Berlin: Friedrich Dümmler, 1842. Hardcover. 8vo. x. 397 (1)pp. 1/2 brown leather over marbled boards. Marbled page edges. Printed on high quality cotton rag. Enchanting work on logic. Written by renowned German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke (see below). The Encyclopedia Britannica summarizes Beneke's system as follows: "The distinctive peculiarity of..... More
New York: Burt Franklin, 1963. Later printing. Hardcover. 3 vols. (complete). Octavo. XV, 216pp (vol.1), XI, 374pp (vol.2); 193pp (vol.3). Original blue navy cloth with silver lettering and decoration on spines. Reprint of a fascinating survey of the Spanish reformation. Damp-staining on all paper edges, covers, and endpapers. Text in..... More
Reus: Agrupació Fotogràfica Reus, 1993. Limited first edition. Box. 1/250. Elephant folio. 16x12". [11], [10 page booklet] + 10 photographs. Black cardboard box, with green, white and purple decorative paper label on the front cover. Green text on the label. The work is a finely produced collection of 10 photographic..... More
Braunschweig: Oehme & Müller, 1842. Hardcover. 8vo. vii. 316,28pp. Three-quarter leather over orange cloth. Gilt decorated spine. Raised bands. Rubbing to spine. Some scuffing, minor abrasions, discoloration and minor staining to boards. Wear to edges. Top front corner bumped and worn. Split along lower spine on front board. Faded decorated..... More
München: Georg Verlag, 1922. Limited edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 32pp. Book with original slipcase. Original full vellum with gold lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Uncut. Colored frontispiece with tissue guard and decorative colored initial. Beautiful edition of this traditional legend of the Holy Grail profusely illustrated with 9 hand-colored plates..... More
Leipzig: Hesse & Becker Verlag, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 215 (1)pp., 18 leaves of plates, incl. frontispiece. Original yellow cloth with modern design and typography on cover and spine. Black top edge and gray endpapers. Frontispiece photograph and drawing on recto of frontispiece. Publisher's device on title page. Cover..... More
München: Albert Langen, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. VII, [1], 309, [3]pp. Original red cloth with pictorial paste-down in color on front, and gilt lettering on cover and spine. Vignette on title page. Ribbon marker. Controversial work by Eduard Fuchs (1870-1940), documenting (in caricature) the stereotypical representations of Jews. This..... More
München: Albert Langen, 1909–1912. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Reserved edition, numbered by hand 64/200, 65/200 for supplement volumes. Quarto. x, 500, 59 plates, x, 336, 36 plates, x, 484, 65 plates, x, 328, 37 plates, x, 496, 63 plates, x, 341 (2), 33 plates. Handbound three-quarter leather over marbled boards with..... More
Leipzig: Hermann Haacke, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. X, 233, [5]pp. Original burgundy cloth with gold lettering on spine. Publisher's logo on title page. First edition of this book devoted entirely to the world outlook of modern physics. Hartmann's philosophical writings generally are categorized as belonging to the pessimist school..... More
Berlin: Hans Heinrich Tillgner, n/d. Sonderheft (Special edition). Softcover. 4to. 32pp. Printed original wraps protected by modern mylar. Rare special edition of the German periodical Der Feuerreiter, honoring the German artist, poet and printmaker Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966). Meidner's works were part of the Nazi book burning in 1933, being Jewish..... More
Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Weber's Verlag 9Dr. jur. Albert Ahn), 1914. 8vo. 64pp. Fascinating study on the history and meaning of anti-Semitism by Professor E. König. Contents: Über Geschichte und Begriff des Antisemitismus. Die früheren Bewohner Palästinas und die Israeliten. Israeliten und Juden. Juden und Galiläer. Beleuchtung neuerer Motive..... More
Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xii. 164pp. Gray paper-covered boards with green cloth spine. Spine has been repaired with clear tape. Minor scuffing and staining to boards. Hinges starting. Browning to title page. Ex libris and signature of Wolf Leslau, the famous expert on Semitic..... More
Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1884. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. 8vo. [2],108pp. Marbled paper-covered boards, black leather label with author's name stamped in gold on spine. "Die Fortschritte der comparativen Religionswissenschaft haben demjenigen, welcher sich die Erforschung und religionsgeschichtliche Taxirung der alttestamentlichen Weltanschaung zur Aufgabe gemacht hat, schon seit Decennien..... More
Cincinnati: The Bloch Printing Company, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 57pp. [3]. Original black cloth over beige soft paper boards with black lettering on the front cover. A charming short story for young adults collected from the pages of the American Jewish youth literary magazine "The Sabbath Visitor" (1874-1885, also..... More
Frankfurt am Main: J. Kauffmann, ca. 1915. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi,635,[1]pp. Quarter-cloth over printed paper-covered boards. Some age wear, scuffing and minor staining on binding. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Hinges starting. Contents pages loose but present. Some rust discoloration around staples on first few pages. Publisher sticker pasted..... More
NP: Verlag VVN, [1948]. First edition. Paperback. Octavo. 23, [1]pp. Original illustrated wrappers. This work is a powerful recollection of Arthur Mannbar and Eduard Wald's imprisonment at the notorious Brandenburg-Görden Prison,* a prison located on Anton-Saefkow-Allee in the Görden quarter of Brandenburg an der Havel. Both Mannbar and Wald were..... More
Leipzig: H. W. Theodor Dieter, 1899. Softcover. 8vo. xiii,354pp. Original wrappers. Pulling, tearing, staining and discoloration to wraps. Wraps have been crudely repaired and are held together with 3 pieces of tape across spine, going into front and back cover. Bottom corners of first few pages creased. Text in German..... More
Strasbourg: Treuttel et Wurtz, 1863. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [viii], 431, [1] pp. Original gold stamped 3/4 leather over green cloth. Ex libris pasted in "E Libris Roberti Comitus De Crewe" on inside front board. Protestant theologian Eduard Reuss studies the official list of the books of the bible and..... More
Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1923. Hardcover. Ex library. 4to. Original wrappers bound in half cloth over marbled boards with gold lettering on spine. Some discoloration to boards. Library stamp on inside of front board and small ex-libris stamp of Giorgio Levi on free front endpaper. Original wrapper has been repaired..... More
Mannheim: J. Bensheimer, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XVI, 280pp. Original gilt, red, green, and blue-stamped illustrated cloth with gold and black lettering on spine and front cover. All edges gilt. Decorative endpapers. Engraved frontispiece protected with a tissue guard. Title page in red and black lettering. Vignette on title..... More
Lancaster, California: Labyrinthos, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxi,240,[5]pp. Brown cloth with black lettering on spine. "Eduard Seler's Die Alten Ansiedlungen von Chaculá im Distrikte Nentón des Departements Huehuetenango der Republik Guatemala was published in 1901 by the publishing house of Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen). The volume is a report..... More
Lancaster, California: Labyrinthos, 2002. First edition in One Volume. Hardcover. Quarto. xxi,ix,[1],320pp. Brown cloth with black lettering on spine. "English Translations of German Papers from Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur Amerikanischen Sprach- und Alterthumskunde...With Major Additional Translations from the German by Theodore E. Gutman and assisted by Ingeburg Meinung Nagel. Edited by..... More
Lancaster, California: Labyrinthos, 1990-2000. Second Edition. Hardcover. Complete in 6 volumes & 1 Index Volume. Quarto. Olive cloth with gold lettering on spine. Cloth on Vol. VI slightly darker. Index volume in blue wraps, as issued. Frontispiece in Vol. I showing E. Seler from an etching by Erich Heermann. "English..... More
New York: Alfred Stieglitz, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 54pp. [18 pages of publisher's ads]. Original grey paper wrappers with white lettering on the covers, specially mounted on grey cloth boards for Stieglitz. Pages uncut. Dated April, 1903. Cover design by Eduard Steichen. This is the second issue of the..... More
New York: Alfred Stieglitz, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 44pp. [16 pages of publisher's ads]. Original grey paper wrappers with white lettering on the covers, specially mounted on grey cloth boards for Stieglitz. Pages uncut. Dated April, 1908. Cover design by Eduard Steichen. This is issue #22 of the seminal..... More