- Trifle yellowed and fingersoiled. = Short story of a dog in a shtetl.
- Title-p. w. owner's entry and a few foxed spots. = With later glassine dustwrapper.
- Fine set.
= Studia Rosenthaliana is the world's only scholarly journal on the history, culture and heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands.
- Occas. w. extensive annots. in (col.) pencil. Wrappers w. some restorations in margins.
= Sergei Dmitriyevitch Urusov was appointed governor of Bessarabia in order to restore the peace after the infamous Kishinev pogrom of 1903 (which introduced the word "pogrom" to the world). Managing the Jewish question became a central issue of his governorship. First published in St. Petersburg (1907).
= Interesting collection of brochures covering all kinds Jewish businesses etc. in 1930's nazi Germany.
- Trifle foxed. Traces of removed ticket at foot of spine.
- Bookplates/ owner's entry on endpapers; owner's entry and stamp on title.
- Owner's entry on 2nd blank. Backcover w. a few sm. dents; corners bumped.
= "Golden Anniversary Edition, Reduce Facsimile in Black and White".
- First/ final few pages w. offsetting from (sl. dam.) dustwr.
AND 1 other: J.V. ANDREAE, Die Chymische Hochzeit des Christian Rosenkreuz (Basel, 1987, 4th ed., plates, orig. cl.).
- Owner's entry on title-p.; trifle foxed. Lacks portion of backstrip; traces of tape at foot of spine.
- Cloth partly (sl.) sunned. = With loosely inserted index booklet (9,(7)p., orig. wr.).
- All vols. backstrip sl. foxed.
= Facs. reprint of the 2nd ed. (1970). I. Die Weisheitslehre des heiligen Graal; II. Homo Coelestis; III. Universum; IV. Das Grosse Zeichen.
AND 3 others, i.a. C. GILLY, Adam Haslmayr. Der erste Verkünder der Manifeste der Rosenkreuzer (Amst., 1994, (facs.) plates, orig. cl.).
- Endpapers and fore-edge sl. foxed; upper hinge weak.
= Rare work on spiritualism by the English naturalist A.R. Wallace, co-discoverer of natural selection, with chapters on i.a. animal magnetism, clairvoyance, apparitions, phantasms. Crabtree 979 (1st ed. London, 1875).
- Hinges weak; two lvs. loose; sl. yellowed; title foxed and w. paper ticket. Joints splitting; spine-ends sl. dam.
= Extremely rare postal stamp catalogue, covering all countries and regions of the globe.
= Impressive and very rare thesis.
Evans, R. The Fabrication of Virtue. English Prison Architecture 1750-1840. Cambridge, University Press, 1982, 1st ed., 464p., 218 ills., orig. gilt boards w. pict. dustwr., sm. 4to. Ignatieff, M. A just Measure of Pain. The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850. New York, Pantheon Books, 1978, 257p., 26 ills., orig. cl. w. pict. dustwr., sm. 4to. - AND 4 others on prisons and punishment, i.a. R. MORRIS, Prisons (Past-into-Present-Series) (London, 1976, 59 ills., orig. boards w. dustwr., sm. 4to) and R. BERENDS a.o., Arbeid ter disciplinering en bestraffing (Zutphen, 1984, 28 ills., orig. pict. limp boards, sm. 4to).
- Two vols. w. large owner's entry on upper pastedown; one vol. w. 2 library stamps on title-p. and binding sl. rubbed/ soiled.
= Racing and Steeple-Chasing (1887, 2nd ed.); Riding/ Polo (1891, 1st ed.); Cricket (1904, 7th ed.).
- Occas. (water)stained in inner margin; some foxing. Covers sl. worn; paper over boards loosening.
= Interleaved copy, w. contemp. Dutch annots. Rare edition, not in Van der Linde and A. Rueb Stichting.
ADDED: 2 other (early) 20th cent. works on chess.
- Good/ fine copy.
- Lacks wrappers.
= A rare treatise on the art of swimming, considered from a sientific point of view in 10 propositions. Nothing could be found about its author. Abo is the present city Turku in Finland.