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Newsletter 23 = Catalog 64 (October, 2013)

Cycling Sybils

Illustration from Nr. 70 of this list

Some subjects

Bindings 8-11

John Buckland Wright 13-29

Incunables 41-43

Onanismus 57-60

Minibooks 70-71

Salvage 74

Painting 75

Vordemberge-Gildewart 79-80

Werkman 81-92

Transport 4, 72, 97

CBO editions 62, 77, 78

1 ALLERS, Christian Wilhelm Capri. München, Hanfstaengel, [1892]. 38 x 31 cm. Large book with 48 leaves containing 61 reproductions of the minutely detailed naturalistic drawings by Allers. Printed in various colors. First edition. Spine a bit worn, binding a bit spotted, corners bumped, but gilt decoration and lettering in excellent condition. Inside some foxing at the gutter, name on first page. Some pages loosening. Not perfect, but a quite acceptable copy.

€ 200

* Christian Allers (1857-1915) was famous for his refined, realistic drawings, published in large books starting in 1885. Allers lived on Capri from 1892. This voluminous book was his joyful tribute to the island, full of lively portraits and landscapes.

2 ALLERS, Christian Wilhelm Hochzeitsreise nach Italien. Stuttgart, Berlin & Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, [1896]. 34 x 45 cm. Large oblong portfolio with 22 leaves (3 double) containing 45 pages printed with collotype ('Lichtdruck') reproductions of the highly detailed naturalistic drawings by Allers. Some drawings in colors. First edition. Spine worn at the outside and the inside, but the rest of the binding is in good condition. Some foxing, especially at the beginning.

€ 150

* Humorous pictorial account of a Honeymoon Trip to Italy of a German couple, with very fine views of Milan and Venice. One of the nicest and largest of Allers's popular book productions. Allers was implicated at the Krupp scandal at Capri (1902). He had to flee from Italy and the last twelve years of his life were spent restlessly travelling the world.

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8 (BINDING). HOHMANN, Joseph Das Wilhelms-Hospital in Fulda. Ein poetischer Versuch. Fulda, Amand Ney, 1841. Contemporary white richly silk gilt in two shades of gold, pale and yellow, with birds, flowers and garlands in a double border on both sides (not identical). Endpapers in pink patterned paper. All edges gilt. 8 p. With depiction of the hospital. First edition. This extremely delicate binding is in very good condition: only a little wear on corners and gilt border.

€ 190

* This hospital had been founded in 1806 by the Prince of Orange-Nassau, later to become King William I of the Netherlands (1771-1843). This binding was reportedly made for a Dutch royal person and sometime sold from the library of Queen Emma of the Netherlands (1858-1934), mother of Queen Wilhelmina.

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9 (BINDING). COOL, Wouter Les installations mécaniques du Port de Rotterdam. Conférence dans l'assemblée extraordinaire du 'Koninklijk Instituut van Ingenieurs', à l'occasion de la visite de l'Association des Ingenieurs sortis de l'École de Liège, le 26 juin 1911. Den Haag, F.J. Belinfante, formerly A.D. Schinkel, (1911). Offprint from the technical weekly De Ingenieur, 21 october 1911, no. 42. Gilt pigs leather. Original upper wrapper bound in. 48 p. With 35 illustrations of cranes and other industrial equipment, and two folding charts. First edition. Fine condition.

€ 275

* Exquisite bookbinding of white pigskin, richly gilt on upper cover (coat of arms of Rotterdam and the year MDCCCCXI in a double frame), gilt double frame on lower cover, gilt turn-ins with art-nouveau motif, mirrors of dark green moiré silk, all edges gilt. This very unusual, one-of-a-kind binding has not been signed. Text of a conference about the mechanical installations of the port of Rotterdam.

10 (BINDING). GOGOL, Nicolas La foire de Sorochinietz. Traduction de Jarl-Priel. Eaux-fortes originales de Véra. Paris, Éditions Galathea, 1945. Folio (32 x 26 cm). Gilt full black morocco (J. Brandt & Zoon). (4), 88 p. With 13 original etchings. Printed in red and black in 300 numbered copies. This is one of 219 on Pur Fil Johannot. Small grey stain on lower cover and a little wear on spine. Inside paper edges a bit tanned where it's kissed by the leather. Otherwise in fine condition.

€ 250

* Magnificent binding with the intricate gilt monogram of collector W. van Spaendonck designed by J. van Krimpen. Signed with a JB&Z monogram on the inside lower cover. Lively Russian farmers' fair etchings.

mother-of-pearl

11 (BINDING). STEVENSON, R.L. Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers. London, Chatto & Windus, 1906. Full vellum (Cedric Chivers) with slipcase. Gift inscription on flyleaf dated 1907 from P.L.R. to Daisy.

€ 1250

* Resplendent VELLUCENT VELLUM binding signed by innovative bookbinder Cedric Chivers of Bath (1853-1929, later Mayor of Bath) inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The monogram DEAS inside and the delicately painted daisies on the upper cover probably refer to the Daisy of the flyleaf. Formerly in the vast collection of Dutch author Boudewijn Büch.

13 (BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John). BRAAK, Menno ter Het tweede gezicht. (Collected essays). (With a signed wood engraving by John Buckland Wright). Den Haag, (L.J.C. Boucher), 1935. Black morocco with 4 ribs (spine discolored). Top gilt. Printed by Boosten & Stols in 620 copies. (2), X, 268 p. First edition. Tiny stamp on inside lower cover: 'ex bibliotheca johan b.w. polak'.

€ 900

* One of 20 deluxe copies on handmade Vélin Vidalon. This is nr. XIII, one of 15 for sale. Signed under the colophon by Ter Braak, the wood engraving signed by John Buckland Wright.According to Reid A17, the copies not for sale (XVI-XX) were bound in black morocco and of the others some were bound in green morocco, the others only sewn in wrappers. A solemnly exquisite binding, this copy was probably bound by Louis Malcorps. Folemprise V. Reid A17.

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24 (BUCKLAND-WRIGHT, John). KEATS, John The Collected Sonnets. (With 11 wood engravings by John Buckland Wright). Maastricht, The Halcyon Press/ A.A.M. Stols, 1930. Original cloth. Set in Romanée and printed in 376 numbered copies. Binding a bit browned, corners worn. First and last pages a bit foxed.

€ 180

* The first book illustrated by Buckland Wright, with sinister art-deco wood engravings. Reid A1. The Halcyon Press 7. Van Dijk 214.

See illustration at the end of this newsletter

25 (BUCKLAND-WRIGHT, John). KEATS, John Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne. With three poems and three additional letters. Introductory Note by J.F. Otten. (With a wood engraving by John Buckland Wright). Maastricht, The Halcyon Press (A.A.M. Stols), 1931. Gilt cloth. (12), 120 p. Printed in 356 numbered copies. Binding a bit dulled.

€ 45

* Cover design also by Buckland Wright. The Halcyon Press 11. Van Dijk 246. Reid A6b.

39 HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, (Ed.) Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Homosexualität. Herausgegeben unter Mitwirkung namhafter Autoren im Namen des wissenschaftlich-humanitären Komitees. 6. Jahrgang. Leipzig, Max Spohr, 1904. Original cloth-backed boards. IV, 744 p. Illustrated. First edition. Binding a bit worn, lower cover slightly soiled. Still a very good copy.

€ 220

* Sixth Yearbook of the voluminous scientific series about (mainly) homosexuality, a real Fundgrube. In this volume a.o. the original version of 'The Uranian before the Church and the Holy Scripture' by Caspar Wirz, the result of very early statistical research by Magnus Hirschfeld about the percentage of homosexuals, medical research of 103 men with a uterus and of 58 menstruating hermaphrodites; the preliminary presentation of a model of sex differences by L.S.A.M. von Römer, an important article about the personality of August von Platen by elusive scientist Ludwig Frey, and last but not least the almost 200 pages of the bibliography of publications about homosexuality in the year of Our Lord 1903.

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40 HUYSMANS, J.K. En ménage. Parijs, Charpentier, 1881. Cloth-backed marbled boards (modern private binding). (4), 348 p. First edition. Ink inscription on flyleaf. Some foxing.

€ 250

* This copy has a handwritten, signed dedication by the author on the first page: 'A. M. Jan ten Brink/ son confrère/ J.K. Huysmans'. Ten Brink (1834-1901), an almost forgotten author (but a mentor of Couperus and Emants) had contacts with many French authors.

cura, labor, meritum

41 (INCUNABLE). SENECA, Lucius Annaeus Opera philosophica. Epistolae. [Venice, Johannes & Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, about 1492]. Folio (31,8 x 21,8 cm). 18th century vellum with seven ribs. 237 ff (of 238, lacking only the final blank C10). 60 lines plus head line. Roman type. Capital spaces with guide letters. Binding a bit worn at lower corners, spine soiled and with an old ticket. 18th century bookplate (Joseph Mazarin?). Marginal notes (some trimmed) in a neat cursive contemporary hand, perfectly legible. A bit soiled and some stains. Tiny wormhole in margin starting from leaf cii to the end. A few restorations in margins. Some insignificant pinpoint holes in the text. In all a good copy.

€ 5450

* This attractive incunable contains the philosophical works and letters of Seneca, including his correspondence with Saint Paul (which is in fact a forgery from the 4th century), and also some works of the philosopher's father Seneca the Elder, in the Middle Ages thought to be the son's work. No colophon was printed in this book, the explicit ends with a quire register. Contemporary handwritten title on first blank with the Epitaph of Seneca ('Cura, labor, meritum') as a motto. With some misprints in the pagination and elsewhere (e.g. 'Epitsolarum' instead of 'Epistolarum' on leaf II). BMC, V, 595; Goff S-372, BSB-Ink S-269 (the copy that was used for reproduction has some slight differences in the typesetting). 59 copies in the various libraries (but not in the Dutch).

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42 (INCUNABLE). MARCHESINUS, Johannes Mamotrectus super bibliam. Venice, Simon Bevilaqua, 12 July 1492. 8vo (16,2 x 12,2 cm.) Old vellum with written spine title ('Vocabularius Sacrç Script:'). 273 leaves. Printed in two columns in a gothic type. 36 lines. First text page partly printed in RED. Three small woodcut capitals, initial spaces with guide letters and many three-line capitals of a rather different gothic type. Binding stained and soiled, a small piece of the lower outer corner has been torn off. Title page (with just the word 'Mamotrectus') is missing. Pastedowns soiled and damaged. First blank has a handwritten dedication saying something like 'A Monasterij S.te Vittorie/ ad … Vittorii de Portis'. At the last page a drawing of a bowl and a flower vase accompanies the name of a former owner ('Questo libro … thoma…'). Two pages loosening, some soiling and stains at the beginning and end. A few bookworm trails in the margins. In the last three leaves, some letters are missing because of bookworm damage. Several old inscriptions, especially in the vocabulary at the beginning. In two places, the book was strengthened with a narrow strip of vellum from an old manuscript. At the end, part of a benediction leaflet was used to fasten the book block to its binding. Three more identical leaflets plus four strips of a woodcut decoration were used to fill up the binding.

