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GOLDSCHMIDT, E. Ph. Six autograph bibliographical notebooks of visits to monastic and private libraries in Dalmatia and Austria, including SPALATO (Musaeum Archaeologicum, Dominicans, Franciscans), RAGUSA (Franciscans, Dominicans, Jesuits, Museo Bogisic), CATTARO (Franciscans, Capitular Library, Episcopal Seminary), CETINJE (Metropolitan), KÄRNTEN (Benedictine Monastery of St. Paul), WILTEN (Premonstratensians), HALL (Franciscans), ZWETTL, ALTENBURG, LAMBACH, LILIENFELD, CASTLE NIKOLSBURG (Prince Dietrichstein), ADMONT (Benedictines), etc. 23 March 1914 - 24 August 1916.
6 volumes, 8° (various sizes). Mounted photographs of bindings, woodcuts and type. (A few leaves loose in one of the notebooks.) Half morocco, cloth and half cloth.
Goldschmidt took these notes in the middle of World War I during the course of his travels and work for the Kommission für den Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. They mostly list incunabula, but also describe medieval bindings and a few manuscripts and portolans; they contain a number of important discoveries that have since found their way into the literature. Many of these libraries came on the market during the great dispersals organized in the period between the two world wars by Gilhofer and Ranschburg, Rosenthal and other auctioneers and antiquarian booksellers including Goldschmidt himself; his notes, therefore, still form a valuable record of provenance. Loosely inserted in one of the volumes is a 19-page private diary, starting with general observations on scenery and the weather but quickly lapsing into bookish matters. (6)
6 volumes, 8° (various sizes). Mounted photographs of bindings, woodcuts and type. (A few leaves loose in one of the notebooks.) Half morocco, cloth and half cloth.
Goldschmidt took these notes in the middle of World War I during the course of his travels and work for the Kommission für den Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. They mostly list incunabula, but also describe medieval bindings and a few manuscripts and portolans; they contain a number of important discoveries that have since found their way into the literature. Many of these libraries came on the market during the great dispersals organized in the period between the two world wars by Gilhofer and Ranschburg, Rosenthal and other auctioneers and antiquarian booksellers including Goldschmidt himself; his notes, therefore, still form a valuable record of provenance. Loosely inserted in one of the volumes is a 19-page private diary, starting with general observations on scenery and the weather but quickly lapsing into bookish matters. (6)