Antique Print-FRONTISPIECE-BIBLIOTHECA-REALIS-LIBRARY-Hailler-Fostereich-1682

Description

The frontispiece of M. LIPENIUS, Bibliotheca realis philosophica omnium materium rerum. Copy after the frontispiece of Bibliotheca realis medica, is showing the interior of a marvellous library.

Made by Melchior Hailler after Fostereich.

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 19 x 33 cm (7.48 x 12.99 inch). Image size: 19 x 33 cm. (7.48 x 12.99 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Paper loss at top and bottom paper edges, backed. Some thin paper spots. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

FRONTISPIECE-BIBLIOTHECA-REALIS-LIBRARY | PCO-A15-5

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published in Frankfurt am Main.

Reference: Garrison-Morton 6744.1; John F. Fulton, The Great Medical Bibliographers, pp 40-41; Thornton, Medical Books, Libraries and Collectors, (1966) p 242; Breslauer and Folter, Bibliography its History and Development (1984), No. 77; Estelle Brodman, The Development of Medical Bibliography (1954), pp 37-44; Hagelin, Rare and Important Medical Books in . . . Swedish Society of Medicine, p 89. SLS 500. Waller 18679.

Biography engraver: Melchior or Martin Hailler was a German engraver, active in Frankfurt am Main in c. 1678.