[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed Breslauer

[Nina W. Matheson]

For you consideration today:

Breslauer, B. H.  Count Heinrich IV zu Castell, a German Renaissance book 
collector and the bindings made for him during his student years in 
Orleans, Paris, and Bologna.  Austin, W. Thomas Taylor, 1987. Original pale 
green paper boards stamped in gold. Fine in publisher's box. One of 175 
numbered copies. Inscribed by the author on the second front endpaper: "To 
Felix Rosenthal on his eightieth birthday with all the good wishes of his 
friend the author / Bernard Breslauer / 12:I:1997". Felix Rosenthal, son of 
Erwin Rosenthal, and brother of antiquarian booksellers Albi and Bernard 
Rosenthal, was director of L'Art Ancien, Zurich, for a number of years 
(there is further information about the Rosenthal brothers in. Bernard 
Rosenthal's "Cartel, Clan or Dynasty" in this catalog). 38 pp. Four tipped 
-in numbered color plates, plus a tipped-in color frontispiece.  $350.

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