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19671291876Sauk City: Arkham House 1967. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; G/VG; black spine with white text; jacket has protective mylar cover age toning rubbing flaps glued to pastedowns; boards are strong rubbing in corners and at spine head and tail; textblock has age toning ex library stamps on head and tail edges and on contents page front endpaper removed; pp 208; one of 2000 unnumbered copies.<br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office in bookcase next to Ephemera section. 1291876. FP New Rockville Stock. Arkham House hardcover books
1967162705Sauk City Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers 1967. Octavo cloth. First edition. 2007 copies printed. Signed inscription by Price on the half title page. The author's first collection of short fiction twelve Oriental fantasies first published in WEIRD TALES and other pulps between 1925 and 1953. Barron ed Horror Literature 3-159. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1344. Schlobin The Literature of Fantasy 923. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with just a touch of rubbing to the black background ink at spine ends and corner tips. A sharp copy. #162705 Arkham House: Publishers unknown books
1967158505Sauk City Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers 1967. Octavo cloth. First edition. 2007 copies printed. A presentation copy with full-page inscription by Price to David G. Hartwell on the half title page. The author's first collection of short fiction twelve Oriental fantasies first published in WEIRD TALES and other pulps between 1925 and 1953. Barron ed Horror Literature 3-159. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1344. Schlobin The Literature of Fantasy 923. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with rubbing to the black background ink along the front spine and fore-edge folds and 8 mm closed tear at bottom edge of the front panel. #158505 Arkham House: Publishers unknown books
1967155109Sauk City Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers 1967. Octavo cloth. First edition. 2007 copies printed. The author's first collection of short fiction twelve Oriental fantasies first published in WEIRD TALES and other pulps between 1925 and 1953. Barron ed Horror Literature 3-159. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1344. Schlobin The Literature of Fantasy 923. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with some of the inevitable rubbing to the black background ink and mild wear to lower spine end. #155109 Arkham House: Publishers unknown books
199552397Tucson:: University of Arizona Press. Fine. 1995. Paperback. 0816515778 . First paperback printing. Fine in illustrated wraps. . University of Arizona Press, paperback books
1972128781Frankfurt Germany: Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main 1972. Kleine Schriften des Historischen Museums Heft 6. Softcover. VG a bright crisp and clean copy. White wraps with color illustration 319 pp 176 sets of bw illustrations. Inventory of the collection of playing cards of the Historical Museum Frankfurt am Main. Historisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main unknown books
193517042801New York: Harper & Brothers 1935. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Kredel Fritz. Octavo size 32 pp. A classic German children's tale originally published in 1845 with corresponding politically-incorrect racial allusions comprised of ten illustrated and rhymed stories mostly about children. Each has a clear moral that demonstrates the disastrous consequences of misbehavior in an exaggerated way N.B. from Wiki. Mark Twain lived in Berlin Germany with his family in 1891; funds were tight and so as a Christmas present to his three children Twain translated this classic tale. The original illustrations were adapted by Fritz Kredel the result being this charming although somewhat scary as with many of the old folk tales children's book.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Cream colored pictoral paper boards with vignette of main character on the front publisher's device on title page three-page introduction by Mark Twain's daughter Clara Clemens full colour illustrations on every page; octavo size approximately 9" tall unpaginated with 16 leaves hand-set Lutetia type by the Golden Hind Press New Jersey printed and bound by the Haddon Craftsmen for the publisher. Dust jacket mirrors the binding the front flap shows the original $1.50 price summary of the book on both flaps publisher's ad for other Mark Twain children's books on the back panel.