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1795002473Baltimore: Samuel Saur 1795. Hardcover. Very Good -. 8 304 p.; 17 cm. Signatures: pi4 A-2B6 2C2 12mo. Contemporary half calf; red morocco spine label with gilt-tooled decoration and title: Heiliger Krieg. Marbled paper over boards. Woodcut head-pieces and tail-pieces. Evans 28371; Bötte & Tannhof First Century of German Language Printing in the U.S.A. 964. Translation of: The Holy War. "Nunmehro aber allen die lieber unter Christo ein seliges als unter dem Satan ein unseliges Leben führen wollen im Hoch-deutschen nachgeführt." Pages 198-201 are substituted for pp. 150-153 which are lacking this mistake in binding is found in some copies but not all. Errors in pagination found in all copies: pp. 97-240 are misnumbered 98-241. Errors in signing found in all copies: B3 missigned B5 L3 missigned J3 N3 missigned R5 T2 missigned T3 T3 is missigned T5 U2 is not signed and U3 is missigned U2. Small label on front free endpaper verso with initials in pencil: Mgh. Lacking frontispiece found in some copies. Otherwise in Very Good- Condition: edges are rubbed; corners bumped particularly upper front corner; leather separated for 2 cm. from tail along front joint and 1 cm. across spine; light foxing and occasional soiling throughout. A solid copy of this scarce German translation of John Bunyan's The Holy War. Samuel Saur hardcover
178613523Leibzig: M. G. Weidmanns. Very Good. 1786. First Edition. Hardcover. Originally published in five volumes 1786-1808. Volumes 1-2 and 3 only. Erstes Buch: Von dem Anbau des Landes; 1786; XL 614pp. Zweitess anderes Buch: Von dem Aufbluhen der ewign Bunde; 1786; 740pp. Drittes Buch: Die beyden ersten Kapitel Dritten Theils ereste Abtheilung; 1788; XXVI; 727pp. Three volumes in clean full leather binding. Spine intricately stamped in gilt. Narrow gilt border on covers. Text blocks tight clean & intact. Marbled endpapers. German text. Title gilt slightly faded. Spine heads very lightly rubbed. Armorial book plate Crown over Royal Cape bearing the initials "P. Y. C." inside front covers. Switzerland ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 2081 pages . M. G. Weidmanns hardcover
1747250193Leipzig, Breitkopf, 1747. 32 S. Ohne Einbd. Gebräunt u. braunfl. Sowie m. Nässespur.
1781197100Leipzig, Klaubarth, 1781. 4 Bl., XXIX S., 1 Bl. RBr. Etwas angeschmutzt u. braunfl. Sign. a. Tit.
17630005877Glasgow: Aedibus Academicis / Robert & Andrew Foulis 1763. New edition. Hardcover. Fair. 16mo 237pp. contemporary full calf raised bands red morocco label front joint splitting; X-library with bookplate rubber-stamped on contents page & p. 25; also ex libris Hon. T. Fose Jr. and "the celebrated Dr. Archibald Cameron". Archibald Cameron of Lochiel 17077 June 1753 was a doctor and a prominent leader in the Jacobite rising of 1745. On 7 June 1753 at Tyburn he was the last Jacobite to be executed for high treason. <br/><br/>Attributed to Dionysius Halicarnassus and Cassius Longinus altho probably by neither man. It is a classical treatise on aesthetics and the effects of good writing written as a series of epistles. A bi-lingual edition with Greek and Latin. Also contains his FRAGMENTA with a two-page publisher's catalog at the end. Lowndes 1394 . Aedibus Academicis / Robert & Andrew Foulis hardcover
1789249832Wittenberg, Dürr, 1789. 34 S. In 1 Umschl. d. Zt. Dieser angeschmutzt. Gebräunt u. braunfl.
