Blumenlese aus morgenländischen Dichtern.
Vienna, Chr. Kaulfuß & C. Armbruster , 1816.
8vo. LX (including engraved title), IV, (5-)148 pp. With engraved title vignette. Contemporary marbled boards with giltstamped label to spine.
€ 35.00
Re-issue of a separate publication of Herder's translations of oriental poetry from the journal "Zerstreute Blätter". "This charming reprint appears to have been published as a separate edition and as volume 21 of the series 'Meisterwerke deutscher Dichter und Prosaisten' by Kaulfuß and Armbruster" (cf. Günther/V./S.). The title vignette, after Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld, shows a Muslim in a garden during prayer.
Binding rubbed and bumped at extremeties. Paper somewhat browned throughout.
References
Günther/Volgina/Seifert 780 a. Cf. WG² 534, 82. Hirschberg I, 212. Goedeke IV, 1, 737.