189 - Ernesti, Johann Heinrich Gottfried

Ernesti, Johann Heinrich Gottfried The Well-Equipped Printing House, containing one hundred and twenty-one German, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew typefaces, alphabets of many foreign languages, musical notation, calendar symbols, and medical characters. With an engraved frontispiece. Nuremberg, Johann Andrea Endters, 1733. 31 leaves, 160 pp., 16 pp. in 4° landscape format. Paperback with red label (heavily rubbed and bumped). A handbook on the art of printing, including, among other things, 47 Fraktur typefaces, 22 Antiqua typefaces, and 14 italic forms, as well as numerous examples of Slavic and Arabic scripts, musical notation, and calendar symbols. Begins with a list of Nuremberg printers as well as other famous printers of the time. - Edges browned. Overall, a very well-preserved and clean copy. Manual on the art of printing, featuring—among other elements—47 Fraktur typefaces, 22 Roman typefaces, and 14 italic styles, as well as numerous examples of Slavic and Arabic scripts, musical notation, and calendar symbols. The volume opens with a list of Nuremberg printers and other renowned printers of the era. - Margins browned. Overall, a very well-preserved and clean copy. This lot is subject to standard tax. A 24.95% buyer’s premium applies to the hammer price, and 7% (Books and Art) or 19% VAT (Manuscripts, Screenprints, Offset Prints, Photographs) applies to the final invoice amount within the European Union. This work is subject to the standard margin scheme. A 24.95% buyer’s premium applies to the hammer price, and 7% (books and art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, screen prints, offset prints, and photographs) applies to the final invoice amount within the European Union.