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Gazette of the United States June 19, 1790

Washington, George; Levi Sheftall; Hebrew Congregation of the City of Savannah Two leaves, folio (16.25 by 10 in.). Edges slightly trimmed; a touch of mild foxing, else a fine, crisp copy. Housed in buckram clamshell box with gilt paper label at spine. The first known, published appearance of Jewish support the the newly elected president of the United States, George Washington.The week after Washinton's inauguration, Levi Sheftall, on behalf of the newly reorganized Savannah Hebrew Congregation, wrote him an elegant, effustive letter of congratulation. This letter, along with Washington's reply was published the following year by the United States Gazette: "Sir, We have long been anxious of congratulating yu on your appointment. and of testifying our unbounded confidence in your integrity and unblemished virtue. Your unexampled liberality and extensive philanthropy have dispelled that cloud of bigotry and superstition which has long, as a veil, shaded religion -- unrivetted the fetters of enthusiasm -- enfranchised us with all the privileges and immunities of free citizens, and initiated us into the grand mass of legislative mechanism. May the great Author of worlds grant you all happiness and a continuance of guardianship to that freedom which under th auspices of heaven your magnanimity and wisdom have given these States." Washington's reply is undated but addressed "To the Hebrew Congregation of the City of Savannah." After accepting their congratulations he extends this hope: "May the same wonder-working Deity, who long since delivering the Hebrews from their Egyptian Oppressors planted them in the promised land -- whose providential agency has lately been conspicuous in established these United States as an independent nation -- still continue to water them with the dews of Heaven and to make the inhabitants of every denomination participate in the temporal and spiritual blessings of that people whose God is Jehovah. George Washington." Provenance: old entry of [.] Hopkins at top margin first leaf (trimmed). References: Enc. Jud. (first ed., 1972), vol. 16; Evans, Amer. Bibl., vol. 8; From the Ends of the Earth, Judaica Treasures of the Library of Congress.
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Siemens-Antonienheim. Arbeiterinnen-Erholungsheim in Ahlbeck (Seebad). (Siemens-Antonienheim. Recreation Home for Female Workers. Sea Resort)

n/a Square Octavo. (4)pp., 17 plates. Original light brown stiff wraps with debossed dark brown lettering on cover. Laid in a folded leaf with decorative initials in red and black entitled "The 10 Commandments." An advertisement for Groterjan Stout, recommended by the medical profession to further mother milk and combat infant mortality, giving advice on childcare and hygiene in ten paragraphs. Seventeen sepia-toned photographs (3 1/2 x 4 3/4 to 5 1/2") illustrating the exterior and interior of the Antonienheim, a recreation Home for female workers of the Siemens AG, built by the architect Hans Hertlein at Ahlbeck, Baltic Sea, in 1914. The home was built on the order of Karl Friedrich von Siemens in memory of his mother Antonie von Siemens, second wife of Werner von Siemens, the founder of the electricity giant. The site reaches from the beach way up the knoll, forested with pines, with the large dining room located in the center of the building, kitchen and rooms for the managers place around it. The two long protruded wings house sleeping rooms for one hundred guests in one wing, four bed rooms on the ground floor and two bed rooms in the attics, and a number of reading and sewing rooms available to the guests in the other. Toilets and baths are located between the living quarters. The whole front is adorned with a covered colonnade with columns helping to sustain the roof. (See Berliner Bauzeitung, Vol. 60, No. 15, February 20, 1926). Text of advertisement in German, Gothic script. No text in Album. This with very light wear and sunning along edges. Very good to near fine condition
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Dodecas legalis de Judaeorum receptione ac tolerantia von Juden-Schutz (Twelve Laws on the Reception and Toleration of the Jews [Juden-Schutz = Jew Protection])

