viaLibri ~ Rare Books from 1920

SERNER, Walter.
        Letzte Lockerung. manifest dada.
      . Hannover, Paul Steegemann Verlag, 1920. 22,1 : 14,7 cm. 45,(3) S. Orig.-Umschlag mit typogr. gestaltetem Text in Rot und Schwarz.. Erste Ausgabe. - Dada in Zürich, 80. - Raabe 275.2. - 62.-64. Band der Sammlung "Die Silbergäule". - "Das Manifest ist gedanklich einem Traktat am nächsten, doch eher Kunstwerk denn Proklamation... So unterscheidet Serners Pamphlet sich von anderen Manifesten aus dem Umkreis Dadas vor allem durch die Art der textuellen Gewalt. Wo sich etwa Hugo Ball, Tzara oder Richard Huelsenbeck in Affronts, paradoxalen Sprachspielereien und Spitzfindigkeiten zu verlieren drohen, bleibt Serners Wut stets inhaltlich, ihre Artikulation stets direkt und unmittelbar." (KNLL 15, 232). - Einer der wichtigsten Dada-Texte. - Umschlag leicht angeschmutzt, sonst sehr schönes Exemplar.

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Huelsenbeck, Richard (Hg.):
        En avant dada. Eine Geschichte des Dadaismus.
      Hannover - Leipzig, P. Steegemann, 1920.. 8°. 44 + 4 S. OBrosch.. EA. - Die Silbergäule, Bd. 50-51. - Kl. Randläsuren, leichte Lichtschatten, leichte Gbrsp. - Schönes Exemplar, mit dem typographisch-gestalteten Einband: "Das witzigste Buch über ernsthafte Dinge" (Zitat). - Huelsenbeck, (1892 - 1974), studierte in München, Paris, Zürich, Greifswald und Berlin Literatur, Kunstgeschichte und Medizin, wurde zum Dr. med. und zum Dr. phil. promoviert und befaßte sich mit Psychotherapie und Psychoanalyse. 1914 veröffentlichte er erste Gedichte in Franz Pfemferts "Aktion", hielt sich seit 1916 in der Schweiz auf und gehörte neben Hans Arp, Hugo Ball und Tristan Tzara zu den Initiatoren des Dadaismus im "Cabaret Voltaire" in Zürich. Nach Berlin zurückgekehrt, begründete H. 1917 mit Raoul Hausmann und George Grosz den Dadaismus in der Berliner Sezession. Er wirkte mit den Schriften En avant Dada (1920) und Dada siegt (1920) sowie als Herausgeber des "Dada-Almanachs" als Wortführer der Dada-Bewegung. 1923-33 vorwiegend publizistisch und als Schiffsarzt nach Ostasien und Afrika tätig, emigrierte H. 1936 in die USA. Dort ließ er sich in New York als Psychiater und Psychoanalytiker nieder. 1970 kehrte er in die Schweiz zurück. H. war Dramatiker, Lyriker, Erzähler und Essayist, engagierte sich seit den vierziger Jahren auch im Bereich der bildenden Kunst und stellte zum Teil gemeinsam mit seiner Frau Beate Wolff in New York aus. Zu seinen zahlreichen Veröffentlichungen gehören auch die autobiographischen Schriften Mit Witz, Licht und Grütze (1957) und Reise bis ans Ende der Freiheit (postum 1984). (DBE)

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Raabe, Wilhelm
        Die schwarze Galeere.
      München: J. Schröder, 1920.. 51 u. (2) S. mit 17 Holzschnitten von Bruno Goldschmitt, 4°, Ganzpergament auf fünf Bünden, Kopfgoldschnitt u. Stehkantenvergoldung, ---- dieses Werk wurde als vierter Druck der Reihe "Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur mit Original-Graphik" in einer einmaligen Vorzugsausgabe von 315 Exemplaren auf echtem Bütten von van Gelder Zonen in Amsterdam gedruckt, die Nummern 1 - 50 wurden auf besonders starkem Bütten abgezogen und in ihnen alle Holzschnitte vom Künstler signiert (im Druckvermerk mit B. Goldschmitt, sonst mit BG), dieses Exemplar führt die Nummer 21.. Einband etwas rau u. wenige Gebrauchsspuren, Kanten berieben, Ecken wenig bestoßen, sonst guter Zustand. (Wir können Fotos vom Zustand senden).

