Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £350 |
MISCELLANY, German, Dutch etc. - Christian Ulrich GRUPEN (1692-1767). Origines et Antiquitates Hanoverenses oder Umstændliche Abhandlung von dem Ursprunge und den Ulterthumern der Stadt Hannover. Göttingen: Im Verlag der privilegirten Universitets Buchhandlung, 1740. 4to (226 x 188mm). Woodcut coat-of-arms on title, 9 engraved plates only (of 10), 5 of which folding, woodcut illustrations (many leaves browned, 2 plates detached). Contemporary half vellum, spine titled in old manuscript, red edges (some repairs). Provenance: A. G. T. Meyer, Hannover 1825 (signature on front free endpaper). With 9 other German and Dutch books including Suevus Sigismundus's Speculum Amicitiae det er: Venskabs Speyel (Copenhagen, 1613, later half calf), Rerum Silesiacarum et Vicinarum Gentium Chronica (Lepizig, 1607, [?]7 parts bound in one vol., contemporary vellum), Die Propheten alle Deutsch D. Martin Luther (Wittenberg, 1699, engraved plates, contemporary calf), Wilhelmus à Brakel's Redelyke Godtsdienst, In welke de Goddelyke Waerheden des Genaden-Verbondts (Rotterdam, 1739, folding engraved portrait of the author, contemporary calf-backed paper boards), Abregé oder Concentrirter Auszug und Begriff der von Serenissimo Wurtembergico ad Comita Imperii gebracht, und mit zwenen tomis authentischer Archival-Urkunden [bound with 3 other works] (Regensburg, 1750, contemporary vellum) and Biblia, Dat is de Gantsche H. Schrifture (Amsterdam, 1753, engraved architectural title and plates, contemporary calf, coloured foliate endpapers, spine heavily rubbed). The lot sold not subject to return. (10)