Order Nr. 77805 [FOUR AUCTION CATALOGUES FROM FRIEDRICH MEYER'S BUCHHANDLUNG]

[FOUR AUCTION CATALOGUES FROM FRIEDRICH MEYER'S BUCHHANDLUNG].

(Meyer, Friedrich).
  • Leipzig: Friedrich Meyer's Buchhandlung, 1927-1928.
  • 4to.
  • later cloth with original stiff paper wrappers bound in, paper spine label with typed title
  • 42+8 leaves of plates in black and white;18, (2)+2 leaves of plates in black and white;52+2 leaves of plates in black and white;(viii), 172 pages

Price: $85.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 77805

Auction catalogues numbered 2 through 5, for sales held in February, 1927, March and May, 1928. First two catalogues for the same sale, lots continuously numbered. The first catalogues medals, autographs, portraits and literary works related to Friedrich von Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, both of whom were instrumental in the Sturm und Drang literary movement in eighteenth century Germany. With facsimiles of writing samples and portraits. The second catalogue supplements the sale items with works related to Goethe alone. The next two issues catalogue sale items from the collection of Eduard von Bamberg. The final catalogue arranged by genre, chronology, topography and occasionally by author. Loose bookplate indicates that this copy was purchased from the collection of H.P. Kraus.