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CANNGIESSER, Joachim Ernst -- Bibliotheca Canngiesseriana sev catalogus exquisitissimorum Berlin: Christian Ludwig Kunst, for auctioneer Tempelhof, 1 April 1748.
4 parts in one volume, 8o (174 x 103 mm). Early 19th-century boards (light wear to joints and edges).
Canngiesser was privy counselor to the King of Prussia, i.e. Frederick the Great; his library was unique on account of its second part: it contained c. 2,500 books and pamphlets on the history of Brandenburg and of Prussia and other regions under the Prussian crown; these are combined in 527 lots, but each title within each lot is numbered and given in full; some lots containing as many as thirty titles. Concerning the printer, Kunst, see Potthast, Buchdruckerkunst zu Berlin, p. 41 ff.
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TEMPELHOF, auctioneer. Am 18. Martii 1748. soll eine starcke Sammlung von Miscellan- Büchern, worunter viele Medicinische, Philosophische, alt und neu Theologische, Politische und andere gute Sachen befindlich, in des Commissarii Hrn. Tempelhoffs logis... gegen baare Bezahlung Auctions-mässig lossgeschlagen werden. Berlin: Johann Friedrich Lorentz, for Tempelhof, 18 March 1748. 2 parts. A miscellaneous Berlin sale.
4 parts in one volume, 8
Canngiesser was privy counselor to the King of Prussia, i.e. Frederick the Great; his library was unique on account of its second part: it contained c. 2,500 books and pamphlets on the history of Brandenburg and of Prussia and other regions under the Prussian crown; these are combined in 527 lots, but each title within each lot is numbered and given in full; some lots containing as many as thirty titles. Concerning the printer, Kunst, see Potthast, Buchdruckerkunst zu Berlin, p. 41 ff.
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TEMPELHOF, auctioneer. Am 18. Martii 1748. soll eine starcke Sammlung von Miscellan- Büchern, worunter viele Medicinische, Philosophische, alt und neu Theologische, Politische und andere gute Sachen befindlich, in des Commissarii Hrn. Tempelhoffs logis... gegen baare Bezahlung Auctions-mässig lossgeschlagen werden. Berlin: Johann Friedrich Lorentz, for Tempelhof, 18 March 1748. 2 parts. A miscellaneous Berlin sale.