SCHOPPER, Hartman. Πανοπλια omnium illiberalium mechanicarum aut sedentarium artium genera continens. Frankfurt: Georg Corvinus for Sigmund Feyerabend, 1568.

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SCHOPPER, Hartman. Πανοπλια omnium illiberalium mechanicarum aut sedentarium artium genera continens. Frankfurt: Georg Corvinus for Sigmund Feyerabend, 1568.

8° (145 x 83mm). Large woodcut illustration at the end of the dedication, device on last page with a figure of Fama on the recto, 132 woodcut illustrations by Jost Amman of the professions and trades. (A6 torn and repaired slightly affecting text, occasional light browning.) Modern polished calf, g.e.

FIRST EDITION, with the full series of fine WOODCUTS BY JOST AMMAN illustrating 16th-century trades. This edition contains 18 more woodcuts than the first German edition published in the same year. Adams S 702; Becker Amman, 13b; Hollstein II p.47; Lipperheide 1948.

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