Live auction - Lot 636
[German literature]
6 works.
Hammer price: €
200
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
16mo, (square) 8vo, or (oblong) 4to, slipcases (apart from n. 6).
1. Goethe, J.W. von - Hermann und Dorothea. Neue Diamant-Ausgabe. Mit acht Lichtdrucken nach Arthur von Ramberg. Berlin, G. Grote, 1886. Gilt-orn. red cloth, a.e.g. Ill. with collotypes. Prov. Bookseller's label. - 2. Id. - Iphigenie auf Tauris. Ein Schauspiel. (Leipzig, Drugulin-Drucke for E. Rowohlt, 1911). Orig. boards with gilt title (some repairs on lower endpapers, stain on upper border upper flyleaf). - 3. Keim, Fr. - Die Nibelungen. Dem deutschen Volke wiedererzählt. Bilder und Ausstattung von Coczeschka. Vienna, Leipzig, Gerlach & Wiedling, 1920. Orig. boards (some sm. def.). Ill. in b/w, gold and blue. - 4. Büchner, G. - Woyzeck. Leipzig, Im Insel, 1920. Red gilt-titled shagreen (sl. shaved), top edge gilt. Uncut copy. Lim. ed. to 520 numb. copies (n. 100). Prov. Walter Putz (1924-2015), possibly the German head waiter at Brenners Parkhotel in Baden-Baden and collector of an extensive Bibliotheca Gastronomica and a Gottfried Benn collection (bookpl.). - 5. Willand, D. - Jona. Bietigheim, Galerie im Unteren Tor, 1983. Ill. covers. With 9 woodcuts by D. Willand. Sign. by the artist. - 6. Morris, M. - Erinnerungen an meinen Vater. Zürich, die Handpresse, (1993). Orig. boards. Lim. ed. to 185 numb. copies on Zerkall laid paper (n. 65), set and printed by hand true to William Morris' ideas about the art of producing pleasing books. 2nd work of the Handpresse.