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Saint-Saens, Camille, French composer (1835-1921).
        Autograph letter signed ("C. Saint- Saens") and autograph manuscript (unsigned).
      Algiers, 17. I. 1920.. 8vo. 4pp (letter) and 13 pp. (mscpt.). With original envelope.. To Madame Charles de Gallaud. The gift of an autograph manuscript of the composer's lecture on La Fontaine's Fables replete with additions and deletions to an admiring patron. In his letter, Saint-Saens writes in part: Since this manuscript has the honor of being desired by you, I am only too happy to offer it to you. I am giving it to you without pride, with its deletions and additions and even with the copy of the 'Fables' which I made to make up for the lack of a prompter; and experience has shown me that I did right, and that without that I would have been too brief; and I understood the absolute necessity for a prompter at the theater even for the actors most sure of their parts, despite the prodigious memory of most of them. This attempt at a meeting was well received, but I would not make myself a lecturer, it is too late. However, God knows if I should have anything to say about music! But many of the things which I should want to say cannot be said. Bad habits in music become widespread and one would have to criticize everyone! What to do, one against all! The task is impossible. And I would become the target of too many enemies [...]" (transl. from the French original). - In his manuscript, Saint-Saens writes that instead of playing the piano, he is giving a lecture, but not at Madame Brisson's Annals in Paris, where he would feel outclassed, but in Algiers, where he has so often taken shelter from the winter and which has saved his life several times. "And now the war is over, it is permitted to have a little amusement". The talk will not be about music, but on La Fontaine's Fables, which he has loved since childhood, but has only come to understand upon constant re-reading. He speaks of La Fontaine's facility with verse, which is deceptive and "thanks to his musical ear, the harmony and equilibrium are such that one doesn't even notice the diversity of rhythms; he leads us whenever he likes, and we follow". He continues with a discussion of La Fontaine's morality and his keen eye for nature and art. He concludes: "La Fontaine did not just know how to paint, he knew how to observe; he studied nature, and he saw what others could not see. In the seventeenth century, in the age of Descartes, animals were thought to have no intelligence. La Fontaine dared to think otherwise, even if he did use animals to illustrate people's behavior". - Saint- Saens proceeds to recite two of La Fontaine's fables in closing. An important letter and manuscript revealing the composer's great interest and his admiration of La Fontaine.

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Mann, Thomas,
        Der kleine Herr Friedemann. Mit Orig.-Holzschnitten (11 Vollbilder, 4 zweifarbige Initialen) von Otto Nückel.
      München, Phantasus 1920.. 4°. (6), 58, (4) S. + 11 Bl. Holzschnitte, Orig.-Ganzpergamentband mit goldgepr. Deckelvignette u. Rückentitel, Kopfgoldschnitt u. handgestochenen Kapitalen. Der unbeschnittene Schnitt u. sehr vereinzelt das Papier mit wenigen schwachen Stockflecken, sonst hervorragend erhalten, vor allem auch der sehr empfindliche Einband. Bürgin I.1.a. Potempa E.4.2. Rodenberg 457. Schauer II.99.. * Zweiter Phantasusdruck. Eins von 50 (ges. 220) Exemplaren der Vorzugsausgabe, in Antik-Kalbspergament gebunden. Im Colophon von Mann und Nückel signiert. - Der Text wurde aus der Cicero Alten Schwabacher von Hand gesetzt u. auf kräftigen handgeschöpften Büttenkarton abgezogen.

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Tibullus, Albius (Tibull):
        Elegiae. Mit Titel und 24 Initialen von Anna Simons.
      Tölz, Bremer Presse 1920.. LXXXII, 2 Bll. Kl.-4°. OHPgt. der "Bremer Binderei" (Sign. a. hint. Innenspiegel) mit goldgepräg. RTitel und farb. marmor. Deckenbezug. (= Bremer Presse, 5. Druck).. Rodenberg 57, 5. - Schauer II, 68. - Lehnacker 5. - Eins von 270 num. Exemplaren auf Van-Geldern-Bütten mit dem Wasserzeichen der Presse. - Lateinischer Text unter Zugrundelegung der Ausgabe von Eduard Hiller (Leipzig 1885), gesetzt aus der 16 Punkt Antiqua. - Mit dem Titel und den Initialen von Anna Simons, einer Schülerin des engl. Schriftkünstlers Edward Johnston. - Einband und Schnitt etwas gebräunt. - Gut erhaltene Ausgabe. - We accept all main credit cards. - Wir akzeptieren Kreditkarten. - *** 82 Jahre Antiquariat Arno Adler (1932-2014) ***

