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an open book with a black and white design on ita black book with gold scrolls and scrolls on the cover
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Estimate €400 - €600
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Behmer, Marcus Dante, Alighieri The New Life. From the Italian. Newly translated by K. Federn, followed by a treatise on Beatrice and explanatory notes. With a beautiful double-title woodcut by M. Behmer. Berlin, Euphorion, 1921. 168 pp., 1 leaf, 4°. Hand-bound in black morocco with floral gilding on both covers, fillets on the spine and inner edges, and gilt top edge (in a modern linen slipcase). One of 100 numbered copies of the special edition on Dutch van Gelder handmade paper, printed by Otto von Holten in Berlin (this copy is unnumbered). - Horodisch, Euphorion 10. - Eyssen 132 (with an illustration of the double title page on pages 134/35). - A fine copy in a (unsigned) masterful hand-bound binding. - A beautiful copy. One of 100 numbered copies of the special edition in Dutch on van Gelder handmade paper, printed by Otto von Holten in Berlin (this copy is unnumbered). - Hand-bound volume in black morocco leather with floral gilding on both covers, fillets along the spine and inner edges, and gilt edges (in a modern linen slipcase). - A beautiful copy.
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Auction time 10/24/2026 at 10:00 AM
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