Wildvogel, Christian (praes.); Johann Carl Lochner (resp.) Small quarto. Collation: [pi]2, A-E4, F2 (= 24 leaves); [4], 44pp. Text in Latin with some passages in square unvocalized Hebrew. Contemporary marbled wrappers. Complete with dedication bound at the front. Text very lightly tones, a fine copy. First edition (re-issued in 1730) of this academic dissertation which surveys the historical development of the status of Jews in Europe since antiquity, arranged into twelve theses: [1] Definition of Jew, deriving from Judah, son of the patriarch Jacob; [2] Ambiguous status in antiquity (not fully autonomous); [3] Reception of the Jews into the Imperial Reserves; [4] The policy of Christendom to provide comforable circumstances for the Jews so as to avoid the rebuke of vengeance; [5] Regarding leadership within the Jewish community, especially with regard to guarding against heresy; [6] The status of the Synagogue as a place for Jewish study; [7] On the civic status and privileges of the Jews; [8] Domestic relations between Jews and Christians; [9] Commercial relations between Jews and Christians; [10] On the taking of oaths; [11] The application of Mosaic law to Jews in spiritual and ecclesiastical cases; [12] On the need for Jews to utilize the civic judicial apparatus. The argument concludes that "the reception and tolerance of the Jews according to the prescribed laws is attested daily, being more in accord with divine and human law and the reverence due to the Patriarchs, Prophets, and Apostles, and supported by great evidence drawn from the authentic books of the Old Testament, as well as the unanimous opinion of the most eminent theologians and doctors." Thesis 8, on domestic relations between Jews and Christians, is much concerned with limiting opportunities for naive or simple Christians to be swayed by the arguments of the Jews. Here we read of a contemporary figure, Johann Peter Speeth (d. 1701), who converted to Judaism and styled himself Moses Germanus. Speeth discussed his view that Cabala is the essence of the Jewish religion with the German philologist Johann Georg Wächter (1673-1757) in Amsterdam, who subsequently wrote Der Spinozismus im Jüdenthumb (1699) to demonstrate that while the Cabala is, in fact, the Jewish philosophy, it is a "thoroughly irrational and contradictory hodge-podge" (Bamberger). Wachter's refutation is also mentioned in the present dissertation. In 1668, after completing his doctorate, Christian Wildvogel (1644-1728) settled down as a lawyer in his hometown, primarily involved in defending the legal rights of poor people and minors. In 1676, Duke August (the patron of Wildvogel's father) chose the son from a large number of applicants to become bailiff of the Lower Saxony district. In 1678, the latter was quite unexpectedly called to Weimar by Duke Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, where he was promoted to court and government councilor, and in 1681 he was also given the position of councilor at the consistory, which included taking care of the business of the ducal treasury. In these new positions, Wildvogel was repeatedly required to appear as a government representative at congresses with neighboring princes until 1685; especially at the Frankfurt coin conferences of 1680 and at the deliberations of the Upper Saxon circle that took place in Leipzig in 1681 and 1683. Working as a valued teacher at the university of Jena for around 30 years, he died in 1728 at the age of 85. Wildvogel was a busy practitioner for the better part of his life. As such, he had no time for literary work. In later years, as a lecturer, he published: "Electa juris civilis et canonici" (Jena 1700) and "Responsa et consilia" (Jena 1717). He also collaborated with the Jena faculty of law to produce "Three hundred German legal sayings." The present work is among the 143 dissertations and 56 programs Wildvogel wrote, almost exclusively of civil law content. -- ADB. Cat. dissert. bibl. Bodleiana (1834), p. 408 (Wildvogelius, Chr.); VD17 12:142889V (identical dedication, here bound at end). Cf. VD17 14:063650E (without the dedication) and VD17 15:750380G (another setting of the title). Cf. Bamberger, Spinoza and Anti-Spinoza Literature, no. 129: Wachter, Der Spinozismus im Jüdenthumb (1699).
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Der Stahlhausbau. 1. Wohnbauten aus Stahl