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LARISCH-RAMSAUER, Hertha (1897-1972). Österreichische Schrift- und Buchkünstlerin.
        "Walter von der Vogelweide. Gedichte". Kalligraphisches Manuskript auf Papier. Geschrieben in schwarzer Tinte in einer gotischen Fraktur mit 29 grossen Initialen und 2 kleinen Zierstücken in erhabenem Gold aufgelegt.
      . Datiert: "scr. Hertha Ramsauer Wien 1920". 36 Blatt Leporello. Blattgrösse 16,1 : 8,7 cm, Schriftspiegel ca. 11,5 : 6 (mit Initial ca. 11,5 : 8) cm. Die beiden gepolsterten Deckel mit dunkelgrünem Velourlederbezug, die Innendeckel mit beigem Seidenbezug. Auf dem Vorderdeckel sind die Initialen und das Wappen des Dichters in rotem Wildleder appliziert, Goldschnitt an Kopf und Fuss (Vorderdeckel mit wenigen winzigen Flecken).. Jahrbuch der Einbandkunst, 1. Jahrg. 1927, Abbildung Tafel 55 und Seite 187. - Die 1897 in Wien geborene Hertha Ramsauer studierte dort Malerei bei Koloman Moser sowie Buch- und Schriftkunst bei Rudolf von Larisch (1856-1934) an der Akademie, dessen Assistentin sie wurde und den sie 1931 heiratete. Ab 1933 war sie an der Kunstgewerbeschule München lehrtätig, übernahm aber nach dem Tode ihres Mannes dessen Nachfolge im Amt und führte seine Bemühungen um die Erneuerung der Schreibkunst fort (Vollmer III,174 und IV,16; NDB XIII, 636 f). - In ihrem hier vorliegenden Werk hat sie die Minne- und Spruchdichtung Walthers von der Vogelweide künstlerisch gestaltet. Sie behielt die mittelhochdeutsche Sprachform bei und wählte eine der Textura angenäherte Frakturschrift mit teilweise ausgeprägten Ober- und Unterlänge sowie sorgfältig gearbeitete Initialen, um ein Gesamtwerk von künstlerischem Rang zu schaffen und dem Leser ein ruhiges und ausgeglichenes, aber doch fein bewegtes Schriftbild vor Augen zu führen. Die Bugfalten des Leporellos sind grösstenteils original mit Pergamentstreifen hinterlegt. Durch stellenweisen Abklatsch der Goldinitialen minimal fleckig, insgesamt von vorzüglicher Erhaltung. - Beiliegt: Dieselbe. E. Brief m. U., dat. Wien 26.9.1922, 1 S. auf gefalt. Bogen mit gedruckter Adresse. Mit e. adressiertem, gelaufenen Briefumschlag. - An den Käufer der Handschrift, einen Fabrikanten in Winterthur (Hermann Müller i.Fa. Müller-Guex & Co.): "... Von meinem Meister, Prof. Larisch erhalte ich soeben 200 Franken für mein Walter v.d.Vogelweide-Büchlein und beeile mich, Ihnen den Empfang dieses Betrages zu bestätigen. Ich freue mich sehr, dass diese meine Arbeit in Ihre Hände kam...". - Ebenfalls in sehr guter Erhaltung.

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        Sacchetti, Enrico. - "Dina Galli".
      . Zeichnung / Gouache, über Kreide, auf hellem Karton, um 1920. Von Enrico Sacchetti. 31,1 x 25,0 cm (Darstellung / Blatt). Verso in Bleistift betitelt: "Attrice Dina Galli" sowie bezeichnet "Enrico Sacchetti". - Geringe, kaum merkliche Randmängel. Sehr gut erhalten. Enrico Sacchetti (1877 Rom - 1967 Settignano). Italienischer Maler, Illustrator und Plakatgestalter. Nach dem Studium der Physik und Mathematik Schüler bei Libero Andreotti. 1901 in Florenz Mitarbeit an "Bruscolo" und "La nouva Musica" bei Vamba. Danach in Mailand, wo er für die satirische Zeitschrift "Verde e azzurro" von Umberto Notari zeichnete, für den er 1903 sein erstes Plakat entwarf. Ab 1905 Illustrationen für das Journal "Teatro" und für "Le Roi Bombance" (Re Baldoria) von Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, den Begründer des Futurismus, Zusammen mit Cesare Tallone und Ugo Valeri illustrierte er Umberto Notaris Buch "Quelle signore". 1908-11 ging er nach Buenos Aires in Argentinien, wo er für die Zeitung "El Diario" arbeitete. 1912 besuchte er seinen Freund Libero Andreotti in Frankreich, wo er zunhemend für die Modebranche tätig wurde. Mit Kriegbeginn 1814 ging er nach Italien zurück, wo er für die Kriegspropaganda tätig war. propaganda against Austria, while collaborating to the weekly journal? Numero? as well as with ? 420?,and realized also several satirical postcards. Towards the end of the war, he is among the authors of La Tradotta, the famous "magazine of Third Army", where he draws many postcards and illustrations. He collaborates to Corriere dei piccoli and La lettura, two magazines of the newspaper Corriere della sera. He is greatly appreciated also for his advertising posters, and it is important to remember the poster for Bitter Campari in 1921. He contributes, until the Second World War, to journals such as ?L?Illustrazione italiana? and ? Liedel?, while his production for the book market is large: Actually he illustrates volumes published by Mondadori, Sonzogno, Zanichelli. From the 20s he writes articles and books, such as "Vita d'artista" (1935, his first book, winner at IX Premio Bagutta)and "Due baci" (1935). During the ?cold war? his son Dino dies in Albania, and he dedicates to him the book "Arte lunga" (Vallecchi, 1941). After the war he goes on writing , "Capire" (1948), "La bottega della memoria" (Vallecchi, 1953), "Che cosa e l'arte" (Vallechi, 1954?) "Il disegno e il disegnatore". Dina Galli (1877 Mailand - 1951 Rom). Eigentlich Clotilde Anna Maria Galli. Italienische Schauspielerin und Modeikone des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts..

