Description:
Regenspurg, Gedruckt… 1698.4to [196 x 155 mm] (8) ll., 684 pages misnumbered 676; (1) l., 212 copper-engravings on full-page. Full light-brown calf, spine ribbed and richly decorated, red edges.
Contemporary binding.
First edition of this famous illustrated book about crafts in the XVIIth century. illustrated with 212 copper-engravings and a frontispiece.
Bauer, Weigel 1062, 10; Lipperheide Pe.; Brunet Suppl. II. 941 ; VD17 1:081343C; BL/STC German Books W-688
According to Brunet, there is a state before the numbers, which is the case in this copy.
"First edition of Weigel's popular account of trades and crafts, a book famed for its detailed descriptions of contemporary professions and guilds. Some, like fishermen and ship's captains, were rather unusual in Nuremberg or southern Germany".
" Geschätzt wegen dekorativer, genauer Darstellungen zeitgenössischer Stände und Handwerke mit entspr. Beschreibungen, die 'einen wichtigen Einblick in Handwerk, Künste und Handel zur Zeit Weigels' (B. 836)… Read More