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From which English family did Countess Mary von Bothmer, author of German Home Life (published 1876) come?

I am reading her book, but there is no biography of this author provided. She apparently lived in Germany because of marriage to a von Bothmer (I would be curious as to his identity as well). Web search engines reveal a plethora of von Bothmers in the United States and Germany, but I am wondering what became of Mary’s own children. Her wry and trenchant observations of differences between English and German habits makes for an antiquarian volume that is hard to put down!

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Collector’s Guide to Antiquarian bookstores $6 This book is in Used condition

The antiquarian booktrade;: An international directory of subject specialists $2 This book is in Good Used condition

The Book Of Punishment $5.41 Indigo, bookseller and CP-loving submissive, is obsessed with an antiquarian work of sadomasochism which eluded her father all his life. Caned, roped and shamed through the fleshpots of Europe, she will suffer any indignity to prevent Dervil Badon and his transsexual slave Natasha from getting their hands on her prize. But Dervil has no intention of allowing a mere submissive to own the legendary Book of Punishment.

Plimoth Colony Cook Book, $4.86 An authentic collection of 17th and 18th century cooking lore and wisdom, as well as recipes passed down from generation to generation. Published by the Plymouth Antiquarian Society, this book details what and how the Massachusetts colony pilgrims ate, both during the Atlantic crossing, and after arriving in the New World.

The Book of the Shepherd $10.99 Stone the builder who erects a house that falls on its occupants. Sever the hands of the criminal who pilfers livestock or grain or another’s garment. Whip the child who defies an elder. For such is the law and the law must be obeyed. For generations, these ironclad rules had governed the people. Nobody questioned whether it was right to humiliate a child or execute a murderer. An eye for an eye was the way of the world. But was there another way? When an antiquarian book is discovered in the disheveled study of an old Vermont farmhouse, the house’s new owner has the volume translated. The result is The Book of the Shepherd , a timeless story full of life lessons for us all. Set in a mythical time, in an unnamed land, The Book of the Shepherd tells the tale of a shepherd, Joshua, who is troubled by the harsh code of “an eye for an eye” that governs his world. Called by a dream, the shepherd sets off on a journey to find “the new way.” Accompanied by Elizabeth, a former slave who is kind and generous, and David, a boy who must learn to walk in new shoes, the shepherd knows that “an age of miracles” will come when the new way is found. But the journey is not without incident. En route to a cave near the Great Inland Sea, the travelers meet a cast of extraordinary characters, including the Storyteller, the Apothecary, the Blind Man, and the Stranger. Each imparts an important lesson that pushes the travelers toward their destiny. At the cave, Joshua must see if he can bring forth secrets long buried. But he, Elizabeth, and David will also discover that sometimes what we have been searching for has been inside us all along.