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AMMAN, Jost. Kunstbüchlin, darinnen neben Fürbildung vieler geistlicher unnd weltlicher Hohes und Niderstands Personen ... allerhandt kunstreiche Stück unnd Figuren ... Alles auff das zierlichst und künstlichst gerissen. Frankfurt am Main: Johann Feyerabend, 1599.
Small 4° (181 x 139mm). Title in red and black, 289 (of 293) full-page woodcuts. (Imprint on title shaved, lacking Z2-3; also blanks ):(4 and final Oo4.) 18th-century brown morocco gilt (head of spine and adjoining portion of joints split), marbled edges.
Provenance: Horace Walpole (with his bookplate), Strawberry Hill Sale vii-113 to Bohn; then to Beckford (sold Sotheby's, Beckford sale pt.4 lot 695, 29 Nov. 1883), cf. Hazen, Catalogue of Walpole's Library no.1149 (there described as red morocco); F.L.James (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. The designs comprise mythological and classical compositions, female figures, heads of bishops and Turks, military and other costume of the period, horses, combats, etc. after Jost Amman by various engravers. Davis, Murry German 36.
Small 4° (181 x 139mm). Title in red and black, 289 (of 293) full-page woodcuts. (Imprint on title shaved, lacking Z2-3; also blanks ):(4 and final Oo4.) 18th-century brown morocco gilt (head of spine and adjoining portion of joints split), marbled edges.
Provenance: Horace Walpole (with his bookplate), Strawberry Hill Sale vii-113 to Bohn; then to Beckford (sold Sotheby's, Beckford sale pt.4 lot 695, 29 Nov. 1883), cf. Hazen, Catalogue of Walpole's Library no.1149 (there described as red morocco); F.L.James (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. The designs comprise mythological and classical compositions, female figures, heads of bishops and Turks, military and other costume of the period, horses, combats, etc. after Jost Amman by various engravers. Davis, Murry German 36.