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AUTOGRAPHS -- [BAER, Anton]. Sammlung historisch-berühmter Autographen, oder Facsimiles von Handschriften ausgezeichneter Personen alter und neuer Zeit. Stuttgart, 1846. First series (all published), 4o (280 x 225 mm). Letterpress title and index leaf, otherwise lithographed throughout. Additional title and numerous plates. Old cloth-backed boards (worn, stitching broken).
[With:]
COHN, Alexander Meyer (1853-1904). Katalog einer Autographen-Sammlung zur Geschichte der deutschen Literatur seit Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts. Berlin: [privately printed], 1886. 4o (265 x 207 mm). Later half morocco, black morocco lettering-piece, original wrappers bound in. Provenance: Gustav Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann (1817-1903, presentation inscription from Cohn, bookplate).
Number 125 of an unstated but limited edition of the second German catalogue of a private autograph collection, as opposed to a sale catalogue. Cohn was "the greatest German collector of autographs of the second half of the nineteenth century" (Mecklenburg). A banker by profession, he was a benefactor of the Goethe and Schiller Archive in Weimar, which was the object of his special veneration as the capital of German classical literature; his series of important autographs in this field was "of an astounding completeness" (Mecklenburg, who, as does F. Homeyer, in "Deutsche Juden als Bibliophile und Antiquare," devotes a special chapter to him). With the collector's autograph dedication on title to Gustav Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann, the eminent Goetheforscher, with the latter's posthumous bookplate. (2)
[With:]
COHN, Alexander Meyer (1853-1904). Katalog einer Autographen-Sammlung zur Geschichte der deutschen Literatur seit Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts. Berlin: [privately printed], 1886. 4
Number 125 of an unstated but limited edition of the second German catalogue of a private autograph collection, as opposed to a sale catalogue. Cohn was "the greatest German collector of autographs of the second half of the nineteenth century" (Mecklenburg). A banker by profession, he was a benefactor of the Goethe and Schiller Archive in Weimar, which was the object of his special veneration as the capital of German classical literature; his series of important autographs in this field was "of an astounding completeness" (Mecklenburg, who, as does F. Homeyer, in "Deutsche Juden als Bibliophile und Antiquare," devotes a special chapter to him). With the collector's autograph dedication on title to Gustav Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann, the eminent Goetheforscher, with the latter's posthumous bookplate. (2)