Bluthen aus dem Paradiese der Kirche vollstandiges Gebetund Andachtsbuch fur romish-katholische Christen
Gladbach [Germany]: U. Riffarth, 1879. Cloth. 16mo (4 7/16" x 2 7/8"); 526 pp; purple velvet over board, brass banded edge; hand-painted scene on raised oval badge (porcelain?); four applied brass ornaments to front corners; brass clasp; all edges gilt & gauffered; glazed ribbed white endpapers; engraved frontispiece with tissue guard; color lithographed title page with applied gilt; light rubbing to spine with some lost velvet nap, light scratching to badge, light soiling to eps and fly leaves, vertical crease to ffep, calling card with inscription taped in; very good plus. Very good +. Item #1186
Beautifully bound Roman Catholic prayer and devotional book printed in the German language. Purple velvet laid over boards with brass-banded edges, four applied brass ornaments to the front corners, and cinched together with a brass clasp. A scene of Christ holding a child and a book hand-painted on an oval badge and applied to the front board. All edges are gilt and decoratively gauffered. The frontispiece is an engraving of the Virgin Mary and separated from the color lithographed title page with a tissue guard. An old-style small calling card with the name Mr. Theodore J. Fritz is taped to the first fly-leaf and identifies the book as one belonging to his grandmother and mother. A beautiful and unusually bound treasure.
Price: $300.00