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is near fine the binding is clean the text block is strong and square it has solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and it is entirely free of prior owner markings; only condition issue we see is slight wear to head and tail of spine. The unclipped dust jacket is very good minus; it is entire but has overall soiling including a light circular old dampstain to the front panel minor overall edgewear with some larger chips out of the head and tail of the spine.<br/><br/>___CITATION: Johnson p. 109 for the first edition published by the Limited Editions Club in the same year 1935.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply; we are happy to ship at cost please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and the IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions we are here to help. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
2008Embry 162830Clarkson N. Potter 2008. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Color photos. Clarkson N. Potter, 2008. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1907136454Leipzig: Webels Verlag Dr. Abel & Born 1907. Octavo pp. iii-vii viii-xi xii-xiv 1 2-233 234: printer's imprint 235: blank 236: ad complete despite gap in pagination; preliminary gathering 6 leaves appears to be tipped in original tan wrappers printed in black all edges untrimmed. First edition. An important German utopian novel set in the future in which the Social Democrats have established a world state headquartered in Germany which has achieved significant technical progress longevity spaceships robots etc. Kretzmann The Pre-War German Utopian Novel 1890-1914 Ph.D. diss. Brown University May 1936 p. 212. Lexikon 1 p. 128. Bloch 2002 1505. Not in Nagl. Wrappers worn at edges spotting and dust soiling to same a sound good copy with clean nearly fine interior. #136454 Webels Verlag Dr. Abel & Born unknown books
1688LD6060Nurnberg: Hoffmann c. 1688. Hardcover. Very Good. Modern black morocco gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label gilt detail stamped direct on spine; 4to; pp. 3-52 plus 46 plates 11 of which are folding and heavily restored; 1 of which is laid-in. First title-page printed in red and black and with 3 additional lavishly engraved half-title pages. Binding is very fine indeed but condition of text block varies -- many folding plates restored full-page plates sometimes a bit browned sometimes a bit fragile and tissuey and sometimes remarkably nice and bright. A nice copy overall offering images of ornate columns window frames cornices ceilings and more. Sold as is. <br/><br/> Hoffmann hardcover books
1969161359Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press 1969. Octavo two volumes cloth. First edition of this collection. Volume one collects seven tales including "The Sandman" "The Golden Pot" perhaps Hoffmann's finest single piece of fiction and "The Mines of Falun" a subterranean fantasy of love and death. The whole of volume two consists of Hoffmann's novel THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF KATTER MURR . a subtle satire which tells of the doings of Murr the tomcat. KATER MURR one of Hoffmann's longer works was unfinished at the time of his death. The first volume was published in 1820 and the second in 1822. The projected third volume was never written. Hoffmann "rivals Poe whom he influenced in his importance as a creator of the modern supernatural tale." - Sullivan ed The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural pp. 204-05. "The celebrated short tales and novels of . Hoffmann . are a byword for mellowness of background and maturity of form . they convey the grotesque rather than the terrible." - Lovecraft Supernatural Horror in Literature p. 45. Clute and Grant eds The Encyclopedia of Fantasy 1997 p. 472-73. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II pp. 831-835. A fine set in cloth slipcase without dust jackets as issued. #161359 The University of Chicago Press unknown books
200381278Madrid:: Del Prado Publishers. Fine. 2003. Hardcover. 8483729741 . Part of The Miniature Classics Library series. Unabridged. Translated from the German. First edition thus miniature - measures roughly 2" x 2.5". Fine in a red leather binding. . Del Prado Publishers, hardcover books
1977134118Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press 1977. Octavo 359 pp. cloth. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #134118 The University of Chicago Press unknown books
