May 12, 2021 - Sale 2567

Sale 2567 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
[SPECIMEN BOOK — JOH. ENSCHEDÉ EN ZONEN] Proeve van Letteren Eerste [& Tweede] Verlvoog.
Haarlem, 1830 and 1836.
Two folio volumes, 10 1/4 x 16 inches, vol. I: 20 unnumbered leaves, printed on laid paper, bound in publisher's stiff paper boards; vol. II: 5 unnumbered leaves and one smaller-format sheet, all on wove paper, bound in publisher's limp printed paper wrappers; contents of both volumes with specimens of type, vignettes, and ornaments; some large wood-engraved vignettes. Rare, OCLC lists two copies of vol. I, at the Library University of Amsterdam & Columbia University; vol. II only listed in one copy worldwide, also at Amsterdam.