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HOHBERG, Wolfgang H. von (1612-1688). Lust- und Artzeney-Garten des Königlichen Propheten Davids: Das ist Der gantze Psalter in teutsche Verse Übersetzt, samt anhangenden kurtzen Christlichen Gebetlein ; Dazugleich jedem Psalm eine besondere neue Melodey, mit dem Basso Continuo ... beygefügt worden. Neben Johann Gerharden täglicher Ubung der Gottseligkeit. Regensburg : Freysinger and others, 1675. -
2 parts in one volume (163 x 108 mm). Engraved title, and 150 engraved botanical illustrations on versos and engraved emblems on rectos of plate. (Blank upper margin of title trimmed.) Contemporary vellum, spine ink lettered (somewhat bowing). Provenance: Library of the Duke of Braunschweig and Lueneburg (bookplate).
Engravings by Georg Christoph Eimmart. Psalms set to music, largely composed by Hieronymus Gradenthaler. Each emblem with motto and quatrain in Latin and in German. Each plant with name, motto, and quatrain. Hohberg was the first to cultivate the potato in Austria. Faber du Faur I:616; Praz, p. 63/64; Nissen BBI 904.
2 parts in one volume (163 x 108 mm). Engraved title, and 150 engraved botanical illustrations on versos and engraved emblems on rectos of plate. (Blank upper margin of title trimmed.) Contemporary vellum, spine ink lettered (somewhat bowing). Provenance: Library of the Duke of Braunschweig and Lueneburg (bookplate).
Engravings by Georg Christoph Eimmart. Psalms set to music, largely composed by Hieronymus Gradenthaler. Each emblem with motto and quatrain in Latin and in German. Each plant with name, motto, and quatrain. Hohberg was the first to cultivate the potato in Austria. Faber du Faur I:616; Praz, p. 63/64; Nissen BBI 904.