Italian Armorial Binding in Original Box

[Breviary] Das geistliche Seelenmahl oder Officium für die Abgestorbenen.

Brünn: Johann Paul Krauss, [c.1760].

Price: $8,000.00


About the item

Engraved title in each volume (vols. II-IV reading “Unser Lieben Frauen …”). 189; [2], 193-390; [2], 393-590; 190 pp. 8vo. Italian Armorial Binding in Original Box. Contemporary Italian binding of full brown morocco, covers gilt with two outer border rolls, corner-pieces, and arms (of Prince-Bishopric of Trent?), spine gilt in six compartments, a.e.g., Dutch gilt endpapers. Light wear to corners, else fine. In original morocco pull-off case, tooled in gilt to match, lined with Dutch gilt paper. Some wear and splitting to edges of box.

Item #260692

A beautiful Italian armorial binding of the mid 18th-century, similar in style to those promoted by the Salvioni firm, in the original pull-off case. OCLC locates only one copy of this scarce German breviary, in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.