Spiegel, Hans Large Quarto. [10] 169 [3]pp. Original blue cloth with silver lettering on cover and spine, protected by modern mylar. Illustration of the construction elements of steel house buildings as well as a demonstration of finished steel buildings in order to show that an economically viable way of building requires a careful standardization of the building elements in order to proceed with serial construction and production of designated buildings. Demonstration of the various ways of "Montage-Steel Buildings" as they are being produced by American, English and German manufacturing companies, registers systematically the various possibilities and experiences of steel building production. Various successful and failed experiments will crystalize the proper ways for construction and will provide the basics for future works. The publication discusses ways for a rational production of apartments (Chapter 1), Quality regulations for steel buildings (2), classification of steel building construction (3), steel buildings in America (4), Steel buildings in England and France (5), Steel buildings in Germany (6), steel furniture (7). Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs architectural drawings, plans, and drawings, including technical drawings. Contains register at rear. The work designs layout and typography are fine representations of the new realism and bauhaus designs.Text in German. Binding with light wear along edges with spine sunned. Previous owner's stamp on front free endpaper. Hans Spiegel (1893-1987) was a German architect and master builder. Buildings. Sample of a worker's home in the suburb of Gesolei, 1926 • Private home Düsseldorf-Grafenberg, Housing blocks in Düsseldorf, steel frame house, Dresden 1928, family homes Speldorferstraße and Mörsenbroicher Weg, Düsseldorf , settlements for the VW Plant and Junkers-Airplane manufacturer, • administrative building for a machine manufacturer in Düsseldorf, 1941, production halls for the Pierburg Company, Neuss, 1960, house for Lemke in 1930, Meerbusch (Germany).
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Deutsch Nationale Kunst-Ausstellung Düsseldorf 1902

Renard, Otto (Photography) Oblong Quarto. 35 original silver gelatin prints. Original brown leather portfolio with gilt emblem and gilt lettering on gilt-framed cover. Red silk inside front cover and portfolio flaps. The bottom flap gilt-stamped Otto Renard, Paul Adam Buchbinderei, Düsseldorf. Album of thirty-five original photographs (9 3/4 x 11 1/4") by court photographer Otto Renard that document National Art exhibtion of 1902 by room. The photographs include a exterior panorama view of the newly built Art Palace, its courtyard, an interior view of the dome, the large gallery, the large hall and various galleries with work of artist groups and art organizations, e.g. Kunstgenossenschaft Berlin, Secession Berlin, Dresden, Düsseldorf (6), Munich, Luitpold Group Munich, Secession Munich, Art Association Rhineland and Westfalia, Art Alliance "Hagen" from Vienna (2), Art Collective Vienna, Secession Vienna, recreation room Secession Vienna, the Van der Velde room, the art historian gallery (5), old Japanese art. The exhibition includes paintings, furniture, sculpture and statuettes, and a variety of interiors. The Art Palace was built for the 1902 Industry and Craft Exhibition for the Rhineland, Westfalia and neighboring districts. The building of the Kunstpalast was in large part due to the efforts of Fritz Roeber, director of the Düsseldorf Art Academy, the painter Georg Oeder and the art historian Paul Clement in the late 1800s, who were able to convince Heinrich Lueg, director of the association for commerce, that the time for another great art and commerce exhibition had come. The goal was the establishment of a new, permanent venture for art exhibitions that was to become the center of the arts in the Rhinelands and Westfalia. Lueg took the lead and started the planing for the Kunstpalast already in 1898. The goal was to exhibit the development of the past 20 years in a formidable gallery and the 1900 Paris World exhibition was the model for the undertaking. Despite the fact that some of the planned buildings were not ready by the opening of the two exhibitions, it opened on May 1st and closed on October 20th, 1902, the exhibitions became a huge success. Two OCLC entries. Text in German. Portfolio with light wear, one inch closed tear at top right of portfolio cover. Some light worm damage in silk of inside front cover and right flap. Few plates with minor damage at edges and lightly age-toned in margins. Images fine. Otto Renard (1855-1943) was known for his documentation of art exhibitions, among them the 1902 art and commerce exhibition in 1902. The distinction "Hof Fotograf (Court photographer)" he earned while working at the court of Zar Nikolaus II. Renard returned to Germany after the turn of the century to open photo-studios in Düsseldorf and Aachen. He became wealthy due to his invention of a photo-paper, moved to Berlin and then to Darmstadt.
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Hamishah Humshei Torah: Pentateuchum; Nevi’im Rishonim; Nevi’im Aharonim; Sefer Ketuvim (The Pentateuch; Former Prophets; Later Prophets; Hagiographa)

