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Johann Jacob Scheuchzer (author) with plates after Johann Melchior Füssli and border designs after Johann Daniel Preissler

Kupfer-Bibel, volume II, published 1731

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series Title

(1 of 4 volumes, 1987.26.1-4)

Medium

1 vol: ill: title page, 3 pages introductory text (unnumbered), 396 pages text (numbered 277-672), 193 engravings (numbered 175-364 with 3 additional plates); plates are engraved by various artists after Füssli; border designs are after Preissler

Dimensions

page size: 38.1 × 24.8 cm (15 × 9 3/4 in.)
book: 39 × 26.5 × 7 cm (15 3/8 × 10 7/16 × 2 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Epstein Family Fund

Accession Number

1987.26.2

Artists / Makers

Johann Jacob Scheuchzer (author) Swiss, 1672 - 1733

Johann Daniel Preissler (artist after) German, 1666 - 1737

Johann Melchior Füssli (artist after) Swiss, 1677 - 1736

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Provenance

Bookplate of Georg August, Count of Erbach; bookplate of Kenneth Mackenzie; The Horticultural Society of New York; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 27-28 April 1987, no. 324); purchased (via Quaritch Ltd.) by NGA, 1987.

Associated Names

Quaritch Ltd., Bernard