ZAPF, Georg Wilhelm (1747-1810). Augsburgs Buchdruckergeschichte, nebst den Jahrbüchen derselben. Augsburg: Christoph Friedrich Bürglen [vol. 1], 1786; Conrad Heinreich Stage, 1791 [vol. 2].

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ZAPF, Georg Wilhelm (1747-1810). Augsburgs Buchdruckergeschichte, nebst den Jahrbüchen derselben. Augsburg: Christoph Friedrich Bürglen [vol. 1], 1786; Conrad Heinreich Stage, 1791 [vol. 2].

2 volumes, 4o (240 x 191 mm). 8 engraved plates in vol. 1. Near-contemporary half vellum, patterned paper boards. Provenance: Joh. Ge. Christoph Schnizlein (signature on pastedown); Michael Krieg (pencil attribution on pastedown); Dr. H. Röttinger (bookplates).

A new and enlarged edition of Zapf's Annales typographicae Augustanae ab ejus origine MCCCCLXVI usque annum MDXXX (Augsburg, 1778). In 1791, Bürglen, the publisher of the first volume, supervised the dispersal of Zapf's collection when the great bibliographer changed his scholarly focus. Bigmore & Wyman II, 111. (2)

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