Reiss & Auvermann (Königstein)
Auktion 47: Wertvolle Bücher, dekorative Graphik: Schlesien-Sammlung Dr H.H. Cohn, Suffern, N.Y., Teile der Bibliothek Nordkirchen (catalogue for an auction conducted by Reiss & Auvermann, Königstein, 7-10 April 1992)
Königstein, Reiss & Auvermann, 1992
(23 cm), 660 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 5654 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Contains property from the Bibliothek Nordkirchen, a library established by Ferdinand von Fürstenberg (1626-1683) and his nephew Christian Theodor von Plettenberg (1647-1694) at Schloß Nordkirchen (North Rhine-Westphalia), and substantially enlarged by the Plettenberg family. The library passed by marriage in 1833 to Miklós Ferenc Esterházy de Galántha (1804-1885) and descended to his son Moricz, whose widow in 1903 sold Schloß Nordkirchen together with all its contents to Engelbert-Maria von Arenberg (1872-1949). The greater part of the library was dispersed by Engelbert-Karl (1899-1974), the 10th Prinz von Arenberg (Claudine Lemaire, “La bibliothèque des ducs d’Arenberg, une première approche” in Liber amicorum Herman Liebaers, Brussels 1984, pp.81-106; Bertram Haller, Die Sammlung Nordkirchen der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster: Handschriften, Autographen und Drucke der Familien Fürstenberg und Plettenberg aus Schloss Nordkirchen, Münster 2010). ¶ Occasional annotation. No Price list.