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Lot 280
Sale 5132 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2017
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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(Manuscripts : Euro...
(Manuscripts : European). German-language Devotional Handbook for the Day of Communion. Continental (likely household) production, 1780. 12mo. 147pp text, 148 blank with manuscript calculations in black ink. Engraved staurological frontis, engraved plates tipped in passim, chiefly hagiographical. Ruled borders in meandering red and blank ink patterns, tailpieces in the Fraktur idiom and often florid as such. Rubrication passim, chiefly in context of petionary prayer and liturgical moments of import. Old calf slipcase ad hoc.