DENIS, Michael. Die Merkwuerdigkeiten der F. F. Garellischen Oeffentl. Bibliothek am Theresiano. Vienna: Augustin Bernardi, 1780. 2 vols. in 1, 4°. Engraved title vignette (spotted, light browning throughout, lacking final (?) blank), contemporary calf-backed boards (upper cover detached). FIRST EDITION. -- Wiens Buchdruckergeschicht bis MDLX. Vienna: Christian Friedrich Wappler, 1782. 4°. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title vignette. Occasional notes in a contemporary hand. (One index leaf repaired.). FIRST EDITION. Bound with: Nachtrag zu seiner Buchdruckergeschicht Wiens. Vienna: Johann Thomas Edlen von Trattnern, 1793. 4°. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary half vellum (spine worn). FIRST EDITION.

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DENIS, Michael. Die Merkwuerdigkeiten der F. F. Garellischen Oeffentl. Bibliothek am Theresiano. Vienna: Augustin Bernardi, 1780. 2 vols. in 1, 4°. Engraved title vignette (spotted, light browning throughout, lacking final (?) blank), contemporary calf-backed boards (upper cover detached). FIRST EDITION. -- Wiens Buchdruckergeschicht bis MDLX. Vienna: Christian Friedrich Wappler, 1782. 4°. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title vignette. Occasional notes in a contemporary hand. (One index leaf repaired.). FIRST EDITION. Bound with: Nachtrag zu seiner Buchdruckergeschicht Wiens. Vienna: Johann Thomas Edlen von Trattnern, 1793. 4°. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary half vellum (spine worn). FIRST EDITION.
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Bigmore & Wyman p. 162: "Michael Denis was a bibliographer of justly-established eminence, and principal librarian of the Imperial Library of Vienna. Born in Bavaria in 1729, he died in the year 1800, at the age of seventy-one."

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