Live auction - Lot 62
[Manuscrit - Dévotion]
Die wahre Beschäftigung der Seele.
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
[Vienna?, 1775]
Manuscript on laid paper, c. 18 x 11,5 cm, [2]-137-[3-2 bl.] pp., written within black/grey border.
Richly gold-tooled 19th-c. green morocco, covers with gilt ornamental framed border, richly gilt spine with 5 raised bands, gilt inside ornamental border, a.e.g., red silk endpapers.
Nicely written German devotional manuscript. Title within fine black/grey cartouche ill. Interleaved with 10 full-page devotional engravings by members of the German Klauber family (18th-19th c.).
Prov. On front endpaper 19th-c. manuscript note by Wilhelm Koller on the death of his wife Antonie (15 May 1839). Her ownership entry (dated 1832) at the end of the text.