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Philobiblon

This is Richard de Bury's treatise on the love of books. Translated for the first time from Latin into German, with an introduction by Franz Blei.

Leipzig, Insel-Verlag 1912.

22 x 15 cm. 12,104,29 pages. Brown, smoothed original leather binding with spine title and large blind-embossed cover vignette. (Signed: Carl Sonntag Jun., Leipzig). - Printed in 400 numbered copies in Caxton Gothic and Janson Italic on handmade laid paper. One of a few copies of the special edition in signed leather bindings by Carl Sonntag Jun. With a bibliography of the Philobiblon and its author. Immaculately preserved. - Sarkowski 262 with illustration. - Schauer, Volume II, 28-29 with illustration.

600,-

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