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1994ref. 42969New York: Philomel Books 1994. First printing. Near fine in near fine jacket. First edition of this beautifully illustrated book about the childhood of Sitting Bull. 11'' x 8.5''. Original glossy pictorial boards. Original unclipped $15.95 color pictorial dust jacket. Dark green endpapers. Illustrated in color. 16 leaves. Gentle bump to foot of spine. Sharp and bright. Philomel Books unknown books
1848ref. Cat360New York: Atwill 201 Broadway 1848. Folio. Complete at 9 pages. Two songs with lithographic portrait of Lola Montez by Sarony & Major. Soft rag paper. Light foxing else very good. A likely very early American printing of two pieces tied directly to the upheavals of 1848 issued just as news and personalities of the European revolutions were electrifying American audiences. The first “Der Lieben Warnun” Love’s Warning is attributed to Ludwig I King of Bavaria whose abdication in March 1848 followed the political scandal surrounding his relationship with Lola Montez. The second “Les Girondins: Mourir pour la Patrie” with text by Alexandre Dumas and music by Alphonse Varney is one of the most popular revolutionary hymns of the period here presented in English and French. At center is the finely printed lithographic portrait of Lola Montez born Eliza Rosanna Gilbert 1821–1861 identified as “Countess of Landsfeld.” Produced by Sarony & Major the image reflects her brief but consequential position in Bavaria where Ludwig elevated her to the nobility and granted her influence at court. Her presence became politically explosive; student unrest and ministerial crisis forced both her exile and the King’s abdication making her a widely discussed celebrity at the time. Montez arrived in the United States in late 1848 quickly converting this notoriety into a touring career. She performed her “Spanish dances” including the sensational “Spider Dance” on stages from New York to New Orleans and later turned to lecturing advertising appearances on “Heroines of History” beauty and personal independence. During the early 1850s she followed the western circuit appearing in San Francisco during the Gold Rush where she commanded high fees and played to packed houses of miners and merchants. She toured through Australia in 1855–56 before returning to the United States where she settled in New York and shifted increasingly toward writing and reform-minded lectures before her death in 1861 possibly of syphilis. The piece was published by Joseph Atwill at his 201 Broadway location which he would abandon soon after to board the steamer Crescent City to Chagres eventually making his way to San Francisco and opening Atwill’s Music Store on Washington St. possibly San Francisco’s first music store before heading off to the mines and then returning to San Francisco a year later to open another music store. OCLC #904564957 locating a single copy at Goucher College. Atwill, 201 Broadway unknown books
1623ref. 5340Ingolstadii: Ex officina typographica G. Haenlini 1623. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to 27 x 17.5 cm. 17 ff. 388 pp. recte 386 7 ff. with misnumbered pages at pp. 203-06 243-46 and 260-71 1 full-page engraving 20 x 15.5 the platemark. Bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin raised bands boards beveled somewhat scuffed clasps missing. Blue edges small hole repaired on half title and engraving ownership inscription of Andechs Abbey on title page minor browning in some quires. An excellent and unsophisticated copy. First edition of a rare volume of prose and verse glorifying the military exploits of the Prince-Elector Kurfürst of Bavaria Maximilian I 1572-1651 by members of the University of Ingolstadt as compiled by the Jesuit philosopher-theologian Georg Stengel 1584-1651. The Gloria Bellica is an important witness to the intertwining of princely power university politics and religious sectarianism at the onset of the Thirty Years War 1618-48. Published in the year of Maximilian's elevation to Prince-Elector 1623 the book seems to have been an attempt by faculty at Ingolstadt to secure his favor. The