DE SITU MORIBUS ET POPULIS GERMANIAE QUI FERTUR LIBELLUS.
[Complete Latin text followed by German translation by Rudolf Borchardt]. Pp. [x]+xxviii+[x]+34(last colophon), 2 decorative initials; narrow demy 4to; full dark green morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt panels between raised bands, the boards with single gilt rule border and edges, dentelles ruled in gilt; a.e.g.; Bremer Bindery stamp and initial stamp of the binder (Frieda Thiersch), at foot of lower pastedown, upper hinge tender, dentelles offset onto the free endpapers, part of the title page slightly browned near bottom edge, occasional light foxing and faint soiling; Bremer Presse, Bremen, 1914. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies. Ransom Selective Check Lists Bremer 2 (page 254). *With the gilt lettered & decorated leather book label of Herman Wm. Kapp on the upper pastedown below his pencilled acquisition note: 'Purchased in Berlin while on Grolier Club trip'. (The label lightly offset onto upper free endpaper). Later from the library of David Levine, Sydney, whose book label is also on the upper pastedown. The second book from the Bremer Press. The title, initials and printer's device at colophon were designed by Anna Simons. Item #179275
Price: $5,000.00