Lot 157
[Miniature Books] Bonnobergers, Ludwig. Betbuechlein
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
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[Miniature Books] Bonnobergers, Ludwig. Betbuechlein
(Vienna: K.K. Hofbibliothek, 1912). Miniature book, measuring 1 3/16 x 7/8 in. (30 x 21 mm). 63 leaves. Publisher's full beige cloth-covered boards, interwoven with silk threads, gilt gauffred edges, joints cracked but holding. Housed in small recessed compartment within publisher's 12mo olive-green cloth-covered book-form box, with title-page and 22 pp. text at front; red stained edges; scattered soiling to boards. Not in Bromer & Edison
Miniature facsimile of Viennese printer Ludwig Bonnobergers's prayer book of 1607, presented to a gathering of bibliophiles at the Imperial Court Library in September 1912.
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