€ 3750

* This is the 21st of the 23 incunable editions of this text, usually called 'Mammotrectus super bibliam', however, in this book consistently spelled with one M: Mamotrectus, without 'super Bibliam'. In the colophon another version of the title is used: Mamotrectus tam bibliae quam aliorum plurimorum librorum. The meaning of this curious title is 'nourisher on the Bible', strongly suggesting 'the Bible's Breast Milk'. It is a handbook explaining words and notions of the Bible and other important texts, such as the letters of Saint Jerome to Paulinus and Desiderius, but also about clothes of priests, Latin accents and other practical subjects. The Mammotrectus would be useful if you were preparing a sermon or some other priestly act. After 1500, its popularity waned and it was criticized and ridiculed by Erasmus and Rabelais. The book starts with an extensive vocabulary of Latin words and their location in the Bible. The main part is the handbook. It ends with an index after the colophon.

This copy is a well-used practical book with several assets, such as the first text page printed in red and black, and its riddles to solve: the inscriptions at the beginning and the end could supply more information about former owners. The four identical benediction leaflets, used for the binding, probably date from the 17th century. They have been printed on one side only in a cursive Garamond, and contain a ritual benediction starting "I.N.R.I. Qui verbum caro factum est".

Although soiled and a bit damaged, it is an unpolished, authentic incunable that doesn't give itself away at first glance. References: Goff M252; BMC V 517; BSB Ink M-167; GW M20814.

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46 LESAGE, A.R. Het leven van Gil Blas van Santillane, of De Spaanse avanturier. Nu uyt de Fransche in de Nederduitsche Taal overgezet. Verziert met Kopere plaaten. Amsterdam, J. Oosterwijk, Steenhouwer & Uytwerf, 1716-1736. 4 volumes. Vellum with handwritten spine titles. (16), 392; (4), 334; (8), 428; (4), 404 p. With 3 identical frontispices by J. Schijnvoet and 32 full-page copper engravings. First edition. Bindings a bit soiled (esp. vol. 1), flyleaves creased and apart from binding. Paper a bit foxy.

€ 300

* Pleasing, complete set of the famous picaresque novel by Alain René Lesage. The four volumes of this first Dutch translation were each published in the year after the first publication in French, Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane. Buisman 1323.

history of rome

52 (MOLL, Albert). Occultismus. Siegismund's Vademecum der gesammten Litteratur über Occultismus. Alphabetische und systematische Zusammenstellung der litterarischen Erscheinungen in deutscher Sprache auf dem Gebiete der Mystik, Magie, des thierischen Magnetismus, Somnambulismus, Hypnotismus, Spiritismus, Spiritualismus, Psychismus, sowie verwandter Fächer von 1800 bis Anfang 1888. Vorräthig und zu beziehen durch Karl Siegismund Buchhandlung - Antiquariat - Verlag. Spezial-Buchhandlung für Litteratur über Occultismus. Berlin, Karl Siegismund, 1888. Cloth-backed marbled boards. 112 p. Original upper cover bound in. With 16 p. advertisements. First edition. Binding a bit rubbed and with a library ticket.

€ 140

* Extensive and important catalogue with about 3500 titles about occultism. From the library of the sexologist and psychiatrist Dr. Albert Moll, signed twice by him, and with an attractive 4-color bookplate (showing a sphinx and palm tree over Moll's motto 'Cogniti veri fortiter tenax') and some small marginalia. Moll published several books about occultism.

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61 OVIDIUS Treurbrieven der blakende vorstinnen. Minnebrieven der vorsten en vorstinnen. & C. Piersons antwoorden der Grieksche vorsten op twaelf van Ovidius Nazoos treurbrieven der blakende vorstinnen. Rotterdam, J. Naeranus, 1657. & Gouda, printed by Kornelius Dyvoort for Gerrit Sickes, 1658. 15 x 10 cm. Gilt and marbled calf. (24), 334 = 304 p. (misnumbered); (8), 90 p. Edges of book block dyed blue. With 3 different title engravings. First editions. Stain on upper cover. Edges of binding a bit worn. A bit soiled at the beginning and the end. With bookplates of two significant collectors, jhr. J.W. Six and Gouda pharmacist E. Grendel.

€ 575

* Translation into Dutch of Heroides by Ovid. Attractive copy in very good condition with the additional rare Answers by Christoffel Pierson and with evidence of a very respectable provenance. On both sides the binding is adorned with the coat of arms of the wealthy Jewish De Pinto family as a supralibros. Spine richly gilt with 6 compartments, one with title label and five with monogram of A.J. de Pinto (1710-1758).

65 (PRINTED ON VELLUM). DRYDEN, John Alexander's Feast; or, the Power of Music. A Song in Honour of St. Cecilia: 1697. London, Essex House Press, 1904. Original vellum binding with orange-colored ribbons. (2), 12 p. Delicately hand-colored frontispice by Reginald Savage. Printed ON VELLUM in red and black with hand-painted initials in gold, red, blue and green and a hand-colored vignette, in 140 numbered copies. Excellent, unblemished copy.

€ 490

* Fantastic little book, one of a series of 14 books all printed on vellum and bound in stiff vellum, embossed with a rose and the text 'Soul Is Form' and with a gilt spine title. The initials were painted by Florence Kingsford, a talented calligrapher, who in 1907 married Sir Sidney Cockerell.

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67 RIZA KHAN DANICHE, Prins Arfa-ud-Dovleh Mirza Échos de la conférence de La Haye. Traduction ou adaptation en vers ou en prose en quinze langues de l'original Persan. Constantinopel, A. Zellich fils (printer), 1903. Richly gilt calf with two title labels. Marbled flyleaves. Original wrappers bound in. With photographical portrait of the author. (168) p. Printed in green and black. First edition. Binding slightly worn, first pages a bit loose. Signed by the author and dated 1907.

€ 125

* Échos de la conférence de La Haye is a poem in Persian, written by the First Delegate of Persia of the First Peace Conference in The Hague (1899), the famous Prince Riza Khan Daniche (1846-1939), a linguistic genius. With translations into French, German, English, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Greek, Latin, Ethiopian, Chinese, Arabic and Turkish, with 8 different alphabets. Introductions by several high-ranking people, for instance Sjah Muzaffer-ed-din of Persia and count Lambsdorff, the Russian minister of Foreign Affairs. Most pages of this luxurious edition have been adorned in green floral frames. Prince Riza died in 1939 in Monaco. There, his colossal, Orientalistic villa is still to be admired.

94 WILDE, Oscar Poems. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1882. Decorated cloth. (8), 234 p. Endpapers with fern motif. Second edition. A little wear at top and foot. Owner's name on title page.

€ 85

* The second American edition, a very early Wilde. Nice decoration of the dark green binding: black flowers in a maze.

96 WORDSWORTH, William Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood. [Beetham, Cumbria], Simon King Press, 1991. 33 x 23 cm. Leather-backed boards. (4), 38 p. Set in 14 and 18 point Monotype Centaur and printed in 115 numbered copies. Fine copy.

€ 85

* This is one of 15 Roman numbered copies on Lana gravure paper, in a beautiful binding by Angela Thompson.

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From newsletter 22:

3. (BARNEY, Nathalie Clifford). HERON-ALLEN, Edward Memoranda of Memorabilia Encountered in the Course of a Sentimental Journey through the Correspondence of Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné and her Friends and recorded by Edward Heron-Allen, F.R.S. Necromancer to Ye Sette of Odd Volumes. Some observations suggested by which formed the subject of a Discourse delivered by him as President of Ye Sette on the 24th of April 1928. Oxford, 'Printed by the University Press and to be had of no bokesellers' (sic), 1928. 15 x 11 cm. Richly gilt boards. 148 p. With two portraits. Printed in 133 numbered copies. First edition. Backstrip browned, some tiny spots on binding. Inside in very fine condition.

€ 200

* This is one of 13 deluxe copies 'imprynted upon Japanese vellum' (to wit, Nr. 11), with a written presentation for Natalie Clifford Barney, "Israfil", dated February 21, 1931, signed by Edward Heron-Allen, 'Necromancer to Ye Sette, and President' of this quaint literary club. Barney (1876-1972) was a famous lesbian society woman, living together with painter Romaine Brooks in Paris.

7. CRANE, Walter A Floral Fantasy in an old English Garden. Set forth in verses & coloured designs by Walter Crane. London, Harper & Brothers, 1899. Richly decorated cloth (upper and lower cover). 46 leaves in French fold, printed by Edmund Evans. Fully illustrated in colors except for the double title and colophon pages, which are printed in monochrome ochre. First edition. Name and date on p. 3: 'H. Merens/ Oct. 1899'. Backstrip a bit worn, cloth slightly browned, but the green, white and red blocking is still fresh. In very good condition, the binding still strong.

€ 240

* A wonderful book of verse about flowers and their popular names, the texts incorporated in colorful Art Nouveau plates where the flowers have been depicted as 'squires and dames', fairies, knights and beautiful queens. An exquisite children's book with matching flyleaves and a striking binding decoration.

8. CRUIKSHANK, Isaac Robert Lessons of Thrift, Published for General Benefit By a Member of the Save-All Club. London, Thomas Boys, 1820. Later 3/4 blindstamped leather with marbled boards, a bit rubbed. XVI, 1-38, 43-86, 111-162, 179-240 p. (= text complete). With handcolored engraved title and 10 handcolored aquatints. Two prints missing. First edition. Except for the missing prints in a very good condition. Inscription on flyleaf "EMS/ Lizzie Stent/ Octr 1870". With a printed message to the reader in the preliminaries of the book: "The reader will perceive an hiatus after p. 38, another after p. 86, and a third after p. 162. Some digressions occurred in those places too abstruse to be generally interesting; they have therefore been withdrawn; but in consequence of a temporary absence of the author, the suppression took place after the work was printed. As the connexion of its parts is not disturbed, it is hoped that the liberty thus taken will be tolerated with indulgence."

€ 75

* With 10 fantastic original colored aquatints by Cruikshank. Nice binding probably from 1870.

18. OPTICS 1910 Kollektiv-Ausstellung der Deutschen Präzisions-Mechanik und Optik. Veranstaltet von der deutschen Gesellschaft für Mechanik und Optik. Brüssel 1910. (Trade catalogue). (Leipzig, Hermann Hönnicke Kunst-Anstalt, 1910). Original decorated cloth. (2), XVI, 144 p. Many technical illustrations. First edition. Ticket from an optics seller (Robert Drosten, Brussels) on cover, stamp on title page. Binding a bit soiled, otherwise fine.

