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Assisi.

View of Assisi

View of the town of Saint Francis

who here in 1209 founded the order named after him

Wood engraving after Gustav Bauernfeind (Sulz on the Neckar 1848 – Jerusalem 1904) at Adolf Cloß, Stuttgart. (1876.) Inscribed with the title. 14.1 x 18.8 cm.

Concluded local text on both sides, thereof the one of the back completely devoted to its great son, at the beginning reminding of Buddha’s far earlier “Throw away everything and become Beggars”.
Offer no. 10,193 / EUR  50. (c. US$ 69.) + shipping


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