Rare album Das Kaiser – Album Viribus Unitis
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Wien: Mechitharisten. Congregation, Mechitharisten – Buchdruckerei, 1858.
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Dimensions: 46 x 32 cm. Pp. 5 l. + 244 with still engraved frontispiece and 19 woodcuts.
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Binding: Original softcover, bumped edges, tears on flyleaves, top and bottom of the spine damaged. Stained due to paper aging. Previous owner’s stamp.
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Contains poems in 15 different languages of the Habsburg Monarchy and many dialects (from Latin to Hebrew and Aramaic, from Silesia to Venetian and Serbian). The original articles printed in the corresponding original types of well-equipped Mekhitarist printing, simultaneously regarded almost as a “type specimen book.” The plates show population groups in respective national costumes.
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