Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1914. Hard Cover. First Edition. 123 pp. Front cover and spine have stamped, gilt lettering. Covers are lightly frayed along edges. Corners are frayed to the boards. Cloth spine is badly frayed at top and bottom, as well as being torn across the middle. Stamped lettering is worn, aged and frayed. Two page introduction by C.H. Baer, otherwise, no text. 120 full color plates of between the wars? (volume is not dated) interior design schemes. Very Good. More

Wien & Prag: Franz Haas, 1796. Hardcover. As. +/- 300 pp/ volume. B/w steel engravings & maps. Set consists of Vol. 3, parts 1 & 2; Vol. 4, parts 1 & 2; Vol. 5, part 2; Vol. 6, part 2; and Vol. 7, parts 1 & 2. Books are bound in marbled boards with calf spines and corners. Spines of all have gilt title blocks, raised bands, and gilt embellishments. Old German lettering stamped in gilt. All edges stained red. Corners bumped and rubbed, some edgewear to all volumes. Leather rubbed at hinges, worn occasionally, but all covers are securely attached. Marbled eps. Each book has a bookplate from the Library of Ohio Weslyan University on fpd and a stamp on the title page., with... More

Munich: H. Hugendubel, 1933. Soft Cover. 152 pp. B/w photo ills. White paper cover over paper. Photo of Ferdl on front, blue lettering front and spine. Spine sunned. Cover chipped. Interior tight, well-illustrated with photos and cartoons. The German text appears to be in dialect, apparently an autobiographical work by this Bavarian comic. Newspaper clipping included. Photos include Ferdl with Hitler prior to 1933. Signed by author in pencil on half-title page.
Signed by Author. Very Good. More

Munchen: Georg D.W. Callwey, 1951. Hardcover. First Edition. 240 pp.; 123 pp. Color and black & white illustrations. Pink boards with white spines with green designs on front, green lettering on spines. Wear to corners. Pictorial dust jackets are white with deep pink spine lettering. Front covers have a design of a restaurant, green and white lettering. Text pages aged, first free endpaper in Vol. 1 is creased with a closed tear. Design books on the hotel and restaurant business, these two volumes are lavishly illustrated with photos, sketches, and some colored plates. Text in German. Very Good / Very Good. More

Berlin, Germany: Julius Springer, 1926. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, 948 pp, 8vo. Volume is ex-library with brown patterned paper boards, lighter brown cloth spines and corner tips; gold embossed titling to spine. Wear to edges of cover boards where cloth has worn to reveal board beneath, hinge cloth beginning to split at front and rear cover but still tight to boards. Library stamps within, including stamps on title page of each volume, very clean with card pocket remaining on the rear pastedown of each volume. All text in German.
“Über die Spektra von Atomsystemen mit zwei Elektronen” by Werner Heisenberg (pp. 499-518) outlines the experiment in which Heisenberg refined the principle of "exchange interaction" Very Good. More

Frankfurt and Leipzig: 1794. Half Leather. As. 222 pp + 172 pp. 8vo. Publisher not noted. Plain paper boards with brown calf spine and corners. Leather worn, with bumped corners, chipping along spine edges and extremities. Upper title block on spine is missing. Gilt on bands and second title block is wearing. Lovely marbling on side and bottom edges; top edges soiled. A different marbled pattern on eps, which are starting to split at front edge. Neat bookplate on verso fep. Could be missing frontis. Clean, tight copy of a classic, very rare with the two titles in one binding. Text in German. Very Good. More

Kolodziej, Marian. Gdansk, Poland: stowo/obraz, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. Unpaginated. Oblong 4to. Light wear to dust jacket, which is now in mylar cover. Dust jacket also folds out to create a poster of one of Kolodziej's images from the exhibition of a field of skeletons in black & white. Text in German.
Catalog that accompanied the exhibition of the same name. This exhibition represented Marian Kolodziej's interpretation of his experiences in Auschwitz during his internment through his art and as an installation at the Nationalmuseums Gdansk. Artist's statement and curator's statement printed on a separate pamphlet in English and laid into this volume. Fine / fine. More

Leipzig, Germany: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1901. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. viii, 876 pp. 8vo. Recent brown three quarter leather binding with dark leather spine and corners, four raised bands at spine with gold tilting. Interior clean with the only indication of ex-library being the "Withdrawn" stamp on the title page. Text in German.
Pyotr Lebedev (1866-1912) used a very sensitive experiment to confirm Maxwell’s prediction of the radiation pressure of light, and announced the finding at the World Physics Congress in Paris. Very Good. More

Leipzig: Seeman, 1903. Wraps. First Edition. 114 pp. + 4 pp. pub ads. 8vo. B/w ills & photos. "Beriihmte Kunststatten Nr. 19" Green wraps have crosshatch pattern stamped all over. Front cover lettered in gilt and decorated with black. Gilt title on spine. Spine is chipped at both ends, less than half an inch at heel, and half of that at head. Lower corner of back cover is chipped - not much. All edges tinted red. Verso front cover has an ink p.o., a small bookstore stamp, and a label with writing blacked out. On the t.p. is a stamp of the Deutscher Klub Lausanne. Text entirely in old German script. Apparently a survey and history of art and architecture in Danzig. Clean and tight... More

Görlitz, Germany: Ben Hermsdorf und Anton, 1794. Quarter Leather. As. [26], 265, 301 pp. 12mo. Quarter Leather binding with marbled paper covered boards, considerable soling and war, chipping and small losses at head and foot of spine. Small red and white oval labels affixed to front cover some time ago, Previous owner's nots on front pastedown, general darkening of pages due to age. Text in German. Good. More

Berlin, Germany: Julius Springer, 1926. Hardcover. First Edition. vii, 951 pp, 8vo. Volume is ex-library with brown patterned paper boards, lighter brown cloth spines and corner tips; gold embossed titling to spine. Library stamps within, including stamps on title page of each volume, very clean with card pocket remaining on the rear pastedown of each volume. All text in German.
“Über dass Wasserstoffspektrum vom Standpunkt der neuen Quantenmechanik” by Wolfgang Pauli (pp. 336-363) in which Pauli outlines his theory of the hydrogen spectrum which contributed to the study of quantum mechanics; “Zur Deutung einiger Erscheinungen in den Molekelspektren” by Freidrich Hund (pp. 657-674) is his early paper on Molecular Orbital Theory; “Zur Quantelung des Idealen Einatomigen Gases” by Enrico Fermi (pp. 902-912) outlines what became... More

Darmstadt, Germany: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1959. Hardcover. First Edition. First Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Edition, reprinting Riemann's 24, [2] Index pp. 12mo. Light terracotta cloth coverd boards with gold titling to spine. Clean, crisp copy with previous owner's signature in ink on first free endpaper. Text in German.
Translates to "On The Hypothesis Which Underlies Geometry" and originally delivered by Riemann in 1854. Riemann's work on "Riemann Geometry" was later used by Albert Einstein in the development of his theories. Fine. More