BOOK TAPE. TWO 18TH CENTURY LEATHER BANDS WITH CHARACTER CONTAINING THE WRITINGS OF SAMUEL GESNER IN DANISH.

Book tapes. Two 18th-century bookbands in 8vo formatwith gilt back text on yellow and green labeltewr and lavishly richly gilded back decor. With gold-framed and blind-decorated binders with black decor centrally. Green-colored cuts and likely hand-painted cover leaves. Contains: Gessner, Salomon, Swiss author, (1730-1788). Gesner's All Writings (I-II) translated by H. I. Birch, Parish Praest of Glostrup. A Danish translation8 of Samuel Gessner's writings in 1781Illustrated with two engraved vignettes on the title blade.På Gyldendals forlag, Kiöbenhavn, 1781. (XII), 278 pp. + (VIII), 258 pp. , (II).
Provenance. With Gustaf Berndtsson's exlibris.