Abhandlung der Porte-Chaises,. oder, Trage-Sänfften durch Menschen oder Thiere, in allen Vier Theilen der Welt nach der Critic, Mechanic, Historie, dem Recht, wie auch Cammer- und Polizey- Wesen. Ausgeführt und erläutert mit Urkunden und Kupffern von Carl Christian Schramm ...
Schramm, Carl Christian
Category
Books
Date
1737
Materials
Place of origin
Nuremberg
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3077610
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], v, [1], 112, [6] p, [18] leaves of plates :. ill. ;. fol. Accession no. 8334. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Binding: eighteenth-century German mottled sheep, polished. Blind-tooled spine with silver-gilt lettering, now oxidised, Mottled coloured edges. Fine, but faded, gold and mauve embossed endleaves representing numeous animals, Chinese pagodas, people in costume, flowers, birds, and a large boat; a musician's viol bears the initials GH.
Makers and roles
Schramm, Carl Christian