Antique Prayer Book "Oremus! Lasset uns beten" by Sebastian Brunner, Vienna 1886, Fraktur Script & Gilt Edges

A rare 19th-century Catholic prayer and devotional book: "Oremus! Lasset uns beten" ("Let us pray") by Dr. Sebastian Brunner, printed in Vienna in 1886 by the "St. Norbertus" press with ecclesiastical approval.

Features

• Ornate German Fraktur script within red decorative borders
• Full-color chromolithograph frontispiece of Christ with gold accents, protected by its original tissue guard
• Black binding with a gilt-embossed IHS Christogram
• Red-and-gold page edges and patterned endpapers

Details & Condition

• Author: Dr. phil. et theol. Sebastian Brunner
• Press: "St. Norbertus" printing house, Vienna
• Year: 1886 (on the title page)
• Language: German (Fraktur)
• Height: approx. 11.5 cm / 4.5 in
• Width: approx. 7.5 cm / 3 in
• Thickness: approx. 2.5 cm / 1 in
• Condition: antique; spine, binding, tissue guard, plate and all pages firmly bound and complete. Light age wear to cover edges and corners.

Who It's For

For collectors of rare books and religious antiques – or as a meaningful gift for Advent and Christmas.

Care

Store dry and away from light.

At the flea market in Waidhofen an der Thaya the little book lay among old calendars – for over 140 years it had kept its prayers, and the tissue guard before the image of Christ was still intact.

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