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[An Important Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Life of Gerardo Coyula y Moeller and His German-Cuban Family, Including Their Ties to Nazi Germany and Documenting a Friend Lost at Dachau]

[An Important Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Life of Gerardo Coyula y Moeller and His German-Cuban Family, Including Their Ties to Nazi Germany and Documenting a Friend Lost at Dachau] by [German Experience in Cuba]. [Coyula y Moeller, Gerardo]

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Title
[An Important Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Life of Gerardo Coyula y Moeller and His German-Cuban Family, Including Their Ties to Nazi Germany and Documenting a Friend Lost at Dachau]
Author
[German Experience in Cuba]. [Coyula y Moeller, Gerardo]
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
[Various locations in Cuba, Europe, and the United States, 1962. Very good.. [113] leaves of scrapbook cardstock, illustrated with 388 photographs, chiefly silver gelatin photographs, several colored or in color, in mounting corners. Most captioned in Spanish. Square folio. Contemporary brown cloth, spring-loaded spine, front cover stamped, "CUBA." Joints split but holding well, moderate rubbing and dust-soiling. Light foxing, handful of images lacking, some images slightly browned or with mild edge wear. An extensively-annotated vernacular family photograph album centering on the German-Cuban Coyula-Moeller family, picturing their lives, family members, travels, and more in Cuba, the United States, Germany, and other locations in Europe, mainly during the 1920s and '30s. The album was likely compiled by Gerardo Coyula y Moeller, who was born in the early-1920s and attended Aloisiuskolleg in Bad Godesberg in the late-1930s. The album includes numerous pictures of Coyula y Moeller as a toddler, young man, and teenager traveling with his mother and various family members, attending school, and more, with numerous photographs featuring the family and their environs in Cuba and Germany. The caption to a family photograph indicates that the Coyula family were shareholders in the German Club ("Club Aleman") in Havana from 1939 to 1960. Other family members identified through the profuse captions include Aunt Merci, Aunt Hortensia, Uncle Gustavo, Estela, grandfather Enrique Moeller, grandmother Rosa Gelpi, and others. The album also contains several photographs relating to the Nazi Party in Germany before the war, as well as two photographs with captions poignantly noting one young man who would die in a concentration camp in Germany. One of the latter examples pictures a young man named Gerd Wolf, with the Spanish caption translated as "Rabbi Fidellis eating bananas - He was with the Resistance and died in the Dachau concentration camp." The Coyula y Moeller family were apparently shareholders in a German casino in Cuba. Notably, an antecedent of the family was apparently friends with a German individual who is documented as later helping usher Hitler into power, and the album records two additional Nazi individuals who "visited grandfather's house" and "fled to Brazil" to escape the consequences of their war crimes. Yet another family photograph shows a group of adults posed in a garden with the caption reading: "Nuestro amigo: Resulto ser Himmler" ["Our friend: turned out to be Himmler"]. Indeed the image shows the man third from right is clearly Heinrich Himmler. In addition to pictures of the family at home in Cuba, the album captures them in various locations in Germany, mainly Bonn, Hamburg, and the aforementioned Bad Godesberg. The family also traveled to New York in the United States and Southampton, England, among other places, with several photographs documenting their travels in each location. The album is also replete with identified photographs of a legion of family friends and acquaintances, providing ample opportunity for deeper research into the connections within the family, but also to the family's larger community. According to a previous owner, the album came out of the noted Weber family in Cuba. An exceptional and well-preserved collection presenting the lives of this noted German-Cuban family.
THE THIRD PART OF THE WORKS OF MR ABRAHAM COWLEY, BEING HIS SIX BOOKS OF PLANTS, NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ENGLISH

THE THIRD PART OF THE WORKS OF MR ABRAHAM COWLEY, BEING HIS SIX BOOKS OF PLANTS, NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ENGLISH by COWLEY, ABRAHAM

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Title
THE THIRD PART OF THE WORKS OF MR ABRAHAM COWLEY, BEING HIS SIX BOOKS OF PLANTS, NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ENGLISH
Author
COWLEY, ABRAHAM
Seller
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description
London: Printed for Charles Harper, 1689. FIRST EDITION. 297 x 192 mm. (11 5/8 x 7 1/2"). [20], 166 (148-9 misnumbered 140-1), [2] pp. Very pleasing contemporary red morocco, elaborately panelled in gilt, covers with mitered frames composed of gilt rules, decorative rolls, pointillé tooling and floral sprays, raised bands, spine intricately gilt in compartments with central star-like design and scrolling cornerpieces, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, possible (very expert) repair to top spine compartment. Frontispiece engraving of Cowley's tomb. Front pastedown with the bookplate of Robert S. Pirie. Wing C-6665; ESTC R21164. ◆Spine and head of rear board sunned, a bit of wear to joints and extremities, boards tending to splay slightly, faint scattered dark flecks to leather, text with isolated spots and browning, but an excellent copy, the binding solid and only minimally worn, and internally very fresh and clean. From a distinguished collection, in extremely attractive condition, and in a fine contemporaneous binding, this is the first appearance of the botanical writings of one of the most precocious poets in the annals of English literature. Cowley (1616-67) was producing poetic works of inexplicable sophistication before he had settled into puberty; he published his first volume of verse at 15 and went on to become one of the most popular poets of his day. A staunch royalist who served in the exiled court of Charles I's queen, Henrietta Maria, he helped encode and decipher messages sent between the monarchy's supporters, including the royal couple themselves. Despite having been arrested and imprisoned as a royalist agent at one point, Cowley escaped the Cromwell years largely unscathed and retired to the countryside in 1663. Upon his death, Cowley was not only given the extraordinary honor of burial in Westminster Abbey (noted by the DNB as "the most lavish funeral which had ever been given to a mere man of letters in England"), but was also afforded a privileged spot next to the graves of Spenser and Chaucer. Cowley's influence on contemporary poetry was demonstrably deep; his funerary monument, pictured in our frontispiece, refers to him as "the English Virgil," and Perkin asserts that his "fame as a poet exceeded even that of Milton" during the waning years of the Restoration. The present copy comes from the collection of Robert S. Pirie (1934-2015), an extremely successful lawyer and investment banker who amassed the finest library of 16th and 17th century English literature in private hands during his lifetime. In 1984, he was elected one of the 40 members of the Roxburghe Club, the world's oldest society of bibliophiles..
Specimens of English Prose Style from Malory to Macaulay