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Original Watercolor) Herschel C Logan
        Other Days in Pictures and Verse; Christmas Card; Original Art by Logan,
      Burton Publishing Company c. 1920, Kansas City, MO - Folio. Cloth spine, paper over boards, printed paper label on the upper board. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts by Herschel C. Logan. Inscribed at the end of the introduction by Logan to his 'good friends Bill and Lucile'. Laid in is a 1982 Christmas card from Anne and Herschel Logan with a tipped on woodcut of the church in Taos by Herschel. Also laid in is a card 7½ by 10½ inches, followed once, with an original drawing of a scarab and a flower on the front in blue and red. Inside is a full page water color of Lucile and Bill dressed as Queen of Egypt and Pharaoh by Herschel Logan. The book has a marginal damp stain along the bottom of the upper board; not was noted in the text, which is fine. The card and the original water color are in fine condition. The Rasmussens operated the Dragon Bindery in Orange, California. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Schubert, Johann David (1761 Dresden 1822 (oder 1823)) und Geyser, Friedrich Christian Gottlieb (1772 Leipzig 1846)
        Familienbild
      . Punktiermanier; 13,1 x 14,5 cm (Blatt); bez. unten links "J. D. Schubert de."; sign. unten rechts "F. C. Geyser fc:" Lit.: Thieme/Becker 1920, Bd. 13, S. 516. Professionell unter säurefreiem Museumspassepartout montiert.. Mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit diente das "Familienbild" als Illustrationsstich zu einem literarischen Werk. Sowohl Familienratgeber als auch Almanache und Taschenkalender waren im 18. Jahrhundert häufig mit Grafiken versehen, die dem Leser das Glück der häuslichen Idylle demonstrieren sollten. Obgleich diese Schilderungen nur selten eine Entsprechung in der Realität fanden, bedeuteten sie den Zeitgenossen ein wünschenswertes Gegenbild zu ihrer eigenen Lebenswelt. Unserer Darstellung nicht unähnlich sind zahlreiche Arbeiten Daniel Chodowieckis (1718-1801), der viele Neuerscheinungen mal mehr, mal weniger moralisierend illustrierte. Als Beispiel wäre hier das Titelkupfer für eine Neuauflage von Theodor Gottlieb von Hippels einflußreichem Traktat "Über die Ehe" zu nennen, in dem Chodowiecki 1792 ein ähnliches Ideal einer in sich ruhenden kleinen Gruppe schuf, wie es auch unser "Familienbild" darstellt. Die vorliegende Schilderung einer siebenköpfigen Familie kann als Sinnbild reinster Idylle gelten, die in das Format zwischen rund und oval harmonisch eingefügt ist. Ungetrübte Harmonie vermitteln auch die Personen, die sich durch einen äußerst liebevollen Umgang miteinander und einen wechselseitigen Blickkontakt auszeichnen. Die beiden jüngsten Kinder auf dem Arm, stehen Mutter und Vater für das Ideal einer glücklichen Familie, zu der die übrigen drei Kinder andächtig hinsehen. Im Zentrum des Bildes und zugleich als Spitze der Komposition befindet sich die Mutter, deren gedankenvoller Blick dem sorgenden Ehemann gilt. Charakteristisch ist der "Schlüssellocheffekt", bei der der Betrachter wie ein Voyeur der Intimität der häuslichen Szene beiwohnt. Johann David Schubert hatte in seiner künstlerischen Laufbahn des öfteren Stichvorlagen für Taschenbücher und Romane geliefert, darunter Illustrationen zu Goethes "Werther", aber er fertigte auch Muster für die Meißener Porzellanmanufaktur an. Friedrich Christian Gottlieb Geyser, der unser Blatt im Jahr 1792 radiert haben soll,1 war hauptsächlich als Reproduktionsgraphiker tätig, wobei Tusch- und Punktiermanier zu seiner bevorzugten Technik gehörten. Eine Folge gemeinschaftlicher Illustrationen von Schubert und Geyser erschien 1794 in der Neuauflage der "Moralische[n] Kinderklapper".

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(Original Watercolor) Herschel C Logan
        Other Days in Pictures and Verse; Christmas Card; Original Art by Logan
      Kansas City, MO: Burton Publishing Company, c. 1920. First edition.. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. Cloth spine, paper over boards, printed paper label on the upper board. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts by Herschel C. Logan. Inscribed at the end of the introduction by Logan to his 'good friends Bill and Lucile'. Laid in is a 1982 Christmas card from Anne and Herschel Logan with a tipped on woodcut of the church in Taos by Herschel. Also laid in is a card 7½ by 10½ inches, followed once, with an original drawing of a scarab and a flower on the front in blue and red. Inside is a full page water color of Lucile and Bill dressed as Queen of Egypt and Pharaoh by Herschel Logan. The book has a marginal damp stain along the bottom of the upper board; not was noted in the text, which is fine. The card and the original water color are in fine condition. The Rasmussens operated the Dragon Bindery in Orange, California.

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Strobl, Karl Hans (Hrsg.) und Czibulka, Alf von (Schriftleiter),
        Orchideengarten. Phantastische Blätter. 2. Jahrgang 1920.
      München, Dreiländerverlag 1920.. Vollständiger Sammelband der Hefte 1-24. Reich illustriert. 4to. OHLwd.-Einband d. Zt. mit goldgeprägtem Titel und Rückenschild.. Vollständiger Sammelband des kompleten 2. Jahrgangs dieses ersten Fantasy-Magazins. Mit zahlreichen Illustrationen nach u.a. Aubrey Beardsley, Gustav Dore, Rolf von Hoerschelmann, Tony Johannot, Otto Linnekogel, Heinrich Kley, Alfred Kubin, Otto Muck, Carl Rabe oder Karl Ritter. - Sehr selten. - Vorderer Deckel mit kleinen Gebrauchsspuren. Hinterer Deckel geworfen. Buchschnitt im hinteren Drittel verfärbt. Klammerbindung leicht gerostet. Innen vorwiegend im Randbereich minimal gebräunt, sonst gut erhalten.

