WEIGEL, Christoph (1654-1725) - photo 1
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WEIGEL, Christoph (1654-1725)

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13.07.2023 10:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 187 | WEIGEL, Christoph (1654-1725)
WEIGEL, Christoph (1654-1725)

Abbildung und Beschreibung derer sämtlichen Berg-Werks-Beamten und Bedienten nach ihrem gewöhnlichen Rang und Ordnung im behörigen Berg-Habit. -- Abbildung und Beschreibung derer sämtlichen Schmeltz-Hütten-Beamten und Bedienten nach ihrem gewöhnlichen Rang und Ordnung im behörigen Hutten-Habit. Nuremberg: the author, 1721.

Deluxe copy, fully coloured and heightened in gold, the only complete, coloured copy in auction records. Depicting the costume, uniform and tools of mining and metal-working, often against a background of furnaces and machinery, Weigel provides an extensive insight into the technical life and activity of miners and mining. The two parts are often found together. Hoover suggests that the additional engraved frontispieces may be from an earlier, 1710 edition, but Colas calls for them here. In fact, the existence of an earlier edition is questionable. Brunet Supp. II, 941 cites an edition of c.1710, identical except for the absence of a date, but no copy seems to exist. Colas 13-14; Hoover 868-869; Lipperheide Pd 7 and Pd 8; Bobins V, 1522.



2 works in one volume, quarto (197 x 153mm). Titles printed in red and black, additional engraved titles, the 4-leaf preface here as part of the second, not first, work as in Hoover, and 48 engraved plates, coloured by a contemporary hand (24 in each work numbered 2-25) of mining occupations, activities and costumes, most signed by C. Weigel (light, even browning, first title faintly mottled). Contemporary gilt-stamped green patterned-paper boards (somewhat worn, spine cracked and with loss, front cover almost detached); modern green morocco-backed box. Provenance: William ?Adams, Cardiff (inscription across first title).





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Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe
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