167
N. Gerbelius
In descriptionem... 1545.
Estimate:
€ 2,000 / $ 2,300 Sold:
€ 3,360 / $ 3,863 (incl. surcharge)
167
N. Gerbelius
In descriptionem... 1545.
Estimate:
€ 2,000 / $ 2,300 Sold:
€ 3,360 / $ 3,863 (incl. surcharge)
VD 16, E 1646. - BM STC, German Books p. 273. - Adams E 254. - Heretical story by the disputatious Epiphanius (4th century; bishop of Constantia on Salamis and Metropolit of Cyprus), in which he makes an attempt to gather all written sources and oral traditions on heretics from the world's beginnings up until his days. - Title with ownership entries by old hand. Binding scraped, mended and renewed, joints torn and with defective spots. Pastedown with ex-libris of an old monastery in Saint-Trond, Belgium.
Bound in: Gerbelius, N., In descriptionem Graeciae Sophiani. With woodcut printer's device on title, 21 woodcuts in the text and several woodcut initials. Ibidem. 1545. 4 ll., 80 pp., 8 ll. (the last blank) - VD 16, G 1451. - Adams G 479. - Hieronymus 468 (and illustration 721). - first edition. - The work comprises descriptions of the landscapes and ancient Greek cities; illustrated with 21 views (some purely imaginative, some also in mirror inverted impression) of German and Swiss cities, among them Munich and Basel, as well as the oldest dated illustration of Zurich (Megalopolis).
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