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Handbuch über den Königl. Preussischen Hof und Staat für das Jahr 1824. Berlin: Decker, [1823]. 8° (202 x 115mm). Arms of Prussia on the title. Contemporary Berlin blue morocco by C.P.Knauth, covers and spine finely tooled in gilt and blind, wide gilt turn-ins, bright green patterned damask liners, blue coated-paper endleaves, g.e. Provenance: Jean Furstenberg (booklabel).
A fine romantic binding by a talented Berlin craftsman. This binding, although unsigned, carries the identical centrepiece to and shares a number of tools on the spine with a signed example that was formerly in the Schiff Collection (S. de Ricci Catalogue of the signed bindings in the... Schiff collection IV,73, and later plate 54 Beijer's sale catalogue of the Proost collection. Utrecht, 1967). Little is known about Knauth: he established a workshop in Berlin in 1814 and in 1817 he became guild-master or Innungsmeister. Signed, or indeed identifiable, bindings from this period in German history are rare.
J. SUTNER. Theodo. Ein episches Gedicht in sechs Gesängen. Munich: Joseph Zängl for the author, 1825. 8° (187 x 110mm). Engraved frontispiece, title and one double-page map. Contemporary Munich binding of red straight-grained morocco, covers and spine finely tooled in gilt, g.e. Provenance: Amalia Augusta, Princess of Leuchtenberg (author's presentation copy with loosely inserted ALS, ink-stamped double-A crowned monogram on front free-endpaper).
A.-F.-J. BOREL D'HAUTERIVE. Précis Historique sur la Maison Royale de Saxe et sur ses branches ducales de Weimar, Meiningen, Altenbourg et Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha. Paris: Au bureau de l'Annuaire de la Pairie et de la Noblesse, 1843. 4° (202 x 267 mm). Two heraldic plates, hand-finished in gold and colours. Moiré silk liners, contemporary stipple-grain blue morocco by Tripier Bradel, tooled in gilt and blind, with initials (C. S.) surmounted by coronet on upper cover, and princely arms on lower cover, gilt-tooled spine.
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A fine romantic binding by a talented Berlin craftsman. This binding, although unsigned, carries the identical centrepiece to and shares a number of tools on the spine with a signed example that was formerly in the Schiff Collection (S. de Ricci Catalogue of the signed bindings in the... Schiff collection IV,73, and later plate 54 Beijer's sale catalogue of the Proost collection. Utrecht, 1967). Little is known about Knauth: he established a workshop in Berlin in 1814 and in 1817 he became guild-master or Innungsmeister. Signed, or indeed identifiable, bindings from this period in German history are rare.
J. SUTNER. Theodo. Ein episches Gedicht in sechs Gesängen. Munich: Joseph Zängl for the author, 1825. 8° (187 x 110mm). Engraved frontispiece, title and one double-page map. Contemporary Munich binding of red straight-grained morocco, covers and spine finely tooled in gilt, g.e. Provenance: Amalia Augusta, Princess of Leuchtenberg (author's presentation copy with loosely inserted ALS, ink-stamped double-A crowned monogram on front free-endpaper).
A.-F.-J. BOREL D'HAUTERIVE. Précis Historique sur la Maison Royale de Saxe et sur ses branches ducales de Weimar, Meiningen, Altenbourg et Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha. Paris: Au bureau de l'Annuaire de la Pairie et de la Noblesse, 1843. 4° (202 x 267 mm). Two heraldic plates, hand-finished in gold and colours. Moiré silk liners, contemporary stipple-grain blue morocco by Tripier Bradel, tooled in gilt and blind, with initials (C. S.) surmounted by coronet on upper cover, and princely arms on lower cover, gilt-tooled spine.
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