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Book bound in human skin by Paul Kersten (1910)

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English: Volume bound in human skin by German bookbinder Paul Kersten in June 1910 for the private library of the physiologist and anthropologist, Hans Friedenthal (1870-1942).

The front cover inset a plaque modeled and engraved in silver by the Weimar sculptor Gottlieb Elster, displaying the head of a Black man and an example of a skull. Above is the name of the sculptor (Elster) and below the name of the owner (Hans Friedenthal), the whole represented as an ex-libris.

The volume contains six medical pamphlets :

  • Bernhard Siegrfried Albinus (1697-1770). Dissertatio de arteries et venis intestinorum hominis. Adjecta icon coloribus distincta. (1736).
  • Bernhard Siegrfried Albinus. "Dissertatio secunda. De sede et caussa coloris Aethiopum et caetorum hominum". (1737).
  • Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731). Icon durae matris in concava superficie visae. (1738).
  • Ruysch. Icon durae matris in convexa superficie visae. (1738).
  • Ruysch. Icon membranae vasculosae. (1738).
  • Jan Ladmiral (1698-1773). Effigies penis humani. (1741).
  • inscription: " Dieses Buch wurde von mir in Menschenhaut gebunden, Berlin, i. Juni, 1910, Paul Kersten."
  • Silver repousse bookplate mounted on front cover consists of cutaway overlapping head and skull in relief, signed Elster, with text: "Ladmiral ex libris Hans Friedenthal."

The volume was purchased by Lane Library of Stanford University from the London booksellers, Maggs Bros., in 1932.

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Date (bookbinding)-1911 (photo)
Source Paul Kersten, "Bucheinbande in Menschenhaut", Zeitschrift für Bücherfreunde, new series, II (pt. 2, 1910/11), p. 263.
Author
  • binder : Paul Kersten (1865-1943)
  • bookplate designer : Gottlieb Elster (1867-1917)
  • photographer : Paul Kersten (?)

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