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LA LOUPE (Vincent de), FIOCCHI (Andrea Domenico) [sous le pseudo de FENESTELLA]
        1- LA LOUPE (Vincent de). Premier et second livre des Dignitez, magistrats & offices du Royaume de France. Ausquels est de nouveau adjouste le tiers livre de ceste matiere, outre la reveue & augmentation d'iceux. Paris, Guillaume le Noir, 1560. 3 parties, 68 f., titres compris. 2- [FIOCCHI (Andrea Domenico)]. L. Fenestella, De Magistratibus sacerdotiisque Romanorum. Pomponius Laetus itidem de Magistratibus & Sacerdotiis, & praeterea de diversis legibus Romanorum. Lutetiae, ex off. R. Stephani [Paris, Robert Estienne], 1549. 112, (6) p., colophon au verso du dern. f., qqs aureoles en coin.
      . Ensemble relie en un volume in-8, plein veau mouchete, dos a 5 nerfs orne d'un riche decor dore de caissons garnis du monogramme "DG" repete au centre, piece de titre de maroquin bordeaux, roulette sur les coupes, tranches mouchetees rouges (un mors fendu, rel. du XVIIe s.). 1- Premiere edition francaise de cet essai traduit du latin, largement remanie et augmente par l'auteur lui-meme. Juriste, historien et magistrat du pays chartrain, Vincent de La Loupe etudie les attributions et fonctions des differents offices dans le royaume, recherche l'origine de leur pouvoir et cite les principaux travaux de ses contemporains en la matiere : Paul Emile, Gaguin, Bude pere et fils, etc. G. Weill ('Theories du pouvoir royal en France', p. 20-21) classe cet ouvrage comme exemplaire des theories du pouvoir absolu qui fleurissaient a l'epoque. Cf. egalement R. Doucet, 'Institutions de la France au XVIe s.', p. 198 sq. et 898. (Brunet, III, 779 Guigard, 'Bibliotheque heraldique de la France', n°1920). 2- Publie sous le nom de l'historien romain Fenestrella, l'oeuvre est du canon et secretaire papal Andrea Domenico Fiocchi. (Adams, F.602. Renouard, p. 75, n°21). Contient egalement : DURET (Jean). L'harmonie et conference des magistrats romains avec les officiers francois (...). [Lyon, Benoist Rigaud, 1574]. [8]-177 f. et (6) f. de tables (manque les 8 f. preliminaires et les 2 derniers f. de table). Provenance : Denis Godefroy (1615-1681), conseiller et historiographe du roi, garde des archives de la Chambre des comptes de Lille, avec son monogramme dore au dos. Bon exemplaire, bien relie..

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Bonnier / Bouwens de Boijen / Chedanne u.a. (Edd.)
        Maisons les plus remarquables construites a Paris de 1905 a 1914.
      Paris (Levy) 1920.. 56 Textseiten. 100 Heliogravüren (2 davon farbig), 36,5 x 27,5 cm. Lose in Orig.-Leinenmappe (Mappe berieben; wenige Tafeln am Rand leicht angestaubt oder fingerfleckig). * Seltenes Architekturwerk zwischen Historismus und Moderne. Die Architekten: A. Arfvidson, E. Arnaud, M. Auburtin, A. Barberis, A. Barret, Ch. Blanche, A. Bluysen, L. Boileau, G. Brun, R. Bouwens de Boijen, J. Charlet, L. Chesnay, E. Chifflot, H. Deglane, R. Dupard, E. Dupont, H. Duray, Ch. Duval, Ch. Formige, Fournier de Saint-Maur, A. Gagey, E. Gonse, P. Guadet, J. Hermant, E. Jarlat, A. Labussiere, Th. Lambert, P. Lebret, Ch. Lefebvre, Ch. Letrosne, C. Longerey, P. Marozeau, E. Meyer, E. Navarre, L. Perin, A.&.G. Perret, F. Perrin, Ch. Plumet, R. Rousselot, L. Sorel, H. Tauzin, G. Vimort. - Die Tafeln in hervorragender Druckqualität zeigen Fassaden, Portale, Straßenzüge sowie einige Innenansichten von Hotels in Paris, meist nach Fotografien, teils auch nach Architekturzeichnungen, mit einigen Grundrissen.

