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Deluxe Binding, Jacob & Abraham Abramson
Hoffmann, Tassilo. JACOB ABRAHAM UND ABRAHAM ABRAMSON: 55 JAHRE BERLINER MEDAILLENKUNST, 1755–1810. Frankfurt am Main: Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaft des Judentums, 1927. Large 4to, original full blue leather; spine with four raised bands, lettered in gilt; front cover lettered in gilt; all page edges speckled blue. 158, (2), (2) pages; frontispiece; 9 additional plates in the text; text illustrations; 42 fine plates of medals. Binding darkened and stained, mostly along spine (which appears black) and edges of sides; minor interior marginal staining; some cracking. Good to very good. The rarely seen deluxe edition, one of only 20 copies bound in full leather (out of an entire edition of 350), prepared for donors to the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaft des Judentums, who published the volume. While this copy has encountered some form of damage, it remains rather impressive. Jacob Abraham (1723–1800) and his son Abraham Abramson (1752 or 1754–1811) were among the finest German medalists of their time, and Hoffmann's volume is the only substantive work on them. Clain-Stefanelli 14647.
Hoffmann, Tassilo. JACOB ABRAHAM UND ABRAHAM ABRAMSON: 55 JAHRE BERLINER MEDAILLENKUNST, 1755–1810. Frankfurt am Main: Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaft des Judentums, 1927. Large 4to, original full blue leather; spine with four raised bands, lettered in gilt; front cover lettered in gilt; all page edges speckled blue. 158, (2), (2) pages; frontispiece; 9 additional plates in the text; text illustrations; 42 fine plates of medals. Binding darkened and stained, mostly along spine (which appears black) and edges of sides; minor interior marginal staining; some cracking. Good to very good. The rarely seen deluxe edition, one of only 20 copies bound in full leather (out of an entire edition of 350), prepared for donors to the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaft des Judentums, who published the volume. While this copy has encountered some form of damage, it remains rather impressive. Jacob Abraham (1723–1800) and his son Abraham Abramson (1752 or 1754–1811) were among the finest German medalists of their time, and Hoffmann's volume is the only substantive work on them. Clain-Stefanelli 14647.