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Lot 38
  • 38

Bremer, Vitus

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
Sold
6,875 GBP
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Description

  • Fürstliche Jäger Burg. Hamburg: Christoph Demler, 1657
  • Paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (144 x 80mm.), engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, additional engraved title-page, contemporary vellum gilt, frontispiece slightly frayed in gutter

Provenance

Altjessnitzer Bibliothek (Freiherr von Ende-Altjessnitz, Sachsen-Anhalt), armorial stamp on title-page; Dr K. Lindner, Bibliotheca Tiliana, bookplate and stamp on verso of title-page and at end, sale, Zisska & Kistner, 6 May 2003, lot 351

Literature

Lindner 11.0295.01; Schwerdt I:81; VD17 23:645833R

Catalogue Note

A rare work from an uncommon Hamburg printer, from whom only three other editions survive. The text itself was completely plagiarised from Noe Meurer's Jagd- und Forstrecht (see lot 160).
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