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Catalogue of the collection of valuable printed books, manuscripts and fine bindings, the property of Count A. Oberndorff : including first or early editions of Corneille, Boileau, Beaumarchais, Hans Sachs, Cervantes, Quevedo and an important series of Lope de Vega; Schiller’s Die Räuber, 1781, and Ibsen’s Catalina, 1850. A 15th century cuir ciselé binding; German monastic bindings from Melk, Undersdorf and Tegernsee; French 16th century bindings; and an elaborate south German Renaissance binding; Spanish, Italian, Dutch and German Rococo bindings; Dedication copies to Carlo Emmanuele of Savoy and the Archduke Ferdinand of Tyrol; "Le grand Arnauld’s" Plautus; bindings with the arms of Fuggers and of Prince Eugene of Savoy; an important early binding with the device of Louis XII; and Bossuet’s Oraison funèbre de Marie Thérèse, in a mourning binding with his arms (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby & Co., London, 6 July 1955)
London, Sotheby & Co., 1955- Subject(s)
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1955, Bookbinding - Collections, UK - Oberndorff (Alfred Maria Fortunatus von, Count), 1870-1963
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