1929175409Zurich: Eugen Rentsch Verlag 1929. Hardcover. VG--light shelf-wear to edges & light foxing to covers. front & back hinges crack; text block firmly attached; back cover fly-leaf detached. edge tanned fly-leafs & pastedowns. tan cloth boards w/ orange illustrations & black printing. 120 pgs w/ approx 160 pgs of b&w plates. green edges. In German. An interesting edition on Swiss life and folklore w/ copious black and white plates. Eugen Rentsch Verlag hardcover books
1723M13631Konigsberg & Leipzig:: Johann. Philipp Haas 1723. 1723. 199 x 163 mm. Small 4to. 96 pp. Title-page vignette headpiece; browned. Modern quarter white paper paper corners decorative boards modern end-leaves. Very good. FIRST EDITION. Hoffmann's compilation of literary scraps ancient and modern on the signs of childbirth. It is divided into three parts: pre- during and post-partum. CONTENTS: Chapter I.: De Temporibus ante Puerperium The time before childbirth. Chapter II: De Temporibus ipsius Puerperii The time during the childbirth. Chapter III: De Temporibus post Puerperium The time after childbirth. See: Blake NLM p. 216; Wellcome III p. 283. OCLC: 4 copies. Johann. Philipp Haas, 1723. hardcover books
17437882Regiomonti et Lipsiae: Impensis Francisci Bortoletti 1743. 4to. 96 pp. <br><br>Diss. Koenigsberg. First printed in 1721. Removed from a nonce volume. In very good condition. Impensis Francisci Bortoletti unknown books
179238New York: Galerie Metropol n.d. Softcover. Fair pages loose some light wear to dust jacket and wraps pencil marks on FFEP pages clean. B&W illustrated wraps and identical B&W illustrated dust jacket. German and English. 164 pp. Illustrated profusely in B&W. Documentation of the Sanatorium Purkersdorf completed 1905 an example of the Viennese Secession by architect Josef Hoffmann. Galerie Metropol unknown books
2018047486Frankfurt am Main: Axel Dielmann Verlag 2018. 598p. b/w illus. original stiff printed boards. Axel Dielmann Verlag unknown books
1996174508Graz: Neue Galerie Graz 1996. Paperback. VG- light corner/edge wear to wraps and light scuffing. Hot pink and orange wraps with black lettering. 196 215 pp. Profusely illustrated in BW and color. Catalog of an exhibition held at Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum and Künstlerhaus Graz June 14-July 28 1996; a symposium was held June 14-15 1996. Text in English and German. Neue Galerie Graz paperback books
1991162537New York City: Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art 1991. Softcover. VG- Covers have faded inconsistently; interior is squeaky-clean. Gray paper wraps 40 pp. 24 BW illus. The first publication of HOME a theatre and gallery in New York City. Presents work by 22 American artists. With essays by David B. Dearinger and Carla Schulz-Hoffmann. Scarce. Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art paperback books
190517071607Frankfurt: Rutten & Loening 1905. Cardboard covers. Good . 15th edition quarto size 24 pp. all text in German. Heinrich Hoffmann 1809-1894 although a successful psychiatrist is remembered primarily for his children's stories - Struwwelpeter his first book being one of the most famous. <br/><br/>While the stories may strike us today as somewhat cruel or overly moral Herr Hoffmann's contemporaries saw the world differently than we and they enjoyed their humour; the stories were so popular they were regularly reprinted and translated into many different languages. This work Prinz Grunewald was his last children's book with delightful illustrations whose colours remain bright and vibrant. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Pictoral cardboard covers with a blue cloth spine 15th edition printed at the top of the front board bright red endpapers text block stapled to boards not sewn pictorial title page each page printed on the recto only and each page with both text and illustrations all text in old German Fraktur; quarto size approximately 10.25" tall 24 printed pages. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Almost very good overall with a solid binding the binding and pages toned with age but clean and the colour illustrations remarkably bright and fresh; the cloth spine is sunned with some wear to both the head and tail minor overall edgewear the title and final pages were stapled to both the boards and the text block which has resulted over time with very small tears at the staples and there is a child's name written on the rear pastedown. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply please inquire for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions we are here to help. Rutten & Loening unknown books
