Icones Biblicae Veteris et Novi Testamenti
Subtitle: Figuren Biblischer Historien Alten und Neuen Testaments ...
By: Proprio aere aeri incisae et venales expositae a Melchiore Kysel, Augustano
Contributors: Croph, Johann Baptista; Laub, Georg, 1626-1686; Jacob Berger co llection (Columbia University)
Publisher: [A Melchiore Kysel]
Published: 1679
Place of publication: Augustae Vind. [Augsburg]
Language: lat
Subjects: Picture Bibles; Illustrations; Bible
Other titles: Figuren Biblischer Historien Alten und Neuen Testaments
Notes: Description based partly upon bibliographies.

Engraved throughout, except 4 leaves with dedication and a preface by Georgius Laub.

Preface dated Jan. 1, 1680.

Latin and German verses by Johannes Crophius (cf. preface) are engraved on each leaf.

Comprises 241 numbered plates with illustrations of Bible scenes (51, 51 and 50 for O.T. parts; 47 and 42 for N.T. parts) with Latin and German verses engraved below. There are also illustrated half-titles and title pages to each Testament, bordered half-titles to pt. 2-3 of the O.T. and pt. 2 of the N.T., a concluding leaf for the O.T., and a final leaf dated 1679. A few of the engravings are signed: Melchior Küsell sculpsit.

Grässe, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux, IV, 55

Yale Collection of German Literature. German Baroque literature, 1837

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVII. Jahrhunderts (VD 17), 12:651682R

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy: Bound in later full gray leather; spine with gilt fillet lines and black lettering piece; text edges stained yellow.