Bidermann Jacob S J (1 results)
Published by Dillingen, Johann Caspar Bencard, 1691., 1691
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Add to basketTitle in red and black. With engr. frontispiece with a map of vera utopia". Title, 394 pp., 5 unn. leaves index. 12mo. Full calf with blind stamped ornaments on both boards. Third edition, enlarged by an index. Satirical frame work novel by Jesuit poet Jacob Bidermann (15781639), completed in 1604 and initially published posthum…ously in 1640. With ms. ownership entry Exlibris Johannis Nepomuceni Wolff 1773" on inner front board, probably referring to Johann Nepomuk von Wolf (1743-1829), Bishop of Regensburg. VD17 12:206739P; Sommervogel I, 1453; cf. Faber du Faur I, 947 (first ed.); cf. Seebass I, 110. Extremities rubbed with minor loss of leather on corners. Some staining inside, mainly to frontispice and edges. Frontispiece partly detached.