Accession number:
PML 77771
Uniform title:
Bible. German. Luther. 1830.
Published:
Leipzig : Wilhelm Ambrosius Barth, [c. 1830?].
Credit:
Gift; Richard L. Hatch, 1983.
Description:
23 cm
Notes:
With signature, 1845, of George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland (1786-1861), and his note "This copy ... is exactly like one given by King Frederick William 3d of Prussia to Bishop R. Fr. Eylert".
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.
Binding:
Black calf, elaborately gold-tooled by E. Stechert (Berlin), with his ticket.
Provenance:
George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd duke of Sutherland (signture, 1845); later his second son Frederick and then third son Albert; the Major J. R. Abbey copy (sale I, lot 149, pl. 12, Sotheby's 21 June 1965); Richard L. Hatch.
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