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[MOHN, J.F.M.] -- Abschieds-Lied, an Herrn Johann Friedrich Mohn, bisheriger Praeses der löblichen Hamburger Bank, von Seinen Collegen und Freünden; Johann... Oetzmann. Johann... Westphalen. Peter Cordes. Jacob... Jencquel. am 31. December, 1804. MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. [Hamburg:] 1804.
4° (250 x 205mm). Written in four different calligraphic hands, f.2 with 4 staves of music with accompanying text, two pen-and-ink vignettes. Contemporary North-German red straight-grained morocco gilt, the covers with a gilt panel design over inlays of green, blue and yellow morocco, the flat spine divided into six compartments by double fillets and tooled with a gilt flowerhead, gilt turn-ins, speckled calf doublures with gilt roll-tool border, with a large centrally-placed stencilled light-brown star shape, purple silk endleaves, g.e. (spine very slightly rubbed), original stiff marbled-paper wrappers.
A richly inlaid German neo-classical binding. Presented to the departing head of the Hamburg Bank by four of his colleagues, containing music and verses composed by them in his honour; the artistic merits of the binding add substantially to the laudatory contents.
4° (250 x 205mm). Written in four different calligraphic hands, f.2 with 4 staves of music with accompanying text, two pen-and-ink vignettes. Contemporary North-German red straight-grained morocco gilt, the covers with a gilt panel design over inlays of green, blue and yellow morocco, the flat spine divided into six compartments by double fillets and tooled with a gilt flowerhead, gilt turn-ins, speckled calf doublures with gilt roll-tool border, with a large centrally-placed stencilled light-brown star shape, purple silk endleaves, g.e. (spine very slightly rubbed), original stiff marbled-paper wrappers.
A richly inlaid German neo-classical binding. Presented to the departing head of the Hamburg Bank by four of his colleagues, containing music and verses composed by them in his honour; the artistic merits of the binding add substantially to the laudatory contents.