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live December 8 | 02:00 PM
Richard Maison de ventes

177 - [Art Nouveau] [Vienna Secession] [CZESCHKA (Carl Otto)] KEIM (Franz). The Nibelungen Retold for the German People. Vienna and Leipzig, Gerlach & Wiedling, [1908]. One square 8vo volume in cloth, with a slipcase and a rear cover illustrated on the front with a composition based on the book’s illustration.

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€700 - 1,000

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25%

[Art Nouveau] [Vienna Secession] [CZESCHKA (Carl Otto)] KEIM (Franz). The Nibelungen Retold for the German People. Vienna and Leipzig, Gerlach & Wiedling, [1908]. One square 8vo volume in cloth, with a slipcase and a rear cover illustrated on the front with a composition based on the book’s illustration. First edition and first printing of one of the most beautiful illustrated books of the Vienna Secession, a masterpiece by Carl Otto Czeschka (1878–1960). The book is adorned with 8 lithographic compositions spanning two pages, printed in black, blue, red, and gold, as well as numerous ornaments, initials, headbands, and vignettes by the same artist. The typography was designed by Otto Eckmann. A copy from the first printing of 1908, printed on thick, ivory-colored matte paper (the 1920 reprints were printed on glossy paper). A very fine copy.

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Auction details

Sale of antique and modern books
Tuesday, December 8
02:00 PM
16, rue Régemortes
03000 Moulins, France

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Richard Maison de ventes +33 4 28 39 00 20 moulins@richardmdv.com
On Drouot for 10 years avec More than 100,000 lots published

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