1090 - 1134 VARIA. FASHION AND COSTUME, GASTRONOMY, MUSIC, PHILOSOPHY, SPORTS etc.
- Some foxing (worse at the beginning).
= Caillet 9493 (listing an ed. 1863). Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin was a famous French conjurer.
= Incl. the "Sachregister und Personenregister".
- Occas. foxed. Spines rubbed.
Griffiths, A. Mysteries of Police and Crime. London etc., Cassell & Co., n.d. (±1900), 3 vols., XV,(1),464; XIII,(1),464; XII,(2),464p., 3 diff. frontisp. portraits, plates, portraits, ills., orig. unif. gilt hmor.
- Vols. 1 and 3 binding stained.
- Without the 2nd vol. (publ. 1954); portfolio sl. stained, torn along spine and w. dedication in ballpoint.
= "The text of the first volume has been reprinted in 1969 in 100 copies, numbered 301-400" (colophon). Our copy no. 350. Rare. Not in Lipperheide. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVII.
- Wr. sl. foxed; backwr. waterst. in outer margin. Otherwise fine.
= Rare trade-catalogue of fashion and various accessoires.
AND 1 other: JOURNAL DES DEMOISELLES. Year 45 (Paris, 1877, (fold.) (handcol.) (steelengr.) plates, contemp. hmor., sm. 4to).
= Designs for fashion catalogues(?), i.a. Garment I.D. (publ. by International Documentation, Amst.). Several catalogues present in the lot.
- Without vol. 2. Title-p. sl. browned/ frayed; occas. sl. foxed/ yellowed.
= Jacques-François Lefranc was a French cleric who saw masonic conspiracies as the driving force behind the French Revolution. Cf. Wolfstieg 6362 (not listing this Dutch edition).
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; sl. foxed; a few lvs. browned. Binding (sl.) rubbed along extremities.
= Vicaire p.54/55; Bitting 20 (both other ed.).
= Bibliotheca Gastronomica 282. Elaborate manual on all aspects of slaughtering and the butcher's trade, incl. recipes.
- Trifle foxed; the plates occas. sl. browned along edges. Binding sl. rubbed.
- Paper occas. sl. brittle; title-p. sl. dam.
Escoffier, A. Kochkunst-Führer. Ein Hand- und Nachschlagebuch der modernen franzözischen Küche und der feinen internationalen Küche. Ed. M.C. Banzer. Nordhausen, H. Killinger, (1923), after the 4th French ed., XVI,884,(4 publ. cat.)p., orig. giltlettered cl. - AND 3 others, i.a. L. MORGENSTERN, Nieuw geïllustreerd kookboek (Alkm., 1930, ills., orig. dec. cl.).
- Upper hinge weak. Backstrip creased; spine-ends worn.
Barth, M. Der Rebbau des Elsass und die Absatzgebiete seiner Weine. Strasb./ Paris, F.X. le Roux, 1958, XVI,225,(2)p., plates, ills., orig. giltlettered cl., 4to.
- Several mounted picture postcards and wine labels by a previous owner. Binding partly faded.
AND 1 other: G. BONACINA, Vini e cibi del Senese (Genova, n.d., plates, ills., orig. cl., slipcase).
= Very rare alphabetically arranged reference work, also containing many recipes for cocktails, so called "Amerikan drinks". John Leybold and Hans Schönfeld were founding member of the International Barkeepers Union, the first organisation of its kind. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVIII.
- New endpapers. Spine-ends worn; corners showing. = Bitting p.310.
AND 3 others: M. EHRHARDT, Großes illustriertes Kochbuch für den einfachen bürgerlichen und den feineren Tisch (Berlin, 1904, new rev. ed. by A. Mathis, (col.) plates, ills., orig. pict. cl.); M. DORNINGER, Bürgerliches Wiener Kochbuch für 3-4 Personen (Vienna, (1913), 4th ed., orig. cl.) and I. BEETON, All about cookery (London, 1900, new rev. ed., (col.) plates, ills., orig. cl.).
- Sl. foxed. Binding sl. worn along extremities. = Very rare.
- Very vague vertical fold in bookblock and frontwr.
= Very rare edition. Cf. Oberlé 1111 (4th ed., ±1920): "Un classique du barman allemand d'avant-guerre". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVIII.
- Bookblock sl. warped. Rebacked w. use of orig. backstrip; corners showing.
- Overall good vintage condition, some light wear and scratches.
= Set includes three small spoons, four cups, one small funnel, small corkscrew, flask, juicer and lid.