Nov 01, 2016 - Sale 2428

Sale 2428 - Lot 51

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(ALBUM--18TH-CENTURY--GERMAN.) Friendship album containing approximately 50 pages of fine watercolors, embroidery, and calligraphic sentiments and poems, in German, by various contributors, kept by "M.H.K." [Maria Hedwig Kießling, later Mrs. Merkel?] of Nürnberg. Oblong 8vo, decorated morocco with "M.H.K." in gilt on front cover and "Denkmahle der Freundschaft" on spine label, worn; joints cracked; dust jacket, worn; pull off box, worn. should be seen. Vp, 1798-1843