Geschichte der seit dreihundert Jahren in Breslau befindlichen Stadtbuchdruckerey als ein Beitrag zur allgemeinen Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst
first edition Title page with engraved vignette. 3 engraved facsimile plates, 16pp insert of "Geschichte der Erfindung der Buchdruckerkunst" u
1804 · Breslau
by [Scheibel, Johann Ephraim, ed.]
Breslau: Grafs und Barth, 1804. First edition. Title page with engraved vignette. 3 engraved facsimile plates, 16pp insert of "Geschichte der Erfindung der Buchdruckerkunst" utilizing a copy of the type used in the Fust & Schoeffer bible of 1462 (with two colored woodcut illustrations); engraved portraits of Johann Fust, Peter Schoeffer, Andreas Winkler, and George Baumann; final folding pedigree. vi, 28; 86 pp. 4to. Contemporary boards, modern cloth spine, renewed endpapers, with the ORIGINAL WRAPPERS bound in. Bookticket of Hans Peter Kraus. title page extended at inner margin, general foxing and browning. First edition. Title page with engraved vignette. 3 engraved facsimile plates, 16pp insert of "Geschichte der Erfindung der Buchdruckerkunst" utilizing a copy of the type used in the Fust & Schoeffer bible of 1462 (with two colored woodcut illustrations); engraved portraits of Johann Fust, Peter Schoeffer, Andreas Winkler, and George Baumann; final folding pedigree. vi, 28; 86 pp. 4to. Bigmore & Wyman II, p. 325 (Inventory #: 214679)