2005131744Heidelberg: Edition Braus im Wachter Verlag 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 92 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran at Museum für Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt November 4 2005 through January 8 2006 and then traveled for additional dates. Text in English and German. A fine copy in illustrated boards and still in the original shrinkwrap. No dust jacket as issued. Edition Braus im Wachter Verlag unknown books
2014170502New York: The Jewish Museum 2014. Paperback. VG- light corner and edge wear. Two orange white and yellow paperback volumes in clear plastic cover. 60 unnumbered pages 48 unnumbered pages. Illustrations. "The landmark Jewish Museum exhibition Primary Structures offered the first presentation of Minimalist sculptures in the United States in 1966. The accompanying catalogue by Kynaston McShine became a key resource on artists such as Donald Judd Carl Andre Dan Flavin and Sol LeWitt who were virtually unknown at the time. . This two-volume set includes a replica of the original catalogue plus a new companion volume by Jens Hoffmann that offers a global survey of early Minimalist sculpture during the 1960s and 1970s featuring important sculptors from Asia Africa Latin America and Eastern Europe and complementing the earlier catalogue's focus on American and British artists."--Publisher's website. The Jewish Museum paperback books
1960150300N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage borderless satin-finish black and white photograph of German-born American artist Hans Hoffman circa 1960s. With the stamp of photographer Vytas Valaitis on the verso along with a Newsweek stamp and the label of PIX agency. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969.<br/><br/>Hoffmann was best known as an Abstract Expressionist painter in the early and mid-twentieth century and as an influential art teacher for a number of post-war avant-garde artists including Helen Frankenthaler Nell Blaine Lee Krasner Joan Mitchell and many others. <br/><br/>8 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1738M13787Venice:: Apud Sebastianum Coleti 1738. 1738. Sq. 8vo. viii 311 1 pp. 2 small ink ownership stamps on title unreadable. Nineteenth century marbled boards printed title label on spine; extremities showing. Title verso with ink ownership stamp of Th. Renz. Very good. The work contains two parts of ten papers each for a total of twenty papers. Each studies aspects of medicine from the nature of art and efficacy in healing method application of drugs the power and efficiency of medicines applied the ability of the body to understand the remedies of drinking water and the virtues of milk in medicine the power of milk to heal qualities of mineral waters in promoting health. Continuing in the second part: salts as a healer the uses of China bark as applied to fevers uses of ejecting of venom the causes of death by disease the good of medicine the errors that are common in medical practice. "Friedrich Hoffmann also 'Hofmann' was born on 19 February 1660 in Halle where he also died on 12 November 1742. Called 'the second Hippocrates' and the 'Aesculapius Hallensis' he was among the most widely read medical authors of the eighteenth century and is best known for his systematic discussion of the iatromechanical model of medicine — similar to what Hermann Boerhaave 1668-1738 was developing at Leiden — that views the human body as a hydraulic machine wholly governed by mechanical laws. "Hoffmann's father Friedrich Hoffmann the Elder was the respected municipal physician of Halle. The younger Hoffmann enrolled at nearby Jena in 1678 the university at Halle would not open for another fifteen years where he studied medicine for two years under the iatrochemist Georg Wolfgang Wedel 1645-1721 also attending Caspar Cramer's lectures on chemistry in Erfurt in 1680. He received his doctorate in medicine from Jena in 1681 January 31 with a dissertation on suicide de autochiria and began lecturing on chemistry a standard course taught in the medical faculty but soon left perhaps pushed out by senior faculty jealous of his teaching success. After practicing medicine in Minden for two years Hoffmann made an academic tour of Belgium Holland and England during which he met Boerhaave Thomas Sydenham and Robert Boyle returned to Minden in 1684 and assumed various medical offices eventually being appointed the regional physician for Halberstadt. He married an apothecary's daughter Anna