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Accession number: 
PML 18689
Author: 
Amman, Jost, 1539-1591.
Published: 
Francofurti ad Moenum : [Apud Georgium Corvinum, impensis Hieronymi Feyerabend], 1571.
Description: 
208 leaves : ill. ; 14 cm
Notes: 

Author's autographed presentation copy with inscription on leaf 3 dated 1574, addressed to Bonaventure de Smet (Vulcanius), who used this copy as an album amicorum; it contains fourteen autographs, including those of Otto Heinrich, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (dated Oct. 6, 1576), Adrian Vander Burch, Lambert Vander Burch, and Robert Jacob (d. 1588).
Colophon: Impressvm Francofvrti, apud Georgivm Corvinvm, impensis Hieronymi Feyerabend, 1571.
Edited by Philipp Lonicer.
Original ed.
The woodcuts are the same as those in the Frankfurt Bible of 1571. They were also published in Neuwe biblische Figuren ... Gestellt durch Herr Heinrich Peter Rebenstock, Frankfurt, 1571. Cf. C. Becker, Jobst Amman.
Woodcuts by Jost Amman and Johann Melchior Bocksberger.
Woodcuts by Jost Amman, accompanied by Latin verses by Conrad Weis.

Binding: 
Dark blue morocco.
Provenance: 
Bookplate of M.C. Lefferts.
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