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Heading: (Beckmann, Conrad, illus.)
Author: Gaedertz, Karl Theodor
Title: Fritz Reuter-Gallerie
Place: Munich
Publisher: Verlagsanstalt für Kunst und Wissenschaft
Date: 1884
Item # : 118211
Sale Number   246
Lot Number   29
Sale Name    
Books in All Fields with Mineralogy, Modern Literature and OZiana
Sale Date   08/15/2002
Price realized   $ 115
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Description:
[2], [iv], 64 pp. + plates. Illustrated with 12 mounted sepia photographic plates from paintings by Conrad Beckmann; 14 wood engravings within text. 11¾x8¾, decorative green cloth stamped in gilt, gray and black on front cover, lettered in gilt, decorative endpapers, a.e.g. First Edition.
An amusing German story book with lively scenes of everyday common folk interacting in a very jovial manner towards the upper class as depicted by the paintings of Conrad Beckmann.
Condition:
Spine repaired with cloth tape (showing at front joint and spine ends), light rubbing to covers & corners; short tearing to top & bottom of pages at hinges, occasional foxing, plates still sharp, else about very good, overall.
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