174050862Petropoli St. Petersburg Typis Academiae 1740. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Classes Tertia continens Historica. Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae" Tomus VII ad Annos 1734 & 1735. The whole section of "Historica"offered. Title-page to Tome VII with engraved vignette halftitle to the section a. pp. 345-426 6 engraved plates. Bayer's paper: pp. 362-426 and 5 engraved plates with numerous chinese characters. Clean and broad-margined. <br/><br/><em>First printing in part of the first Western translation of any part of Confusius' influential Chun Cieu being the fourth volume of his works. "The title Chun Cieu Chunqiu signifies the Spring and Autumn. He discourses like an historian of the expditions of diversr princes of their Virtues and Vices of the fatigues they underwent. The title is an emblematic title because that states flourish when their Princes are endowed wit Virtue and Wisdom which is represented by the Spring and that on the contrary they fall like the leaves and are utterly destroyed when their Princes are dispirated or are wicked which is represented by the Autumn."James Legge.The section also comprises Bayer. Elementa Calmucia. 1 pp. and 1 engraved plate numerous characters and Bayer. De Venedis et Eridano Fluvvio. Pp. 346-361. </em> unknown
1799002859Germantown Pa: Michael Billmeyer 1799. Hardcover. Very Good. Title continued: "als auch für den öffentlichen Gottesdienst enthalten sind. Nebst einem Anhang des Heydelbergischen Catechismus wie auch erbaulicher Gebäter. Nach einem Synodal Schluss zusammen getragen und eingerichtet vor die Evangelisch-Reformirten Gemeinen in den Vereinigten Staaten von America." Zweyte Auflage. 6 148 8 585 9 26 p.: frontispiece music; 17 cm. Signatures: pi4 A-3B8 3C4 8vo. Contemporary full calf with two clasps and six spine compartments between raised bands. Blind-ruled borders on boards. All page edges sprinkled red. Printed in two columns. Wood engraved head- and tail-pieces. "Sammlung alter und neuer geistreicher Lieder . . . der Evangelisch-Reformirten Gemeinen" has separate title page dated 1799. Final 26 pages contain the Heidelberger catechism and some prayers. Pages 231 and 275 misnumbered 131 and 175. Early American Imprints 36193; First Century of German Language Printing 1162. In Very Good Condition: rubbed with minor loss at tail of spine; clasps are intact; faint dampstain in gutter at head and at lower edge of first few leaves; 5-cm. tear from fore-edge of pp. 19-20 of Gesangbuch without loss; pages are clean and tight; clasps are intact. Michael Billmeyer hardcover
1797002861Philadelphia: Steiner und Kämmerer und H. Kämmerer jun 1797. Hardcover. Very Good. Title contintued: "als auch für den öffentlichen Gottesdienst enthalten sind. Nebst einem Anhang des Heydelbergischen Catechismus wie auch erbaulicher Gebäter. Nach einem Synodal Schluss zusammen-getragen und eingerichtet vor die Evangelisch-Reformirten Gemeinen in den Vereinigten Staaten von America." 8 148 8 585 43 p.: frontispiece music; 17 cm. Signatures: pi4 A-N6 A-Ddd6 Eee2 12mo. Errors in signing: I1 not signed; N signed N; Mm2 signed Mn2. Contemporary full black calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Reformiert Gesangbuch. Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Red leather label on front board with gilt-tooled former owner's name "1798" and border. Gilt-tooled chain-pattern borders on both boards; gilt-rolled edges. All page edges gilt. Yellow-and-black-patterned endpapers. Printed in two columns. Wood engraved head- and tail-pieces. "Sammlung alter und neuer geistreicher Lieder . . . der Evangelisch-Reformirten Gemeinen" has separate title page dated 1797. Final 33 unpaginated pages contain the Heidelberger catechism and some prayers. Former owner inscription in German script on blank leaf following front free endpaper: "Karl Friederich Philipps Gesangbuch Philadelphia 1826." Early American Imprints 32100; First Century of German Language Printing 1090. This was the first official German Reformed hymnal printed in the United States; later editions dropped the hyphen using the title Das Neue und Verbesserte Gesangbuch. In Very Good Condition: leather is rubbed with some loss of gilt; edges of leather spine label chipped; most of original owner's name on front label has been rubbed out; small scrape to upper edge of front board; a few page corners creased; pages are slightly browned throughout; otherwise clean and tight. Steiner und Kämmerer, und H. Kämmerer, jun hardcover
