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Biblio has a wide range of books and literature written in foreign languages, and if you are looking for rare and antique books written or published in German, look no further than the Biblio Rare Book Room. The rare and antique books featured below are all written in German, and many are unique first editions and signed by the author. Any of the rare and antique books found below would be sure to add value to your rare and antique book collection.
Freiburg im Breisgau: Friedrich Riederer, 11 December 1493. – First edition. The first complete rhetoric in German. Friedrich Ried(e)rer's (c. 1450-c. 1510) work has to be esteemed as a landmark in the domain of rhetoric. Comprising ars rhetorica, ars d...
Germantown: Gedruckt bey Christoph Saur, 1743. 4to (26.3 cm, 10.375"). [2] ff. (supplied in facsimile), 995, [1 (blank)], 277, [1] pp., [1] f. 1743 saw the first complete Bible in a European language printed in the New World, in of all places ...
Germantown: Gecruckt und zu finden bey Christoph Saur, 1776. 4to. 2 pts. in 1 vol. [2] ff., 992 pp,; 277, [1] pp., [1] f. Popularly known as the "Gun Wad" Bible, this is the third edition of the first American Bible in a European language and it...
VERTIGO by W. G. Sebald -- SIGNED, first edition. W. G. Sebald or Max Sebald — was a German writer and academic; and at the time of his death at the age of 57, he was being cited by many literary critics as one of the greatest living authors. The late a...
From Perplexial
Nürnberg: In Verlegung der Johann Andrea Endters Seel, Sohn & Erben, 1710. Folio (39 cm, 15.38"). Frontis., [32] ff., 1181, [1] pp., [11 (-1)] ff.; 1 plt., illus. Aside from its importance in the religious tradition, Luther's translation...
Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Press Ltd., 1943. 45pp. One of 330 copies of this FIRST EDITION ( copy without number) From the library of the FAMOUS ISRAELI POET TUVYAH RIBNER (RUBNER) AND WITH HIS SIGNATURE AND DATE (Jerusalem 1946) ON THE FRONT END PAP...
152 pages plus two foldouts.Full description and condition of this extraordinary book available on request from bookseller....
From LeCrastinBooks
Leipzig: Johannes Lohse Verlag, 1920. N.D. (1920) TITLE PAGE AND INDEX PAGE AND 10 PAGES OF ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS UNDER PASSEPARTOUT EACH SIGNED BY THE ARTIST Handpresse Albert Lüdtke. ALL IN ORIGINAL VELLUM FOLDER WITH FLAPS. 5 lithographs with very min...
Reading: Gedruckt und zu finden bey Gottlob Jungmann, 1805. 4to. 2 vols. in 1. [34] ff., 1008 pp., [1] f., 277, [1] pp., [1] f., (family register excised). The first edition of the first Bible in German printed outside of Philadelphia; the first printing ...
Buchgewerbeklasse der gewerblichen Berutsfchule Hamborn. Germany. Christmas 1938. LIMITED EDITION. One of 50 copies printed. (9.5 x 6.9 inches). Illustrated with hand coloured lettering and illustration to the title page and 24 hand coloured lino cut ill...
From Paul Foster Books
Berlin: Gedruckt und verlegt bei G. Reimer, 1821. 8vo (19.5 cm; 7.75"). lxxviii, 290 pp. Posthumous publication for the first time of a selection of Kleist's plays and poetry (he committed suicide in 1811). Tieck, the editor, presents here "...
Leipzig: im Insel Verlag, 1923. RARE. # 180 of 250 copies printed. Text in German. 49 pages. With seven illustrations and three figurative initials based on drawings by the author. Black label lettered in gilt front cover. From the library of noted German...
From Dale Steffey Books
Munchen: Georg Müller, 1911. Achtzehnte Auflage (18th edition) stated at half-title page SCARCE in any early German edition. In original mustard decorative cloth, Art Deco geometrical decorative end papers, double illustrated title page, 460 pages, ...
From Dale Steffey Books
Leipzig: im Insel Verlag, 1913. RARE. $154 of 200 copies printed, with 57 hand-colored woodcuts, 125 pages, text in German. From the collection of noted German conductor Helmuth Wolfes, former conductor of the Berlin State Opera, his signature in ink at f...
From Dale Steffey Books
1667 1ed German Heraldry Wappenbuchs Coats-of-Arms Siebmacher Illustrated Crests A highly rare 17th-century book of German coats-of-arms! "Des neuen Wappenbuchs", or "New Book of Arms", is a book of hundreds of copper figures illustrating family crests, ...
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