May 12, 2021 - Sale 2567

Sale 2567 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
[SPECIMEN BOOK — BAUER'SCHEN GIESSEREI] Musterbuch der Bauer'schen Giesserei.
Frankfurt and Barcelona, 1900.
Quarto, approx 8 x 10 1/2 inches tall, 516 numbered pages, color inserted chapter leaves, a collection of numerous types and decorations with descriptive text in German, publisher's brown buckram elaborately embossed in blind, lettered in gilt, a silver eagle within red diamond logo at center of front cover, recased in sympathetic buckram with original backstrip laid-down, which has since begun to peel, mild rubbing and soiling, a paragraph from page 75 has been excised, photo copies of text of both recto and verso of leaf laid-in, perhaps 2 preliminary pages excised at front, mild foxing to a few leaves, else very good). Tholenaar bookplate to front paste-down.