Todten Tans,. wie derselbe in der söbl. ü. Welt-berühmten Stadt Basel, als ein Spiegel menschlicher Beschaffenheit künstlich gemahlet ünd sü sehen ist. Nach dem original in Küpfer gebracht nebst einer Beschreibung von der Stadt Basel.
Matthaeus Merion (1593-1650)
Category
Books
Date
1744
Materials
Place of origin
Switzerland
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3103698
Summary
Bibliographic description
lix,[1],132p.. ill... 4to. Accession no. 3968. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: bookplate of Lord J.B. Powis; 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.18. Binding: late eighteenth-century French black morocco with onlaid ivory and red mosaic decoration of an architectural frame with central steps and pillar topped by an urn, skulls and crossed bones at intersections. Flat spine, red lettering-piece, skulls and crossed bones. Black and white headbands, white silk marker, gilt edges, gilt metallic endleaves. Binder's ticketon front endleaf verso: Relié par Bradel le jne. rue Décosses, No. 1, quartier Ste. Généviève, A Paris.
Makers and roles
Matthaeus Merion (1593-1650) Pope Pius II (Enea (Aeneas) Silvio Piccolomini) (1405-1464)