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Zolkiew: Mordekai Rubenstein, 1804. Hardcover. fair. 8vo. 61 leaves. Three quarter leather over marbled boards. Ornate floral design tailpiece on verso and recto of last page. Iggeret Shemuel is a commentary on the Book of Ruth, which includes teachings of early Spanish scholars and some of his contemporaries. In 1597, Iggeret Shemuel was the first book published by Dona Reyna, daughter of the famous Dona Gracia and wife of Don Joseph Nasi, the Duke of Naxos. Dona Gracia and her family were conversos, who returned to Judaism after fleeing from Portugal to Flanders and then to Italy and eventually the Ottoman Empire. After Don Joseph Nasi's death, Dona Reyna used her inheritance to establish a Hebrew press. Text in Hebrew, in "Rashi script." Front board detached, but present. Heavy age wear to covers. Missing front free endpaper. Book stamp of previous owner on back pastedown endpaper. Title page in ornate floral frame. Book stamp of previous owner middle of title page, affecting text. Very slight… Read More

London: Vizetelly & Co, 1888. Hardcover. fair. Paul Avril. Lg. 8vo. 340 pp. Decorated brown cloth binding. Light rubbing to edges. Some scuffing to front. Head and tail of spine and corners bumped. Hinges starting to crack but holding. Light foxing to first 7 pages not affecting text. Pages untrimmed. Frontis. Bookplate to endpapers. Printed on handmade papers and wonderfully decorated with 40 etchings by Paul Avril. Binding fair but tight, text in very good reading condition.

Tokyo: Rikuyo-sha, 1987. First edition thus. Softcover. very good -. Quarto (11-3/4" x 9"). 178pp. Text in English and Japanese. Acetate jacket over photo illustrated wrappers. Profusely illustrated with color and black & white interior photographs, as well as architectural plans & sketches. Inscribed and signed on a preliminary blank by Uchida, dated 4-18-'88. Some light soiling of wrapper and with edges and folds rubbed Note: Ikuyo Mihashi was also Uchida's (1943-2016) wife.

Berlin: Verlag Alfred Weiner/ Verlag Illustrierte Filmwoche, 1930. First edition. Softcover. vg to vg+. Large quartos. 9x12". B/w photo-illustrated stapled wrappers, with white lettering on the front covers. Directed by Gustav Ucicky, and starring the acclaimed theater and film actor Otto Gebühr, this film was the third of the so-called Prussian films, to star Gebühr as Frederick the Great, the role for which he would become most famous. These patriotic historical dramas glorified Prussia and its military, and were produced from the 1920-1940s. Gebühr, first played the role in the first part "Fridericus Rex" (1922-1923) and continued for "The Mill at Sanssouci" (1926), and this film which was the first in sound. Incredibly the film was filmed in part on the grounds of the Sanssouci Palace itself. 1. Illustrierter Film-Kurier, No. 1572. Upaginated [6 pages]. Verlag Alfred Weiner. The publication is an issue of the of the promotional supplement to the German weekly, Illustrierter Film-Kurier,… Read More

Boston: The Institute of Modern Art, 1939. First edition. Softcover. g to vg+. Quarto. 40pp. textured white wrappers, with blue lettering on the front cover. Catalog from the exhibition of the same name, held in 1939, at the The Institute of Modern Art in Boston, now known as the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). This historically important exhibition was the American equivalent of the infamous Entartete Kunst ("Degenerate art") exhibition held in Munich in 1937, and was organized primarily by German-Jewish art dealer Curt Valentin (1902-1954), who was noted for dealing primarily this this type of art. Whereas the Nazis organized their exhibition to denigrate Modern Art, which they saw as anti-German and in opposition to the ideals of the party, this exhibition extolls and promotes Modern German Art and Sculpture and the work of many of those same artists including Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger, George Grosz, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Franz Marc, Otto Mueller, Emil Nolde, Ernst… Read More

Herrsching am Ammersee: Schuler Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Large quarto. 372pp. Original pictorial dust-jacket over black cloth, with white lettering on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Fascinating and indispensable work on lamps and candlesticks, with 113 biographies of artists and manufacturers, a large documentation section, and a comprehensive bibliography. It is profusely illustrated with over 500 color and b/w photographic reproductions. Minor shelf wear. Text in German, French and English. Dust-jacket, binding and interior in overall very good condition.

