Historischer Schauplatz, : in welchem die merkwürdigsten Brücken aus allen vier theilen der Welt, insonderheit aber die in den vollkommensten Stand versetzte Dressdner Elb-brücke, in saubern Prospecten, münzen und andern Kupferstichen, vorgestellet und beschrieben werden / durch brauchbare Anmerkungen und besondere Urkunden erlütert, auch mit nöthigen Registern versehen von Carl Christian Schramm.
Carl Christian Schramm (b.1703)
Category
Books
Date
1735
Materials
Place of origin
Leipzig
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124680
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], xxx, [6], 264, 96, [26] p., [76] leaves of plates (some folded) : 87 [i.e. 88] ill. ; fol. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Gilt centrepiece stamp on boards: three garbs (wheatsheafs) [i.e. the crest of the Gregory family, from the coat of arms granted to Gregory Gregory of Nottingham on 4 July 1663 by William Dugdale, Norroy King of Arms]. Historic shelfmark in pencil on verso of second front free endpaper: "8.d.17". Binding: Nineteenth-century full brown morocco; triple blind fillet to form an outer border, blind-stamped cornerpieces (small flowers); gilt centrepiece stamp on boards: three garbs (wheatsheafs) [i.e. the crest of the Gregory family, from the coat of arms granted to Gregory Gregory of Nottingham on 4 July 1663 by William Dugdale, Norroy King of Arms]; sewn onto five raised bands; spine lettered direct (gilt-tooled): 'Views of the principal bridges of Europe Schramm'; double blind fillet on board edges; triple gilt fillet on turn-ins with gilt-stamped cornerpieces (small flowers); marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Carl Christian Schramm (b.1703), author