Unser Heim im Schmuck der Kunst

Published by Edwin Schloemp, Leipzig, 1879

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Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB)

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Large Folio. (3) 40pp., 20 plates. Original decorative red and gilt-stamped pebbled cloth with gilt lettering on cover, pebbled edges. Decorative endpapers. Engraved half-title. Title page with publisher's device and border ruling. All text pages with red and gray ruling. Historiated headpieces. Decorative initials in red and black and endpieces. Illustrated with 19 collotypes mounted to gray heavy paper stock with decorative framing and captions, one full page woodcut and additional 19 in-text woodcuts. A picture cycle for the furnishing of an upper class residence with artistic interior by W. Friedrich and others with six additional pages of text compare to the first edition. This intricate publications covers the furnishing and design in various styles, e.g. German Renaissance, Italian Renaissance, Gothic, modern, etc. and examples designed after existing rooms of other residences. The book features a nursery, a reception room, a bathroom, dining room, "music room," boudoir, study, hunter's hall, living room, the hall, bower, study, vestibule, kitchen, guest room, library, bedroom, servant's quarter, salon, a villa and garden terrace. The samples were usually obtained in separate shipments and are here published in one volume covering all aspects of a luxurious residence. Text in German. Binding lightly rubbed with minor wear to edges and corners. Front endpaper missing. Some smudging of half-title not affecting image as well as in margins of other pages. Some of the pages and plates wavy near gutter. Binding and interior in overall very good condition. …

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Bibliographic details

Title
Unser Heim im Schmuck der Kunst
Author
Mothes, O.; A. Rosenberg (text); W. Friedrich; J. Schmid; Weichardt; M. Wilberg et al ((Ill.)
Publisher
Edwin Schloemp, Leipzig
Publication year
1879
Condition
vg
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
Second revised.
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ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB)

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Since 1985 we offer individual books for sale from our inventory of 150,000 rare, out-of-print and antiquarian volumes on many topics, with an emphasis on Judaica, Hebraica, Bibles and rabbinics, the fine and decorative arts, architecture, photography, textile and wallpaper sample books, Bauhaus and the avant garde, expressionist dance, Olympic Games and sport, the ancient near-east and archeology, erotica, illustrated and foreign-language books, especially German, Yiddish, Polish and Hebrew, as well as books from the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, plus Russian constructivist materials. We create book collections, both large and small, for individuals, decorators, archives and libraries¿currently available: a 10,000-volume research collection on Judaica in the German language. In addition, we maintain a beguiling selection of original works of art and photography. Eric Chaim Kline provides appraisal services for estate, insurance and tax purposes, often helping to match book donors with libraries and museums. We purchase books of merit and entire collections; we also take books on consignment with favorable terms. We are a rental source for movie and tv production, occasionally providing the prop on which the plot turns. Traveling throughout the U.S. and Europe, Eric Chaim Kline has been buying and selling old and rare books since the 1980¿s, when in graduate school at Brandeis University. Proprietor of bookshops in several Los Angeles locations since 1985, he hosts visitors by appointment in our lively bookstore and ships books to collectors, libraries and museums worldwide. Kline occasionally lectures on topics in book collecting and Jewish studies. He sponsors the annual Bibliography Award granted by the Association of Jewish Libraries and serves on the national board of the Antiquarian Booksellers¿ Association of America. We welcome your inquiries.…

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