(Bible. Old Testament. Hebrew) Four parts, quarto, published between 1586 and 1587. Register continuous through parts 1 and 2; separate registers for parts 3 and 4. Collation in 4s: 1-65 (blank 33.4); 1-30 (lacks blank 30.4); 1-32 (lacks 32.4 colophon). 506 leaves. Title within elaborate woodcut borders. Single-column text in vocalized Hebrew with cantillation; printed side-glosses. Separate Hebrew half-titles within woodcut borders for the latter three parts (Former Prophets; Later Prophets; Hagiographa); names of the biblical books set in large font within woodcut cartouches. Later vellum. Title and following three leaves with marginal reinforcement (slight text loss). Occasional mild embrowning, else very good, with bright half-titles. First Wittenberg edition of the complete Hebrew Scriptures, with a concluding list of Haftaroth readings, noting the Ashkenazi and Sefardi variations. Our copy is the variant with Hebrew and Latin title. (Most of the few surviving copies are bound with a Hebrew title, and the publisher's information is taken from the colophon, which provides a Jewish calendar date of [5]347 = 1587). Vinograd notes that individual books and sections of the Hebrew Bible had been printed at Wittenberg since a quarto edition of the prophet Obadiah appeared in 1521. The title-page designs were re-used in the Hebrew bible published at Frankfurt am Oder in 1595. Each book closes with the masora finales printed in square type. Andreas Masch notes in his revised edition of Le Long's Bibliotheca Sacra (1778): "This edition of the Hebrew Bible is so rare and infrequent that it was omitted in the [earlier] edition of Le Long's work at Paris, but it is known to Wolffius [Bibliotheca Hebraea] not in its entirety, but only in respect of certain parts." One can speculate as to why the edition is rare, but it may be worth noting that "[w]hen Hans and Friedrich Hartmann decided to start producing Hebraica in an effort to become the official printer for the univeristy of Frankfurt/Oder, they were able to do so relatively quickly by hiring awy five experienced workmen from Zacharias Croto's Wittenberg firm, which was having financial difficulties" (Burnett). At the colophon is noted the year and the name of those at whose expense this Hebrew Bible was published: [colophon info in Heb. and Latin] The above example is therefore attributed to the liberality of the prince, and to the expense of the two citizens of Witteberg [But the Rühilii brothers were not correctors of the work, but citizens and senators of Witteberg, whose name is quite famous in the history of the Germanic Bibles.]. The work came from the workshop of Zacharias Craton, otherwise known as Kraft, to whom we owe several editions of German Bibles. The title in both copies represents a gate, in which above and below Ps. 118, com. 20. was expressed. To the first edition of Plantini, that this was engraved in such a way that almost the pages correspond to the pages, without even Plantini's typographical plasters having passed into this one, he judges that he reviews this, Cl. Knochius. It is completed in four parts, with five festival books added to the Pentateuch; but each part is decorated with a special title. Closes each book with a final masora printed in square type, and at the end is added a Table of Haphtharas. This latter title page was the one used in the [unique] presentation copy printed on large paper. Full title: ×—×ž× ×" ×—×•×ž× ×™ ×ª×•× ×" Pentateuchum mandato & liberalitate illustrissimi principis ac Domini, Domini Augusti Electoris Saxoniae. Vitebergae: Typis Zacharia Cratonis, Anno 1586. [alternate Hebrew title: ×—×ž× ×" ×—×•×ž× ×™ ×ª×•× ×" ××"פס עם × ×‘ ×"עיון על י×"י ×–×›× ×™×" ×›× ××˜×•]. References: Benzing, Buchdrucker 16/17, p. 471; Le Long/Masch I (1778), pp. 33-34; Steinschneider 277; VD16 ZV 29818 (quarto); Vinograd 21. Not in: Adams; Darlow & Moule; Delaveau & Hillard. Cf. Burnett, Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era, p. 204.
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Livre Blanc sur Buchenwald. In Secteur de la Résistance Française (White Paper on Buchenwald. A Sector of French Resistance) [SIGNED WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH]

