Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
HARTT, LUDWIG. L. Hartts Proben des Fleisses und der Kunst, 1810 [front cover label]. calligraphic manuscript in french, latin, and german, written in a variety of scripts in black ink on laid paper. 4 leaves. Oblong folio, 281x474 mm, later marbled boards, backstrip partly detached, original marbled wrappers bound in; light dampstaining in lower margins throughout. Bookplate of the Bauer Type Foundry, Frankfurt am Main. [Np, 1810]

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Skillfully executed writing specimens with elaborate flourishes, done as school exercises and signed "Ludwig Hartt in der dritte[n] Classe" or the equivalent in French and Latin.