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1902 Retirement Gift Book
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Description
Colour Plates, Decorative Binding, Fine Binding, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed Binding, Very Scarce
A stunning German retirement gift to a 'your excellency', the former President of the Upper Austrian Finance Administration, from the other officials of the organisation. With four pages detailing the companies gratitude and well wishes for retirement, a page of signatures from the officials all in cursive German script.
The gift has been dated 1902 and illustrated by Edvard Lorenzo.
In a clam shell case and in crushed morocco binding with extended embossed detail with metal and gem inlays.
Bound by C Wumro in Urfahr, a district of Linz in Upper Austria.
With two sheets that have deciphered the cursive script of the first page in both English and German.
Condition
In a clam shell case and in crushed morocco binding with extended embossed detail with metal and gem inlays. Externally, excellent. Internally, the first two pages are loose, the rest are bound. Pages remain bright and clean. There are tears to the interior of the clam shell case where the metal inlays have been otherwise it is in very good condition with a few marks to the boards.
Fine
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