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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…
1812. Nürnberg, Johann Leonhard Schrag, 1812-1813-1816. 3 vols. 8vo. 3 contemporary uniform (!) marbled paper bindings with hand-written paper title-labels to spines (hand-writing not legible). Very minor, excellently executed and barely noticeable pr…
MENAVINO, Giovanni Antonio (1492-after 1514). Türckische Historien. Frankfurt: [Thomas Rebarts and Kilian Hahns, 1570]. [Bound with:] HERBERSTEIN, Sigmund Von. Moscoviter wunderbare Historien. Basel: heirs of Niclauß Brillinger and Marc Russinger, 1567 …
From Alexandru Matveev
Nurnberg: Johann Andreas Endter & heirs of Wolfgang, 1668. Hardcover. Good. Fine full-page engraved plates (65) numbered 1-63 with 2 bis plates (45 & 47) + 1 text illustration +full page elaborate copperplate coat of arms of Leopold I by C.N. Schurtz.. …
Franckfort am Mayn (ie Frankfurt): Sigmund Feyrabend Buchhandler, 1580. Hardcover. Very Good-. Large scene of knight in armour on titlepage + full-page allegorical plate of three graces and flying Mercury signed I A [Jost Amman] & MF +156 full-page wood…
Johann Heinrich Merck, 1773. First Edition. Leather. No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 2 volumes, complete as issued. Title page of each volume includes an original engraving by Goethe. This is the first edition, with the engraved titles bearing no impr…
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
Title: Trojanische Alterthümer Subtitle: Bericht über die Ausgrabungen in Troja von Dr. Heinrich Schliemann Author: Heinrich Schliemann Publisher: F. A. Brockhaus Place: Leipzig Year: 1874 Edition: First edition Binding: Half leather Pages: 319 Langu…
Regenspurg: Johann Theodoro Boetio 1st edition, 1716-1717. Hardcover. Very Good. Engraved folding portrait by Christoph L. Agricola (1665-1724), 31 numbered copperplates +7 full-page plates in text (some folding) + text illustrations throughout. . Two v…
152 pages plus two foldouts.Beitrag zur Schiesstheorie angewendet auf das Schiessen mit den schweiz : Handfeuerwaffen by Hermann Siegfried,3 editions published in 1871 in German and held by 9 libraries worldwide.Full description and condition of this extr…
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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, …
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…
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…
Nachtrag von Weitern Originalschritten welche die Illuminatensekte iiberhaupt."Supplement to the original writings concerning in general the Sect of the Illuminati and in particular its founder, Adam Weishaupt."First Edition. Two parts in one volume. Smal…
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
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