Lot 1414
Live auction
Christlicher Seelen-Schatz ausserlesener Gebetter.
KAUKOL, Maria Joseph Clement
€ 500 / 700
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Lot description
[Bonn, s.n., 1729]
8vo : [128] ff. (some minor soiling or spotting).
Contemp. richly goldtooled dark morocco (sl. rubbed), covers with border of large flowery ornaments and central lettered ornament, spine with 5 raised bands (head sl. def.), gilt sides, a.e.g., gilt interior dentelles, marbl. endpapers, green silk marker. Very good copy.
Beautiful entirely engraved Rococo Book of Hours by M.J.C. Kaukol, chamberlain and private secretary to Clemens August, Duke of Bavaria and Elector Archbishop of Cologne. Finely calligraphed text, for the greater part printed on both sides. 11 full-page designs (dedicatory arms, title and 9 part titles), over 80 vignettes (biblical scenes, angels) and large initials. With the often missing engraved dedication to the Elector.
Ref. Bonacini 924. - Lanckoronska I:80 (+ ill. 76-79). - Rümann 504. - Jessen (Kat. Berlin) 2340.