[ALSACE - FRANCHE-COMTÉ - SALTZMANN]. Album amicorum from th - Lot 7

[ALSACE - FRANCHE-COMTÉ - SALTZMANN]. Album amicorum from the end of the 18th century. 338 pp. oblong in-12 (188 x 115 mm), red morocco, gilt lace framing the boards, figure "J. F. S. // 1788" in the center of the first, ornate smooth spine (Alsatian binding of the period). Album once belonging to J. F. Saltzmann. Saltzmann, 35 pages of which bear poems, maxims, thoughts or proverbs, in French or German, by BRAU, CHRISTMANN, HEUSS, KIENER, KÖHL, KÖNIG, LETTIG, NIELSEN, RAUCH, SALTZMANN (cadette), SCHMERBER, VOLTNAGEL, WERNER, WIDMANN, ZUBER... dated Colmar, Strasbourg, Saarbrucken, Mulhouse and Montbéliard, written between 1788 and 1796, and illustrated with SIX AQUARELLES. Front cover detached; wetness at bottom of page.