€ 50

* Exposition catalog for the World Exposition in Brussels, 1910, about German precision mechanics and optics. Full of attractive advertisements of Carl Zeiss-Jena and other technical factories in Germany. Accomplished printing on art paper.

From newsletter 21:

2.  ANDRIAN, Leopold Gedichte. (Den Haag, De Zilverdistel, 1913). Vellum. (8), 40 p. Printed by Enschedé with a 15th century Antiqua type of Peter Schöffer on handmade paper in 150 numbered copies. Inside paper on vellum covers slightly creased. 

€ 275

* This copy not numbered, vellum without vignette or title. With remark in pencil: 'ex bibliotheca P.N. van Eyck'. Van Eyck was one of the founders of De Zilverdistel, the earliest Dutch private press company. This book with its variant binding could be a record copy.

5.  BREUER, Hans (Hrsg.) Der Zupfgeigenhansl. Leipzig, Friedrich Hofmeister, 1915. 17 x 12 cm. Original cloth. 252 p. Illustrated with attractive silhouettes by Hermann Pfeiffer. 28th edition, 214th -218th thousand. Binding with a small grey spot.  

€ 15

* The famous songbook of the Wandervogel movement, first published in 1909. Many Wandervogel died in the trenches of the Great War (where this songbook was a staple diet), including Breuer himself. 'Zupfgeige' or 'plucking fiddle' is a humorous name for the guitar, 'Hansl' means Little Hans.

6.  CABELL, James Branch Jurgen. Een historie van Gerechtigheid. Vertaling van J.A. Sandfort. Laren, A.G. Schoonderbeek, [1928]. Cloth with dust jacket. 292 p. First edition. DJ only slightly worn at the spine area, with dated price ticket (1929). Some foxing. 

€ 35

* The only translation into Dutch of this curious fantasy novel, first published in 1919. Jacket with a long text: an extensive, high-and-mighty tongue-in-cheek description. Fine binding design by Johan Briedé: a frog on the Holy Cross. The printer's mark, a busy dung beetle (!) was designed by Briedé, too. Exact translation of the title: "Jurgen. A History of Justice. Translation by J.A. Sandfort". Very rare!

8.  EROTICA Chronique arétine. Ou recherches pour servir à l'histoire des moeurs du dix-huitième siècle. Première livraison. Réimpression textuelle de l'édition originale Caprée, 1789. Avec une note bibliographique. Neuchatel, Imprimé par les presses de la Société, le 31 décembre 1872. 16 x 10 cm. No binding, threads partly loose. VIII, 64 p. Uncut. Printed in 100 numbered copies on fine paper. This is no. 20. Outer pages very lightly foxed. 

€ 25

15.  HERRICK, Albert B., & Edward C. BOYNTON American Electric Railway Practice. New York, McGraw Publishing Company, 1907. 23 x 15 cm. Original cloth. (2), vi, 404 pp. With 223 pictures and diagrams (some folding). First edition. Top and tail of spine very slightly worn, minor white spot on front cover. Gutters (inside binding) splitting, name on inside frontcover, blind-stamp on title page ('Library of Robert A. Hall'), but a very good copy of a sturdy work. 

€ 40

* Detailed, technical study of electric railway transportation 104 years ago.

18.  HIRSCHFELD, Magnus Sittengeschichte des Weltkrieges. (Inscribed by the Author). Leipzig-Wien, Verlag für Sexualwissenschaft Schneider & Co., (1930). Vol. 1. Original cloth with dust jacket. XX, 416 p. Richly illustrated. First edition. DJ a bit coffee stained. Binding worn, damaged and a bit warped. 

€ 800

* Poor copy, but with 3-line AUTHOR'S DEDICATION: 's.l. Dr. Günter Tessmann,/ der hochverdienter Erforscher/ der Seelen u. Sitten der Völker/ (hard to read, possibly 'vom Herausgeber')/ Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld./ Berlin I.f.S.W. 2/IX 30.'.

In turn, Tessmann gave the book to Felix Bryk, the Swedish anthropologist and entomologist, author of Dark Rapture. The Sex-life of The African Negro (1939), which is a translation of Neger-Eros (1928), as is testified by an inscription of Tessmann, dated 'Berlin, den 11 August 1936'. Anthropologist and explorator Günter Tessmann (1884-1969) went into exile to Brazil from Nazi-Germany in 1936.

(s.l. = 'seinem lieben': 'to his dear Dr. Günter Tessmann, the outstanding researcher of the minds and customs of the nations, from the publisher Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Berlin, Institute for Sexual Science, September 2 1930'. Tessmann's dedication: 'To his dear Felix Bryk in friendly remembrance to Dr. Günter Tessmann'.)

About the work of anthropologists Tessmann (who appears to have been bisexual) and Bryk and their relevance for Hirschfeld, there is a very interesting article in Anthropologica. Vol. 48, No. 2, 2006. '"Bisexuality" and the Politics of Normal in African Ethnography' by Mark Epprecht, p. 187-202.

Books inscribed by Hirschfeld are rare.

33.  RONSARD, Pierre de Livret de folastries a Janot parisien. Édition conforme au texte original de 1553 augmentée ... par Fernand Fleuret et Louis Perceau. Paris, Bibliothèque des Curieux, 1920. Calf-backed green marbled boards with title shield. 176 p. Uncut. Backstrip discolored. 

€ 25

* Nice binding with gilt satyr's bust on the spine.

34.  ROYCROFTERS - HUBBARD, Elbert, as Fra Elbertus The City of Tagaste. (&: A Dream and a Prophecy). East Aurora, NY, Roycrofters, 1900. 27 x 21 cm. Gilt original boards with suede backstrip and corners. (16), 34 pp. Uncut. Top gilt. Printed in 940 numbered copies on heavy, specially made Roycroft paper. With tipped-in photogravure portrait of the author. Hand-illumined by Minnie Gardner. First edition. Suede of front cover chipped and a bit damaged. 

€ 90

* SIGNED by Hubbard and Gardner. Alas, the durability of the soft leather Roycroft bindings is often middling... Illuminated by artist Minnie Gardner with two beautiful botanical borders and an art-nouveau publisher's device. Heraldic bookplate of Samuel Wright.

36.  THACKERAY, W.M. The Works. With biographical introductions by his daughter, Anne Ritchie. Vols. 11-17 and 20-26 (of 26). London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1911. Contemporary decorated full green calf with gilt titles and box design, raised bands, gilt rules to boards gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Illustrated. 50 cm on your shelf. 

€ 350

* Incomplete set, but still 14 splendidly bound and perfectly readable books in deluxe full leather bindings. We are ready to answer your questions about the contents of the volumes.

Inside and outside of the Thackeray bindings, Nr. 36

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Engraving from nr. 35 of this list

From newsletter 20:

6. BOUTENS, P.C. In den keerkring. Zeven gedichten. (Den Haag, Nederlandsche Vereeniging voor Druk- en Boekkunst/ Kunera Pers), 1941 (= 1942). Original gilt vellum-backed boards. 28 p. Set by hand from Lucien Pissarro's Disteltype and printed in red, blue and black on Japanese paper by J.F. van Royen on his Albion press in 210 numbered copies. First edition. Binding (as usual) partly a bit discolored. Some foxing.

€ 125

* The last book printed by Van Royen, shortly before his death in a Nazi prison. A splendid private press edition of seven poems, its typography influenced by the Doves Press, with a decorative type made specially for the Kunera Press in 1915, and initials all cut by hand in boxwood by Van Royen (who was a top PTT official in daily life). Van Royen 1964, 18. Rijkse 2.127.

11. CAVALRY Reiterspiele zur hundertjährigen Wiederkehr des Gründungstages des Dragoner-Regiments Königin Olga 1. Württ. Nr. 25, Ludwigsburg. (With Hofansage). Stuttgart, Greiner & Pfeiffer, Königliche Hofbuchdrucker, 1913. 29 x 18 cm. Original cream-colored moiré silk binding with coat of arms in copper and blue enamel. Silk doublures and a blue-and-white cord with tassel. Original wrappers printed in gold and colors. 16 p. printed on one side only. With a portrait of Emperor Wilhelm II and Queen Olga and six color illustrations after cavalry paintings in a decorative frame. First edition. Outer silk slightly foxed, tassel a bit fluffy, otherwise in fine condition.

€ 65

* With Hofansage (Court Announcement) concerning the arrival at the railway station of the German Emperor Wilhelm II and eight officers of his staff with details about the welcoming committee and its attire. Imperial Germany at its best!

21. GOTCH, Frank Wrestling and How to Train. Illustrated with Photographs Specially Posed For by Frank Gotch and Oscar Samuelson. New York, Richard K. Fox, [1910]. Rebound in half cloth, original red upper cover bound in. 128 p. (incl. 25 pages of book ads). Binding somewhat worn, the book itself a bit short, but in very good condition.

€ 45

* Very attractive and amusing book with introduction by Horace Lerch, hints on training and 29 pictures of holds. With advertisements at the end for 25 different books about sport and physical culture.

24. GÉRALDY, Paul Toi et moi. Nouvelle édition. Ornée de deux dessins d'Edouard Vuillard. Paris, G. Crès, 1923. Gilt morocco-backed marbled boards. (8), 168 p. Two illustrations after Vuillard. Numbered copy. Inscription on flyleaf dated 1925.

€ 30

* A better bookbinding than usual: morocco with an austere gilt decoration and hand-marbled paper.

26. (HIRSCHFELD, Magnus). VIERECK, George Sylvester Schijnwerpers. De problemen van onzen tijd in gesprekken met grooten onzer dagen. Nederlandsche bewerking door Johan W. Schotman. Leiden, Sijthoff, 1931. Decorated cloth with design by P.A.H. Hofman. Illustrated with photos. First edition. Excellent copy with almost all delicate decoration elements in gold, sea green (spine) and red still present. Name in pencil on p. 1.

€ 30

* Translation from the original German into Dutch of Schlagschatten. Sechsundzwanzig Schicksalsfragen an Große dieser Zeit (1930). Interviews with Barbusse, Briand, Clemenceau, Einstein, Queen Elisabeth of België, Henry Ford, Freud, Frank Harris, Gerhardt Hauptmann, Hindenburg, Magnus Hirschfeld, Ludendorff, Albert Moll, Mussolini, Hjalmar Schacht, Arthur Schnitzler, Schrenck-Notzing, Shaw, Steinach, the German Emperor Wilhelm II, Israel Zangwill and others. With a lot of attention for Judaism. Attractive binding.

27. HOLTMONT, Alfred Die Hosenrolle. Variationen über das Thema: Das Weib als Mann. München, Meyer & Jessen, 1925. 8vo. Original decorated cloth. 248 p. On art paper. Illustrated. First edition. Slight foxing spots, but an attractive bright yellow art deco binding. With neat inscription from 1925.

