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Herrliberger, David.

Schweitzerischer Ehrentempel, In welchem Die wahren Bildnisse teils verstorbener, teils annoch lebender Berühmter Männer geistlich- und weltlichen Standes, sowol aus den XIII. als zugewandten Orten . in . Kupferstichen . vorgestellet werden.

Basel, Daniel Eckenstein, 1748

380.00 €

Schumann Antiquariat

(Zurich, Switzerland)

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Year of publication
1748
Author
Herrliberger, David.
Publishers
Basel, Daniel Eckenstein
Keyword
ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (BEFORE 1900), HELVETICA: ALLGEMEIN, HELVETICA,

Description

Title printed in red an black. With 20 portraits engr. by Herrliberger, each accompanied by 2 pages of text. 1 leaf preface by A.W.B. (i.e. August Johann Buxtorf). Small 4to. 19th-cent. boards (somewhat rubbed). Basel, Daniel Eckenstein, 1748. First part of three of Herrliberger's (1697-1777) collection of portrais of famous Swiss citizens, a.o. Holbein, Buxtorf, Canisius, Hirzel. This is the only part which was printed by Eckenstein in Basel. The authors of the explanatory texts are not known. - Lacking the poem by Albrecht von Haller (1 p.), tear in margin of text to Wepfer, discolored by glue, otherwise good copy, with a ms. index on last blank. - Spiess-Schaad 1.6.1; Haller II, 323. ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (BEFORE 1900) ; HELVETICA: ALLGEMEIN ; HELVETICA ;
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