increasingly Jesuitical university would be frequently imperiled during the flux of the war and quickly identified Maximilian himself educated by Jesuits as an important military protector. Maximilian's central role in the German Catholic League had been essential in checking the power of the Protestant Union. The volume is especially notable for its full-page prefatory engraving executed by the Augsburg artist Daniel Manasser a highly detailed and elaborate allegory charting Maximilian's martial rise and the praise conferred on him from various secular and sacred sources. Merchants clerics Liberal Arts herself and a throng of lesser citizens crowd together to salute Maximilian as he rides upward on the back of Pegasus toward the Olympian gods reclining in the empyrean; the demigod Hercules mediates between heaven and earth while battling Nessus and the Lernaean Hydra. Flanking Maximilian's ascent are 8 groups from whom he receives "Gloria": his enemies his commanders and soldiers muses and scientists hometown Bavaria the Catholic League the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I the pope and church and indeed Mary Christ and the saints. The text of the Gloria Bellica is arranged as a fuller version of this scheme with 20 chapters each detailing a source Maximilian's glory. OCLC identifies U.S. copies at Harvard Trinity CT Georgetown and Chicago. VD 17 23:231047E; De Backer/S. and VII 1550 32; Lentner 3774; Pfister I 4297; Mario Praz Studies in Seventeenth-Century Imagery Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura 1975 pp. 503-04. Ex officina typographica G. Haenlini hardcover books
1518ref. 709141518. 3 titles: Munich 1518 & 1520; Landshut 1530. 3 titles: Munich 1518 & 1520; Landshut 1530. Three Sixteenth-Century Compilations of Bavarian Law Bavaria. Wilhelm IV 1493-1550 Duke of Bavaria. Ludwig X 1495-1545 Duke of Bavaria. Reformacion der Bairischen Lanndrecht: Nach Cristj Unsers Hailmachers Geburde Imm Funftzehenhundert unnd Achtzehendm Jar Aufgericht. Munich: Hans Schobsser 1518. xxxvi 168 1 ff. Final leaf is a blank. Two-page woodcut table of descent. Bound with Bavaria. Wilhelm IV Duke of Bavaria. Das Buch der Gemeinen Lanndpot. Landsordnung. Satzung und Gebreuch/ des Furstennthombs in Oberen und Nidern Bairn im Funftzehenhundert unnd Sechtzehendem Jar Aufgericht. Landshut: Johann Wei enburger 1530. xii 67 i.e. 69 ff. And Bavaria. Wilhelm IV Duke of Bavaria. Gerichtzordnung Im Fuerstnthumb Obern und Nidern Bairn Anno 1520 Aufgericht. Munich: Hans Schobser 1520. xvi 87 ff. Fol. 87 is a high-quality bound-in facsimile. Three titles in one volume. Folio 11-1/2" x 7-3/4". Later calf raised bands blind-stamped ornaments and lettering piece to spine blind tooling to board edges text block has speckled edges. Light rubbing and some minor nicks and scuffs to boards moderate rubbing to extremities some chipping to head of spine front joint just starting at foot corners bumped and somewhat worn partial crack between text block and rear free endpaper. All three works printed in red and black with large woodcut vignettes by Caspar Clofigl to title pages Reformacion and Buch der Gemeinen Lanndpot feature identical image of the Dukes of Bavaria Wilhelm and Ludwig. Light toning somewhat heavier in places occasional faint dampstaining to margins touching text in a few places light foxing to a few leaves light soiling to title pages title page of Reformacion partially detached that of Gerichtzordnung trimmed closely along fore-edge just touching text. $2500. Reformacion Gerichtzordnung: first edition; Buch der Gemeinen Lanndpot: reissue of the first edition. This book collects three important compilations of German statutes. Enacted in 1518 the Bavarian Reformacion revised the Bavarian civil and criminal law code of 1346. It is notable in part because it incorporated input solicited by the Dukes of Bavaria from representati. unknown books
