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Salomon Gessner: Swiss, 1730 - 1788

Schrifften
1777-1778: illustrated book with 20 engravings and early nineteenth-century polished calf binding, spine gilded in compartments, inner gilded dentelles, and marbled endpapers; overall size (volume closed): 26.5 x 21 cm (10 7/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
page size: 25.8 x 19 cm (10 3/16 x 7 1/2 in.); William B. O'Neal Fund; 2000.138.1; Not on View

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Provenance

Furstenberg Collection, Donaueschingen, Germany; (Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books, London); (H.D. Lyon, London); purchased 2000 by NGA.

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