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Susanne Schulz-Falster Rare Books 22 Compton Terrace London n1 2un Telephone +44 (0) 20 7704 9845 Fax +44 (0) 20 7354 4202 E-mail sfalster@btinternet.com www.schulz-falster.com Visitors by appointment only ABC Book – Entirely Engraved 1 [ABC Book]. Neu erfundener Lust-Weg zu allerley schönen Künsten und WissenschaVten, welcher bestehet in einer besondern ErWndung, wie die zarte Jugend durch BeyhilVe gewisser darzu bequemen Bildern, ganz spielend den ersten Hauptgrund des ABC und Buchstabierens erlernen, und selbige dardurch fast ohne Lehrmeister in gar kurtzer Zeit zum völligen Teutsch- und Lateinischen lesen und schreiben perfectioniert werden können. Wegen verhoVenden sonderbaren Nutzens der Jugend vorgestellet. Nürnberg, Johann Christoph Weigel o. J. (ca. 1710). £4800 Three parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. [ii] engraved frontispiece and title, 8 (printed text), 33 unnumbered engraved plates (Neues ABC Buch); 37 numbered plates including engraved title (Deß neuen Buchstabierbuchs erster Theil); 28 numbered engraved plates including title (Deß neuen Buchstabierbuchs andrer Theil); all engraved plates pasted back to back for strength; only occasionally lightly dust-soiled, in all very clean and crisp; contemporary full mottled calf , spine in compartments with raised bands, decorated in gilt, discreet repairs to joints, corners and head and tail of spine; a good copy. Second much enlarged and redesigned edition, of this entirely engraved ABC book, designed for children aged four and over, to teach reading and writing phonetically. In the Wrst part the alphabet is introduced, each letter illustrated catalogue twelve
with a suitable Wnely engraved Wgure depicting one or two children faced with an object beginning with the correct letter, followed by un-illustrated engravings of just the letter form. In the text didactic advice is given on how to introduce the alphabet. The second part consists of thirty-six plates, each with six images, showing one-syllable words with an accompanying image, and each word both in German, Latin, and German calligraphic script; the Wnal part contains twenty-seven engraved plates, again with six images each of two and three syllable words. It is advised to proceed to this Wnal part only if and when the initial two parts are fully mastered (Welcher mit den Kindern nit eher angefangen solle werden, als biß sie den ersten Theil sechs-mahl durch gebracht, und alle Wort in dem selben recht buchstabieren können). The Wrst edition had been published in 1681 by Endter also in Nürnberg, with a second edition by Weigel following in 1700. Whereas the Wrst Weigel edition is closely based on the original, in this second Weigel edition all the plates and engraved titles have been re-designed and re-engraved, only the text which accompanies the plates remaining the same. This can be ascertained when comparing the copy in the Bavarian state library (VD17 12:130575E) and the facsimile reprint of the edition of 1700 (Bibliophile Taschenbücher, Harenberg). See Wegehaupt III, 2580 (51 ll. with diVerent date), and Rammensee 958; Rümann, Kinderbuch 238; Hauswedell 28, for other editions; Gumuchian 172; Brüggemann/Brunken HBKJL 1570 bis 1750 Nr. 569 (Wrst edition von 1681). Teistler 87.1; all editions are very rare, RLIN/OCLC locate just two copies of the 1700 edition at the University of Indiana and Linköping University. Trades and Professions Illustrated 2 ABRAHAM A SANTA CLARA. [Megerle, Ulrich.] Etwas für alle, Das ist eine kurtze Beschreibung allerley Stands- Ambts- und Gewerbs-Personen, mit beygedruckter Sittlichen Lehre und Biblischen Concepten. Durch welche der Fromme mit gebührendem Lob hervor gestrichen, der TadelhaVte aber mit einer mässsigen Ermahnung nicht verschonet wird; Allen und Jeden heilsam und leitsam, auch so gar nicht ohndienlich denen Predigern verfertiget... Verlegt und mit Kupfern vermengt durch Christoph Weigeln in Nürnberg... Würzburg, gedruckt bey Hiob Hertzen, [volume II and III: Martin Frantz Hertz], 1711, 1711, 1737. £6000 Three volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [xiv], 532, [12] contents, with 100 engraved plates; engraved frontispiece, pp. [xii], 793, [39] contents, with 77 numbered plates; engraved frontispiece, pp. [xiv], 886, [ii], 887–974, [30] with 103 engraved plates; in all 280 engraved plates; all titles printed in red and black; occasional very light browning, due to paper quality; some of the plates in weak impressions, but predominantly Wne; contemporary full sheep, spines in compartments, with raised bands, elaborately decorated in gilt, matching lettering and numbering pieces; a very attractive set. susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue twelve First edition of volume II, second edition of volumes I and III, of the most famous German book of professions, trades and artisans, with nearly three hundred engraved plates showing diVerent professions at work, in their traditional costume and surrounded by their tools or equipment. The plates are by Weigel after designs by Jan and Caspar Luiken. The volumes are a fascinating source of information both on the costumes of representatives of diVerent trades, but also their equipment and workshop surroundings. Many of the scenes were drawn from life by Luiken, and thus preserve a lifelike immediacy. Professions include printer, bookbinder, type caster, musical instrument maker, as well as carpenter, bricklayer and builder. Professions like doctor, dentist and lawyer are also included. The engraved plates are accompanied by extensive chapters in prose, outlining the relationship of each craft to God and the divine world plan. In addition to traditional professions and trades, Abraham a Santa Clara also includes gamblers, acrobats and tobacco twisters. Abraham a Santa Clara (1644–1709), an Augustinian friar and preacher, was the author of numerous books of popular knowledge, presented with wit and humour. They showed the inXuence of Sebastian Brant’s NarrenschiV (Ship of Fools). More than a century later his fellow-Svabian Schiller summed up his verdict in a letter to Goethe: ‘This Father Abraham is a man of wonderful originality, whom we must respect, and it would be an interesting, though not at all an easy task to approach or surpass him in mad wit and cleverness’. It is rare to Wnd all three volumes together, complete with all plates and in a contemporary binding. Bertsche 38a –5, 56 a–2, 57a–1; Dünnhaupt 146, 35 II.1 and 35.III.1; Faber du Faur 1118–1120; Jantz 313, 314; RLIN/OCLC record copies at the University of Chicago, Columbia, Berkeley (volume I only), Duke, the Library of Congress, the University of Philadelphia and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; a Dutch version was published later.
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