175331751Stuttgart: Johann Benedict Metzler 1753. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Full calf with spine gilt lettering and rules. xlvi 1016pp. Frontispiece marbled endpapers. Very good. Binding worn especially along spine and spine giltstamping rubbed with a bit of chipping at spine head/tail but nevertheless quite tight and handleable and overall attractive; inner front flyleaf bears contemporary ink notations dated Leipzig 1769. First of this edition of this important translation. Lutheran theologian Bengel was born in Germany in 1687 and died in 1752. A lovely example. Johann Benedict Metzler hardcover
1734002218Amsterdam: Aux Depens de la Compagnie 1734. Hardcover. Very Good -. xxiv 501 1 p.; 17 cm. Signatures: 12 A-X12 12mo. Half polished calf 18th- or early 19th-century with brown speckled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled leather labels in second and third compartments reading: Oeuvres du P. Du Cerceau; Tom. II. This was probably originally bound as a set with the author's Recueil de Poësies Diverses as volume 1. Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Title page printed in red and black. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Includes the play Les Incommodites de la Grandeur. Front fixed endpaper bears an unusual engraved bookplate with the name Norrie and the head of an African man framed by two arms from a coat of armor. In an old hand on the title page: Poulet. In Very Good- Condition: lacking 1 cm. leather from head of spine; corners are heavily rubbed with loss of leather; boards rubbed; lightly foxed; occasionally lightly soiled in margins; otherwise clean and tight. Aux Depens de la Compagnie hardcover
170639340Ferrara: Published By Bernardino Pomatelli. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1706. 1. Leather. 187 pages; 18TH CENTURY: "Compendio Della Vita di Giacomo II" Milano 1706. Frontis portrait of Giacomo Bound in ocntemporsry leatehr with raised bands. Worn but solid Contents with light toning to text areas. . Published By Bernardino Pomatelli hardcover
1796141112-B26London: Ex Officina J. Nichols 1796. Full leather binding spine reinforced text in Greek and Latin some wear on front and back boards. Full-Leather. Good/No Dust Cover. Ex Officina J. Nichols Hardcover
1767001521Yverdon Switz: Fortuné-Barthélemy de Félice 1767. Paperback. Very Good . 2 x 226 2 p.; 21 cm. Signatures: pi2 a4 A-O8 P2 8vo. Original stiffened paper covers with title in an old hand at head of spine and handwritten paper label on tail with shelf number. Pages are untrimmed. Printer's device on title page suggests that the printer was Fortuné-Barthélemy de Félice Fortunato Bartolomeo de Félice; tail-pieces throughout. Includes "Fragmens de philosophie morale": p. 181-226. Inscriptions on front fixed endpaper and first blank leaf include: Victor Hänggi Mai 1832. Verso of title page bears oval purple stamp reading: Bibliotheca Seminarii dioecesani Basileensis. In Very Good Condition: slightly cocked; faint dampstain on front endpaper; occasional soiling in margins and foxing; otherwise pages are clean and bright. Fortuné-Barthélemy de Félice paperback
177410153011772 - 1774. 22, 258 S. (durchgehend pag.), 7 Bl. Reg. Pp. (beschabt, St. a. d. T.).
17876047Leipzig: Leipzig: Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius 1787. First German language edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 478 pages. Tan paint decorated sponged boards red leather label on spine edges of text block are dyed red. Condition of book is VERY GOOD; Wear to edges & corners of covers & spine binding is tight occasional light toning & light foxing all text is very legible. Bookplate of Victor Lange on front pastedown. Text in German. STK. Leipzig: Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius hardcover
180053586Jena: Jena: Friedrich Frommann 1800-1803. First German language edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 7 x 8 1/2 inches high. Vol. I 1800 167 pages Vol. II 1801 183 pages Vol. III 1802 155 pages Vol. IV 1803 199 pages. Quarter calf with tan boards brown cloth corners 5 raised bands and red leather label on spine edges of text block red. Condition of book is VERY GOOD; Light wear to boards some gilt lettering & decoration in compartments on spine has been rubbed off binding is tight light water stain to bottom corner of text block does not extend into text area otherwise text is very clean with no foxing etc. Text in German STK. Jena: Friedrich Frommann hardcover
