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AMMAN, Jost (1539-1591). Künstliche und wolgerissene Figuren. Frankfurt: Peter Schmidt for Sigmund Feyerabend, 1579.
First edition of a fine series of woodcuts illustrating scenes from the New Testament, with accompanying captions in Latin and German. Jost Amman, painter and printmaker, worked under renowned engraver Virgil Solis in Nuremberg. His partnership with publisher Sigmund Feyerabend saw him become one of the century’s most popular and prolific book illustrators. USTC 669582; VD 16 A 2297.
Quarto (190 x 152mm). Title printed in red and black, Feyerabend’s woodcut device on first and last leaves, woodcut coat of arms of Erhard Behem von Behemstein, 2 full-page woodcuts and 80 smaller woodcut illustrations (lightly washed and pressed). Early 20th-century full dark brown morocco by R[obert] Joly, gilt arms of Victor Masséna, Prince d’Essling, his gilt monogram on spine. Provenance: Victor Masséna, Prince d’Essling (French politician and book collector, 1836-1910; binding – his sale at Galerie Fischer in Zurich, 15-17 May 1939, lot 18) – Maurice Burrus (bookplate dated 1937) – Schweinfurt, Otto Schäfer (monogram on rear endpaper).
First edition of a fine series of woodcuts illustrating scenes from the New Testament, with accompanying captions in Latin and German. Jost Amman, painter and printmaker, worked under renowned engraver Virgil Solis in Nuremberg. His partnership with publisher Sigmund Feyerabend saw him become one of the century’s most popular and prolific book illustrators. USTC 669582; VD 16 A 2297.
Quarto (190 x 152mm). Title printed in red and black, Feyerabend’s woodcut device on first and last leaves, woodcut coat of arms of Erhard Behem von Behemstein, 2 full-page woodcuts and 80 smaller woodcut illustrations (lightly washed and pressed). Early 20th-century full dark brown morocco by R[obert] Joly, gilt arms of Victor Masséna, Prince d’Essling, his gilt monogram on spine. Provenance: Victor Masséna, Prince d’Essling (French politician and book collector, 1836-1910; binding – his sale at Galerie Fischer in Zurich, 15-17 May 1939, lot 18) – Maurice Burrus (bookplate dated 1937) – Schweinfurt, Otto Schäfer (monogram on rear endpaper).
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