€ 35

* 'The Role of Pants. Variations on the Theme: Woman as Man' by Alfred Burgartz under his pseudonym Alfred Holtmont. An amusing, well-illustrated typical 1920's book about women in men's clothing in and out of the theatre. Many 18th and 19th century pictures, and various contemporary scenes: Agnes Straub as George Sand, Ruth Schwarzkopf, Anita Berber, Maria Orska. The stage roles of cheeky boys played by girls are often alluded to.

28. HOMERUS Six hymns of Homer. The English Translation by Percy Bysshe Shelley facing the original Greek. (Maastricht), The Halcyon Press, 1929. Original red morocco. Top gilt. (6), 30 p. Printed in red and black in 481 numbered copies. Corners very slightly worn. Lower cover partly a bit darker. A little foxing.

€ 500

* One of 25 copies printed on Imperial Japanese paper. Bound in subtly gilt and blind-tooled crimson full morocco with marbled flyleaves (publisher's binding by L. Malcorps). Striking typography by J. van Krimpen. The Halcyon Press 5. Van Dijk 183.

29. KEATS, John Odes. (Maastricht, The Halcyon Press/ A.A.M. Stols), 1927. Gilt full vellum in slipcase. Printed on handmade Ossekop paper of Van Gelder in red, light blue and black in 125 copies. Flyleaves wrinkled. Bookplate of John Roland Abbey (some offsetting on first free endpaper) and with his owner's mark in the rear, dated 8.3.1927.

€ 275

* Title and initials designed by J. van Krimpen. Text edited by A. den Doolaard. In a desirable full vellum publisher's binding. The Halcyon Press 1. Van Dijk 117.

42. SCOTT, Sir Walter The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Including his Great Metrical Romances, Copyright Lyrical Pieces, Miscellaneous Poems and Ballads. With a Memoir of the Author. Illustrated by Many Engravings on Steel and Wood. Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1857. Full richly gilt morocco. 748 p. All edges gilt. 6 extratext steel engravings after J.M.W. Turner and one after Raeburn (portrait). Spine browned, edges a bit worn. A few little spots. Inscription in pencil dated 27/12/[18]66. Some foxing.

€ 65

* Attractive contemporary red leather binding with rich decoration on upper and lower cover with botanic motifs on the edges and doublures. Graceful period piece with the extremely detailed Turner engravings.

From newsletter 18:

1. (INCUNABLE). SENECA, Lucius Annaeus Opera philosophica. Epistolae. [Venice, Johannes & Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, about 1492]. Folio (31,8 x 21,8 cm). 18th century vellum with 7 ribs. 237 ff (of 238, lacking final blank C10). 60 lines plus head line. Roman type. Capital spaces with guide letters. Binding a bit worn at lower corners, spine soiled and with old ticket. 18th century bookplate (Joseph Mazarin?). Marginal notes (some trimmed) in a neat cursive contemporary hand, perfectly legible. A bit soiled and some stains. Tiny wormhole in margin starting from page cii to the end. A few restorations in margins. Some insignificant pinpoint holes in the text. In all a good copy.

€ 6250

* This attractive INCUNABLE contains the philosophical works and the letters of Seneca, including his correspondence with Saint Paul (in fact a forgery from the 4th century), and also some works of the philosopher's father Seneca the Elder, that in the Middle Ages were thought to be the son's work). No real colophon was printed in this book, just an explicit with quire register. Contemporary handwritten title on first blank with the Epitaph of Seneca ('Cura, labor, meritum...') as a motto. With some misprints in the pagination and elsewhere (e.g. 'Epitsolarum' instead of 'Epistolarum' on leaf II). BMC, V, 595; Goff S-372, BSB-Ink S-269 (the copy that was used for reproduction has some slight differences in the typesetting). 59 copies in the various libraries. Not in the Dutch libraries. Feel free to ask for photos.

4. BEERBOHM, Max The Happy Hypocrite. Illustrated by George Sheringham. London/ New York, John Lane, The Bodley Head, [1915]. 26 x 20 cm. Decorated cloth. 72 p. With 24 full-page art nouveau illustrations on art paper (with tissue guards) and a number of attractive vignettes and initials. Binding a bit worn. Some foxing.

€ 35

* Beerbohm's most famous book. His eponymous hero, an egotistic nobleman, suffers heavily from love. New edition with subtle, exquisite illustrations and a colorful binding. New author's preface dated 1915.

7. BEERBOHM, Max Things New and Old. (&) Observations. Londen, William Heinemann, 1923 & 1925. 29 x 22 cm. Two original ochre colored cloth bindings (one darker than the other). viii, 100; (8), 104 pp. With 50 resp. 52 pictures by the author. First edition. Corners bumped. Some traces of use, slight reading slant.

€ 45

* Caricatures of countries and circumstances, and of famous Britons of the 19th and 20th century.

14. GUÉRIN, Maurice de Le Centaure - La Bacchante. Préface de Charles Maurras. Illustrations de Adolphe Giraldon. Paris, Plon Nourrit & Cie., 1925. Richly gilt dark green full morocco, with subtle inlays of slightly darker green. Original wrappers and backstrip bound in. With slipcase. Double flyleaves, the first pair in silk with am ornament in triple gilt borders, the second in gold and green cloudy paper. Top gilt. Illustrations cut in wood by Rita Dreyfus after designs by Adolphe Giraldon. Printed in 331 numbered copies. Slipcase a bit worn, spine just a touch discolored.

€ 750

* A breathtaking book: the most important prose poems of De Guérin (1810-1839), one of 30 copies on Imperial Japanese paper with a double suite of all elements of the illustrations and vignettes on Japanese paper and on Chine (India paper). The text has been typeset in the Giraldon of Deberny-Peignot, a type designed by Adolphe Giraldon in 1900. Majestic deluxe binding, signed 'Flammarion'.

17. NIBELUNGEN Das Nibelungenlied. Übersetzt von Gotthard Oswald Marbach. Mit Holzschnitten nach Originalzeichnungen von Eduard Bendemann und Julius Hübner. Leipzig, Otto & Georg Wigand, 1840. 32 x 24 cm. Contemporary richly gilt dark red full leather with title ticket. Marbled endpapers. Gemarmerde schutbladen. (420) pp. All pages in decorated borders. With extensive list of subscribers (22 pp.). First edition. Binding a bit worn at the edges. At the beginning and the end a little foxing, at the end also a vague waterstain.

€ 175

* Because this large size edition was not ready at the planned date, the artists Alfred Rethel and C. Stilke were asked to design some of the 45 romantic woodcuts adorning this book. A very extensive poem of more than 10000 lines, with delicate illustrations, to be perceived without glasses.

(a corner of the binding)

24. WARWICKSHIRE Souvenir of Warwickshire. No place, No publisher, Oblong 19 x 24 cm. All in brown: printed in dark brown ink on stiff light brown wrappers, photo's printed in brown offset on cream-coloured paper. Original cord binding. Cover edges slightly damaged, one small piece torn off.

€ 15

* 12 pictures of sights in and around Stratford-on-Avon, Warwick, Leamington and Coventry. No publisher or date mentioned, but probably around 1920.

From newsletter 17:

1. BEWICK, Thomas & John Select Fables; with Cuts, designed and engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and Others, previous to the year 1784; together with a Memoir; and a descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick. London, S. Hodgson, Emerson Charnley, Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1820. 21 x 15 cm. 19th cent. full polished calf with gilt and blindstamped borders, spine gilt and with two morocco title tickets. All edges marbled, matching with endpapers. (6), xl, 332 pp. Some traces of use: spine has lost part of its gold, most protruding parts a bit rubbed, some markings on the binding, a few spots and fingering inside, but an attractive book with a wood engraving on almost every page.

€ 200

* Richly illustrated with wood-engravings by the patriarchs of wood-engraving, the brothers Bewick. Nice bookplate of George W. Prothero.

2. GEORGE, Stefan Gesamt-Ausgabe der Werke. Vol. 1-14 + 17 and 18. Added: Zeitgenössische Dichter in first edition. (Collected Works). Berlin, Georg Bondi, 1927-1934. Original gilt dark blue cloth. Printed on mould-made paper. Uncut. Design by Melchior Lechter. Some illustrations (portraits and handwriting examples). All are first editions of the Collected Edition. A little wear on some of the bindings. Together almost 30 cm on your shelf.

1. Die Fibel. Auswahl erster Verse - 2. Hymnen, Pilgerfahrten, Algabal - 3. Die Bücher der Hirten- und Preisgedichte, der Sagen und Sänge und der hängenden Gärten - 4. Das Jahr der Seele - 5. Der Teppich des Lebens und die Lieder von Traum und Tod mit einem Vorspiel - 6/7. Der siebente Ring - 8. Der Stern des Bundes - 9. Das neue Reich - 10/11. Dante: Die göttliche Komödie. Übertragungen - 12. Shakespeare-Sonnette. Umdichtungen. Vermehrt um einige Stücke aus dem liebenden Pilgrim - 13/14. Baudelaire: Die Blumen des Bösen; Umdichtungen - 17. Tage und Taten. Aufzeichnungen und Skizzen - 18. Schlußband. Manuel, Die Herrin betet, Die Aufnahme in den Orden, Jugenddichtungen, Gedichte in fremden Sprachen.

Added: the missing vol. 15 and 16 in first edition: Zeitgenössische Dichter. Vol. 1 and 2. 1905. Translations into German by Stefan George from poems by Rossetti, Swinburne, Dowson, Jacobsen, Kloos, Verwey, Verhaeren, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Regnier, d'Annunzio and Rolicz-Lieder. Printed on tinted vergé paper. Original violet boards with silver lettering by Melchior Lechter and 'Blätter für die Kunst' symbol. Spines and edges a bit discolored.

€ 350

* Not a perfect, but a fascinating set of Stefan George's collected works: thirteen austere dark blue and two violet books all in the type designed after George's handwriting, printed on laid paper, uncut.

3. (GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS). BANNET, Ivor The Amazons. A novel. Engravings by Clifford Webb. London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. Morocco-backed marbled boards with morocco fore-rim (signed Sangorski & Sutcliffe). 258 p. Set in Poliphilus with Centaur initials and printed on Arnould's mould-made paper in 500 numbered copies. Wood-engraved illustrations and vignettes. First edition. Fine wood-engraved bookplate of L.H. Dorrenboom. Excellent condition.

€ 110

* Novel from a mythical age. With two useful maps, one of the Eastern Mediterranean and one of Atlantis. Fine binding in dark brown morocco with a modern marble colored fawn and buff.

