- Some pieces w. loose parts reattached w. glue (i.a. the white queen reattached at foot; two white pawns, both red horses, red king and queen reattached with foot/ base); a few pieces chipped (i.a. the crown of the red king).
- The two sides are not entirely identical: the Kings and bishops are different. A few chessmen restored or w. sm. imperfection: the sword of one red pawn loose (but present); two white pawns lack sword (not present); the red king lacks the plume of his hat; a few red chessmen w. rubbed spots revealing the white colour of the ivory underneath.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIX.
WITH a CHINESE FOLDING CHESS BOARD, lacquered in black and gold, 19th cent., the "black" squares and the borders around the playing field as well as the sides of the chessboard richly decorated with gilt seated venerable men (on the black squares) and floral motifs (in borders) and men standing in front of a small house in a garden (on sides), 42,5x42,5x3,8 cm.
- The chess board duststained and a few scratches; one vertical side of the chess board scorched and blackened by fire.
= A nicely decorated backgammon playing field on the inside of the box.
- Spine sl. rubbed.
= "Suck" special issue. Very explicitly illustrated and with the following text on the final page: "Final instructions: This is not a work of fiction or of one man. Keep your eye on it's bi-unity. I am smiling now. But if you don't think my story marvellous and you should happen to meet me, kindly pass as though we don't know each other. Moral: "At the moment of coitus all men are one man!"" The concept was conceived by the photographer Anna Beeke as an anti-pornographic statement. Her second husband Anthon Beeke did the layout. Parr/ Badger, Photobooks III, 84: "This charmingly liberated fairy story is gleefully hardcore - The point of the exercise, after all. The pornographic photography itself is timeless, that is to say standard and a little boring, but the factor that makes this a classic of 1970's counterculture literature and the legacy of 60s' 'flower power' - where sexual liberation was seen as the beginning of political liberation - is the inspired graphic design of Anthon Beeke. Exuberant, wacky and excessive (...)."
- Vol 5-10 waterwrinkled/ waterstained at the beginning and the end.
= Hayn/ Gotendorf I, p.93 and IX, p.12ff; Stern-Szana p.84ff. First edition of a numbered edition for scholarly purposes. F.S. Krauss (1859-1839) was an ethnograph and folklorist, who studied amongst other things, the sex-life of different ethnic groups. Because of the subject of his studies he was attacked and prosecuted. He tried to create understanding for the deviant sexual preferences of human kind by studying them.
WITH: Idem (ed.). Beiwerke zum Studium der Anthropophyteia. Band I-VIII. Leipsic, Deutsche Verlag-Aktien-Gesellschaft/ Ethnologischer Verlag, 1909-1923, 8 vols., num. (photogr.) ills. on 148 plates, orig. almost unif. giltlettered blue cl., 4to.
- Vols.2, 5 and 8 plates and/ or first/ final textleaves sl. waterwrinkled; vol.2 joints splitting; vol. 5 frontcover sl. stained.
= Hayn-Gotendorf. IX, p.15f.
- Ex-library copy: bookplate on upper pastedown and stamp on verso title-p.; foxed; plates waterstained in inner blank margin, not affecting image/ text. Paper over spine dam.; paper ticket on frontcover; covers sl. discol.
= First published Paris, 1836. Cf. Gay/Lemonnier I, 803; Cf. Hayn/Got. VI, 91: "Nach jeder Beziehung hin eine vorzügliche Schrift; überraschende Resultate langjähriger mühevoller Untersuchungen. Vergriffen!" Neither bibliography mentions the described edition, both state the existence of counterfeit editions. There are editions with a portrait of the author (i.a. ed. Paris, 1836), but also without (i.a. counterfeit ed. Brussels, 1836). Our copy probably a counterfeit.
ADDED: Lust, E. Recueil de types de bandages. Brussels, H. Lamertin, 1895, VI,156p., 146 ills by L. GRANDPREZ, orig. cl.
-Sm. owner's entry on first endpaper; endpapers and first and final lvs. browned. Binding sl. stained and rubbed along extremities.
- Wr. rubbed; spine-ends and corners sl. worn.
= Fine collection of art deco plates showing lady's fashion for the winter season.
- Backstrip creased; wr. sl. fingersoiled. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XVIII.
- Lacks the 2nd volume. All vols. foxed. All vols. sl. rubbed.
= The history of French costume ranging from 5th century Clovis to 19th century "Modes d'Hommes, en 1839".
- Occas. (sl.) foxed. The wrappers sl. frayed/ occas. split. Fine series.
= One of the finest costume books published in The Netherlands. In 1859 a second part with 18 plates was published. Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 242; F.M. 7270; Lipperheide Gb59; Colas 333. With the orig. prospectus loosely inserted
- Backstrip lacks portions at spine-ends.
- Sl. foxed. Portfolio sl. dam./ (water)stained.
= Max Heymans (1918-1997) is considered one of the most important Dutch couturiers.
WITH: Huf, E. (introd.). Fashion. Max Heymans. Amst., Tiebosch, 1983, (36)p., (col.) ills., orig. wr., folio.
= With illustrations of several designs from this collection. SIGNED by Emmy Huf on title-p.
ADDED: several hundred other sm. publications, ephemera, pictures, posters etc. concerning other Dutch couturiers, i.a. FRANK GROVERS and EDGAR VOS.
- Plates in good condition and nicely coloured. Occas. browned /foxed; occas. sl. frayed. All vols. rubbed along extremities; one dam. at top of spine.
- Sl. rubbed along extremities.
- Occas. (sl.) foxed/ (water)stained. Covers sl. rubbed.
AND 5 others similar, i.a. MAGASIN DES DEMOISELLES. Volume 16 and 18 (ibid., 1859-1860/ 1861-1862, 2 vols., ±40 (col.) plates, contemp. unif. gilt hmor., large 4to. Sl. waterstained) and JOURNAL DES DAMES ET DES DEMOISELLES (Brussels, 1861-1862, 12 (col.) plates, contemp. gilt hmor., large 4to).
- New endpapers; a few lvs. w. (marginal) tear. Binding sl . waterst./ worn.
= Hiler p.523; Lipperheide Fa 19. With the title-p. and first 3 lvs. of the original of 1827. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIX.