1255 - ERNESTI, Johann Heinrich Gottfried. The Well-Equipped Printing Press, containing one hundred and twenty-one German, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew typefaces, alphabets of many foreign languages, musical notation, calendar symbols, and medical characters, as well as all standard formats, and adorned with an accurate depiction of the inventors of this praiseworthy art, along with a brief account of the printers in Nuremberg., Nuremberg (Johann Andrea Endter’s late heirs) 1733. Italian-style In-4°, marbled covers of the period, wear with missing areas, rounded corners, firm hinges, pp. [64] + 160 + 16 + [1, blank], a-h^{4}, A-U^{4}, ):( ^{4}, ):( ):(^{4} engraved frontispiece depicting the interior of a printer’s workshop, thirteen portraits of renowned printers engraved on copper within the text, initials and tailpieces carved in wood, specimen typefaces, some of which—or their frames—are printed in red. In fine: Johann Kist, *Depositio Corniti typograhici*, a comedy. Text slightly browned; title page in red and black.

ERNESTI, Johann Heinrich Gottfried. The Well-Equipped Printing Press, containing one hundred and twenty-one German, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew typefaces, alphabets of many foreign languages, musical notation, calendar symbols, and medical characters, as well as all standard formats, and adorned with an accurate depiction of the inventors of this praiseworthy art, along with a brief account of the printers in Nuremberg., Nuremberg (Johann Andrea Endter’s late heirs) 1733. Italian-style In-4°, marbled covers of the period, wear with missing areas, rounded corners, firm hinges, pp. [64] + 160 + 16 + [1, blank], a-h^{4}, A-U^{4}, ):( ^{4}, ):( ):(^{4} engraved frontispiece depicting the interior of a printer’s workshop, thirteen portraits of renowned printers engraved on copper within the text, initials and tailpieces carved in wood, specimen typefaces, some of which—or their frames—are printed in red. In fine: Johann Kist, *Depositio Corniti typograhici*, a comedy. Text slightly browned; title page in red and black. Hermann Koenig’s signature on the half-title page. A fine copy of this printing manual, originally published by Ernesti (1664–1723) in 1721, likely describing his own printing shop, which he acquired from the heirs of Michael Endter (1653–1662) in 1717. Among the more than one hundred type specimen pages are forty-seven Gothic, twenty-one Roman, and fourteen italic, as well as Slavic, Greek, and Hebrew specimens, and others for calendars, astrology/astronomy, and music. Provenance: the library of Hans and Oscar BOLZA, then passed down through the family.