Petri Lambecii Hamburgensis Commentariorum de augustissima Bibliotheca Caesarea Vindobonensi, liber primus[-octavus], editus in lucem auspicio ac liberalitate sacratissimi gloriosissimique principis et dn. n. imp. Caes. Leopoldi I. ...
Peter Lambeck (1628-1680)
Category
Books
Date
1665 - 1679
Materials
Place of origin
Vienna
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3230202
Summary
Bibliographic description
8 v. : ill., facsims., geneal. tables, ports. ; fol. Running number: 7853. Top corner of vol. 1 front fly-leaf torn off (to remove price?), a feature common to many books in Blickling's library. Vol. 1 final leaf Gg4 wanting (possibly a notice to the binder). Vol. 8 final leaf wanting. Vols. 1-2, 5-8 with water-staining in gutter margins throughout; vols. 3-4 with more extensive water-staining throughout. Vols. 3-4 with worm damage at front. Provenance: manuscript number on front fly-leaf in vols. 1-8: "975". Final leaf in vol. 8 has manuscript notes on and bibliographic references to the continuation of the text of book 9 in later publications, written in the hand of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742). Binding: eighteenth-century[?] full sprinkled sheepskin (rubbed, very worn); sewn on four sewing supports; blind roll pattern along board edges; blind-tooled (faded from gilt) spines divided into five compartments, [1] and [3]-[5] with stamp decoration within fillet panel, [2] with blind (faded from gilt) title and vol. number on brown leather label; red and brown sprinkled textblock edges. Vol. 1 compartment [1] of spine missing; vol. 3 tail of spine damaged, partially missing.
Makers and roles
Peter Lambeck (1628-1680), author Hoey, Nicolas de, artist Steen, Franciscus van der, engraver (printmaker) Sadeler, Tobias, engraver (printmaker) Hans Martin Winterstein (fl.1650 - 1698), engraver (printmaker) Jan Gerard Damperviel (f.1669 - 1677), engraver (printmaker) Somer, Mathias van, engraver (printmaker) Hautt, Nikolaus, engraver (printmaker) Hofbibliothek (Austria) Österreichische Nationalbibliothek