n/a Small Folio. 448 (4)pp. Original tan quarter cloth over tan stiff wraps with black lettering on cover. Signed T. Taylor on title page. With an original press photograph (5 x 6 3/4") dated Aug 01,1947 of Brigadier General Telford Taylor, Chief of the American Tribunal at Nuremberg, laid in. A documentation of the resistance at Buchenwald containing facsimiles of letters and documents of survivors of the camp. Some handwritten as well as a certain number of typewritten documents which were difficult to reproduce are accompanied by their typographical reproductions. "The Resistance cannot be content with showing its contempt for these campaigns and their authors; it must stand up to restore history and once again defeat the collaborators of the occupier of yesterday and its new recruits."Important documentry compilation concerning the french resistance to the narcist during world war II. The publication is structured into the chapters: I. Documents relating to the work of the French Interest Committee, II. Respect for France, III. Thousands of lives were saved, IV. United to hold everyone together, V. The heroic action of French doctors, VI. Fight and remain men, VII. The deportees freed themselves, VIII. The survivors unit was and remains essential, IX. The slanderers were never able to respond, X. In Buchenwald they had been resistance fighters. They had been deported as resistance fighters, XI. Additional testimonies and protests, XII. French brigade of liberating Buchenwald. Text in French. Light wear along edges of wraps. Few pencil marks in margins. Block lightly age-toned.
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Neue Architektur – Maxim. Worm – Carl Krayl Architekten Magdeburg

Konrad, Gustav Ewald (Ed.) Small Folio. [2] 30 plates. Original black cloth over photo-illustrated boards with red and white lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. Photographs by "Lichtbildverlag Rudolf Hatzold, Magedeburg." Photo documentation of new architecture by these Magdeburg architects, Maximilian Worm and Carl Krayl with photographs and architectural drawing by "Lichtbildverlag Rudolf Hatzold, Magedeburg. The works of Maximilian Worm include competitions, proposals as well as realized industrial and administrative projects, with one photo showing the House Stork in Magedeburg. The photogravures included show designs for the House of Commerce in Frankfurt and the Deutsche Allegmeine Zeitung in Berlin, plus a design for the Lyceum in Stendal, Saxony, illustrated in twelve photographs. Part two, works by Worm and Krayl, 1926/27, is illustrated in twenty-three photogravures, providing views of the exterior and the multi-facetted interior of the Magedeburg Healt Insurance building, including public service counter areas, Lichthof (air well), administrative offices and waiting room at the clinics, conference room, offices of management, stairways, and change room and bath house. Various photographs of the exterior includes one shot of the roof garden. The final part with works by Carl Krayl an architectural drawing for a house at the Bodensee, a drawing and one photograph of the Bauhütte, a "slick" design and impressive photograph of the Union Building in Magedeburg, high riser studies and extension of storage halls in Magdeburg, a settlement in Fermersleben-Magedeburg, and a sales pavilion of the newspaper Volksstimme (Voice of the People). Text in German. Light wear along edges of binding. Light age-toning, not affecting images. Starting at page showing stairways. Some age-toning along edges in block, not affecting images.
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Schwartzkopff. Our Locomotives Built 1935-1938

