Bibliothek Alexander Fürst Dietrichstein, Schloss Nikolsburg
by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: DIETRICHSTEIN, Alexander, Fürst)
Two frontis. & 54 plates (all photographs) and illus. in the text. Two vols. Large 8vo, orig. printed wrappers bound in later blue half-morocco & cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g. Luzern: H. Gilhofer & H. Ranschburg, 1933-34. The library of the Princes Dietrichstein in Moravia included the libraries of the Nürnberg humanist Hieronymus Münzer (1440-1508), his son-in-law and heir Hieronymus Holzschuher (1469-1529), Dürer's friend, and Ferdinand Hoffman, Baron Grünspühel (1540-1607). The library's intricate history is well-recorded in the introduction to Part I. Fine set from the library of Eric Sexton. 1439 lots. With the printed lists of estimates bound-in. (Inventory #: 5040)