Gottorffische Kunst-Kammer
Subtitle: worinnen allerhand ungemeine Sachen, so theils die Natur, theils künstliche Hände hervor gebracht und bereitet. Vor diesem aus allen vier Theilen der Welt zusammen getragen, und vor einigen Jahren beschrieben, auch mit behörigen Kupffern gezieret
By: durch Adam Olearium, Weil. Bibliothecarium und Antiquarium auff der fürstl. Residentz Gottorff
Edition: Anjetzo aber übersehen, und zum andern Mal gedruckt.
Publisher: Auff Gottfriedt Schultzens Kosten. 1674. In dessen Buchladen zu Schlesswig solche zu finden ist
Published: 1674
Place of publication: Schleswig, Germany
Language: ger; lat
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Art collections; Catalogs; Natural history collections; Art objects; Natural history; Pre-Linnean works; Natural history museums; Ethnological museums and collections; Art; Private collections
Other titles: Gottorffische Kunst-Kammer
Notes: Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.

Date of publication printed before place of publication on title page.

First edition printed in Schleswig, 1666.

Another edition printed by Gottfriedt Schultze in Schleswig in the same year includes the addition of the Holsteinische Chronica and has title: Gottorffische Kunst-Kammer, worinnen allerhand ungemeine Sachen, so theils die Natur, theils künstliche Hände hervor gebracht und bereitet. Vor diesem aus allen vier Theilen der Welt zusammen getragen, und vor einigen Jahren beschrieben, auch mit behörigen Kupffern gezieret durch Adam Olearium, Weil. Bibliothecarium und Antiquarium auff der fürstl. Residentz Gottorff. Welchem zu Ende angefüget ist, des itzt-gedachten seel. Herrn Olearii Holsteinische Chronica.

Added, engraved title page reads: Gottorffische Kunst-Kammer, and has imprint: Schlesswig in Gottfriedt Schultzens Buchladen.

This is the augmented edition of the illustrated catalogue of the renown Wunderkammer of Friedrich II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, housed at Gottorp Castle. The Gottorffische Kunst-Kammer was authored by the collection's curator and librarian, the noted mathematician, geographer, diplomat and traveller Adam Olearius. It contained several objects from the New World, including a mannequin of a West Indian woman from Mexico, showing how she carried her children. She wore as ornaments the teeth and claws of wild animals in place of gold chains. She is pictured on plate no. II which is bound to face p. 2, 2nd count; also depicted are new world animals such as the iguana and armadillo (plate no VI and VII), a snake from Mexico (plate no. XI), and a penguin and toucan (plate no. XIII),

Signatures: a⁴ (a1 recto blank) b² A-K⁴.

Added engraved t.p. included in 1st count.

Text printed in double columns.

Engraved head piece; initial.

Plates are numbered I-XXXVII; plate XXXII is bound to face p. 42.

Instruction to binder for insertion of plates printed on verso of title page.

Two parts in one volume: [1] blank leaf, [12], 80, 72, [8],148, [8] pages, XXXVII, [1] leaves of plates (some folded) : b| illustrations, portraits, genealogical table, (etchings) ; c| 21 cm.  Added engraved t.p. included in 1st count, with title "Gottorffische Kunst-Kammer" and imprint: "Schlesswig in Gottfriedt Schultzens Buchladen." Signed: "H. von Hemsberg. Ham. fecit."  The full-page engraving on the preliminary title shows the Kunstkammer as seen through a portal flanked by two mannequins, one of them wearing a suit of armor brought from Ceylon for display.  Plate labelled XXXVII inserted between plates XXVI and XXVII at p. 43, 2nd group.  Second edition. Earlier edition published in 1666.  Second work (72, [4] p.) has special t.p. with title and imprint: "Holsteinische Chronica : Aus des Herrn Christiani Solini, weyland Predigern in der Königl. Stadt und Beste Krempe in Holstein, Chronologia kürtzlich verfasset und zusammen gezogen. : Welchen beygefügt ist A.O. Kurtzer Begriff einer Holsteinischen Chronike. Gedruckt im Jahr 1674." The accompanying work ([4], 148, [8] p., [1] folded leaf of plates) also has special t.p.: "Kurtzer Begriff einer holsteinischen Chronic, oder, Summarische Beschreibung der denckwürdigsten Geschichten, so innerhalb 200 und mehr Jahren, nemblich von Anno 1448 biss 1663 in den Nord Landen, sonderlich in Holstein sich begeben : alles auss bekanten Geschicht-Schreibern, so auff der andern Seiten nahmhhafftig gemachet : auffs kürtzest zusammen getragen / duch A.O. Gedruckt im Jahr 1674."  The very rare catalogue of the Kunst- und Wunderkammer of Frederick III, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, of Castle Gottorf. It also contains the first appearance of a second work, a genealogy of the House of Schleswig-Hosltein, illustrated with a genealogical tree. The Gottrof Kunstkammer incorporated the famou scabinet of Paludanus of Enkhuysen who had traveled widely in the East. The cabinet was acquired by the Duke of Olearius, who had himself traveled in Russia and Persia in the 1630s and who became the ducal librarian and keeper of the cabinet in 1649.  Quarter calf, 18th century; speckled boards. Red edges. Gilded spine with yellow morocco panel. On t.p., ms. sig. "J. Wood 1731". P. 67 (2nd gr.), repair.

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Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVII. Jahrhunderts (VD 17), 23:279959Y

Purchase; 2016; 17-205.

Text primarily in German with some prefatory material and passages in Latin.