- Lacks 10 issues (1903, no.28, 29, 36 and 46; 1907, no.36 and 49; 1908, no.9, 37, 38 and 42); 1 frontwr. missing (1908, no.10); 5 frontwr./ backwr. torn; 5 txtlvs. missing.
= Colas 2126; Lipperheide Zb 79.
La Mode illustrée. Journal de la Famille. Year 46. Ibid., Firmin-Didot et Cie., 1905, IV,660p., 51 (of 53) handcol. woodengr. plates, num. woodengr. ills., unif. bound w. the preceding, folio.
- Lacks 2 issues (no.23 and 39); no.53 lacks 1 textleaf. = Colas 2082; Lipperheide Zb 135.
- Some foxing. Binding sl. stained and worn along extremities.
= Lipperheide Ad36; Colas 2153; Hiler p.626.
- All drawings trifle soiled; 2 lvs. loose.
= Charming drawings of various mid-1920's fashion designs, incl. a few 'Flapper' dresses.
AND 3 others similar.
- Frontisp. w. closed horizontal tear; partly (water)stained in lower inner margin; sl. foxed.
= Horn/ Arndt 368; Bitting p.20 (other eds.); Vicaire p.54-55 (other ed.).
Richardin, E. (ed.). L'Art du bien manger. Fins et joyeux croquis astronomiques écrits pour les Gourmets (...). Ibid., Nilsson, n.d. (1910), XII,756p., woodengr. frontisp., ills., orig. giltlettered cl.
- Contents sl. browned; a few closed tears in lower blank margin.
AND 6 others, i.a. A. ESCOFFIER, Ma cuisine (ibid., 1934, orig. cl. Hinges broken) and E. CHANCRIN and F. FAIDEAU (ed.), Larousse ménager (ibid., 1926, ills., orig. gilt blindstamped hcalf. Hinges broken; boardedges worn).
- Binding sl. worn along extremities; backcover sl. waterstained.
AND 8 others, i.a. S.K. CHENG, Shanghai Restaurant Chinese Cookery Book (London, 1936, orig. cl.); C. HERMAN SENN, How to Cook Eggs and Omelets in 300 different Ways (London/ Melbourne, ±1925, orig. cl. Owner's entry on htitle) and I. BEETON, Book of Household Management (London etc., 1912, full-p. (col.) plates, orig. gilt hcalf).
- Both vols. foxed; vol.1 partly sl. waterst. in blank corner(s). Both vols. corners (sl.) worn and spine-ends and joint sl. rubbed.
= Vicaire 289; Horn/ Arndt 422 (other ed.) and Oberlé 250 (other eds.). "Un des plus grands traités de cuisine moderne (...)." (Oberlé).
- Hinges broken but holding on cords; lacks one index leaf; a few lvs./ quires loose(ning). Binding stained/ worn; spine-ends dam.
= Cf. Vicaire p.417-418 ("Cet ouvrage culinaire est (...) un des plus complets et des plus sérieusement traités qui existent; les recettes que l'on y trouve sont fort recherchées, mais il faut avoir un budget assez important, affecté aux dépenses de table, pour pouvoir suivre les savants conseils de ce maître de l'art culinaire."); Bitting p.195-196 ("This work is considered one of the most important and the most sought, though due to the varied materials required in the recipes, more suited to large establishments than to the ordinary household"); Oberlé, Fastes 226-228; Horn/ Arndt 444; Drexel 172.
- Owner's stamp on title. = Not in the usual reference works.
- Lacks key to lid; decoration on wooden case partly worn off from lid and sl. rubbed on sides.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXV.
- Two lvs. w. manuscript recipes for "Potato Salad" and "Hot Tamale" in ballpoint.
= Contains ±400 recipes collected by female members of the First Presbyterian Church of Wausau, Wisconsin, for i.a. corn batter bread, calf's head soup, codfish balls, glazed ham, deviled eggs, little pigs in blankets, lobster a la Newberg, Welsh rarebit, bird's nest jelly, sherbet (4x), cream puffs, feather cake and molasses candy. Rare, no copies traced in OCLC, Library of Congress Online Catalog or any of the usual reference works.
- Sl. foxed and stained; endpapers w. some scribbling in pen; final free endpaper corner torn off. Binding sl. worn and stained/ soiled.
- Bookblock loose. Wr. frayed and sl. brittle.
= With modernist frontwrapper design. Malka Lisak was a Polish-born Jewish playwright. She moved to Soviet Russia in 1921. Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXV.
- Wrappers sl. frayed.
= First Russian translation of Marx' Zur Judenfrage, originally published in the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher (Paris, 1844).
- All vols. owner's entry/ stamps/ annots. on upper pastedown ("[?] Majthenyi") and title; occas. trifle foxed. Vol.6 new cloth laid down on backcover. Ex-library copy.
= Ziegenfuß I, 199; PMM 295: "(...) The remarkable achievement of Comte (...), is the construction of a system which embraces all human activity and knowledge. Having performed this great and real service to thought, he almost sacrifices any claim to gratitude by the invention of a system of control which is jejune and retrograde. None the less, his attempt to link up all science, to relate its development to the progress of society, and to combine it with a system of improvement with humanity in place of an external supreme being, is still one of the major documents of secular philosophy."; The Encyclopaedia of Philosophy vol.II, p.173-177: "(...) [Comte] has a good claim to having originated the new science of sociology; certainly, he coined the term. (...) His influence on nineteenth century thought was strong; he had numerous disciples, such as Émile Littré, and sympathetic supporters, such as John Stuart Mill. His ideas still have important meaning and interest. (...)".
Littré, É. Auguste Comte et la philosophie positive. Ibid., L. Hachette et Cie., 1863, 1st ed., (4),XI,(1),687,(1)p., modern hcl., orig. frontwr. pres.
- First/ final few lvs. trifle foxed. Rebound w. use of orig. red mor. letterpiece.
= En français dans le texte 286: "la découverte du positivisme en 1840 en fait un vigoureux défenseur des idées d'Auguste Comte, dans son sillage d'abord, puis contre le maître dont il n'accepte pas la dérive religieuse". Cf. En français dans le texte 245.
- Spine of vol.1 faded.
- Title-p. w. library ticket and gluestains/ inner hinge strengthened. Top of spine sl. worn.
= "Convinced of the "truth of the monistic philosophy", Haeckel published a comprehensive statement on his beliefs in 1899 (...). This book is divided into sections on anthropology (man), psychology (the soul), cosmology (the universe) and theology (God)" (DSB VI, p.6-10). From the library of the Dutch anatomist LOUIS BOLK (his bookplate and owner's entry on title-p.).
- Traces of bookplate on upper pastedown; hinges weakening. Corner and backstrip sl. rubbed; covers sl. sunned.
= The first separate edition of this work.
- Lacks frontisp.; waterst. in lower margin at the beginning. Backcover without board (only calf pres.).
= One of the most important German philosophers between Leibnitz and Kant (cf. Ziegenfuss II, p.903-907).