1535ref. 844231535. Munich: Andreas Schobser 1535. Munich: Andreas Schobser 1535. A Rare 1535 Printing of the Bavarian Code Featuring a Landmark Title Woodcut Bavaria. Wilhelm IV 1493-1550 Duke of Bavaria. Ludwig X 1495-1545 Duke of Bavaria. Gerichtzordung im Fuerstnthumb Obern und Nidern Bairn Anno 1520 Aufgericht. Munich: Andreas Schobser 1535. Folio 11-3/4" x 8"; 29.8 x 20.3 cm. 16 87 ff. lacking first and final blanks. Title-page printed in red and black with a large woodcut 19 x 18.5 cm by Caspar Clofigl. Late nineteenth or early twentieth-century vellum-backed textured paper boards manuscript spine title. Light rubbing and minor scratching to boards; front joint cracked but holding. Endpapers renewed c. 1880 with several contemporary and later bookseller notations. Title-page trimmed closely at margins; light toning and occasional marginal foxing; small faint dampstain to center of first four leaves. A very good wide-margined copy of a rare legal monument. $4000. A significant early reprint of the 1520 reformed Bavarian Ordnung. Enacted in 1518 to modernize the antiquated code of 1346 this reform was a milestone in German jurisprudence for its move toward "vernacular law." By publishing the code in German rather than Latin the Dukes made the statutes accessible to the burgeoning merchant class and local administrators. The striking title-page woodcut by Caspar Clofigl court painter to Wilhelm IV serves as a visual manifesto of the law's reach. It depicts Dukes Wilhelm and Ludwig presiding over a table holding the new code flanked by a representative assembly of the various social estates-clerical noble and burgher. The imagery reinforces the collaborative nature of the 1518 reform which solicited input from across the Bavarian classes. Exceptionally rare outside of German institutional holdings. USTC locates only 9 copies all in Germany. We locate no copies in North American institutions via OCLC or KVK. Hollstein V:195; VD16 B-990; USTC 659601. unknown books
1553ref. 844191553. 2 works in 1 volume. Ingolstadt & Munich 1553. 2 works in 1 volume. Ingolstadt & Munich 1553. Edition of an Important Bavarian Code Also the First German Book with Realistic Life-Size Images of Fish This Copy from the Library of a Distinguished Book Binder and Leather Artisan Albrecht V 1528-1579 Duke of Bavaria. Bairische Lanndt ordnung 1553. Ingolstadt: Andreas Wei enhorn 1553. ix 197 i.e. 199 20 ff. 4 woodcut tables 3 folding. Complete. Bound with Albrecht V 1528-1579 Duke of Bavaria. Erclarung der Landsfreihait in Obern unnd Nidern Bairn Widerumb Verneut Im Funfftzehenhundert Dreiundfunfftzigistem Jar. 1553. Munich: Andreas Schobser 1553. viii 29 ff. Folio 11-1/2" x 8"; 29.2 x 20.3 cm. Contemporary paneled pigskin over wooden boards with beveled edges featuring images of saints and church fathers raised bands and fragment of later hand-lettered spine label early repair to rear joint clasps lacking hinges recently mended. Moderate rubbing and some light scratches to boards spine ends lightly bumped some wear to corners minor crack to front board along grain section of front pastedown lacking rear hinge starting crack in text block between title page of Bairische Lanndt ordnung and following leaf. Pictorial title pages printed in red and black texts also in red and black. Moderate toning negligible light foxing and dampstaining to edges in places slightly heavier dampstaining to final 20 leaves of text block title pages trimmed with very minor loss to foot of Erclarung struck-through presentation inscription dated 1610 to title page of Baiarische Lanndt ordnung bookplate of Georg Ernst Friedrich Hulbe to front pastedown. $7500. THIS DESCRIPTION IS TRUNCATED DUE TO CHARACTER LIMITS. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A COMPLETE VERSION. Only editions. Commissioned by Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria after he succeeded his father in 1550 the 1553 statute book revised expanded and re-organized the Landrecht which was last revised in 1520. Rich in sociological and historical data this work is divided into six books. The first gives an outline of the legal system the second addresses public administration the third discusses commercial topics including sections on moneylending and interest the fourth discusses public institutions schools and pharmacies and public obligations such as taxes and fire prev. unknown books
