Online auction - Lot 296
[Devotion]
Die wahre Beschäftigung der Seele.
[Vienna?, 1775]
Starting bid: €
100
€ 200 / 300
Bidding via DrouotLot description
Manuscript on laid paper, ca. 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-orn. 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. 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. - Daniel Berditchevsky (bookpl.).