Specimens of English Prose Style from Malory to Macaulay by Saintsbury, George

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Specimens of English Prose Style from Malory to Macaulay
Author
Saintsbury, George
Seller
Thorn Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
London: Kegan Paul, Tranch & Co, 1885. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. [2], xlvi, 367, [1] pp. (8vo) 24.8x16.3 cm (9¾x6½"), three-quarter gilt-ruled brown levant morocco & cloth, spine tooled & lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt; bound by Zaehnsdorf. A fine copy with only a trace of shelfwear. No. 49 of 50 large paper copies, printed at the Chiswick Press. A handsomely printed and bound work, selected and annotated with an introductory essay by George Saintsbury. Signed in ink on the limitation page, Charles Whittingham & Co., proprietors of the Chiswick Press. The first selection is form Malory: The Death of Lancelot.
My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady by Lerner, Alan Jay

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Title
My Fair Lady
Author
Lerner, Alan Jay
Seller
Thorn Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Coward-McCann, 1956. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. 8vo. 186pp. Black cloth, lavender spine title. Ownership name on the front free endpaper dated September 7, 1956, else a fine bright copy. The dustwrapper has a couple of small chips at the edges and is light darkened at the spine else is near fine and shows the original price of $3.50. Laid in at the read is a 1956 review curt from Time magazine. .
A COMPANION FOR THE CANDIDATES OF HOLY ORDERS. OR, THE GREAT IMPORTANCE AND PRINCIPAL DUTIES OF THE PRIESTLY OFFICE. BY THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD, GEORGE BULL, D.D. LATE LORD BISHIOP OF S. DAVIDS

A COMPANION FOR THE CANDIDATES OF HOLY ORDERS. OR, THE GREAT IMPORTANCE AND PRINCIPAL DUTIES OF THE PRIESTLY OFFICE. BY THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD, GEORGE BULL, D.D. LATE LORD BISHIOP OF S. DAVIDS by Bull, George

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A COMPANION FOR THE CANDIDATES OF HOLY ORDERS. OR, THE GREAT IMPORTANCE AND PRINCIPAL DUTIES OF THE PRIESTLY OFFICE. BY THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD, GEORGE BULL, D.D. LATE LORD BISHIOP OF S. DAVIDS
Author
Bull, George
Seller
David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
London: Printed by Geo. James, for Richard Smith..., 1714. 68, [12 advt.] pp. Disbound and light foxed, else Very Good. The last twelve page advertise Richard Smith's books for sale ESTC T101950.
Rules and Regulations For The Government of Several Prisons of Glamorgan

Rules and Regulations For The Government of Several Prisons of Glamorgan

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Rules and Regulations For The Government of Several Prisons of Glamorgan
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De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description
Cardiff: Henry Weber, 1859. Paper wraps. 51 pp. Some chipping on wraps.
Photographs of Architecture

Photographs of Architecture by Philip Trager

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Photographs of Architecture
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Philip Trager
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Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1977. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. INSCRIBED BY PHILIP TRAGER on the title page. A solid copy to boot of the 1977 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with several small closed tears along the panel edges and one small chip (smaller than a dime) at the spine. Square quarto, crisp reproductions of Trager's highly-skillful black-and-white photography thruout.
ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE CLASSICAL WORLD
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ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE CLASSICAL WORLD by Yonah, Michael Avi and Israel Shatzman

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ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE CLASSICAL WORLD
Author
Yonah, Michael Avi and Israel Shatzman
Seller
Hoffman Books (United States)
ISBN
9780060101787
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Harper & Row. Very Good. (1975). Hardcover. 0060101784 . First U. S. Edition; Foreword by F. W. Walbank; a clean, nice copy in a very good dj. .
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ANGEL STATION by Williams, Walter Jon

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Title
ANGEL STATION
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Williams, Walter Jon
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THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description
ANGEL STATION, Tor, 1989, first edition fine in wraps. Uncorrected proof. Signed by the author.
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Ginger. "The Darling of the Doll World" by Cosmopolitan Doll & Toy Corporation

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Ginger. "The Darling of the Doll World"
Author
Cosmopolitan Doll & Toy Corporation
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
New York: Cosmopolitan Doll & Toy Corporation, 1960. First Edition. Very good. First edition, n. d. (ca 1960); 5 x 3 1/4; pp. [20]; red, pictorial wraps; illustrated with photographs; small rust spots around staples, else very minor wear; very good to near fine condition. An advertisement and a trade catalog, it was published by one of the big manufacturers of dolls and corresponding accessories in the mid-20th century - Cosmopolitan Doll & Toy Corporation in New York. The booklet featured a splendid array of models of Ginger, "The Darling of the Doll World" and various outfits - the first 8-inch walking doll with moving eyes, plastic or vinyl head, and rooted hair that could be wet, combed, and curled. Some of them included Frontier Girl, Space Girl, Blue Fairy, etc.
Engraved Portrait by J. Swan

Engraved Portrait by J. Swan by Burns, Robert

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Engraved Portrait by J. Swan
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Burns, Robert
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
Margin: 204x134 mm. Marginal discoloration, foxing.

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