KAUKOL, MARIA JOSEPH CLEMENT. Christlicher Seelen-Schatz ausserlesener Gebetter. [Bonn, 1729]. 128 leaves, engraved throughout, with 11 full-page designs (including full-page Bavarian arms), 43 vignettes and 42 large initials. 8vo, contemporary red morocco elaborately gilt, spine in six compartments, three with gilt crowned lion, g.e., upper joint cracked, some repairs to spine. One of the finest engraved books with calligraphed text produced in Germany. Kaukol was Chamberlain and private secretary to Clement Augustus, Duke of Bavaria, Archbishop and Elector of Cologne. Lanckoronska & Oehler I, 80; Bonacini 924.

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KAUKOL, MARIA JOSEPH CLEMENT. Christlicher Seelen-Schatz ausserlesener Gebetter. [Bonn, 1729]. 128 leaves, engraved throughout, with 11 full-page designs (including full-page Bavarian arms), 43 vignettes and 42 large initials. 8vo, contemporary red morocco elaborately gilt, spine in six compartments, three with gilt crowned lion, g.e., upper joint cracked, some repairs to spine. One of the finest engraved books with calligraphed text produced in Germany. Kaukol was Chamberlain and private secretary to Clement Augustus, Duke of Bavaria, Archbishop and Elector of Cologne. Lanckoronska & Oehler I, 80; Bonacini 924.

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