Klauber - Pictorial Bible

Author: Klauber, Joseph Sebastian und Johann Baptist

Publisher: Klauber

Published: Augsburg

Publishing year: 1748

Klauber, Joseph Sebastian and Johann Baptist. Pictorial Bible. ("Historiae Biblicae Veteris et Novi Testamenti ... Biblische Geschichten des Alten und Neuen Testaments ..."). Augsburg: Klauber, 1748. 4to (22,5:37 cm). Engraved (not filled out) title (Rytý (nevyplněný) tit. list (ornamental copperplate by J. Balzer), 100 leaves of full-page engravings (engraved by J. S. and J. B. Klauber after J. A. Stockmann's drawings). Full leather embossed (the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star) binding from the time.

Binding rubbed, leather cover torn at top and bottom of spine. Instead of the typographical title page, Balzer's ornament is bound in. The first two leaves of the Bible trimmed with the plate and mounted on old paper. Leaves 3 and 4 with a water stain at lower left (outside the image). Otherwise clean and in very good condition.

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