1743045102Franckfurt and Leipzig Germany: Rengerischen Buchhandlung 1743. Book. Good. Half-Leather. New Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original 1/2 leather brown paper covered boards five raised spine bands with gilt compartments gilt title label color wallpaper endsheets. Binding leather rubbed along joints and creased from use joints tender but intact. Covers rubbed with exposure along edges with partial surface paper loss. xiv73428 pp. illus. w/ 44 folding numbered and lettered with 24 letters omitting J and U as expected plates geometric trigonometric mechanical aerometrical hydraulic perspectival astronomical geographical architectural more some with rubbing to fore-edges from improper folding. We note that an earlier edition of this work with a register of plates notes 45 plates but it appears that one plate Astron. IV was deleted from this New 1743 Edition as this copy shows no evidence of removal in the binding gutter and the lettering of adjacent plates V W is sequential without omission. Lacks front flyleaf a few period notations inked on main title contents with scattered internal notations. According to Arthur Warda's catalogue in his Immanuel Kants Bücher 1922 Kant owned a 1749 edition of this work in his personal library. Rengerischen Buchhandlung Hardcover
1739002874Hamburg Ger: T.C. Felginers Wittwe und Joh. Carl Bohn 1739. Hardcover. Good -. Title continued: "Wobey zugleich die Eigenschaften der Geister überhaupt mit erörtert." Zweytes Stück Dritte Betrachtung. 8 xvi 543 1 p.; 21 cm. Signatures: 4 a-b4 A-Y4 4to. Original brown cloth spine and marbled paper over boards. The four-leaf dedication to a former mayor of Hamburg Johann Anderson signed 4 and dated May 4 1740 is inserted following the title page. Woodcut title vignette printer's device signed C. Fritzsch sc Christian Fritzsch 1695-1747. Woodcut head- and tailpieces. Druckfehler on final unpaginated page. In Good- Condition: the original binding is quite worn: most of cloth lacking from spine and fore-edge of front board partially lacking; pp. 193-240 signatures 2B-2G are detached from text block as a unit; occasional light foxing and faint dampstain at upper edge or fore-edge; otherwise clean and complete. T.C. Felginers Wittwe und Joh. Carl Bohn hardcover
171663708CBBologna, per il successori di Benacci, 1716. 8°. 21,5 x 18 cm. XXXVI, 632 Seiten, [1] Blatt. Pergamentband der Zeit mit Rückentitel von alter Hand.
1752002066Paris: Durand Pissot 1752. Hardcover. Very Good. Title page continued: "Un Mémoire sur la Maniere de faire le Saffre; Le Secret des Vraies Porcelaines de Chine & de Saxe. Ouvrages ou l'on trouvera la maniere de faire le Verre & le Crystal d'y porter des Couleurs d'imiter les Pierres Prétieuses de préparer & colorer les Emaux de faire la Potasse de Peindre sur le Verre de préparer des Vernis de composer des Couvertes pour les Fayances & Poteries d'extraire la Couleur Pourpre de l'Or de contrefaire les Rubis de faire le Saffre de faire & peindre les Porcelaines &c. Traduits de l'allemand par M. D." 4 lv 1 629 3 p. 16 leaves of copperplate engravings including the frontispiece most folded; 26 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Orange leather spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title; gilt-tooled decoration in other compartments. All page edges red. Woodcut head pieces and in-text illustrations. Contents: Sol sine Veste ou Trente Experiences pour Tirer la Couleur Pourpre de l'Or by J.C. Orschall -- Helioscopium Videndi sine Veste Solem Chymicum -- Sol non sine Veste ou L'Invincibilité de l'Or by Christophe Grummet -- De la Vitrification des Vegetaux -- Chapitre XI du Livre de Mr. Henckel qui a pour titre Flora Saturnizans -- Secret des Vraies Porcelaines de la Chine et de Saxe. Baron von d'Holbach translated several early works on glassmaking including works by Antonio Neri Christopher Merret and Johannes Kunckel. In Very Good Condition: front joint starting to separate from tail; slight loss of leather at head and tail of spine; light cracking on spine; corners rubbed. Pages and plates are clean and bright. Durand, Pissot hardcover
1791244527im Verlage bey Franz Anton Schrämbl Wien 1791. Hardcover Pappe mit Lederrücken und -ecken und Rückentitelgoldprägung ohne Schutzumschlag Eilfter Band Zustand: eine Namenseiintragung im Innendeckel. Rücken Ecken Kanten bestoßen mit Abwetzungen besonders des Rückendeckels. Der Rücken ist unten eingerissen er hat einige Wurmlöcher mit Fortsetzung im Block. Die Goldprägung ist verblasst. Einband Vorsatz und Block sind fleckig. im Verlage bey Franz Anton Schrämbl, Wien, hardcover
17976075Berlin & Stettin: Berlin & Stettin: No publisher or date stated 1797. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 X 7 inches high. 217 pages. Marbled boards with tan leather label on spine not the original binding--looks like early 20th C. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD; Very light wear to covers & spine pages are very clean with no foxing or staining binding is tight bookplate of Victor Lange on front pastedown. Text in German. STK. Berlin & Stettin: No publisher or date stated hardcover
1785180170Halle, Orphelin, 1785. M. gest. Front., gest. Tit.-vign. u. einigen Kpfr.-Taf. 480 S. Pp. Einbd. teils angeschmutzt bzw. fleckig. Kanten teils bestossen. Kl. Sign. a. Vors. St. a. Tit. Etwas stockfl.