8. HOFFMANN, Franz Die Sandgrube. Eine Erzählung für meine jungen Freunde. Mit vier Stahlstichen. Stuttgart, Schmidt & Spring, 1852. Original boards. (2), 116 p. First edition. Backstrip worn, small waterstain at the foot of the spine, otherwise very good.

€ 55

* Attractive original illustrated binding with on the lower cover 35 other titles by Hoffmann. 4 fine steel engravings with tiny extra commenting depictions, an interesting invention.

14. RIDEOUT, Henry Milner Dragon's Blood. Boston/ New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1909. Decorated cloth. (12), 272 p. Illustrated in duotone by Harold M. Brett. Second edition. Fresh and flawless copy.

€ 45

* Chinese adventure novel by an American author (1877-1927), who used to document himself thoroughly for his books. Very fine publisher's binding: a blue dragon bursting forth with orange flames against a Chinese disk in gold. This binding has been designed by The Decorative Designers of Lee and Henry Thayer, as the tiny monogram DD shows.

25. WHITMAN, Walt. WAGENVOORT (vert.), Maurits Natuurleven. (Leaves of Grass). Vertaald door Maurits Wagenvoort. Met portret van den dichter. Haarlem, Erven Bohn, 1898. Original cloth-backed boards. XII, 180 p. With portrait of the poet. First edition. Second binding (about 1910). Some foxing.

€ 50

* The first translation into Dutch.

~*&%&%&*~

From newsletter 16:

18. KEMPIS, Thomas a Los IV. Libros de la Imitacion de Christo, y menosprecio del mundo, compuestos en Latin por el venerable Tomas de Kempis canonico reglar de San Agustin, y traduzidos nuevamente en espanol por el padre Eusebio Nieremberg (...). Emendados de muchos errores (...). Paris, Pedro Witte, 1713. 18mo (14 x 8 cm). xiv, 460 p. (with 2 p. publisher's ads). 5 leaves of illustrations (the frontispice is opposite page 168). Unopened. Fine morocco binding with gilt fleurons and blindstamped diamonds and lines. Vague moisture stain in the lower corner of pages 7-110.

€ 200

* Exquisite binding by a 20th century amateur on a Parisian edition in Spanish of The Imitation of Christ.

21. LUCE, Henricus Josephus De Opio Nonnulla. Dissertatio inauguralis medica ... in Universitate Literaria Gryphica. Greifswald, F.W. Kunike, 1836. 19,5 x 12 cm. No binding. First edition.

€ 120

* 'Some things about opium' in Latin. Inaugural dissertation of the university of Greifswald (Vorpommern) with 2-p. autobiographical sketch of the author (born 1809 in Münster). At the end a page with four short theses has been added. None of these is about opium. I.a.: "In Coxarthrocace sananda ferrum candens ceteris remediis praeferendum" (‘in healing hip arthritis, cauterization is the best therapy’). And a page with corrigenda, all held together with a strip of blue paper. (4), 40, (2) p. A bit soiled, foxed and dog-eared. Not in Wellcome.

34. ZABEL, Eugen Iwan Turgenjew. Eine literarische Studie. Mit dem Bildniss Turgenjew's. Leipzig, Otto Wigand, 1884. 8vo. Orig. cloth. First Edition.

€ 22

* First edition of an early study (Turgenyev died in September 1883) with a nice portrait by B. Mannfeld. (8), 208 pp. Dark original cloth binding rubbed. Loosening. First flyleaf cut out. With a fine jugendstil bookplate, printed in red, gold and grey, for literature historian Prof. August Sauer.

From newsletter 15:

6. DYKES, Oswald English Proverbs, with Moral Reflexions (in imitation of Sir Roger L'Estrange's Aesop). Familiarly accomodated to the Humour and Manners of the present Age. The Second Edition, to which is added, the Union-Proverb, occasion'd by the late French Expedition to Scotland, and several other Proverbs never before printed. London, H. Meere for G. Sawbridge, in Little-Britain, and sold by J. Woodward, B. Bragge and J. Morphew, 1709. Panelled and polished calf. (2), 316; (8), 18 p. First edition. Some dents in the edges.

€ 100

* The first edition of 1708 was titled Moral Reflexions upon Select English Proverbs'. With old inscription on last flyleaf: “There are a number of foolish books, but none more so than this”. Attractive binding.

10. HOESCH, Felix Der Weidebetrieb in der Schweinezucht. Praktische Winke für die Weideernährung und eine vereinfachte, naturgemässe Haltung der Zucht- und Mastschweine, sowie Ratschläge für die Züchtung und Fütterung. Hannover, M. & H. Schaper, 1906. Original embossed cloth. (8), 172 p. Many nice pictures of pigs. 15 pages of advertisement (including flyleaves). Second, enlarged edition. Binding a bit worn, but still pleasant. Page 111 creased and with a marginal tear.

€ 16

* All about raising swine. Funny embossed grey-green binding with a pig in a frame of cabbage leaves.

From newsletter 14:

11.  KRAFFT-EBING, R. von Psychopathia Sexualis. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der conträren Sexualempfindung. Eine medicinisch-gerichtliche Studie für Ärzte und Juristen. 12. verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage. Stuttgart, Ferdinand Enke, 1903. 3/4 leather binding. (2), X, 440 p. 12th edition. Binding somewhat worn, spine partly split. Ticket on spine. Stamp of the Bibliotheca Carmelitana, Wegberg. Corner of first page almost torn off. 

€ 45

* The last edition that was updated by Krafft-Ebing himself (1840-1902), or 'Ausgabe letzter Hand'. 

23.  YEATS, W.B. Selected Poems. Lyrical and Narrative. London, Macmillan, 1929. Embossed blue cloth binding after a design by Charles Ricketts. Top edge gilt. (2), x, 204 p. With a youthful photogravure portrait after John Singer Sargent. First Edition.

€ 50

* Poems selected by Yeats from The Wanderings of Usheen (1889) to The Tower (1928).

 

From newsletter 13:

11. HERRICK, Albert B., & Edward C. BOYNTON American Electric Railway Practice. New York, McGraw Publishing Company, 1907. 23 x 15 cm. Original cloth. (2), vi, 404 pp. With 223 pictures and diagrams (some folding). First edition. Top and tail of spine very slightly worn, minor white spot on front cover. Gutters (inside binding) splitting, name on inside frontcover, blind-stamp on title page (‘Library of Robert A. Hall’), but a very good copy of a sturdy work.

€ 50

* Detailed, technical study of electric railway transportation 104 years ago.

12. HIRSCHFELD, Magnus Die Homosexualität des Mannes und des Weibes. Berlin, Louis Marcus, 1920. 23 x 16 cm. Original wrappers. XVIII, 1072 p. Second edition. Spine a bit discoloured, binding slightly worn and soiled. Bookplate. Tiny inscription on flyleaf.

€ 50

* A very good copy of a voluminous work so thick (8 cm) that it is easily damaged. 97 years after its first publication (1914) still a standard work! With three useful indexes. Exact reprint of the 1914 edition, save for the extra preface, that dates from 1920. The last edition to be published during Hirschfeld’s life. After a few partial reprints, a complete issue was published in 1984 and in 2001.

13. HOFFMANN E.T.A. Fantasiestücke in Callot's Manier. Blätter aus dem Tagebüche eines reisenden Enthusiasten. Mit einer Vorrede von Jean Paul. Dritte Auflage in zwei Theilen. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1825. 16 x 10 cm. Cloth-backed marbled boards. XX, 276; (6), 394 p. With engraving after Hoffmann's self portrait (many tiny foxing spots). Third edition. Binding a bit discolored and spotted. Tiny corner piece torn from the portrait (without loss of printed matter). Some foxing.

€ 80

* A completely revised edition of Hoffmann's first work, "Ausgabe letzter Hand". Contains a.o. the definitive editions of Kreisleriana, Der Magnetiseur, Der goldene Topf, and Die Abenteuer der Sylvester-Nacht. Not a first, but an affordable early edition.

24. WILBRANDT, Adolf Fridolins heimliche Ehe. Nach Erinnerungen und Mitteilungen erzählt. Stuttgart und Berlin, Cotta, 1907. Original gilt brown cloth with a Jugendstil motif. 224, (6) p. Marbled edges. Book ribbon. 4th edition. Fine copy.

€ 65

* Later German edition of this famous 1875 gay novel (arguably the very first with a happy ending), nevertheless very rare, and a beautiful book, its attractive period binding in fine condition. A translation into English by Clara Bell was published in 1884, as ‘Fridolin’s Mystical Marriage’. Needless to say, its modern reprints are hideously ugly.

From newsletter 12:

5. COUPERUS, Louis Arrogance. The conquests of Xerxes. Decorations by Theodore Nadejen. Translated by Frederick H. Martens. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1930. Original cloth. (6), 314 p. Binding has some wear.

€ 25

* English translation of the historical novel Xerxes (1919) by the flamboyant Dutch master novelist Louis Couperus. With an attractive illustration in gold, blue, pink (HARD pink) and black and vignettes in archaic-Persian style by the Russian-born illustrator. Bright red and yellow flyleaves.

10. HIRSCHFELD, Magnus Sexualität und Kriminalität. Überblick über Verbrechen geschlechtlichen Ursprungs Wien Berlin Leipzig New York, Interterritorialer Verlag 'Renaissance' (Erdtracht), 1924. Original cloth-backed boards. 104 p. With 3 p. of publisher's advertisements. First edition. Edges a bit discoloured, but a very good copy.

€ 25

* Nice binding blocked in white on dark grey boards.

From newsletter 11:

14 (MOSHER, Thomas B.). STEVENSON, R.L. Aes Triplex and other Essays. Portland, Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1907. 14 x 8 cm. Original gilt full green leather binding (design Frederic Goudy). xiv, 86 p. Top gilt. Deckled edges. Third printing of this edition. Almost full-page bookplate. Some faint markings, but a nice copy of this little gem.

€ 40

* Vest Pocket series. Bishop 1.2.

16 (MOSHER, Thomas B.) Songs of Adieu. A Little Book of Finale and Farewell. Portland, Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1893. 21 x 11 cm. Original boards with yapp edges. (64) p. Uncut. Printed in 725 copies on Van Gelder. Spine worn, binding partly browned.

€ 20

* Attractive little book, one of the first that Mosher printed, an anthology compiled by himself. The design was inspired by that of Charles Ricketts for John Gray's Silverpoints, which was published half a year before. Bishop 366.

18 MÈREDIEU, D.-J. La reliure et la dorure à la portée de tous (chez soi). Angoulème, Fougère & Laurent, (circa 1920). Original wrappers. 64 p. Richly illustrated. Very good condition.

€ 25

* About binding and gilding books at home. Nice illustrations, a.o. with many letters and ornaments used for gilding.

