Live auction - Lot 754
[Devotion]
Encomia coelituum, digesta per singulos anni menses & dies. Pars I. Mensis Januarius [- II. Februarius, - III. Martius].
Vienna & Augsburg, A.A.L.L. Societas, 1763
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
4to: front.-[32]-158 pp.; 90 pl. (local browning).
Contemp. sheep (some sm. tears), gilt spine with 5 raised bands (joints rubbed, sm. def. at head & tail). Very good copy.
First part of the rare second edition (1st 1753-1755) of this baroque Saints' calendar. Engr. front. and 90 full-page engr. plates showing the Saint of the day (31 + 28 + 31) in an animated scene in mannerist style and within a nice decorated border, by various Augsburg engravers mostly after the Austrian rococo painter J.W. Baumgartner (1712-1761). Unpaginated title page at beginning of each month.
Ref. Not in VD18.