Kottenkamp, Franz
History of Chivalry and Ancient Armour
£819
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
with Descriptions of the Feudal System, the Usages of Knighthood, the Tournament, and Trials by Single Combat, translated from the German by the Rev. A. Löwy. London: William & Sotheran, 1857. Oblong 4to, [8] pp., 110 columns, [4] pp., original blue cloth gilt, recased, 61 hand-coloured lithographic plates heightened with metallic pigments (of 62: lacking plate 5), of which 26 folding, variable spotting and offsetting, frontispiece nicked along bottom edge, plates 1 and 62 chipped along fore edges, plate 45 creased, damp-staining to rear endpapers and margin of plate 61
Footnote
Note: First edition in English, first published in German in 1842 as Der Rittersaal.
Provenance: T. Bigelow Lawrence (bookplate).