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Published by Grolier Club, 1998
ISBN 10: 1605830291ISBN 13: 9781605830292
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Softcover. Red wraps with color illustration and white lettering, 270 pp, illustrated in color and bw. Contents: The Grolier Club of New York / William T. Buice, III -- Wolfenbüttel profiles: collectors in a library / Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer -- The Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel: foundations for the future / Jill Bepler -- Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and the Thirty Years War ; Libraries in the seventeenth century / Werner Arnold -- The Bibliotheca Augusta as a growing universe from 1586 until 1666 / Maria von Katte -- Bookbindings in the Bibliotheca Augusta / Nicholas Pickwoad -- Duke August and his book agents / Helmar Härtel -- The hunting collector / Wolf-Dieter Otte -- Cultural life at the Wolfenbüttel Court 1635-1666 / Jill Bepler -- Duke August and his revision of the Holy Bible / Wolf-Dieter Otte -- Herzog August and the Hartlib circle / Jill Bepler -- The unknown collector: Duke August and his cabinet of art and curiosities / Wolf-Dieter Otte -- Illustrations. Exhibition held at the Grolier Club, New York City, Dec. 8, 1998-Feb. 6, 1999. Includes bibliographical references. VG (minor discoloration spots on textblock, all pages clear and intact).