n/a Large Quarto. 79 [1]pp. Original color-illustrated front and back cover cloth with black lettering on front cover. Double page color illustration of cover after a painting by Walter Zeeden. Extensive catalog of the Berliner Maschinenbau-Actien-Gesellschaft, formerly Schwartzkopff, introducing locomotives built during the years 1935 to 1938. This catalog is profusely illustrated with photogravures of the wide variety of locomotives, production facilities and technical drawings throughout. It includes a brief company history from its founding in 1852 to date and a special chapter on the exhibition "Germany" during the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. This section illustrates the locomotive as exhibited in Berlin at the Adolf-Hitler-Platz with photos of dignitaries, including Dr. Goebbels, and its laborious transport by means of the Culemeyer type transport vehicles. Two illustrated pages are dedicated to the German National Exhibition in Düsseldorf 1937 "Schaffendes Volk," featuring a Standard Fast Train Locomotive. The catalog introduces a variety of locomotive types with technical data, including those for private railways as the the Lübeck-Büchen Railway, the Mecklenburgian Friedrich-Wilhelm Railway as well as railways abroad, e.g. China, India, Brazil, this with a folding plate in color gravure after an original of the painter Walter Zeeden, Berlin, and South Africa. The section of smaller and electric locomotives includes a section for Diesel locomotives, a double locomotive, and locomotives for mine service, including those order from Russia, France and Brazil. The last two pages are illustrated with gravures of Large- and High Pressure Compressors and Diesel- and Steam Road Rollers. Very light wear along edges of binding. Illstrated bookplate on inside front cover with unidentified manuscript dedication, dated Berlin 1938. Folding plate with small crease at top foredge of folded plate.
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Four Collages with Color Concetto Spaziale Serigraphs

Fontana, Lucio; Gillo Dorfles (Text) Octavo (8 5/8 x 6 7/8"). 16 leaves. Original handmade textured stiff wraps with flaps and black lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. Text by Gillo Dorfles in French. One of Fontana's last works was entitled "Teatrini (Little Theatres)," returning to essentially flat idioms using backcloth, enclosed by wings, serving as framing, referencing theater and the act of looking with irregular spheres and silhouettes in the foreground, creating shadow plays on punctuated backdrops. Fontana considered this series to be the high point of his Spatial Concepts, relating directly to his theoretical approach: Realistic Spatialism. This catalog was realized by Sergio Tosi for the Galerie Alexandre Iolas exhibitions in New York, Paris and Geneva; an artist book containing four colored "Concetto Spaziale serigraphs" with perforations, framed with cut-outs creating lucid theatric collages on light cardboards. Bound with text by Gillo Dorfles and four photographs by Lothar Wolleh and Ugo Mulas. Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) was an Argentine born Italian painter and sculptor, credited with being the originator of Spatialism, an art movement aiming to synthesize color, sound, space, movement and time. The main thrust of the movement is laid out in Fontana's "Manifesto blanco (White Minfest)," published in Buenos Aires in 1946. It rejects the "illusory/virtual" space of traditional esel painting and is striving to combine art and science in an attempt to create "Real Space."
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Bilder-Pentateuch von Moses Dal Castellazzo. Venedig 1521. (Picture Pentateuch of Moses Dal Castellazzo. Venice 1521) 2 Vols

Schubert, Kurt (Ed. & Commentary) Oblong Octavos. 183pp., 123 leaves. Original tan cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Facsimile in light brown full leather with blind-stamped debossed framing on cover, black lettering on paper label of spine; raised bands. Complete facsimile edition in the original format of the Codex 1164 of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. The Warsaw Codex 1164 of the Jewish Historical Institute is a picture Bible on 123 leaves, illustrating the first five books of Moses(Pentateuch). It is not a continuous illustrated Bible but a collection of pictures with explanation and tiles. The only comparison in Jewish literature is the Sephardic Pessach-Hagadot. The Warsaw Codes is a unique copy of the lost woodcut series of the Pentateuch. The creation of the world is depicted at the beginning, followed by the five books of Moses, and it is closing with the description of Moses' death. Castellazzo's picture Pentateuch combines several traditions of depiction to a unique whole. The original Codex does not contain any clues of the previous owner's identity.There is also no explanation that the same manuscript carries the inventory number 926 in 1955 and the inventory number 1164 in 1982. The original manuscript created on the leaves of brindled paper showing a lot of foxed markings. On some of the pages a watermark is recognizable, showing an anchor in a circle with a Star of David above. However, because the sheets of paper were cut before they were used, not a single of the watermarks is complete. Today the binding consist of a cardboard plate with a parchment spine.
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Noa Noa: Voyage de Tahiti [1/80 deluxe copies bound in full leather]