20 RIBERA, Bernardo Brevis enarratio historica de statu Ecclesiae Moscoviticae. Editio nova, emendatior et auctior juxta rarissima exemplaria viennensia anni 1733 curante Joanne Martinov, s.j. Paris, Carolus Taranne, 1874. Calf-backed marbled boards. xxxiv, 208 pp. Binding somewhat worn and rubbed. Two library stamps of a Jesuit College in Maastricht.

€ 24

* Short history in Latin of the Church in Moscow, edited by Joannes Martinov. 1874. Ribera was chaplain of the Spanish ambassador in Moscow. With autograph dedication by Martinov to R.P.J. Allard, 'hommage affectueux'. With elucidating notes in pencil.

24 ZOLA, Émile, Catulle MENDÈS, Alfred de MUSSET, ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN and others Zolaistische Cabinetstücke. Aus dem Franzosischen von Wilhelm Lilienthal. Berlin, R. Jacobsthal, [1894]. Rebound in cloth-backed marbled boards. (4), 168 p. First edition. Binding a bit scratched. Name on title page ('K. Nepomucký'). Delicate text paper browned, first page slightly damaged in the gutter.

€ 35

* An early, rare collection of contemporary French short stories translated into German. Among others 'Wie man stirbt' ('Comment on meurt') by Zola, 'Haschisch' and 'Frau von Rosavène' by Catulle Mendès, and 'Mimi Pinson' by Alfred de Musset.

From newsletter 10:

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Newsletter 10 (December, 2010)

Hirschfeld Duplex

~ varied items ~

ANDROS, Phil / STEWARD, Samuel M. Two books with personal dedications. 1. Samuel M. Steward: Chapters from an Autobiography. San Francisco, Grey Fox Press, (1981). xii, 150 p. Some wear, with author's visiting card and a newspaper clipping. Inscribed 'For (x)/ in memory of a/ hot night in St. Tropez/ with a wild woodland/ creature/ Sam Steward/ 1-IX-87/ Berkeley'.

2. Phil Andros (= Samuel M. Steward): Below the Belt & Other Stories. San Francisco, Perineum Press, 1983. xii, 132 p. Later edition. Cover art by Tom of Finland. With publisher's folder for the Phil Andros series: a leporello mentioning seven titles, with 8 illustrations by Tom of Finland. The book is inscribed 'For (x)/ [oh, to be 60 years/ younger!]/ Phil Andros/ 1-IX-87/ Berkeley'.

€ 55

* Sizzling books by longtime gay erotica writer Samuel Steward (1909-1993), who started as a professor of English, then turned to be a tattoo artist, ending his distinguished career as a writer of many rough trade gay books.

BAHN, Walter Meine Klienten. Beiträge zur modernen Inquisition von Rechtsanwalt Walter Bahn. Berlin/ Leipzig, Hermann Seemann Nachfolger, [1908]. 23 x 15 cm. Orig. wrappers. 120 p. (including 7 pages of interesting, partly illustrated advertisements). With a facsimile. 3th printing. Backstrip damaged. Cover worn and loose. Text paper browned.

€ 22

* About the murder process of Theodor Berger and the famous Captain of Köpenick. Walter Bahn was the lawyer of Magnus Hirschfeld's Scientific Humanitarian Committe (W.h.K.), but there's nothing about the Committee in these memoirs. Series 'Grossstadt-Dokumente' 42.

BECKFORD, William Vathek. Réimprimé sur l' original Français, avec la préface de Stéphane Mallarmé. Paris, Perrit & Cie, 1893. Original wrappers. (4), XLVIII, 208 p. Uncut. Tiny tears and some square millimeters of the wrapper edges missing. Backstrip browned. Foxed.

€ 50

* With 48 pages foreword by Mallarmé.

BESANT, Walter, & James Rice Ready-money Mortiboy. A Matter-of-Fact Story. London, Chatto & Windus, 1902. Attractive pictorial wrappers (by Geo Hutchinson). 176 pp. with various nice ads. New (popular) edition. Delicate book is fairly well preserved, only the backstrip is a little worn and discoloured, and strengthened with scotch tape. Corners slightly chipped. Some foxing. Two modern bookplates of collector A.S.A. Struik (who specialized in rare book covers).

€ 15

BRUGÈRE, F. de la L'école du jardinier amateur, fleuriste et potager. Notions élémentaires de botanique, du sol et de ses améliorations - Multiplication des plantes, éducation et culture des plantes, conservation des plantes - Jardin potager et plantes potageres, jardins paysagers, jardins fleuristes.

Paris, Anthème Fayard, about 1890. With 820 wood engravings in the text and 16 extratext chromolithographies. (4), 604 p. A few tears and creases, bound in a simple, sturdy contemporary cloth binding. Partly a bit browned, some isolated paper tears.

€ 50

* Detailed encyclopedia of gardening, comprising all sorts of different utensils, describing (with illustrations) many different beetles and other plagues, bats, moles, birds, winds; many varieties of trees, apples, pears and other fruits, roses, vines, artichokes, carrots, champignons, beans, potatos, flowers, aloes, draconias, laurels, and many other plants, illustrated with 820 nice wood engravings.

BRÜSSEL 1910 Kollektiv-Ausstellung der Deutschen Präzisions-Mechanik und Optik. Veranstaltet von der deutschen Gesellschaft für Mechanik und Optik. Brüssel 1910. (Trade catalogue). (Leipzig, Hermann Hönnicke Kunst-Anstalt, 1910). Original decorated cloth. (2), XVI, 144 p. Many technical illustrations. First edition. Ticket from an optics seller (Robert Drosten, Brussels) on cover, stamp on title page. Binding a bit soiled, otherwise fine.

€ 50

* Exposition catalog for the World Exposition in Brussels, 1910, of German precision mechanics and optics. Full of attractive advertisements of Carl Zeiss-Jena and other technical factories in Germany. Accomplished printing on art paper.

CAGNER, Ewert, & Ake GUSTAFSSON Hokuspokus. ('Movable' book). Gothenburg, TreTryckare, [1952]. 28 x 11 cm. Cloth-backed boards. 28 p., of which 24 are divided in half horizontally in order to make possible dozens of combinations of people. A bit browned.

€ 25

* A fantastic Swedish book of humorous illustrations.

CAUSLEY, Monroe S. Arthur W. Rushmore & the Golden Hind Press. A History & Bibliography. Published in association with The Madison Public Library, Madison, New Jersey. Delaware, Oak Knoll Press, 2005. 30 x 22 cm. Leather-backed marbled boards. With a marbled slipcase. XVIII, 178 p. Illustrated. Printed in 170 numbered copies, all signed by the author. This is nr. 169. Errata slip included. 1st edition. Fine copy.

€ 80

* Extensive bibliography. Tipped-in specimen of marbled paper and other illustrations.

CROWLEY, Aleister White Stains. Edited with an Introduction by John Symonds. Londen, Duckworth, 1973. Leatherette with dust jacket. xvi, 120 p. Printed in 1000 numbered copies. Jacket a bit creased (it looks worse in the scan). Bookseller's mark of W.N. Schors.

€ 60

* Reprint of the pornographic-satanistic volume of poetry (1898), that was largely destroyed by British customs. Hetero, homo (A strong man's love is my delight!'), sado ('Pain is our joy and our spirits' power/ Never shall fade its fiery flower'), uro ('Let my fond lips but drink thy golden wine'), copro, bestio (With Dog and Dame), necro... there's something for everybody, often in dexterous rhymes. Some poems in French: 'Clitoridette, m'amourette...'. Amusing and attractive book, with its white binding sporting Crowley's erotic monogramme.

DEMOUSTIER, C.-A. Lettres à Émilie sur la mythologie. Paris, Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1809. 6 parts in 2 volumes. 3/4 cloth with marbled boards (very slightly worn), first half of 19th century. VIII, 144; 128; 104. 96; 116; 148 p. Many fine engravings by Jean-Michel Moreau le jeune.

€ 75

* Lessons about mythology for girls, a popular book since its first publication in 1786. Exquisite edition by the learned bibliophile and publisher on beautiful white paper by Pierre Didot l'Aîné.

DESCHAMPS, Andrée Éther, Cocaïne, Hachich, Peyotl et démence précoce. Essai d'Exploration Pharmacodynamique du Psychisme des Déments précoces. Paris, Éditions Véga, 1932. 25 x 17 cm. Original wrappers. (2), 210 p. Uncut. First edition. Excellent copy.

€ 160

* Rare and early study about the influence of hallucinogenics. Many detailed case histories. Thesis.

GARNIER Étrennes Garnier. Noël 1951. Parijs, Garnier, 1951. 27 x 19 cm. Leporello. 8 p. Illustrated. 4 p. in colors, 4 in black-and-white. Large advertisement label on first page. Tiny edge tears and a bit of foxing.

€ 18

* Three pages of ads for Benjamin Rabier. Interesting publisher's advertisements with clear depictions of typical French binding methods: half vellum decorated with an original watercolor, or 'demi basane bigarrée, genre ancien, fers spéciaux noir et or, tête fantaisie'.

GIDE, André Interviews imaginaires. Yverdon & Lausanne, Éditions du Haut-Pays, 1943. 25 x 18 cm. Original wrappers. (2), 146 p. Uncut. One of 1429 numbered copies on 'volumineux vergé bouffant' (total number 1460 exx.). Printed in red and black. First edition. Cover a tiny bit discolored.

€ 25

* Collection of 17 essays in the form of imaginary interviews.

(GOOR, Gaston). BANDELLO, Matteo Histoires plaisantes. Traduites de l'Italien de René Novella. Gravures sur verre et illustrations par GOOR. Monaco, À la voile latine, (1950). Loose in illustrated wrappers, as issued, two volumes together in a cardboard cover and a box. 154; 144 p. Richly illustrated with engravings and vignettes. Printed in red and black in 950 numbered copies; this is one of 40 on 'papier pur fil à la forme des papeteries Johannot', each with an original drawing by Goor. Name of the happy owner printed in the colophon. First edition. Covers foxed, otherwise books fine. Box a bit soiled.

€ 220

* The original drawing is a design in ink for a vignette, with tiny signature 'G.' Naughty stories of the sixteenth century. Spicy engravings and many fine lascivious vignettes, inspired by renaissance motifs.

GORON, M.-F. Pariser Liebe. Memoiren. Mit Original-Illustrationen von J. Wely. (Vol. I). Paris & Leipzig, F. Krüger, 1899. Original decorated cloth. 240 p. First episode cover (in color) bound in as title. First German edition. Cover a bit soiled; a bit loose.

€ 20

* First part of L'Amour criminel. Lively illustrations by Jacques Wely, all dating from 1899.

HANKES DRIELSMA-DE KRABBÉ, M. Homo Duplex. Légende d'un coeur perdu en quatre actes et un épilogue. Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1928. 4to. Orig. wrappers. 120 p. Uncut. With erratum sheet. Printed in 550 numbered copies on Madagascar des Papeteries Lafuma. With an original coloured lithograph and some vignettes by Robert Bonfils. First edition. Cover slightly browned.

