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CATALOGUE XXI, LIVRES DANS DE RICHES RELIURES DES QUINZIEME, SEIZIEME, DIX-SEPTIEME, DIX-HUITIEME ET DIX-NEUVIEME SICLES
Sonntag Jun., Carl
Catalogue XXI. Avec 52 Planches dont 9 en Coleurs.

- Leipzig : Librairie C.G. Boerner n.d. (1912) - 4to. - later cloth, leather spine label - xvi, 108 pages. - Order Nr. 5961 - Price: $ 200.00

K-S 1461; Mejer no.1540; Brenni no.278. A superb catalogue with text in French and German, well-illustrated and with prices given. Total of 52 separately bound-in plates. "In Germany, Gustav Nebehay, partner of the firm of C. G. Boerner, commissioned his father-in-law, the bookbinder Carl Sonntag, to compile a handsome binding catalogue on the French model." - Breslauer, The Uses of Bookbinding Literature, pp. 24-5. Pencil note on the endpaper states that this copy came from the Howard Nixon sale. Minor cover rubbing.

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