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Orden de las Oraciones Cotidianas [Daily Prayer Book]

Auction 28 · Lot 86

Orden de las Oraciones Cotidianas [Daily Prayer Book]

Estimate
$12,000–$15,000
Hammer price
$11,000

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(BINDING).

printer

Solomon Proops

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1716

Description

Spanish text. Title within type-ornament border. Contemporary tortoise-shell with silver clasps and hinges The binding is secured by gilt silver elements. Each of the eight corner-pieces with blossom terminal. The two hasps terminate in shell form appliqués on either side. Silk end-papers. All edges gilt.

references

Kayserling, p. 61

summary

An outstanding Book, bound in an exceptionally fine tortoise shell binding. Highly uncommon for such delicate workmanship to appear in a petite volume
pp. 593, (1).16mo
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