€ 45

* Play with homosexual content. The author Marguerite de Krabbé (Kopenhagen 1876-Wassenaar 1929), daughter of a Danish Minister of Defence, married journalist and lawyer Albert Julius Hankes Drielsma (1880-1971).

HARLAND, Henry My Friend Prospero. A Novel. New York, McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. Original gilt boards. (4), 318 p. Top gilt. Uncut. First Edition. Stamp on flyleaf, backstrip and cover a little discoloured.

€ 40

* Deluxe edition: one of 500 numbered copies with coloured frontispice and a portrait of the author, signed in the plate.

HILLER, Kurt Gustav Wyneken's Erziehungslehre und der Aktivismus. Hannover, Paul Steegemann Verlag, 1919. Die Silbergäule 4. Original wrappers. 28 p. (9 pages of advertisements for books). First edition. Very good copy.

€ 45

HIRSCHFELD, Magnus Berlins Drittes Geschlecht. Berlin, Hermann Seemann Nachfolger, 1907. 23 x 15 cm. Orig. wrappers. 80 p. (including 10 pages of interesting, partly illustrated advertisements). 3th printing. Backstrip damaged. Cover worn and loose. Text paper browned.

€ 40

* About 'Berlin's Third Sex' or homosexuality in that thriving industrial metropolis of the beginning of the 20th century. A very fragile book. Series 'Grossstadt-Dokumente' 3. Added: Hans Ostwald: Zuhältertum. Third edition. Series 'Grossstadt-Dokumente' 5. 96 p. (12 pages of interesting advertisements). Poor copy: front cover missing.

HIRSCHFELD, Magnus Les homosexuels de Berlin. Le troisième sexe. Paris, Jules Rousset, 1908. Original wrappers. (4), 104 p. Uncut. First edition. Excellent copy.

€ 60

* French translation of Berlins drittes Geschlecht (1908).

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From newsletter 9:

3.  BELLAY, Joachim du La Deffence & Illustration de la Langue Francoyse. Maestricht/ Paris, Traiectum ad Mosam/ Claude Aveline, 1925. Pig's-leather-backed marbled boards. (6), 86 p. Printed in red, blue and black in 380 numbered copies. With a portrait of the author by J. Franken Pzn. This is one of 50 lettered copies on 'Hollande antique à la cuve des manufactures Van Gelder Zonen' that should contain two proofs of the portrait - but it doesn't. 

€ 45

* Fine edition of an important text, the manifesto of the Pléiade. Title and coat of arms designed by J. van Krimpen, initials designed by Alphonse Stols. Nice binding, unusual with the white pigskin spine. Traiectum ad Mosam series 10. Van Dijk 37.

17.  MACROBIUS, Aur. Theodosius Aur. Theodosii Macrobii V. Cl. & inlustris Opera. Accedunt notae integrae Isacii Pontani, Joh. Meursii, Jacobi Gronovii. Leiden, A. Doude & C. Driehuysen, 1670. Vellum. [32], 704, [68] p. With engraved title page designed by Gerhard Wingendorp. Some illustrations in the text, a.o. of the composition of the world and the cosmos. First edition with the commentary of Gronovius. Spine somewhat soiled. Inscription under title page. 16-line inscription in Latin about this book after last index page, dated 1736. 

€ 160

* Nice copy, almost flawless, in a typical 17th century vellum binding.

From newsletter 8:

1  BAUDELAIRE, Charles Les Fleurs du Mal, suivies des Épaves.  Paris, Éditions de Cluny, 1946. 24 x 15 cm. Full morocco. 364, (64) pp. Top gilt. Uncut. With 32 etchings by Élie Grekoff. Of an edition of 350 numbered copies, printed in red and black, this is one of 40 on vélin de Rives, with an extra suite. Bookplate. The FINE binding has a few tiny imperfections. Some slight foxing spots. 

€ 450

* A splendidly bound book in fiery red morocco with eerie illustrations. Full deluxe morocco binding by J. Brandt & Zoon with intricate gilt monogram supralibros of W.C.A.M. van Spaendonck, designed by J. van Krimpen.

12  HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, (Ed.) Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Homosexualität. Herausgegeben unter Mitwirkung namhafter Autoren im Namen des wissenschaftlich-humanitären Komitees. 6. Jahrgang. Leipzig, Max Spohr, 1904. Original cloth-backed boards. IV, 744 p. Illustrated. First edition. Binding a bit worn and loosening, first four pages loose. Two stamps and inscription in pencil. 

€ 220

* Sixth Yearbook of the voluminous scientific series about (mainly) homosexuality, a real Fundgrube. In this volume among others the original version of 'The Uranian before the Church and the Holy Scripture' by Caspar Wirz, the result of very early statistical research by Magnus Hirschfeld of the percentage of homosexuals, medical research of 103 men with a uterus and of 58 menstruating hermaphrodites; the preliminary presentation of a model of sex differences by L.S.A.M. von Römer, an important article about the psyche of August von Platen by elusive scientist Ludwig Frey, and last but not least the almost 200 pages of the bibliography of publications about homosexuality in the year of Our Lord 1903.

13  HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, (Ed.) Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Homosexualität. Herausgegeben unter Mitwirkung namhafter Autoren im Namen des wissenschaftlich-humanitären Komitees. 5. Jahrgang. Leipzig, Max Spohr, 1903. Two volumes. Contemporary bindings: three-quarter cloth with marbled boards, titles from original wrappers pasted on spines. (8), 706; (4, 664) p. Illustrated. First edition. Bindings rubbed. Slight traces of use. 

€ 325

* With nice bookplate of the Dutch physician Louis Heijermans (1873-1938), author of several medical and sexological books, and a brother of the author Herman Heijermans. This Fifth Yearbook is one of the most extensive and interesting of the 23 Jahrbücher with large contributions by Hirschfeld himself, Lucien von Römer (his well-illustrated and extensively researched ‘About the Androgynic Idea of Life’), Ferdinand Karsch-Haack, Franz Neugebauer and Numa Praetorius (Eugen Wilhelm).

14  (HOMER). SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe Six hymns of Homer. The English Translation by Percy Bysshe Shelley facing the original Greek. (Collection of three different copies). (Maastricht), The Halcyon Press, 1929. Printed in 481 numbered copies.  

€ 4000

* 1. One of six copies PRINTED ON VELLUM. Bound in full gilt and blindstamped red morocco with marbled flyleaves, top gilt, in marbled slipcase (publisher's binding by L. Malcorps). Exlibris on first flyleaf. Some unobtrusive natural browning on a few vellum pages.

2. One of 25 copies printed on Imperial Japanese paper. Bound in full gilt and blindstamped red morocco with marbled flyleaves, top gilt (publisher's binding by L. Malcorps).

3. One of 450 copies printed on Pannekoek Dutch mould-made paper. Original red cloth.

Striking typography by J. van Krimpen. The Halcyon Press 5. Van Dijk 183.

16  HUYSMANS, J.K. A vau l'eau. (With an etched portrait of the author by A. Delâtre). Paris, Tresse & Stock, 1894. 14 x 9,5 cm. 3/4 morocco, spine with 5 ribs, top gilt. Original wrappers bound in (Louis MALCORPS). Uncut. 144 p. Partly a bit discolored, some foxing. Bookplate of Bob Luza. 

€ 600

* INSCRIBED by Huysmans to the famous Dutch 'Tachtiger' poet Willem Kloos (1869-1938). A curious detail: Willem Kloos didn't like Huysmans at all, as testifies his famous tongue-lashing sonnet 'Tegen J.K. Huysmans', in Verzen (1894). The first edition of À vau l'eau was published by Henri Kistemaeckers in Brussels, 1882. This inscribed copy is not mentioned in the auction catalogue of Kloos's monumental library or in the catalogue of Bob Luza's extensive book collection. A remarkable dedication copy in an attractive, classical bookbinding by Louis Malcorps!

17  HUYSMANS, J.K. La Bièvre. Avec vingt-trois dessins et un autographe de l'auteur. Paris, L. Genonceaux, 1890. Original paper wrappers. (2), 46 p. With illustrations by various artists. First edition. Backstrip somewhat worn, binding a bit loose. 

€ 125

* Poetic monography with various old pictures of the little river Bièvre that flows into the Seine in Paris (near the Gare d'Austerlitz).

18  HUYSMANS, J.K. Un dilemme. Paris, Tresse & Stock, 1887. 14 x 10 cm. Richly gilt 3/4 leather binding with gilt marbled paper. (4), 144 p. Original upper and lower wrappers plus backstrip bound in, upper wrapper repaired. First edition. First and last page browned. With two owner's stamps 'Ex libris Maurice Miller'. Excellent condition.

€ 190

* Rare first edition of this novelette in a deluxe binding, a little gem of a book. 

22  LAUTRÉAMONT, Comte de (= Isidore Ducasse) Les Chants de Maldoror. (Chants I, II, III, IV, V, VI). Paris/ Brussels, [anonymous - printed by E.Wittman], 1874. Rebound in full leather. 336 p. First edition, second issue. Binding discolored and scratched. Some light foxing at the beginning and the end. 

€ 1500

* Of this epochal work, the first edition was printed in 1869. About ten copies of this edition are known today. In 1874, four years after the gifted author died (only 20 years old), the Belgian bookseller Jean-Baptiste Rozez bought the remaining stock, and brought it into circulation with new wrappers, halftitle and title, bearing the year 1874. This is such a copy (without the wrappers), possibly bound about 1900.

25  (MOLL, Albert). Occultismus. Siegismund’s Vademecum der gesammten Litteratur über Occultismus. Alphabetische und systematische Zusammenstellung der litterarischen Erscheinungen in deutscher Sprache auf dem Gebiete der Mystik, Magie, des thierischen Magnetismus, Somnambulismus, Hypnotismus, Spiritismus, Spiritualismus, Psychismus, sowie verwandter Fächer von 1800 bis Anfang 1888. Vorräthig und zu beziehen durch Karl Siegismund Buchhandlung - Antiquariat - Verlag. Spezial-Buchhandlung für Litteratur über Occultismus. Berlin, Karl Siegismund, 1888. Cloth-backed marbled boards. 112 p. Original upper cover bound in. With 16 p. advertisements. First edition. Binding a bit rubbed and with a library ticket.

€ 180

* Large and important catalogue with about 3500 titles about occultism. From the library of the sexologist and psychiatrist Dr. Albert Moll with two signatures, an attractive 4-color bookplate (showing a sphinx and palm tree over his motto 'Cogniti veri fortiter tenax') and some small marginalia. Moll published several books about occultism.

