Live auction - Lot 426
[Devotion]
Album with c. 350 devotional prints.
Early 19th c
Hammer price: €
450
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
16mo: engravings, wove paper (few spots, few sm. tears on edges, endpapers stained).
Good impressions with wide margins. Contemp. red morocco, gilt-orn. covers, sides and spine with title "GEBEDEN / EN EVANGELIEN / OP DE ZONDAGEN", a.e.g. (sl. rubbed, spine sl. loose).
Impressive collection of religious prints with mostly Dutch and a few Latin texts for praying on Sunday. Mostly with the address of Franciscus Huberti. Other engravers and publishers incl. Michiel Bunel, Johannes Carolus Craen, Gaspar de Hollander, Jacobus de Man, Isabella Haertsens, Jean Messager, Michiel Snyders, Cornelis van Merlen, Theodoor van Merlen and Antonius Wierix.
Prov. Mimi Josephine Cogels, 1822 (ms. note).