Sculptura historiarum ex temporum memoratrix, das ist Gedächtnuß-hülfliche Bilder-Lust der merckwürdigsten Weltgeschichten aller Zeiten von Erschaffung der Welt bis auf die Gegenwärtige 1697.

Folio: 48 pl. (front. incl.), interleaved with wove paper ff. handwritten in French, ink and pencil (without text, marg. foxing, some water stains, pin-hole on front., sl. soiled and reinforced with paper on back, many pencil underlining and annotations).

Mod. three-quarter black cloth (working copy, disbound, spine missing, boards loosening).

Complete set of plates (front. included), engraved by C. Weigel, from a chronological summary of universal history since the creation of the world. The work is shaped on mnemotechnic principles, as a list of historical facts classified by millennia, by centuries and finally by decades. "In 1700, poorer-quality copies were made and published on their own, with no explanatory text, under the title "Die Welt in einer Nuss" ("The world in a nutshell")" (Meumann, p. 161). Our copy was completely interleaved in the 19th c. by Fl. Gevers, who wrote detailed translations and/or explanations of each picture, in French.
Ref. VD17 39:122940Z. - Not in Berlin Kat., Cicognara. - Meumann, Markus - ""Le monde dans une noix" : Une liste en images pour servir à l'apprentissage de l'histoire", in Mélanges de la Casa de Velasquez, 44, 2014, pp. 161-179.
Prov. Herrmann Gernhardt (ms. entries on title and on pl. 8, dated September 1835). - Florent Gevers (1826-1907), father of the Belgian novelist Marie Gevers (1883-1975), who signed the ex-dono to her son, the writer Paul Willems (1912-1997): "ce livre est donné à Paul, n[ouvel] a[n] 1957. Les notations sont de ton grand-père, Florent Gevers. [Signed] MG").