Accession number
PML 86004
Creator
Mattsperger, Melchior.
Published
Augsburg : Hanns Georg Bodenehr, 1686.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1990.
Notes
250 copperplate illustrations in each volume.
First hieroglyphic Bible for children.
Laid in: handcolored title plate from another source.
Title of vol. II: Der Funfhundert Geistlichen Herzens Einbildungen / Melchior Mattsperger. Anderer Theil. (Augsburg : Joseph Fridrich Leopold, 1699).
Vol. I: First ed., third state.
Vol. II: Second edition (wanting plate XXXIV; additional: pl. LXXX of v. I).
First hieroglyphic Bible for children.
Laid in: handcolored title plate from another source.
Title of vol. II: Der Funfhundert Geistlichen Herzens Einbildungen / Melchior Mattsperger. Anderer Theil. (Augsburg : Joseph Fridrich Leopold, 1699).
Vol. I: First ed., third state.
Vol. II: Second edition (wanting plate XXXIV; additional: pl. LXXX of v. I).
Description
2 v. ; 17 x 27 cm (v. 1); 17 x 28 cm (v. 2)
Provenance
Maria Borgia (v. 1); Bert Freidus.
Binding
Vol. I: contemporary red vellum; vol. II: early marbled boards.
Classification
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