572 - 641 VARIA. CHESS, EROTICA, FASHION AND COSTUME, JUDAICA and HEBRAICA, PHILOSOPHY etc.
- Owner's entry on upper pastedown; several lvs. (ink)stained/ soiled. Binding sl. worn; spine-ends dam.
= Rare Brilon imprint. Cf. Fürst III, p.499-500.
AND a souvenir booklet: ANTIQUITATES JUDAICAE PRAGENSES (Prague, M. Schulz, ±1915, 25 picture postcards(?), orig. wr., obl. sm. 8vo).
- Wrappers sl. dam. (mostly vol. II) and foxed, otherwise fine. = American Jewish Archive, no. V.
- Occas. (sl.) browned/ fingersoiled; owner's entry on upper pastedown. Binding worn/ rubbed; lower joint splitting.
= Roest p.730. Containing the prayers (selichot) for the High Holy Days.
- Binding sl. rubbed.
= A collection of articles regarding the "Jewish problem".
ADDED: G. WEIDENBORN (ed.), Der Lautlose Aufstand. Bericht über die Widerstandbewegung des deutschen Volkes 1933-1945 (Hamburg, 1953, orig. blindst. cl.).
= Fascinating autobiography of the difficult life of a Jewish author, who lost many familymembers and friends during the Holocaust. I.a. on the author's birth ("(...) En ze had ook nog een zware bevalling van dat kind dat haar was aangedaan. Dat nam ze mij kwalijk. Ze wou me niet en dat waren de signalen die ik ontving" (p.9)), life with her mother and (terminally) ill father ("Nu ze [moeder] haar kinderen weer op haar dak geschoven had gekregen (...), kon ze ook geen baan meer aannemen en moest ze steun aanvragen. Dat was natuurlijk heel vernederend, dat mocht niemand weten en we mochten ook met niemand omgaan"(p.23-24)), rape by her stepfather, the war ("10 mei 1940 brak de oorlog uit. (...). Bang waren we eigelijk niet. Die oorlog zouden we wel winnen. Dat optimisme kwam uit domheid, uit onwetendheid voort. We wisten wel dat joden in Duitsland als het symbool van alles wat slecht was werden beschouwd en dat de bevolking grotendeels antisemitisch was (...). Dat bij ons joden zouden worden vervolgd leek ondenkbaar"(p.142)), a period of going underground, giving her baby up for adoption and the loss of her brother Flip, who was murdered in Auschwitz.
- Fine copy.
= With autograph dedication signed by both authors in vol.1. With loosely inserted Korrigenda- und Ergänzungsliste for the first volume.
AND 2 others, i.a. HISTORISCHES HANDBUCH DER JÜDISCHEN GEMEINSCHAFTEN IN WESTFALEN UND LIPPE. Die Ortschaften und Territorien im heutigen Regierungsbezirk Münster (Münster, 2008, orig. boards. Fine).
- Lacks backstrip; corners sl. worn.
= With AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION MONOGRAMMED "A.N. 1. Juni 24." on htitle.
AND 1 other: M. SACHS, Die religiöse Poesie der Juden in Spanien. Ed. S. Bernfeld (Berlin, 1901, 2nd enl. ed., German and Hebrew text, orig. (trifle rubbed) richly gilt cl.).
- Upper hinge split; occas. (finger)soiled/ (ink)stained and w. owner's annots.; 3 lvs. torn w. loss of sm. portion of lower inner margin. Binding worn/ dam.
AND 1 other: A.B. KLEEREKOPER, Het Hooglied. Zangen van liefde (Amst., 1903, orig. wr.).
- Sl. foxed throughout; pencil annots. in margin.
= Goedeke XV, 1130, 11 (2nd ed.). With a list of Hebrew words and their translation at the end. Rare. F.S. von Holzschuher (1796-1861), was German judge known for his (anti-semite) satirical publications. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIX.
BOUND WITH: Idem. Israels Verkehr und Geist in jüdischen Characterzeichnungen, Erzählungen, Gedichten u.s.w. C. Schulklopfer für die hauchlöhliche Jüdenschaft. Ibid., idem, 1833, 2nd enl. and corr. ed., VIII,117,(3)p., lithogr. title-p. w. vignette, 3 plates w. 2 ills. each.
- Occas. sl. foxed.
= Also with a list of Hebrew words and their translation at the end. Rare. Not in Goedeke.
- Sl. foxed; bookplate and cat. clipping on upper pastedown.
= Goedeke XV, 1130, 15. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XX.
- Second half vaguely dampstained in upper outer corner; bookplate on verso frontwr. Covers sl. dogeared/ creased.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION dated "2 - I -29" on verso of frontispiece reading: "Dem hochverherter und [...] Dr R[...] E. Cohn sende ich meine Memuaren. Ich weiss, dass alles was des Judentum betrifft, für Sie von Interesse ist, und hoffe, das Sie auch in meinem Buch etwas lesenswertig finden werden [signed]." Also signed on recto of frontisp. Rare.
AND 2 others.
- Contents trifle yellowed. Spine-ends sl. dam.
Börries, Freiherr von Münchhausen. Juda. Gesänge. Berlin, E. Fleischel & Co., n.d., 2nd ed. (4th-6th thous.), no pagination, plates, bookdecoration, endpapers and orig. dec. cl. by E.M. LILIEN.
- Backstrip dam.; some traces of tape along backstrip; corners sl. worn. Contents fine.
- Annot. in pen on one plate; some traces of glue on inner margin between 2 plates. Spine sl. foxed.
= Ziegenfuß II, p.487.
Gulat-Wellenburg, W. von a.o. Der physikalische Mediumismus. Berlin, Ullstein, 1925, 1st ed., XIII,(3),494,(2)p., 15 plates, ills., orig. giltlettered cl.
- Sl. foxed. Upper joint splitting; backstrip loose. = Der Okkultismus in Urkunden vol.1. Ed. M. Dessoir.
Binet, A. and Féré, C. Le magnétisme animal. Paris, F. Alcan, 1894, 4th ed., (8),283,4 (of 16) advert.p., ills., orig. gilt and blindst. cl. (lacks 12 advert.p.; contents sl. foxed). - AND 8 others, i.a.: J. VIJSELAAR, De magnetische geest. Het dierlijk magnetisme 1770-1830 (Nijm., 2001, ills., orig. wr. Fine) and C. ASENDORF, Ströme und Strahlen (Giessen, 1989, ills., orig. wr., 4to).
- Yellowed; trifle foxed. Spine creased and ends dam.
= Scarce work on satanism by René Schwaeblé (1873-1938), alchemist, medical doctor and doctor of law, and writer of popular novels (i.a. crime fiction).
= Interesting provenance: the Richel Eldermans collection, a collection of occultica that is now housed in the Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle, UK.
- Title-p. loose; sl. foxed.
= Ziegenfuss I, p.156: "B. wurde durch sein Buch "Kraft und Stoff" zum populärsten Vertreter des Materialismus".
- Occas. trifle foxed. Vol. 1 backstrip sunned. = The author's main work. Ziegenfuss I, p.178.
= Complete set of the first translation of Erasmus' complete Correspondence in a modern language. Translated and annotated after the Latin standard edition by P.S. Allen, H.M. Allen and H.W. Garrod (ed.), The Opus Epistolarum.
- A few dustwr. w. sm. defect.
= Brieven 1-1251 and 1356-1534. Up till now 18 vols. have been published.