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Kindermann, Rudolf (1898-1933).
        Chinesische Lyrik. Handkolorierter Faksimiledruck. Übertragen aus dem Englischen von Rudolf Kindermann, Buchschmuck nach handkolorierten und handgedruckten Schnitten von Herbert von Garvens-Garvensburg, geschrieben von Hanns Krenz. Entstanden in der Gefangenschaft auf Fort Barraux Juni 1919. Erster Druck der Galerie von Garvens. Handschriftlich nummeriertes Exemplar mit der Nummer VI von 75 Exemplaren der Normalausgabe [GA 100 Exemplare].
      Verlag der Galerie von Garvens,, Hannover, 1920 - Hannover, Verlag der Galerie von Garvens, 1920, 19,6 x 15 cm, (26) Seiten nicht nummerierte Doppelblätter, mit Batikpapier überzogene Pappdeckel mit Kordelbindung (etwas berieben), die ersten 2 Bögen oben rechts mit Eckknick, insgesamt gutes Exemplar. >Getrüffeltes Exemplar< der Normalsausgabe mit handschriftlicher Widmung von Hanns Krenz an "Hans - Alma", datiert Hannover 1922. - Vester, K. in: Galerie von Garvens, Magisterarbeit, 1988, 2 Bände, siehe Seite 26ff: "Verlag der Galerie von Garvens: Seit Beginn des Bestehens der Galerie beabsichtigt Herbert von Garvens, einen eigenen Verlag zu gründen. Die insgesamt sechs Publikationen sind von exklusiver Ausstattung, Liebhaberstücke in kleiner Auflage. So erscheint der Band "Chinesische Lyrik" als handkolorierter Faksimiledruck in 100 Exemplaren, davon 25 gebunden in alter chinesischer Seide zum Preis von ca. 200 Mark. 75 in Rohseide (ca. 125 Mark). [.]". Es existieren nummerierte Exemplare der Normalausgabe gebunden in Rohseide und mit Batikpapierbezüge. Sprache: Deutsch die ersten 2 Bögen oben rechts mit Eckknick, insgesamt gutes Exemplar. mit Batikpapier überzogene Pappdeckel mit Kordelbindung (etwas berieben), [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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SOLOMON, Solomon J
        Strategic Camougflage
      London: John Murray,, 1920. London: John Murray,, 1920. Quarto. Original green-blue cloth, title gilt to the upper board and spine. Frontispiece and 30 other plates, 26 of them black and white, 2 of them folding, and 4 coloured. Just a little rubbed, small spot to the upper cover amateurishly recoloured, the endpapers lightly browned, some foxing, front, back and marginally, neat red pencil underlining throughout. First edition. Trained at Heatherley's, the Royal Academy Schools, the Munich Academy, and École des Beaux-Arts, at the outbreak of the War in 1914 Solomon was well-established as a society portraitist and painter of popular painter of biblical, mythological, and genre subjects. Signed up as a private in the Artist's Rifles, he began to promote his ideas about the importance and application of camouflage through the press, eventually attracting the attention of the War Office. Late in 1915, Plumer arranged for Solomon to visit the Western Front to study the techniques being employed by the French École de Camouflage, which was headed by the head scene painter from the Opéra de Paris. As a result he was sent to France to establish a camouflage section, Haig having arranged that he be given the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in order for him to be able to carry forward the section's work effectively. Later in the war he was recalled to London where he concentrated on perfecting the concealment of large areas of terrain, a subject which he addresses in the present work. Ownership inscription of Cha[rle]s W[illiam] Glover, dated 1939, to the front free endpaper, and his textual markings. Glover was an architect, head of the consulting architects C.W. Glover & Partners, and a leading expert on acoustics, during the war the firm was responsible for numerous projects for which a grasp of Solomons' principles would have been essential, for example the provision of the whole of St. Pancras with air-raid shelters. Glover is probably best-known today for his 1931 scheme to built an airport on top of King's Cross station. A nicely provenanced copy of an uncommon, and important work.

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        Robinson's Distance Diagram Directory of N.S.W. Towns.
      H. E. C. Robinson Ltd, George Street, Ca 1920, Sydney: - Large rolling wall diagram of New South Wales showing the distances between railway stations for all towns with rail stations in New South Wales, as well as steamer routes and motor car and coach routes, and oddly, not recorded on Trove. The notes at the lower left include: "this is not a Map but merely a Diagram"; and "the diagram does not show every railway stations but only those which are the starting places for reaching localities not connected directly by Railway". There is an Index at the right side of the diagram showing towns and localities not directly connected by railway. Color lithograph diagram with New South Wales divided into 55 zones, each numbered in red. Printed on linen with stitched cloth binding at edges. Measures 30 x 49". Lacking the top roller, original wood roller at the bottom. Small scratch in surface of diagram at Zone 13, slight damp staining at upper corners.Herbert Edward Cooper Robinson (1857?-1933) established a map publishing business in Sydney in 1895, moving to different locations before settling permanently at 221 George Street in 1913. Robinson's did a brisk business especially during the great War, and in the 1920s the firm published its well known series of maps on pastoral stations. The firm eventually became the name in Australasian maps, producing wall & sheet maps, street directories and atlases, and selling imported maps. Robinson also helped make Edgeworth David's large scale map, "Geological Map of the Commonwealth of Australia". [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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        Robinson's Distance Diagram Directory of N.S.W. Towns
      Sydney:: H. E. C. Robinson Ltd, George Street,, Ca. 1920.. Sydney:: H. E. C. Robinson Ltd, George Street,. Ca. 1920.. Second edition. Very good condition. Large rolling wall diagram of New South Wales showing the distances between railway stations for all towns with rail stations in New South Wales, as well as steamer routes and motor car and coach routes, and oddly, not recorded on Trove. The notes at the lower left include: "this is not a Map but merely a Diagram"; and "the diagram does not show every railway stations but only those which are the starting places for reaching localities not connected directly by Railway". There is an Index at the right side of the diagram showing towns and localities not directly connected by railway. Color lithograph diagram with New South Wales divided into 55 zones, each numbered in red. Printed on linen with stitched cloth binding at edges. Measures 30 x 49". Lacking the top roller, original wood roller at the bottom. Small scratch in surface of diagram at Zone 13, slight damp staining at upper corners.& & Herbert Edward Cooper Robinson (1857?-1933) established a map publishing business in Sydney in 1895, moving to different locations before settling permanently at 221 George Street in 1913. Robinson's did a brisk business especially during the great War, and in the 1920s the firm published its well known series of maps on pastoral stations. The firm eventually became the name in Australasian maps, producing wall & sheet maps, street directories and atlases, and selling imported maps. Robinson also helped make Edgeworth David's large scale map, "Geological Map of the Commonwealth of Australia".

