Nuremberg - Congratulatory address - Congratulations from Nuremberg citizens to the Most Serene Prince Bismarck on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, manuscript on paper or cardboard, Nuremberg March 1895; containing a washed, colored and signed pen drawing by Friedrich Wanderer (1840-1910) with the allegorical depiction of Bismarck at the helm of the ship "Germania" (lower right corner of the sheet bumped) and a dedication sheet with a calligraphic text by J. Luckmeyer as well as a color border by Wanderer (also signed), attached 77 pp. with several signatures in pen and ink; pages somewhat browned / foxed, numbered in pencil by an unknown hand, leather binding with gilt cover rubbed and bumped (back cover with worm marks / lesions), approx. 47.5 x 36cm

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