2312 - 2379 VARIA. EROTICA, FASHION and COSTUME, JUDAICA, OCCULTISM, SPORTS, TEXTILES, THEOLOGY etc.
- Some foxing; grease stain on title-p.
= Restaurant Des Deux Villes in The Hague was located in the building which nowadays houses Pathé Buitenhof.
Schött. Etiketten für Weine, Sekt, Fruchtsäfte u. Spirituosen. Rheydt, Grossdruckereien Hermann Schött, n.d. (±1935), 120 lvs. w. chromolithogr. labels, printed in gold/ colours, orig. clothbacked pict. limp boards, obl. folio.
= With 10 loosely inserted price lists.
- All vols. owner's entries and libr. stamp(s) on recto first free endpaper and all vols. sl. browned/ foxed; occas. pencil marks in margin. Covers rubbed; spines w. (traces of) libr. ticket at foot of spine.
= Holzmann-Bohatta V, 3939.
Idem. Geschichte der alten Brüder-Kirche. Ibid., Pemsel a.o., 1865-1866, 2 vols., (4),311; VII,(1),502,(1)p., modern unif. giltlettered rexine.
- First vol. lacks 4 preliminary leaves incl. title-p.; contents leaf doubled w. Japanese.
= Both works are rare, and are interesting not only for the history of the Herrnhuter, but also for the missionary work done by the Herrnhuter in Europe, as well as in i.a. the West-Indies and Greenland.
AND 2 others, i.a. KURZGEFASSTE HISTORISCHE NACHRICHT VON DER GEGENWÄRTIGEN VERFASSUNG DER EVANGELISCHEN BRÜDER-UNITÄT, AUGSBURGLER CONFESSION (ibid., 1823, contemp. black boards).
= Rare, no copy traced on the market.
Hutton, E. A History Of The Moravian Church. London, Moravian Publ. Office, 1909, 2nd enl. and rev. ed., 530p., orig. giltlettered cl.
- Occas. light pencil marks in margin, otherwise fine. = Rare.
AND 3 others, various languages, i.a. E.-A. SENFT, Les Missions Moraves actuellement existantes chez les peuples paiens. Leur origine & leur développement (Neuchâtel, 1890, contemp. gilt and blindst. cl. Fine; rare).
- Frontcover sl. spotted in outer margins.
= With 5 loosely inserted printed advertising ephemera publ. by the Abr. Dürninger wholesale firm (dealers in textiles and tobacco wares). The firm was established by the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine and came under the directorship of Abraham Dürninger in 1747.
AND 17 sm. publications on the activities of the Brüdergemeine around the world, all but 4 in German language, publ. between 1897-1937, i.a. EVANGELISCHE BROEDERGEMEENTE ZEIST (Zeist, n.d. (±1920), num. ills., orig. wr., obl. 8vo. All leaves doubled as published); DE GROOTE STADSKERK 1778-1828-1928 ((Paramaribo, 1928), plates, orig. wr. Wrappers reattached and sl. worn); S. BAUDERT, Bilder aus der Mission der Brüdergemeine (Herrnhut, 1911, ills., orig. wr.); H.G. SCHNEIDER, Quamwatla. Eine Missionserzählung für die Jugend (ibid., n.d. (±1900), 1 map (of the Mosquito Coast), ills., orig. chromolithogr. wr., sm. 8vo. Weckstimmen. Erzählungen für die Jugend II) and F. BÜTTNER, Die Erstlinge der Brüdermission unter den Wanyamwesi (ibid., 1911, ills., orig. wr.).
- One leaf lower corner torn off (without loss of text).
= First German (and first non-Russian) edition of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the infamous fabricated antisemite myth postulating an international Jewish conspiracy to gain control over the world. The first (Russian) edition was published in 1903. With two loosely inserted original order forms for the work.
- Backcover of vol. VIII dampstained; all vols. spines sl. sunned.
- Dogeared copy; sl. yellowed.
- All vols. w. libr. stamp on title-p.; 1 vol. partly sl. waterst. in blank margin; 1 plate sl. stained. Shelftickets on spine; sl. worn along extremities.
= Fürst II, p.12.
- Lacks year 7, no.3; year 9, no.7; year 11, no.10; year 15, nos. 6-10; year 22, no.11/12.
- Two lvs. in vol. 6 dam./ torn; bookblocks sl. warped. Wrappers sl. frayed and worn.
- Trifle yellowed and fingersoiled. = Short story of a dog in a shtetl.
- Title-p. w. owner's entry and a few foxed spots. = With later glassine dustwrapper.
- Fine set.
= Studia Rosenthaliana is the world's only scholarly journal on the history, culture and heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands.
- Occas. w. extensive annots. in (col.) pencil. Wrappers w. some restorations in margins.
= Sergei Dmitriyevitch Urusov was appointed governor of Bessarabia in order to restore the peace after the infamous Kishinev pogrom of 1903 (which introduced the word "pogrom" to the world). Managing the Jewish question became a central issue of his governorship. First published in St. Petersburg (1907).
= Interesting collection of brochures covering all kinds Jewish businesses etc. in 1930's nazi Germany.
- Trifle foxed. Traces of removed ticket at foot of spine.
- Bookplates/ owner's entry on endpapers; owner's entry and stamp on title.
- Owner's entry on 2nd blank. Backcover w. a few sm. dents; corners bumped.
= "Golden Anniversary Edition, Reduce Facsimile in Black and White".