643 - 699 VARIA. FASHION AND COSTUME, GASTRONOMY, JUDAICA, MUSIC, PHILOSOPHY, SPORTS etc.
- Bookblock frayed; yellowed; a few owner's stamps. Wr. fingersoiled and worn; frontwr. lacks portion of corner.
= Rare and important work of cinema criticism in 1920s Poland, with fine expressionist frontcover design. See at large K. KUC, Visions of Avant-Garde Film. Polish cinematic experiments from expressionism to constructivism (Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press, 2016, p.55ff).
- Sl. yellowed. Spine strengthened.
= From a series of short biographies/ filmographies of international actors and actresses, published by the Soviet "cinema press".
AND 2 others from the same series on Werner Krauss and Henny Porten.
- Lacks ±43 plates and 2 title-p.; some fold. plates partly torn on folds (occas. repaired w. thin Japanese). Bindings sl. worn.
- Wr. rubbed; spine-ends and corners dam.
= Fine collection of art deco plates showing lady's fashion for the winter season.
- All plates w. central vertical fold; occas. minor defects. Binding partly sl. worn; backstrip dam.
= Cf. Lipperheide Zb 114 (year 1854).
- One textleaf dam.; 1 plate/ a few textp. w. (closed) tear(s); occas. sl. stained. Covers/ spine-ends (sl.) worn.
= Colas 2082.
- Upper hinge weak; owner's entry in pen and ink on upper pastedown (and w. remnants of paper ticket).
= "Monument esthématique du XIXe siècle". Colas 2952; Lipperheide Fc 56; Monod 10836; Carteret V, p.190.
Robes Préparées mi-Confectionnées. Broderies. Dentelles. Hiver 1904-1905. Paris, Béraud & Cie., n.d. (±1900), index leaf and 36 lithogr. plates, loose as issued in orig. giltlettered cl. portfolio, large 4to.
- Plates trifle foxed. Covers sl. discol.
- Bookblock split. Joints split at spine-ends.
- Contents fine. Bookplate on upper pastedown. Binding sl. rubbed at extremities; joints starting at foot of spine.
= First edition. Carteret III, p.89; Vicaire, Manuel I, p.439f; Vicaire, Bibl. gastronomique 87 and Bitting p.38 (both erroneously calling for 64 plates); Monod 1473 (erroneously dating 1876); Sander p.99; Oberlé, Bibl. Bachique 138. The first edition of this famous book. "The book is exceptional." (Bitting p38). "Le spirituel caricaturiste passe en revue les différents crus de la Bourgogne, de la Gironde et de la Champagne et conte avec beaucoup d'humour une foule d'anecdotes amusantes sur les vins, les vignes, les vignerons, les propriétaires et les dégustateurs. Les exemplaires du 1er tirage sont recherchés." (Vicaire, Bibl. gastronomique p.87).
- Very fine copy.
= Chaptal, Comte de Chanteloup (1756-1832) invented the process of "chaptalization", by which sugar is added to unfermented grape must in order to increase the alcohol content after fermentation. His invention revolutionized the wine production industry. Vicaire p.164 (stating that this is the 3rd ed.); cf. Oberlé, Fastes 951 (2nd ed., Paris, 1807); Simon, Bibl. Vinaria, p.18. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.
- Partly. (sl.) foxed and fingersoiled; hinges widening. Paper over spine worn.
= Rare. Bibliotheca Gastronomica 2896; de Vries 526*; Waller 855 (1st ed.). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXII.
- Trifle stained in upper margins. Upper joint splitting.
= Rare edition. Bibl. Gastronomica 2391; Landwehr 60-3; Ferro 26c.
- Contents fine. Binding worn; silk on backstrip mostly worn off.
= Methler, 4919a; Horn/ Arndt 568: "(...) der deutsche Brillat-Savarin".
- Occas. (sl.) foxed; stamp on title-p., annots. in pen verso first blank; cat. clipping on final pastedown.
= Oberlé, Bibliothèque Bachique 523; Bitting p.415; Vicaire p.326 (both listing other eds.). "(...) charmant badinage (...) On trouve dans cette apologie de l'ivresse de nombreuses anecdotes très réjouissentes, des considérations sur l'alcoolisme des gens d'église, des papes, saints, évêques, philosophes, poètes, savants... Les nations ivrognes, avec en tête les Allemands! Réponses (très judicieuses!) à toutes les objections contre l'ivrognerie; règles que l'on doit observer quand on s'enivre; les deux principales étant: en bonne compagnie et avec du bon vin." (Oberlé). "The title is somewhat of a misnomer, as the text gives the history of drinking in various countries with copious references rather than an eulogy of drinking." (Bitting).
- Foxed throughout; one plate w. pencil scratches. Spine-ends dam.; rubbed/ worn along extremities.
= Rare. Vicaire p.878.
- Trifle foxed. Paper over spine partly worn away; covers soiled.
= Bibl. Gastronomica 7130; Landwehr 49,3; Tol 297.
- Spines sl. sunned. = The third vol. was never published.
- Front- and backwr. lack portion of upper corner. = Rare Yiddish reading turorial.
AND 2 others: D. TARANT and B. FRIEDMAN, Kinder. Onfanger lernbukh farn ershtn yor (New York, 1933, ills., orig. dec. cl.) and A. KATZ, Dos telerl fun himl (ibid., 1934, ills., orig. dec. boards).