Tucson, Arizona: Nazraeli Press, 1999. Box. Fine condition. 1/1000. Box. (2) 42 (1) plates. Original rectangular plastic box with black bottom and side panels and transparent plastic sliding lid. A collection of forty-two b/w full page photographs printed to heavy card stock with captions on verso and text by Peter C. Bunnell: "The range of subject matter in these pictures is incredible and it shows how widely he has traveled. Uelsmann has created his very own eclectic world; this box is what the 17th-century Dutch called a kunstkamer. He has worked in museums that have brought together the elements of cultures foreign to their own, like the vast compendium that is the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in small museums within the country and society from which the objects originate..." Exquisite production with extraordinary museum quality photographs.

vg. 21" x 4 1/2" heart-shaped, five panel UfA-Palast Königstadt fold-out program for the screening of the UfA film "Melodie des Herzens." In 1925, the main hall on the first floor of the brewery in Königstadt was turned into a cinema. The UfA-Palast Königstadt with 1,500 seats was one of the most luxurious and largest movie theaters in Germany at the time. Illustrated with 6 captioned b/w reproductions of photographs of scenes from the 1929 film. Lists actors, director, plot, place and showtimes of opening of the film "Ab Freitag, den 31. Januar 1930 im Ufa-Palast Königstadt, Schönhauser Allee 10, Norden 8067. Wochentags: 5, 7, 9 Uhr. Sonntag: 3, 5, 7, 9 Uhr. Wochentags zur 5 Uhr-Vorstellung ermäßigte Preise. UfA." The movie was directed by Hanns Schwarz, starring Dita Parlo, Willy Fritsch, Marcsa Simon, János Körmendy, Julisca D. Ligeti, and others. Melodie des Herzens was the first UfA film with sound. Dita Parlo played the lead in this tragic love story. Long before she was brought to… Read More

Berlin: NP, 1941. Softcover. fair. 8vo. 64pp. Original wrappers. Age wear to wraps, minor staining. Bottom right corner of pages slightly creased. Frontispiece. Illustrated with annotated b/w photographs. Interesting study of film production from the early stages of planning until the premiere. "Band III of "Filmschaffen - Filmforschung; Schriften der Ufa-Lehrschau." Text in German. Wraps in fair, interior in good condition.

Princeton, NJ./Jerusalem: Princeton University Press/Magnes Press, 1993. First English language edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 398pp. Purple and blue dust jacket, with white and black lettering on the front cover and spine. Maroon buckram boards with gilt lettering on the spine. The first English translation of Uffenheimer's classic work, originally published in Hebrew in 1968. In this examination of Hasidic thought, the author focuses on the contemplative aspects of Hasidism, rather than petitionary prayer. This edition of the work includes a revised introduction and two new chapters by the authors, as well as an appendix, containing a translation, history and analysis of one of the few extant text attributed to the Ba'al Shem Tov (the founder of Hasidic Judaism). Dust jacket with sunning to extremities, including the spine. Interior with sticker of the previous owner on the interior front cover. Dust jacket in very good-, binding and interior in near fine condition overall.

Zurich: Druck Schulthess AG, 1982. Softcover. vg. 8vo.192pp. Turquoise wrappers with black lettering to front wrapper. Major discoloration to spine. Minor discoloration to edges of wrappers. Great work on Medevial travel account by Peter Fuessli, a bell-maker from Zurich who left to posterity a vivid and detailed diary of the journey which allows us to know exactly the places that were frequented by the pilgrims. In German. In very good condition. Part of a series: Mitteilungen der Antiquarischen Gesellschaft Zurich (Band 50, Heft 3).

Zurich: Edition Stemmle, 2002. Hardcover. vg. Large 4to. [n.p.] Black cloth with embossed title on cover and spine. DJ fine. Includes a preface by Christian Lacroix and text by Sarah Mower. Fine condition.

Paris: Givenchy, n/d. First edition. Softcover. vg. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original printed stiff paper wrappers. Fascinating Givenchy Spring-Summer 2001 fashion catalogue for women, profusely illustrated with 14 full-page b/w photographic reproductions of top-models wearing Givenchy outfits. Captions in French. Wrappers and interior in fine condition.

Berkeley: The University Press, 1907. Softcover. g. 8vo. 108pp. University of California Publications, American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 7, No. 1 (June 1907). Original wrappers. With the signature of Bruce Bryan, the noted author and long time curator of the Southwest Museum of The American Indians in Pasadena, California, on cover. Some discoloration to wrappers. illustrated with full page b/w plates, sketches and two fold out maps. In good condition.

Leipzig: Otto Wigand, 1857. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. 3 volumes, bound in one: vol. I: viii. 249 (2)pp. Followed by two plates in metallic zinc ("zinkographiert"), as issued. vol. II: vi. 331pp. Followed by one lithographic plate, as issued. vol. III: x. 278pp. Followed by two lithographic plates, as issued. Bound in 3-4 leather over black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Work on Egyptology, with history of Agyptology (vol. I), Egyptian Archaeology (vol. II) and Chronological History of Ancient Egypt (vol. 3). With all plates as issued (see above). Age wear to binding, with leather parts strting to fade, especially at edges. Cracks to spine. Library stamp to endpapers. Watermarks to bottom of first pages of vol. I (up to, and including, p. 35), not affecting text. Minor browning and sporadic foxing. Overall clean and tight. In German. Very good condition.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1949. First edition. Softcover. g. Octavo. XIV, 230pp. Original printed wrappers over red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Printer's device on title page. This book, which contains the Maitland Memorial Lectures of 1948, approaches the problem of State and Church in the Middle Ages from a new angle. It sets out to depict the canonist background of medieval papal policy, for medieval popes and their cardinal advisers were first and foremost canonists. The author not only shows how and why the medieval popes pursued a policy of world domination, but also discloses the ideas by which the papal monarchs were primarily influenced. Some age wear on wrappers with spine and edges sunned, and soiling and foxing on covers. Price clipped. Minor offsetting on endpapers. Previous owner's stamp on inside of back cover. Wraps in overall good-, binding in good+ to very good, interior in very good condition.

Glasgow: Jackson, Son & Company, 1951. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 314pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Head and tail of spine bumped and rubbed. DJ chipped with a few closed tears. B&W line drawings and charts throughout the book. Includes a ten page bibliography and a subject index. Glasgow University Publications LXXXIV. Good condition.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 278pp. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Head and tail of spine and corners bumped and rubbed. DJ chipped. B&W line drawings and charts throughout the book. Includes a select bibliography and a subject index. Good condition.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Octavo. XIV, 201, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers over purple cloth with silver lettering on spine. In his Birkbeck Lectures, Professor Ullmann throws new light on a familiar subject. He shows that the Carolingian renaissance had a wider and deeper meaning that has often been thought, especially in its political and ideological aspects. This remarkable book opens new vistas in political, ideological and social history as well as in historical theology and jurisprudence and shows how relevant knowledge of the past is for the understanding of the present. Wrappers, binding and interior in overall very good condition.

Archon Books, 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. vg. Octavo. xii,[1],244pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dust jacket. Frontispiece. "The events of 1378 and the period immediately following, presented with an awareness that the Schism dramatically represents the characteristic features of the ideological crisis of the 14th Century." Illustrated with some b/w photographic reproductions. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Heavy abrasions on dj spine, sporadic tearing and chipping on dj. Dust jacket in fair, binding in very good, interior in near fine condition.