W Raschdorff (2 results)

Softcover. Condition: vg. First edition. Quarto. 26, [6]pp. Original illustrated wrappers, with woodcut on front cover. Publisher's logo on title page. This delightful photobook features 12 photogravures depicting churches and cathedrals located in what used to be East Prussia before 1945. The photographs depict an outside and inside view of the following places of worship: the Cathedral of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russian Federation); the Cathedral of Frauenburg (now Frombork, Poland); the church of Bartenstein (now Bartoszyce, Poland); the St. Marien church in Elbing (now Elbl?g, Poland); and the church of Wormditt (now Orneta, Poland). Minor shelf wear and slight age-toning along edges of wrappers. Text in German, gothic script. Wrappers in overall good+ to very good, interior in very good condition.…

Softcover. Condition: g to vg. First edition. Large octavo. 64pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over blind wrappers. Publisher's logo on title page. Publisher's insert laid in at rear. Illustrated with 48 b/w photographic reproductions, this delightful photo-book takes the reader on a journey to East Prussia's Amber Coast. The Amber Coast is the name given to a coastal strip of the Baltic Sea in the northwest of Kaliningrad (Russia, Kaliningrad Oblast, Sambia Peninsula, formerly (before 1945) northern East Prussia in Germany). In this area, amber (Baltic amber) has been excavated since the mid-19th century and up to today in open-pit mining. Moderate rubbing along edges of dust-jacket. Text in German, gothic script. Dust-jacket in good to good+, wrappers and interior in very good condition.…