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Thomas à Kempis, Nachvolgung Cristi
Lot 3612
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Thomas à Kempis. Ein ware nachvolgung Cristi. Augsburg, Anton Sorg, 20. Nov. 1486. Kl.-4to (21:15 cm). Got. Typ. Zahlr. Maiblumeninitialen in Holzschnitt. 198 nn. Bll. (l.w.). Blindgeprägter brauner Ldrbd. d. Zt. über Holzdeckeln eines Augsburger Buchbinders, Mittelschließe; teilw. berieben, Rücken erneuert.
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Hain-C. 9116; GW M46830; BMC II, 352; Goff I-40. - Erste deutsche Ausgabe, sehr selten. - Stellenw. finger- u. etwas stockfleckig, vereinzelt geringe Feuchtigkeitsränder, wenige minimale Wurmspuren, Vorsatz u. vorletztes Bl. verso (weiß) alt beschrieben. Bl. 2 mit altem Sammlerstempel. Exlibris Estelle Doheny u. Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica. Insgesamt schönes, breitrandiges Exemplar. Zum Augsburger Einband vgl. Kyriss 82.


Very scarce first edition in German. With Maiblumen capitals from three sets. - Some thumbing and foxing, slight dampmarking in places, few minor wormtraces, old annotations to fly-leaf and penultimate leaf verso. Old collector's stamp to second leaf. A fine copy with wide margins bound in contemp. blindstamped brown calf over wooden boards, an Augsburg binding. Somewhat rubbed, rebacked. Bookplate Estelle Doheny and Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica.
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