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Simon Beattie Largely recent acquisitions To be exhibited at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair Hynes Convention Center 15–17 November 2019 Booth 425 APPARENTLY UNRECORDED 01. [AHRENS, Franz]. Unsere Reise nach, in und von Amerika. Ein Tagebuch in vier Abtheilungen. Erster [– Zweiter] Band … Berlin, Pfingsten 1914. 2 parts in one vol., 8vo (250 × 183 mm), pp. 114, plus final blank; 61, [1], plus final blank; black-and-white photographs and other illustrations in the text; original cloth, upper cover lettered gilt; with a long inscription by the author to his sister, Maria (dated 19 July 1919) to the front free endpaper. $1300 First (and only) edition, privately printed, presumably in very limited numbers. Franz Ahrens (1858–1937) was a Berlin architect, known in particular for various large-scale buildings (offices, department stores, notably the Friedrichstraßenpassage, transportation depots, etc.) in the city. Here we find him travelling with his wife, in late 1913, all round America. In a trip which lasted almost three months, they took in New York, Albany, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Chicago, Denver, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Pasadena, the Grand Canyon, San Antonio, New Orleans, then through Alabama and the Carolinas to Washington, DC, before finally returning to New York. Offered with a second copy, bound in calf (now rubbed), inscribed by Ahrens to his children (or perhaps a child and their spouse), extra- illustrated with 170 original photographs, with printed captions, 25 colour postcards, and other cuttings. Not found in Library Hub, KVK, or WorldCat. 02–07: ANGLOMANIE The vogue for England in 18th-century French Fiction The fashion in France in the decades before the Revolution for all things English—a ‘maladie épidémique’ as one contemporary termed it— whether in dress, demeanour, or design (one thinks of the jardin à l’anglaise), also found its way into French fiction.
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