Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 98

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(FÊTE BOOKS.) Bömer, Anton, S. J., praeses. Triumphus novem saeculorum Imperii Romano-Germanici, Leopoldo Magno, augustissimo Romanorum Imperatori . . . humillime dedicatus a . . . Josepho Julio ab Hörmann . . . dum in . . . Universitate Viennensi theses . . . defenderet. Engraved allegorical frontispiece and 9 plates of triumphal arches. [24] leaves. bound with: Aquila grandis magnarum alarum gentilitius gentis Rabattaeae typus . . . Raymundo Ferdinando . . . de Rabatta submississimo affectu oblata a Collegio Societatis Jesu Passavii. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the dedicatee and 5 emblematic plates symbolizing his virtues. [24] leaves, with gatherings C and D bound before gathering A. Together, 2 volumes in one, with 3 extraneous contemporary engravings bound between them. Folio, 391x284 mm, remboîtage of contemporary sheep gilt, spine and cover edges rubbed; frontispiece and title mounted and upper margin of third text leaf excised and restored in the first work, text leaves rehinged and plates trimmed to border and mounted in the second work, but contents of both generally clean. Vienna: Susanna Christina Cosmerovius, 1700; Passau: Maria Margaretha Höller, 1714

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Baroque fête books commemorating the 900th anniversary of the Holy Roman Empire and the inauguration of Count Raymund Ferdinand von Rabatta as Bishop of the Diocese of Passau, both with strong impressions of the plates.