Aigentliche abbildung dess gantzen gewerbs der Kauffmanschafft etlicher der Namhafft und für nembsten handelstett Signatur unnd Wappe ...
Contributors: Neudörfer, Johann, 1497-1563; Brinner, Caspar; Amman, Jost, 1539-1591; Liechtenstein, House of, former owner
Publisher: Gedruckt ... bey Michael Manger
Published: 1585
Language: ger
Subjects: Commerce; Early works to 1800; Bookkeeping
Other titles: Kunst dess Buchhaltens; Allegory of commerce; World of commerce
Notes: Allegory of commerce, designed by Jost Amman and engraved by "W.S." With large image of Antwerp as a background, Mercury holding a pair of scales weighing credit against debt, and the arms of the major commercial centers of Europe. Caption title followed by verses on the art of bookkeeping, the "fundamentals" of which are by Johann Neudorfer the Elder and further developed by Caspar Brinner, "Burger und Rechenmeister zu Augspurg". The caption title is wood cut the verses are in letterpress. They both border the sides of the image and are laid into the larger picture.

The image is printed on six sheets of paper (coinciding with the actual blocks), with the caption and verses top and bottom on two separate sheets each that have been pasted on (probably contemporary).

Commonly known as Die Kunst dess Buchhaltens (An Allegory of commerce and sometimes appearing as The World of commerce).

For further reference see the entry under Amman in F.W.H. Hollstein, The new Hollstein: German engravings, etchings, and woodcuts, 1400-1700.