31  RIDEOUT, Henry Milner Dragon's Blood. Boston/ New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1909. Decorated cloth. (12), 272 p. Illustrated in duotone by Harold M. Brett. Second edition. Fresh and flawless copy. 

€ 55

* Chinese adventure novel by an American author (1877-1927), who used to document himself thoroughly for his books. Very fine publisher's binding: a blue dragon bursting forth with orange flames against a Chinese disk in gold. This binding has been designed by The Decorative Designers of Lee and Henry Thayer, as the tiny monogram DD shows.

33  SECUNDUS, Janus (as: Jean SECOND) Les Baisers. Traduction nouvelle par Victor Develay. Avec un frontispice de Charles Eisen et un portrait. Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1872. Three-quarter cloth with marbled boards and a title ticket. (2), 118 p. Printed on Chinese paper. Second impression. Original cover (containing the Eisen frontispice) bound in. Some foxing, especially on title page. 

€ 35

* French translation from the Latin of the Basia ('Kisses') by Secundus. The colophon mentions 25 numbered copies on Chinese paper and 25 on vergé, but this copy has not been numbered. Attractive binding.

35  SPADDY Dévergondages. Bruxelles, Au dépens d'un amateur, 1948. Richly gilt three-quarter morocco. (2), 158 p. Uncut. With 16 colored lithographs of an explicit nature. One of 234 copies on Rives (total edition 250 exx.), but this copy not numbered. Some text pages inked irregularly. Part of original paper wrapper pasted on a blank. 

€ 220

* Rather erotic French novel, published for the first time in 1937. According to some, 'Spaddy' is one of the pseudonyms of Renée Dunan. Humorous illustrations. Handsome binding. This Brussels edition not in Worldcat.

39  TAYLOR, George (= Adolf Hausrath) Antinous. Historischer Roman aus der römischen Kaiserzeit. Mit dem Bildniss des Antinous. Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1883. 3/4 original gilt calf with marbled boards. VIII, 376 p. Marbled edges and endpapers. With copper engraving by A. Weger after a bust of Antinous (tissue paper and title foxed). Fourth printing (first: 1881). Spine and edges slightly rubbed. 

€ 50

* Edition in the original German. The story of Antinous and Hadrian, written in an eloquent, almost effusive style, in its original, attractive binding.

41  THACKERAY, W.M. Vanity Fair. A novel without a hero. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, (copyright 1893). Luxembourg Illustrated Library. Decorated cloth. VI, 358; IV, 342 p. Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill. Resplendent copy! 

€ 90

* Radiantly beautiful publisher's binding: peacock feathers in blue-grey and gold on olive-green cloth. This binding has been made in the first years of the 20th century by Lee Thayer (1874-1973), who had founded with her husband Henry Thayer the design firm The Decorative Designers (1895-1931). Not signed, but the design has been pictured in an article about the 'DD' in The Printing Art, 1915.

From newsletter 7:

15.  KRAFFT-EBING, R. von Psychopathia Sexualis, with especial reference to the Contrary Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Legal Study. Authorized Translation of the 7th Enlarged and Revised German Edition by Charles Gilbert Chaddock, M.D. Philadelphia / London, F.A. Davis / F.J. Rebman, 1895. 24 x 16,5 cm. Cloth. (2), xiv, 438 p. Binding a bit worn, owner's marks on flyleaf, but a very good copy.

€ 35

* Former owners: Samuel Eugene Stevens M.D. (born 1839, author of The Economy of Misery, 1915) and J. Kingsley Stevens. The first edition in English appeared 1892. 

From newsletter 6:

10  HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, (Ed.) Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Homosexualität. Herausgegeben unter Mitwirkung namhafter Autoren im Namen des wissenschaftlich-humanitären Komitees. 6. Jahrgang. Leipzig, Max Spohr, 1904. Original cloth-backed boards. IV, 744 p. Illustrated. First edition. Binding a bit worn and loosening, first four pages loose. Two stamps and inscription in pencil. 

€ 220

* Sixth Yearbook of the voluminous scientific series about intermediate sexuality, mainly homosexuality, a real mine of information. In this volume among others the original version of 'The Uranian before the Church and the Holy Scripture' by Caspar Wirz, the result of very early statistical research by Magnus Hirschfeld of the percentage of homosexuals, medical research of 103 men with a uterus and of 58 menstruating hermaphrodites; the preliminary presentation of a model of sex differences by L.S.A.M. von Römer, an important article about the psyche of August von Platen by elusive scientist Ludwig Frey, and last but not least the almost 200 pages of the bibliography of publications about homosexuality in the year of Our Lord 1903.

Two bearded women:

17  SECUNDUS, Janus (as: Jean SECOND) Les Baisers. Traduction nouvelle par Victor Develay. Avec un frontispice de Charles Eisen et un portrait. Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1872. Three-quarter cloth with marbled boards and a title ticket. (2), 118 p. Printed on Chinese paper. Second impression. Original cover (containing the Eisen frontispice) bound in. Some foxing, especially on title page. 

€ 35

* The colophon mentions 25 numbered copies on Chinese paper and 25 on vergé. This copy has not been numbered. Attractive binding.

18  SPADDY Dévergondages. Bruxelles, Au dépens d'un amateur, 1948. Richly gilt three-quarter morocco. (2), 158 p. Uncut. With 16 colored lithographs of an explicit nature. One of 234 copies on Rives (total edition 250 exx.), but this copy not numbered. Some text pages inked irregularly. Part of original paper wrapper pasted on a blank.

€ 220

* Rather erotic French novel, published for the first time in 1937. According to some, this is one of the pseudonyms of Renée Dunan. Humorous illustrations. Fine binding. This Brussels edition not in Worldcat.

20  TAYLOR, George (= Adolf Hausrath) Antinous. Historischer Roman aus der römischen Kaiserzeit. Mit dem Bildniss des Antinous. Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1883. 3/4 original gilt calf with marbled boards. VIII, 376 p. All edges and endpapers marbled. With copperengraving by A. Weger after a bust of Antinous (tissue paper and title foxed). First edition, fourth printing (first: 1881). Spine and edges slightly rubbed. 

€ 50

* The story of Antinous and Hadrian, written in an eloquent, almost effusive style, in its original, attractive binding.

From newsletter 5:

7  HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, (Ed.) Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Homosexualität. Herausgegeben unter Mitwirkung namhafter Autoren im Namen des wissenschaftlich-humanitären Komitees. 5. Jahrgang. Leipzig, Max Spohr, 1903. Two volumes. Contemporary bindings: three-quarter cloth with marbled boards, titles from original wrappers pasted on spines. (8), 706; (4, 664) p. Illustrated. First edition. Bindings rubbed. Slight traces of use. 

€ 325

* With nice bookplate of the Dutch physician Louis Heijermans (1873-1938), author of several medical and sexological books, and a brother of the author Herman Heijermans.

This vol. 5 is one of the most extensive and interesting of the 23 Jahrbücher with large contributions by Hirschfeld himself, Lucien von Römer (his well-illustrated and extensively researched ‘About the Androgynic Idea of Life’), Ferdinand Karsch-Haack, Franz Neugebauer and Numa Praetorius (Eugen Wilhelm).

14  SCHIDROWITZ, Leo Sittengeschichte von Paris. Die Grosstadt, ihre Sitten und ihre Unsittlichkeit. Wien / Leipzig, Verlag für Kulturforschung, 1926. 23 x 16 cm. Full gilt morocco. 304 p. Richly illustrated. First edition. Spine just a bit discolored, delicate soft leather slightly worn at the corners only.

€ 145

* Illustrated history of Paris, its morals and immorality. Deluxe binding in gilt full morocco. With rare 8-p. illustrated prospect for the book.

15  SPIEKER, D.C.W. Emiliens Stunden der Andacht und des Nachdenkens. Für die erwachsenen Töchter der gebildeten Stände. Reutlingen, J.J. Mäcken, 1823. Polished and gilt red full calf binding with artificial graining. All edges gilt. 420 p. Steel engraved frontispice and engraved title. Third fully revised and enlarged edition. Corners and sides of spine a bit rubbed. Some foxing. 

€ 45

* Attractive contemporary full leather binding.

From newsletter 4:

3  CARLIER, F. Les deux prostitutions (1860-1870). Paris, E. Dentu, 1887. Simple half-cloth binding without text. 516 p. First edition. A bit foxed, a bit loosening. 

€ 80

* Thorough study by the Chief of the Paris Vice Squad, François Carlier. The first half of the book treats 'normal' prostitution, the second half is about 'Prostitution Antiphysique', or 'pederasty'. It is one of the first serious books about the subject. 

From newsletter 2:

9 KRONFELD, Susan Spaghettiana. West Burke, Vermont, The Janus Press, 1976. 25 x 18 cm. Original artistical cloth/ paper binding with a spine label. Leporello (also called 'accordion') of 20 leaves showing graphic variations on spaghetti. No text. Printed in 150 numbered copies at The Stinehour Press on Mohawk Superfine. Bound by Jim Bicknell. First edition. Excellent copy.

€ 30

* A leporello of 25 x 356 cm!

16 RACKHAM, Arthur The Allies' Fairy Book. With an introduction by Edmund Gosse C.B. and illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London/ Philadelphia, William Heinemann/ J.B. Lippincott, (1916). Original decorated cloth. xxii, 122 p. With 12 color illustrations, many black-and-white illustrations and vignettes by Arthur Rackham. A very good copy with very little wear on cover, old bookseller's ticket on inside front cover, tiny name on flyleaf, some foxing.

€ 65

* Very attractive book containing fairy stories from the Allied countries of World War One. Binding shows two whimsical gilt fairies.

20 ZEPPELINS Travels through space with Parseval! Berlin, Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft m.b.H., [1910]. Oblong. Cord binding. Embossed cover with mounted oval illustration of a Zeppelin airship circling a mediaeval castle. (2), 32 p. Illustrated. First edition. Very slight traces of use.

€ 300

* Very rare German trade catalog for Parseval airships advertising many existing and ideal types of zeppelins.

From newsletter 1:

7.  HIRSCHFELD ed., Magnus Zeitschrift für Sexualwissenschaft. 1908. I. Halbjahr. Leipzig, Georg H. Wigand's Verlag, 1908. Bound in a cloth binding with title on spine. (4), 384 p. First edition. Bookplate. Slight wear. 

€ 120

* Rare magazine, published by Hirschfeld when his Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen had temporarily floundered. 

16.  PÉLADAN, Joséphin Marion de Lorme. Histoire et légende. Paris, C. Dalou, 1888. Rebound in cloth-backed boards. (4), 100 p. Printed on Van Gelder mould-made paper in an unspecified numbered edition. First edition. After this book an 1889 text copy of Le Roi d'Ys by Édouard Blau (text of the opera by Lalo) has been bound in the half-cloth binding. 

€ 90

* A rather rare first edition of an early book by Péladan.