Eighteenth or early nineteenth-century armorial ink stamp on leaf: 'Bibl Buxheim' [i.e. Buxheim Library]. The Carthusian abbey of S. Maria (Reichskartause Buxheim), near Memmingen in Bavaria, Germany, was founded in 1402 and suppressed in 1803; all the property of the Charterhouse, including the library, was given to Graf Johann Friedrich Carl Maximilian von Ostein (1735-1809), passing to his sister, Gräfin Maria Charlotte von Hatzfeld, in 1809, and then to their cousin, Graf Friedrich Carl Rudolph von Waldbott-Bassenheim, in 1810; the books were finally sold in 1883 by Graf Hugo Philipp von Waldbott-Bassenheim (1820-1895). Sold by the bookseller Karl Fr. Mayer, Munich, September 1883, lot 3293 in catalogue 'Catalog der Bibliothek des ehem. Carthäuserklosters Buxheim'.
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Eighteenth or early nineteenth-century armorial ink stamp on leaf: 'Bibl Buxheim' [i.e. Buxheim Library]. The Carthusian abbey of S. Maria (Reichskartause Buxheim), near Memmingen in Bavaria, Germany, was founded in 1402 and suppressed in 1803; all the property of the Charterhouse, including the library, was given to Graf Johann Friedrich Carl Maximilian von Ostein (1735-1809), passing to his sister, Gräfin Maria Charlotte von Hatzfeld, in 1809, and then to their cousin, Graf Friedrich Carl Rudolph von Waldbott-Bassenheim, in 1810; the books were finally sold in 1883 by Graf Hugo Philipp von Waldbott-Bassenheim (1820-1895). Sold by the bookseller Karl Fr. Mayer, Munich, September 1883, lot 3293 in catalogue 'Catalog der Bibliothek des ehem. Carthäuserklosters Buxheim'.
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