himself with the armed forces and ominously with the reactionary Freikorps militia bands commanded by Gustav Noske. It was a peculiar alliance that shortly solidified Ebert's power and set the stage for the creation of the Weimar Republic even while simultaneously sowing the seeds of violent extremism that would emerge fully fledged in the National Socialist movement some years later. Along with a variety of nuts-and-bolts issues of procedure recorded in these stenographic minutes are speeches and debates surrounding the bloody massacres of revolutionaries spearheaded by Noske. An important record of a fascinating if murky episode in modern German history. Zentralrat unknown books
1922ref. 3171922. Woodcut #7 from the suite: The Metamorphosis of God Die Wardlungen Gottes. Edition of 110. Schult 171. Signed in pencil. Image: 10¼ x 14¼. Margins: 17 x 13. Die Wandlungen Gotes: Sieben Holzschnitte . Artworks within this Set The cathedrals The divine beggar Dance of death 2 The god "Paunch" The rocks The seventh day The first day books
1895ref. 2672Washington DC: April 2 1895. Good. 4pp. on a single folded sheet with two small photographs tipped in. In German. Quarto. Old folds some separation along central horizontal fold small chip to first leaf minor soiling. One photograph chipped. A sad document detailing the plight of a mother and son who perished in the sinking of the German transatlantic ocean liner Elbe on January 30 1895. The document seeks to detail exactly the times of death of the mother and son in order to determine whether the heirs of the mother or son have title to the property belonging to the family. Translated into English a portion of the opening reads: "She left some property here in Germany. If her son survived her if by a minute he inherited that property and it now belongs to his heirs; but if death overtook him before his mother the property never belonged to him or now to his heirs but to other people. The matter is now before the court." The Elbe collided with a Scottish ship called the Crathie in the North Sea on January 30 1895 while on the way from Bremen to New York City; the Elbe was a very popular ship amongst immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe looking to make their way to the United States. The two victims detailed in the present document were a German-American immigrant mother and son who had previously settled in Indianapolis and then moved to Washington D.C. Sophie and Eugene Rhodes. At the time of their deaths Eugene was a student at Heidelberg University in Germany. The present document opens with a typed notice from the counsel to the family detailing their presence on the Elbe and asking for details of their deaths. This is followed by photographs of both Sophie and Eugene tipped to the second page then two pages of questions attempting to locate the missing travelers. Brief answers to the questions were supplied in ink by Ernst Linkmeyer assistant engineer on the Elbe and one of only twenty survivors of the wreck. The survivors of the wreck of the Elbe included just four passengers and sixteen crew members who crowded onto the only rescue boat that survived the collision. The death toll of the wreck of the Elbe totaled 334 including Sophie and Eugene Rhodes. April 2 unknown books
1929ref. 26219Berlin: M. Poppelauer 1929. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. 171pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Photographic b/w frontispiece of a sculpture of Mendelssohn by Jacob Plessner. Memorial book on Moses Mendelssohn with contributions by J. Bergmann S. Bernfeld J. Elbogen Max Freudenthal Leopold Hirschberg A. Lekowitz Paul Michaelis Franz Muncker Hans Reissner Franz Rosenzweig. Text in German. Minor age wear on binding. Tail of spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Small white stain on spine. Overall very good condition. M. Poppelauer hardcover books
ref. 103158Germany. "Geographia" Popular Series of Reference Maps: Germany. London: "Geographia" Ltd ND. Small 8vo original red paper wrapper paper label for title on front wrapper large colored folding map 25" x 19". Wrappers were probably generic and attached to the map that was needed which is why the used a paper label for title. Wrapper has some significant wear at extremities especially the spine area but still in tact; one small split at fold but map is bright and clean and in very good plus condition. There is no date on this map but it is likely from the 1920s. A very attractive tourist map that has considerable detail and includes an inset showing population density in Germany. books
1981ref. 277623Montreal: G. Hall 1981. Pamphlet. 43p. stapled wraps 8.5x12 inches wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Slip stating that this is the revised reprint edition laid in. Campaign Against the Model West Germany no. 7. G. Hall unknown books
1944ref. 74147New York: The New International 1944. pp. 330-352 staplebound 9x12 inch pamphlet issued as a supplement to The New International. Lightly toned corners creased else very good condition. The New International unknown books
1942ref. 49157New York: Workers Library Publishers 1942. Pamphlet. 15p wraps paper browned minor chipping on one corner else good condition 5x7.5 inches. Foreword for an American audience by Max Bedacht and Alfred Wagenknecht. Workers Library Publishers unknown books
