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Lidl | Goldener Gnadenfluss, Vienna, 1753, in a silver binding

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July 19, 02:13 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 4,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Joseph Anton Lidl and Johann Jacob Lidl


Goldener Gnaden Fluss, welcher das kostbahre Perl der Andacht einer Gott liebenden Seele ausgiesset in gegenwärtigen anmuthigen Gebett-Buch. Vienna: Joseph Anton Lidl and Johann Jacob Lidl, [1753]


8vo (135 x 90mm.), engraved throughout, frontispiece and imprimatur and section titles printed in blue, title-page printed in red and black, hand-coloured initials and headpieces up to p.95, nineteenth-century silver binding with pierced and engraved leafy scroll decoration with a cast Crucifixion on upper cover and a Madonna and Child on lower cover, two clasps, velvet board liners, gilt edges


An uncommon charming prayerbook, with an engraved dedication to Graf Veit Eusebius von Trautson; each copy contained a dedication to a different grandee.


PROVENANCE:

Veit Eusebius von Trautson, Graf zu Falckenstein (1688-1760), canon of Passau and Olmütz, engraved armorial and engraved dedication; Collezione S. Bulgari, Roma, sticker at head of lower cover