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Stawell, Mrs. Rodolph
        MY DAYS WITH THE FAIRIES
      Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1920. Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1920. 1st thus edition.. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Dulac, Edmund. Very good condition with no wrapper. A new and enlarged edition of "Fairies I Have Met". Red cloth with lovely gilt and colour decorations to front and spine. Cream endpapers and title- page. 8 tipped-in colour plates mounted on tan textured mounts with red line frames and with tissue guards imprinted with green letterpress titles and delicate drawing of fairy. 169 pages. 10 x 7.5". Spine light faded. Front joint starting to pull between front endpaper and first blank page. Inscription in ink to front free end paper. All Plates present. Tissue guard to frontis missing. [S]

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Shackleton, Ernest
        South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
      New York: Macmillan, 1920. New York: Macmillan. 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1920, First Edition. 388 pp. With 88 illustrations and diagrams, including the color frontis and fold-out map. Hardcover, 8vo., original green cloth with gilt title. Very Good, no dust jacket. Minor shelfwear to the spine ends, corners and edges; soft crease down the spine cloth. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Bright and unmarked contents. A few gutters have been expertly strengthened. There is a single 1-inch snag to the left side of the fold-out map, as well as 2 other shallow snags along the edges. Overall, a sound, clean copy of this uncommon title. Digital images available upon request.

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Asbjornsen
        East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North
      London : Hodder and Stoughton . London : Hodder and Stoughton A good copy of this classic work with 24 tipped in colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations and designs by Kay Nielson. Undated but late 1920's (there is an ink inscription on the fep dated Xmas 1930). In blue cloth binding with blind stamped lines to front board and gilt titles to spine. The binding is clean and bright. There is wear to corners and edges including the top and bottom of the spine. There is very slight marking on the back board. Internally the endpapers and preliminaries have light browning and spotting. There is also some spotting to page edges, generally visible when the book is closed. There is a small repaired paper tear to the side margin of page 47 and there is a split in the rear endpaper at the top of the joint between the endpaper and the book block. Otherwise the contents, including the tipped in plates are in very good and clean condition. A nice copy.

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Winston S. Churchill
        Memorandum of the Secretary of State for War Relating to the Army Estimates for 1920-21
      London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1920. 1st Edition. Paperback. Fine. Offered here is a scarce official government publication from Churchill's period as Secretary of State for War and Air - a Memorandum to Parliament regarding his Army Estimates for 1920-21 - meant to accompany his speech to Parliament of 23 February 1920. In January 1919, when he became Secretary of State for War and Air, Winston Churchill was only in his early 40s. Nonetheless, he was already a polarizing national figure who had already held several important Cabinet positions and been a force in national politics for nearly two decades. And he was already steeped in the politics, strategy, tactics, and realities of war. As a young man, he had seen and fought in wars on several continents, as both an insightful war correspondent and a professional soldier. In the First World War, Churchill's experience was truly singular, having served both in the Cabinet and on the front. Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty until 1915 and then, after assuming questionable blame for the Dardanelles tragedy, served as a lieutenant colonel leading a battalion in the trenches, before being politically rehabilitated and returned to the Cabinet, before the war's end, as Minster of Munitions. As the new Secretary of State for War and Air in January 1919, Churchill immediately faced two overarching challenges: to demobilize the army that had fought the First World War, and to replace it with the army that would be prepared to fight future wars. On 23 February 1920, Churchill presented "The Army Estimates for 1920-21" to the House of Commons, announcing the final phases of demobilization and the replacement of the WWI army with "an entirely new Volunteer Army". The original government document offered here is Churchill's memorandum to Parliament "Issued in Amplification of the Speech of the Secretary of State introducing the Army Estimates for 1920-21." The two paragraph introduction by Churchill is dated 21 January, two days prior to Churchill's speech to Parliament. The Memorandum is intended to prepare the Parliamentary ground for the budgetary plow with what Churchill calls in his page 2 introduction "the interesting details". Churchill's speech to Parliament made the case for a very different army, bolstered by Churchill's assessment of major evolutions in strategic realities and the nature and mechanics of warfare itself. Churchill's memorandum offered here substantiates with details his requests and considerations, summarizing lessons of the war, the requirements of "the Future Army", and discussing a broad range of training, personnel policies, and organizational priorities. By all accounts, Churchill handled the mammoth task of demobilizing nearly 3.5 million British soldiers with success. Creating and sustaining a modern army proved more frustrating for Churchill, who found himself: "in charge of a War Office without a war, committed to economies". (See Martin Gilbert, Official Biography, Volume IV, p.506.) This very scarce document encapsulates much of Churchill's effort with respect to the army and offers a unique and substantial window into his time at the War Office. By 1921, he would be eager to leave the War Office, frustrated the lack of outlet for his talents and by differences with his Prime Minister. He would become Secretary of State for the Colonies in February 1921 and would not return to a military Cabinet post until the onset of the Second World War in 1939. This original Memorandum is in superlative, virtually mint, condition. There is absolutely no wear, no soiling, and no age-toning to either the covers or contents. Even the original string at the binding is bright, clean, and perfect. The only markings are official-looking ink stamped pagination (159-177) at the top right corners, indicating that this publication was likely once bound, which would explain the superlative condition. Bibliographic reference: Cohen B21