2001ref. 24529NY: Harcourt. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0151005567 . Black and white photographs. Translated from the German by Ewald Osers and Alexandra Dring. First American printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Harcourt hardcover books
1817ref. ST18762Halle and Berlin: Hallisches Waisenhaus 1817. 275 x 215 mm. 10 3/4 x 8 3/8". 210 leaves 18 pp. 4 leaves. REMARKABLY FINE CONTEMPORARY MARBLED CALF covers with complex gilt border composed of plain rules and decorative rolls smooth spine divided into compartments by gilt Greek key rolls top and bottom compartments with all-over gilt scallop design long central panel of black morocco with elaborate gilt vase and floral ornament surrounded by small gilt stars and with red morocco titling label above; FULL SPECKLED CALF DOUBLURES the front doublure with a painted lyre featuring gilt strings sword and wreath the rear with a monopteros with an eternal flame at the center upon a plinth superimposed upon which is an onlaid black morocco label framed in gilt and with gilt lettering "18. Oct. 1813" both doublures framed with red morocco supporting an elegant scrolling gilt band densely gilt turn-ins blue silk moiré endleaves all edges gilt an expert two-centimeter repair at head of spine. With frontispiece 21 portraits and 11 maps three folding one with flap all but one with inserted tissue guard. ◆Joints with slight flaking a hint of wear along tail edges as expected bottom spine compartment faintly rubbed with minor loss of gilt a little oxidation to the wreath on front doublure but A VERY HANDSOME BINDING with only minor condition issues. Light overall browning to plates because of paper content but virtually no foxing and only very occasional some quite faint spotting; THE TEXT itself IN NEARLY PRISTINE CONDITION extraordinarily clean bright and fresh with just one or two negligible imperfections. In a wonderful binding with unusual doublures this work commemorates the so-called "Wars of Liberation" that effectively ended French hegemony over Europe and that forced Napoleon into exile. Also known as the War of the Sixth Coalition the conflict took place between 1813-14 following Napoleon's retreat from Russia in 1812. Though the major battles primarily took place in German territory rulers of Russia Prussia Austria Spain Portugal the United Kingdom Sweden and many German States all banded together to oppose France. In March of 1814 the allies entered Paris prompting the French Senate to depose Napoleon and install Louis XVIII as the French sovereign. Although Napoleon would briefly return from his exile on Elba to stage a comeback in 1815 it was short lived and ended in his final defeat. The majority of the text here discusses the events of 1813 and 1814 during the height of the conflict and includes portraits of the major players and maps helping to illustrate the most important battles. This work is beautifully printed on thick white paper and is clearly meant to act as both a chronological record of the events and a memorial to those who liberated the German states from a tyrannical power. The lovely marbled calf binding opens to reveal two exceptional doublures painted in the manner of an antique vase with a lyre wreath and sheathed sword on the front doublure and on the rear a monopteros this latter circular colonnade with an eternal flame bearing a small morocco onlay emblazoned with the date 18 October 1813. This refers to the Battle of Leipzig also called the Battle of Nations fought from 16-19 October--by many accounts the single largest and bloodiest battle of the entire Napoleonic Era. It marked a decisive turning point in the Wars of Liberation and was an obvious source of pride for the German people. Given the momentous nature of the book's content the present grand and beautifully designed binding serves as a suitably striking vehicle of presentation. Hallisches Waisenhaus unknown books
1919ref. 340Woodcut. 1919-1920. From the suite of 4 prints title M.E.Z. Signed dated and titled in red ink lower right. Grohn 28c Sprengel Museum 28c. Woodcut printed in silver on black paper. A small ed. of unknown size. 15 7/8 x 19 ¼ with full one inch margins all around. books
ref. B197456-1Bonn Edition Cantz 1993. 167 1pp. Prof. illus. Lrg. 4to. Wraps. Bonn (Edition Cantz), 1993. paperback books
ref. B39116-2Stuttgart Edition Cantz 1993. 471pp. Most prof. illus. Sq. stout 4to. Cloth. Stuttgart (Edition Cantz), [1993]. hardcover books
1978ref. 100519NY:: St. Martin's. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. 0312197640 . First American edition. Some light foxing on top edge else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ; 184 pages . St. Martin's, hardcover books
ref. B125639-4Stuttgart Edition Cantz 1993. 3 volumes: I: Katalog der Ausstellung. 195pp. Texts by S. Pagé W. Jacob B. Springfeldt K. König. II: Essays. By Benjamin H.D. Buchloh. 106 pp. III: Werkübersicht/ Catalogue raisonné 1962-1993. 234pp. Most prof. illus. Lrg. 4to. Wraps. Slipcase. Parallel texts in German French and English. Also shown at the Musée dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris; the Moderna Museet Stockholm; and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid. Stuttgart (Edition Cantz), 1993. paperback books
