Lot 587
Abraham a Santa Clara, Gack, Gack, Gack, Gack, à Ga. München 1685.
Estimate
€ 300
Starting Price
€ 200
Lot:
587
Category:
History, cultural history and miscellaneous
Abraham a Santa Clara: Gack, Gack, Gack, Gack, à Ga. Einer Wunderseltzamen Hennen in dem Herzogthumb Bayrn. Das ist: Ein außführliche, und umbständige Beschreibung der berühmten Wallfahrt Maria-Stern in Täxa, bey den PP. Augustinern Parfüessern. München: L. Straub 1685. 15 x 10 cm. With an engraved frontispiece and 5 engraved plates. 7 leaves, 272 pages. Parchment bound in thin wooden covers with one (of two) metal clasps and a handwritten title on the spine.
(Heavily worn and somewhat stained. One clasp missing. Edges of the book are stained. The frontispiece has almost completely come loose from the binding and has small holes in the white top margin. Minor age and wear stains. A few small tears along the edges.)
Faber du Faur 1110 a. Goed. III, 240,15. Dünnhaupt I, 131, 21.1. (Collation differs; includes a double-page frontispiece, but only 4 plates and only 5 pages of dedication and privilege). VD17 12:124378F. - First edition. - A contemporary account by Abraham a Santa Clara (1644–1709), an Augustinian Barefoot monk and Baroque preacher renowned for his dramatic style of speech, on the origins of the Maria-Stern pilgrimage in Taxa near Augsburg and the monastery there. The account begins with the so-called “Egg Miracle” of Taxa.
(Heavily worn and somewhat stained. One clasp missing. Edges of the book are stained. The frontispiece has almost completely come loose from the binding and has small holes in the white top margin. Minor age and wear stains. A few small tears along the edges.)
Faber du Faur 1110 a. Goed. III, 240,15. Dünnhaupt I, 131, 21.1. (Collation differs; includes a double-page frontispiece, but only 4 plates and only 5 pages of dedication and privilege). VD17 12:124378F. - First edition. - A contemporary account by Abraham a Santa Clara (1644–1709), an Augustinian Barefoot monk and Baroque preacher renowned for his dramatic style of speech, on the origins of the Maria-Stern pilgrimage in Taxa near Augsburg and the monastery there. The account begins with the so-called “Egg Miracle” of Taxa.