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Collection of Autograph Sentiments in German, including Love Poems with drawings, preserved in a Green Velvet Book Box with Handcolored Sentimental Vignette on Upper Cover
by (Commonplace Book)
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- Green velvet book book box with gilt-metal ornamental borders and corner pieces. Some minor rubbing. Contents generally fine
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Altdorf, Weingarten, etc. [Germany], 1862. Handcolored scene of two children tending a sick dog within scalloped window on upper cover, chromolithograph pictorial sentiments on inside front cover and interior lid. Six printed sentiments (colored), one with embossed gilt floral decorations. 23 autograph verse quotations and sentiments in ink, in various neat hands, including two love poems (one with a colored floral border and one with a pencil portrait of a young man). 1 vols. Obling 16mo. Green velvet book book box with gilt-metal ornamental borders and corner pieces. Some minor rubbing. Contents generally fine. Handcolored scene of two children tending a sick dog within scalloped window on upper cover, chromolithograph pictorial sentiments on inside front cover and interior lid. Six printed sentiments (colored), one with embossed gilt floral decorations. 23 autograph verse quotations and sentiments in ink, in various neat hands, including two love poems (one with a colored floral border and one with a pencil portrait of a young man). 1 vols. Obling 16mo. Charming and decorative mind-nineteenth-century German album of sentiments, most dated variously between 1852 and 1854. On the verso of a poem headed Trennung (Separation) and inscribed "Tobis seiner liebsten Anna" is a portait of a pensive young man and the caption "Jetzt bin ich's nicht mehr." One other note is signed and dated, "Anna Hehrner, im Weingarten, den 13 Mai 1862".
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 242331
- Title
- Collection of Autograph Sentiments in German, including Love Poems with drawings, preserved in a Green Velvet Book Box with Handcolored Sentimental Vignette on Upper Cover
- Author
- (Commonplace Book)
- Format/Binding
- Handcolored scene of two children tending a sick dog within scalloped window on upper cover, chromolithograph pictorial sentimen
- Book Condition
- Used - Green velvet book book box with gilt-metal ornamental borders and corner pieces. Some minor rubbing. Contents generally fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- Altdorf, Weingarten, etc. [Germany]
- Date Published
- 1862
- Keywords
- Commonplace Book | German
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Autograph & Manuscripts;
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- Gilt
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- Rubbing
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- Verso
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