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[Manuscript] - VON SCHERZER, Karl - "Tagebuch auf meiner Reise in die Welt. Begonnen am 3. Oktobe...
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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2002 Jun 15 @ 05:00UTC-08:00 : PST/AKDT
[Manuscript] - VON SCHERZER, Karl - "Tagebuch auf meiner Reise in die Welt. Begonnen am 3. Oktober 1839". [Vienna ?, c. 1839-1841], autograph (?) manuscript, 26 x 20 cm, 182 pp. numbered in pencil. Well written with some corrections. Contemp. marbled wrappers (backstrip gone). Well preserved. € 300/500 Unpublished diary of the Austrian typographer (at the 'k.k. Hof und Staatsdruckerei at Vienna) Karl von Scherzer (1821-1903) kept during his tour in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France, 3 Oct. 1839 - 12 Febr. 1841. Von Scherzer, who in 1848 founded the 'Gutenberg-Verein', intended to gather some experience by visiting colleagues, with a view of starting his own printing business. He visited i.a. Prague, Leipzig (Oct. 1839 - Juli 1840 : Brockhaus, Teubner, Tauschnitz, etc.), Berlin (Decker, Unger), Stuttgart (Cotta), Strasburg, Frankfurt, The Neterlands (Rotterdam and Amsterdam), Belgium (Antwerp, Brussels : Muquard), Paris (a.o. 'Imprimerie royale'). Unique contemporary account of western European printing and publishing houses. Catalogue cutting pasted on front endpaper : from Hiersemann cat. 606 (1930) 'Reisen une Entdeckungen', item nr. 1275.
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