Price: $40.00
Quantity: 1 available
Book Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Vii + 128 pps. Tan cloth boards with beautiful gilt and teal blue decorations with Arabic and German script, spine has gilt and red. Covers have a bit of shelf soil and wear but quite minor. Inside has lovely golden floral endpapers with the bookplate of Victor de Guinzbourg, sometime WWII spy and proverb collector. On the blank facing the title page there is a very faint inscription in blue ink with Hermann Barth's signature. Each page has lovely blue floral borders. A very pretty book with nice provenance. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 128 pages; Signed by Author
Title: Käfer Und Schmetterlinge Weisheit Aus Dem Lande Des Khalifen. Signed by Barth
Categories: History: Middle East/Near East, First/Limited/Signed Editions, Language - German, Proverbs, Maxims, Aphorisms,
Publisher: Berlin, Alfred Schall: 1901
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 6151
Keywords: Middle East Caliphate Islam Proverbs De Guinzbourg,