Thirty double-page colored chromolithograph plates. Quarter red cloth with pictorial pastedown over green cloth. Previous owner's name to front endpaper, first text page, and rear pastedown. Minimal insect predation to front endpaper. Wear to head and tail of spine and corners (see image). Plates are bright and clean. 8.5 x 12.5 in View More...
Professionally rebound; marbled boards over attractive quarter morocco with gilt title to spine. Five raised bands. January 7th, 1854. Text is in German. Scarce. No previous owner's names or other markings. 11.75 x 17.5 in View More...
Professionally rebound in quarter morocco over pebbled boards with label to front cover. No previous owner's names or other markings. German text. Scarce. 11.75 x 18 in View More...
Publisher:
Wien, Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften : 1982
Seller ID: 5463
Dark green cloth boards with gilt decoration to front board and gilt particulars to spine; dust jacket protected in mylar. German text. Black and white illustrations and photographs throughout, as well as fold-out illustrations and maps. Without previous owners' names or other markings. 330 pp. 6 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
A total of 65 sur blanc colored plates, along with 223 black/white plates and 73 pages of text. Text in English and German. Blue faded cloth with gilt title on front cover and spine. Wear to head and tail of spine. Spine faded to tan. A clean copy with no previous owners' names or other markings. 9.5 x 12 in First Edition. View More...
Dark blue cloth with red label and gilt particulars to spine. German text. Vol. 1: lxx, 578 pp.; Vol. 2: x, 580-1178 pp. 6 1/2 x 10 inches. First Edition. View More...
Burgundy paper boards with cream text to front board and spine. Pictorial dust jacket. German text throughout. Full color illustrations . Unread copy. No previous owners' names or other markings. 164 pp. 9 3/4 x 12 inches. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Quarter dark brown polished calf and mottled paper boards. Gothic German text throughout. Previous owners' notes to first free page with dates from 1835-1840, otherwise no other markings or names. One signature standing proud. Wear to boards and age of leather has caused several cracks and small losses to leather (see image). Occasional spotting and some toning to pages throughout. [viii], 872 pp., 240 pp., [8]. 7 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. View More...
Grayish green cloth boards with debossed emblem to front board and debossed text to spine; gray dust jacket with text--spine slightly sunned (see image). German text throughout. Black and white and some color illustrations. 477 pp. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. A nice, clean copy without previous owners' names or other marking. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
String bound paper wraps. Four pages of ads to rear with the rear wrap disconnected. Binding loose. Pastedown to front cover. No previous owners' names or other markings. 7.25 x 10.5 in First Edition. View More...
Inscribed by author Renko D. Geffarth to front fly, which reads "For Peter Reill, to whom I owe so much?? may reason overcome all secrets." This inscription is dated November 2007. Historian and UCLA professor Peter Reill's name to the front pastedown. Additional friendly note tucked inside from Geffarth to Reill discussing the publication of the book and the birth of Geffarth's daughter. Text in German. Explores the previously untold history of the highly mysterious Order of the Golden and Rosy Cross (Golden Rosicrucians), an 18th century German masonic secret society which claimed to have es... View More...
Black cloth boards with silver text to front board and spine; pictorial dust jacket with text. Copiously illustrated with both full color and black and white photographs throughout. Featuring artful nude photographs of primarily women, but does occasionally include some men. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Light wear and abrasions to dust jacket and boards (see image). 10 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Full blue cloth, gilt particulars to front with accompanying dust jacket. B&W illustrations. Slight stains on dust jacket (see image). No previous owner's names or other markings. 95pp. 5.25 x 8 in. Dust jacket present. View More...