Dorothea Herstell on 10 December 1689. "In 1693 he was called to the newly-founded university at Halle as an ally of the Priest August Hermann Francke 1663-1727 with the charge of organizing its medical school and to serve as its first professor of medicine. He also became the godfather to Christian Wolff's first-born son Friedrich. Hoffmann recruited his old college friend from Jena Georg Ernst Stahl 1660-1734 for the second chair of medicine and the two taught side by side for twenty years transforming Halle into the preeminent medical school among German-speaking universities. Along with Boerhaave at Leiden Hoffmann and Stahl were the principal forces behind the medical reforms of the early eighteenth century. "Hoffmann was a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina 1696 the Berlin Academy of Sciences he was included in Leibniz's founding lists and was inducted on 1 April 1701 the Royal Society of London 1720 and the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg 1735. "In all Hoffmann authored about 400 publications mostly brief dissertations and essays but also the six-volume systematics discussed above a twelve-volume collection of case studies Medicina consultatoria 1721-39 and a nine-volume work on how to live a long and healthy life Basic Guide 1715-28 wherein Hoffmann emphasized the restorative effects of proper diet exercise clean air and sleep. He also criticized the diversity and overuse of drugs and was successful in reducing the pharmacopoeia of his day to a few basic remedies. -- The Dictionary of Eighteenth Century German Philosophers 3 vols. edited by Manfred Kuehn and Heiner Klemme. CONTENTS: Part I: 1 De naturae & artis efficacia in medendo. 2 De recta et simplicissima natura medendi method. 3 De medicamentorum prudenti application in tempore. 4 De prudenti medicamentorum continuation. 5 De vera medicamentor in morbis virtute et efficacia rite dignoscenda. 6 De cognoscenda corporis humani natura ex effectu remediorum. 7 De medicina simpilicissima & optima motu inedia aquae potu. 8 De mirabili lactis asinini in medendo usu. 9 De saluberrima seri lactis virtute. 10 De connubio aquarum mineralium cum lacte longe saluberrimo. Part II: 1 De salium mediorum excellente in medendo virtute. 2 De sale medicinali Carolinarum. 3 De manna ejusque praestantissimo in medicina usu. 4 De recto corticis chinae usu in febribus intermittenibus. 5 De purgantibus fortioribus ex praxi medica merito ejiciendis. 6 De medicina emetica et purgante post iram veneno. 7 De imprudenti medicatione multorum morborum et mortis causa. 8 De remediorum benignorum abusu et noxa. 9 De vesicantium et fonticulorum circumspecto in medicina usu. 10 De erroribus vulgaribus circa usum topicorum in praxi. / "Although Enlightenment physicians debated the suitability of milk as a treatment for different individuals and situations Friedrich Hoffmann's Treatise of the Extraordinary Virtues and Effects of Asses Milk 1754 exemplifies the basic understanding of its health benefits in the eighteenth century. Hoffmann who served as the physician to the Prussian King Friedrich I was a friend of Boerhaave and a proponent of the neo-Hippocratic school. He argues that since humans were nourished by a milky substance in the womb and raised on breast milk and since all food upon entering the body was transformed into a milky substance called chyle milk was 'manifestly proved to be the principal of all the kinds of aliment; so it may be deservedly reckoned the chief of all remedies.' Although Hoffmann preferred ass's milk for its resemblance to human breast milk he also recommended the milk of cows sheep and goats for the relief of fevers chronic coughs colic and nervous disorders -- the same aliments that afflicted Pompadour. Why was milk so effective" Hoffman argued that is possessed powerful cleansing properties functioning as a nonviolent purgative that penetrated the body's channels allowing fresh air to enter and perspiration to exit. It also removed obstructions in the chest lungs and bowels and returned the body to its proper system of 'flows.' Hoffmann told readers of how a certain 'gentlewoman' in his care who had been sick for years with fevers aches and pains began a course of milk treatment and 'in three days only everything appeared wonderfully amended.'" -- Meredith Martin Dairy Queens: The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de' Medici to Marie-Antoinette Harvard Historical Studies Harvard University Pres 2011 pp. 135-6. REFERENCES: Blake NLM 217; Wellcome II 285. Apud Sebastianum Coleti, 1738. hardcover books
