German Literature from Focloir

Germany lhar Lernet-Holenia, Alexander. The resurrection of Maltravers. (Series: Eridanos library). Translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Hygiene, Colorado: Eridanos Press, 1988, 223 pages. Some light damp spotting to top paper edge else very good in very good dust jacket. $15.00 Box A 123 A novel

Ancient world 588c2 Einhard, approximately 770-840. The History of the Translation of the Blessed Martyrs of Christ, Marcellinus and Peter. The English version by Barrett Wendell. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1926, 114p. Title page printed in black and red. "Five hundred copies printed ... Type arranged by Bruce Rogers." Fine copy in fine dust jacket which in turn is protected… Read more about this item

Middle Ages 70cc101 Carolingian Chronicles: Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard's Histories. Translated by Bernhard Walter Scholz with Barbara Rogers. University of Michigan Press, 1970, x, 235 pages, notes, bib, index. Very good in dust jacket. $30.00 Box A 101

Catholic Church 012 Schipperges, Heinrich. The World of Hildegard of Bingen: Her Life, Times and Visions. Translated by John Cumming. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 1998, 160 pages: illustrations (some color), bib. Fine in like dust jacket. $9.50 Box A 101 Contents: An age of upheaval -- A woman's life -- Light, life and creation -- Nature… Read more about this item

Philosophy 010 American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. Nicholas of Cusa. Edited by Louis Dupre. Washington, D. C.: American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Volume LXIV, Winter 1990, No.1, 170 pages, paperbound, fine copy. $15.00 Nine essays by philosophy professors, specialists in the work of Nicholas of Cusa. Nicholas of Cusa (1401 – 11 August 1464), was a German philosopher, theologian, Catholic cleric, jurist, mathematician,… Read more about this item

Philosophy 006 Belaval, Yvon. Leibniz critique de Descartes. (Series:Bibliothèque des Idées). Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 1960, 559 pages, bib. Paperbound. There is shelf wear to edges and the paper at the top of spine is peeling back a bit. The signature of the collector/scholar is on the flyleaf. He has made a number of light pencilled checks… Read more about this item

Catholic Church 005 Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179. Hildegardis Liber vite meritorum. Edidit Angela Carlevaris. (Series Title: Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, 90). Turnholti: Brepols, 1995, lxvi, 426 pages, bib, indexes. Fine copy of the hardcover. With introduction and commentary in German, text in Latin. $110.00 Box 399

Catholic Church 004 Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179. Speculum virginum. Primitus ed. Jutta Seyfarth. (Series Title: Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, 5). Turnholti: Brepols, 1990, 144, 400 pages, bib, indexes, colored illustrations. Fine copy of the hardcover. With introduction and commentary in German, text in Latin. Signature of well-known medievalist on front free endpaper. $110.00 Box 399

Catholic Church 003 Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179. Scivias Hildegardis. (Series Title: Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, 43-43A). Edidit Adelgundis Führkötter, O. S. B.; collaborante Angela Carlevaris, O. S. B. Two volumes. Turnholti: Typographi Brepols, 1978, lx, 917 pages, bib, indexes, leaves of plates [some colored]): illustrations. Fine copies of the hardcovers. With introduction and commentary in German, text in Latin. … Read more about this item

Philology 001 Lommatzsch, Erhard. Kleinere Schriften zur romanischen Philologie. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1954, 248p, 7 plates. The endpapers have some offsetting, good to very good, clean, tight copy. $12.50 Box 710

Germany 025 Grass, Gunter. Die Blechtrommel. Mit 65 Illustrationen von Heinrich Richter.Neuwied and Berlin: Hermann Luchterhand, 1968, 555 pages, illustrated cover as well. The first edition of this novel, The Tin Drum, was published by Luchterhand in 1959. This illustrated edition was first done in 1968 and was signed by the illustrator. This is not signed and lacks… Read more about this item

Religion 900 Schicketanz, Peter. Der Pietismus von 1675 bis 1800. (Series: Kirchengeschichte in Einzeldarstellungen; III/1). Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2001, 196 pages, bib, indexes. A few pencil notations and pencil underlining (this in first chapter), from the library of a Lutheran professor. Very good. $35.00

Middle Ages 701 Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für Mittelalterliche Geschichte. Grundfragen der Alemannischen Geschichte. Mainauforträge 1952. [Vorträge und Forschungen. Herausgegeben vom Institut für geschichtliche Landesforschung des Bodenseegebietes in Konstanz (Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte) geleitet von Theodor Mayer] .Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1976, ©1955, 276p, footnotes. Volume I of the series. Like new in dust jacket. Contents: Theodor Mayer:… Read more about this item

Middle Ages 121 Gunzo, grammarian; Peripateticus Anselmus. Gunzo 'Epistola ad Augienses' und Anselm von Besate 'Rhetorimachia'. Herausgegeben von Karl Manitius. [Monumenta Germaniae historica. Quellen zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; 2. Band]. Weimar: Hermann Böhlau Nachfolger, 1958, vi, 215 pages, [3] leaves of plates : facsimiles, folded genealogical tables, music. It looks like it may have been issued in… Read more about this item

Hungary 004 Kleist, Heinrich von, 1777-1811. A tavasz. Translated by Mihály Csokonai Vitéz, 1773-1805. (Series: Csokonai Vitéz Mihály poétai munkái, 2). Komáromban: Özvegy Weinmüllerné betuivel, 1974 (1802), xvi, 80p. This book of poetry is a facsimile edition, including cover, of the original 1802 edition. This reprint has also reproduced the original blue wraps of the original edition. Also, an inscription… Read more about this item

German Literature 001 Fischart, Johann, 1546-1590. Geschichtklitterung (Gargantua). Text der Ausgabe letzter Hand von 1590 mit einem Glossar von Ute Nyssen; Nachwort von Hugo Sommerhalder ; Illustrationen nach Holzschnitten aus den Songes drolatique de Pantagruel von 1565. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1967, 442p, illus. Very good. There are a couple of faint spots on front cover panel, looks like… Read more about this item

Ancient world 1419Zachariä von Lingenthal, Karl Eduard, 1812-1894. Collectio librorum juris graeco-romani ineditorum. Ecloga Leonis et Constantini, epanagoge Basilii Leonis et Alexandri. Edidi Carolus Eduardus Zachariae a Lingenthal. Lipsiae: Barthii, 1852, ii, 235p, index. Ex-library with usual library markings and stamps. Solid binding with marbleized paper over red cloth. Page block is a little toned but… Read more about this item

Ancient world 588 Einhard, approximately 770-840. The History of the Translation of the Blessed Martyrs of Christ, Marcellinus and Peter. The English version by Barrett Wendell. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1926, 114p. Title page printed in black and red. "Five hundred copies printed ... Type arranged by Bruce Rogers." Some fraying to head and heel of spine, good copy.… Read more about this item

Germany 1010 Schade, Oskar, 1826-1906. Satiren und Pasquille aus der Reformationszeit. Three volumes in one, complete. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1966, xii, 245p; vii, 380p; v, 351p, indexes. Reprints of the Second edition published in Hannover in 1863. Very good. … Read more about this item

ME 1000 Goenner, Mary Ellen, Sister, 1905- . Mary-Verse of the Teutonic Knights. (Series title: Catholic University of America. Studies in German. vol. 19.) Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1943, xvii, 246 pages, bib, index. Paperbound volume, not ex-library. Sister Goenner's Ph. D. Thesis in 1943 for The Catholic University of America. Good, clean, tight copy,… Read more about this item