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Pollard, Harry
        Martin Horse - "Blackfoot"
      [circa 1920]. (Photograph) Very good. 19" X 15.5" (48.2 X 39.37 CM) in wooden frame carved into soft waves at edge, with thin red inner border. Frame measures 23" X 19.5" (58.4 X 49.5 cm); it shows some scratching and small dents. Original, hand coloured photo. A beautiful clean image with bright, rich colouring. Artist: Harry Pollard. This portrait shows a beautiful juxtaposition between delicate photo-realistic details and strong, paint heavy brush stroked in the background. A really wonderful piece. Harry Pollard (18801968) was a Canadian photographer whose specialty was photographing First Nations people of Canada. Though born in Ontario the photographer moved to Calgary in 1899 where he opened a photo studio..

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Head, Franklin D; Olmsted, Frederick Law
        A Notable Law Suit
      1920. A Literary Hoax on a Legal Subject Head, Franklin D. [Olmsted, Frederick Law (1822-1903)]. A Notable Law Suit. Np, Privately Printed, ca. 1920s? 54 single-sided typed sheets. Autograph letter from Arthur P. Rugg, signed, bound in before title page. 8" x 6-1/4." Cloth, gilt title to front board, cord tie, marbled endpapers. A one-page Autograph Letter Signed is bound in before title page. Cloth pocket on inside of rear board imprinted in gilt, "Sequel," containing within it an envelope, also titled "Sequel," containing a one-page, bifoliate autograph letter, signed, a four-page, typed circular letter and a two-page typed copy of a letter. Some separation along seam on cloth pocket along fore-edge, otherwise very good. * Franklin D. Head's after-dinner conversation about treasure buried on the coast of Maine by the notorious pirate Captain Kidd resulted in the writing of a tongue-in-cheek story intended only for intimate friends, but which soon afterwards, because of a very convincing narrative, was taken for a true tale. The work's title refers to a supposed lawsuit between Frederick Law Olmsted, the noted landscape architect, and members of the Astor family. Olmsted purportedly accused the Astors of stealing Kidd's treasure from Olmsted's family's land on Deer Isle, Maine. It was Olmsted's daughter Marion's after-dinner conversation with the author that led to the production of this, to use Frederick Law Olmsted's words, "burlesque hoax." While it is unclear who produced the present book or when it was printed (typed), it is possible that the main text was copied from an edition privately printed around 1898. The present copy is distinguished by the inclusion of the Frederick Law Olmsted's "sequel" in which he explains the hoax. The sequel is in the form of a circular letter and is itself likely a typed copy. The two autograph letters were written by Massachusetts Chief Justice Arthur P. Rugg [1815-1938]. Dated June 23, 1923, both letters are likely addressed to Charles A. DeCourcy [1857-1924], Associate Justice of Massachusetts. Rugg's bound-in letter presents this copy of the book to DeCourcy and his second letter, a kind of cover letter housed in the pocket with the sequel, sheds further light on the unmasking of the hoax. Rugg also includes a typed copy of a letter from his friend and pastor, Shepard Kna

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Chapman, W.S
        Memories of a Life spent between the Bread and the Fishes and the Days when all Cares were forgotten
      [Reading: privately printed, n.d., ca. late 1920s] - Nostalgic privately produced memoir of angling in the Thames Valley a century ago. Chapman was a Reading tobacconist and a keen fisher, and he recounts his experiences fishing on private lakes, ponds, and local rivers, including the Kennet and Thames, as well as misadventures in boats, dense fogs, notable catches of Pike and Thames trout, and an incident of river pollution. The other copy we have seen varies slightly in the pagination and does not include the two photographs of sea fishing off the Cornwall coast. Curious, interesting and uncommon (COARSE FISHING) 8vo. With 6 photographic plates and two inserted photographs. [2], 38 pp. Typewritten text on rectos only. Original green textured cloth, title stamped in gilt on upper board, speckled edges, binder's ticket of Knill & Sons, Reading. Fine [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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SMITH, Logan Pearsall
        Stories from the Old Testament Retold
      The Hogarth Press, Richmond,, 1920. Octavo. Original blue paper wrappers, white label lettered in black on front cover. Spine cracked but holding, edges of wrappers a little yellowed, overall a good copy. First edition, first impression, presentation copy with the author's inscription to someone with the same surname, i.e. "G[----]. Smith from the author". Woolmer notes that this is apparently bound by the Woolfs, as the wrappers appear in a number of differing colours and designs; this copy matches Woolmer's description of it. The number of copies printed is not known, although 439 copies were sold by the end of August 1923, and it was out of print in 1925, suggesting that the print-run was a small one.

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