Bibliotheca Moguntina Libris Saeculo Primo Typographico Monguntiae Impressis Instructa, Hinc Inde Addita Inventae Typographiae Historia.
by MAINZ. - WUERDTWEIN, Stephan Alexander
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Augsburg, Christoph Friedrich Bürglen, 1787. With engraved title-vignette, 9 engraved plates, 2 engraved text illustrations of the Fust and Schoeffer device. 251 pp. 4to. Modern half leather. Augsburg, Christoph Friedrich Bürglen, 1787. First edition of the first bibliography exclusively devoted to Mainz imprints, presenting colophons of most of the products of those presses. Especially admirable is Würdtwein's facsimile of portions of the Psalter of 1457. The plates show printer's devices or extracts from books. The work includes a genealogy of Gutenberg and Fust and Schoeffer. Würdtwein (1722-1796) was a scholar and bishop of Worms. - Bigmore & Wyman III, 100; Petzholdt p. 121. BIBLIOGRAPHY:ANTIQUARIAN ;
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- Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat (CH)
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- Title
- Bibliotheca Moguntina Libris Saeculo Primo Typographico Monguntiae Impressis Instructa, Hinc Inde Addita Inventae Typographiae Historia.
- Author
- MAINZ. - WUERDTWEIN, Stephan Alexander
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Augsburg, Christoph Friedrich Bürglen
- Date Published
- 1787
- Keywords
- BIBLIOGRAPHY:ANTIQUARIAN ;
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