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GARZONI, Tommaso (1549?-89). Piazza universale Das ist Allgemeiner Schauplatz Marcht und Zusammmenkunfft aller Professionen, Künsten, Geschäfften, Händeln und Handwercken... Frankfurt: Heirs of Matthaeus Merian, 1659.
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GARZONI, Tommaso (1549?-89). Piazza universale Das ist Allgemeiner Schauplatz Marcht und Zusammmenkunfft aller Professionen, Künsten, Geschäfften, Händeln und Handwercken... Frankfurt: Heirs of Matthaeus Merian, 1659.
4o (202 x 168 mm). Engraved title, engraved folding map and numerous woodcut illustrations by Jost Amman (very light browning). Contemporary vellum, spine gilt lettered.
Later German edition of this description of various crafts, with numerous woodcut illustrations of craftsmen at work, including a selfportrait of Amman. The woodblocks were created for the 1568 edition of Hans Sachs' Eigenliche Beschreibung aller Stände auf Erden. The above work was an important sourcebook for Grimmelshausen. See Faber du Faur German Baroque Literature 1190.
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Later German edition of this description of various crafts, with numerous woodcut illustrations of craftsmen at work, including a selfportrait of Amman. The woodblocks were created for the 1568 edition of Hans Sachs' Eigenliche Beschreibung aller Stände auf Erden. The above work was an important sourcebook for Grimmelshausen. See Faber du Faur German Baroque Literature 1190.