Gauguin, Paul 42/80. Small Folio. (3) 204 [i.e. 208]pp. Rebacked retaining the original gilt-stamped yellow leather backstrip with gilt-framed pebbled leather, retaining original endpapers; housed in the original woodcut illustrated paper-covered slipcase. Top edge gilt. Publisher's colophon bookplate pasted to inside front cover reading: "Marees Gesellschaft, MCMXXVI. VI. Druck. Herausgeber: Meier-Graefe. Verlag: R. Piper & Co. München. Hersteller: Ganymed, GMBH., Berlin. Von den Stücken I-LXXX trägt dies Nr. XLII." Embossed Exlibris of Ernst Simon on free endpaper. Facsimile of Gauguin's original handwritten and illustrated journal. Richly illustrated with color and b/w reproductions of paintings in watercolor, woodcuts, drawings and the occasional photograph. This deluxe edition published by R. Piper & Co. in 1926 is still considered theto be the finest facsimile of Gauguin's original manuscript now kept in the Louvre. Paul Gauguin started to write his travel journal Noa Noa (Fragrance) in Paris after returning from Tahiti in 1893. He gave the text pages to the symbolist poet Charles Morice, keeping the original pages with drawings, prints, watercolors and other visual material. Gauguin was a changed man after returning from Tahiti: 'Farewell, hospitable land, delicious land, home of freedom and beauty! I leave after two years, twenty years younger, more uncouth therefore than on arrival and yet more educated. Yes, the savages have taught many things to the old civilized man, those illiterates, about the science of living and the art of being happy.' (Paul Gauguin) Text in French. The slipcase has been expertly restored with original front and back panel woodblocks attached. Slipcase imagery with some water staining and imperfections along edges. The water staining to back cover and spine of the book has been professionally restored. Error in pagination of original, numbering 38 and 39 twice, and numbers of pages 60 and 61 omitted with following page numbered 61. Several blank pages as issued. Ernst Simon (1872-1945) was a German entrepreneur and engineer. He entered the company of his father, Dölken & Co.GmbH, at the age of twenty and was instrumental in the expansion of the venture. Simon invented a new recycling method and patented it, selling the licenses to companies throughout Europe. After the death of his father he lead the compnay with his brother Otto. The company was admitted to the German Werkbund in 1913. The company grew due to a number of innovative steps Simon had undertaken and he became an active member in the cultural and political affairs in Essen Werden. Due to his Jewish ancestry the Nazis forced him to give up his business. His brother Otto emigrated to the Netherlands but was deported and killed in Bergen-Belsen in 1945. The comapny had been arienized in 1938, Ernst Ludwig taken into protective costody but was permitted to emmigrate to the Netherlands with his wife where he managed to leave for the USA in 1940. He died there penniless in 1945.
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Ausstellungen Köln 1929 – Deutscher Werkbund Arbeitsgemeinschaft Köln-Rheinlande / Wachsende Wohnung und Einzelgerät / Kölner Werkschulen – Amtlicher Katalog (Exhibitions Cologne 1929 Official Catalog)

n/a Octavo. 256pp. Original tan wraps with white lettering on orange square on cover, orange lettering on spine, protected by modern mylar. The exhibitions at the State House are categorized into the sections "German Werkbund. Working Group Cologne-Rhineland," "Growing Apartment and Single Appliance" and "Cologne Craft School." Design and typography by J. Schröder and J. Erbar. The purpose of the exhibitions was to illustrate the demands of the growing apartment and its furnishing, including appliances, due to the growing cultural demands of the people. The furniture exhibited were in part designed and built especially for these exhibitions, reflected in the high prices attached. Serial manufacturing would reduce the prices as stated in the catalog. The catalog contains a plan of the exhibition halls, drawings and b/w photographs of apartments as well as ceramics and cutlery. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs throughout A section listing exhibitors and exhibited items, the Cologne Craft Schools and their exhibited items as well as illustrated advertisements at rear. Text in German. Wraps with light wear, few small stains and rubbed. Title pages with inked name of previous owner and some light staining. Photograph on page 34 with partial cutout.
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