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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CALLIGRAPHY MANUALS.) Sammelband containing 11 scarce works, entirely engraved throughout. Oblong folio, 193x288 mm, contemporary sheep gilt, badly worn, front cover warped and detached; contents soiled with scattered stains, some plates creased, some loose, front free endpaper lacking. sold as is. all but one Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Weigel, early 1700s
"Christoph Weigel, publisher and print-dealer in Nuremberg, brought out numerous writing manuals in the early eighteenth century, many of which were especially designed for young people (at least on the title-page in order to sell better)--and many were anonymous. Weigel probably possessed the copperplates of certain writing-books . . . which he mixed and published under various titles"--Ekström/Hagelin, page 63.
Paritius, Georg Heinrich. Zier- und künstlich ineinander geschwungene Initial-Buchstaben Aller Nahmen des Kayserlichen Hauses, aller jezo regirenden Könige, verschiedener so hohen Standes als Privat-Personen [etc.] . . . Erster [Anderer] Theil. 46 plates, including title. 1711.
Unterschiedliche Schrifften, nach welchen die lehrbegierige Jugend zur zierlichen Schreibe-Kunst . . . unterrichtet werden. 20 plates, including title. Early 1700s?
Gründliche Unterricht im Schreiben Currant, Cantzley, und Fractur, samt einigen Alphabet-Versalien. 13 plates by Wilhelm Pfann, including title. Early 1700s?
Paritius, Georg Heinrich. Gründliche Handleitung zur Schreib-Kunst. 15 plates, including title. 1703.
Paritius, Georg Heinrich. Deliciae seu Manductio genuina variorum insigniumq[ue] scripturarum Ebraicae, Graecae, Latinae, Italicae, ac Gallicae litteraturae. 15 plates, including title. 1703.
Neudörffer, Johann, the Elder. Gründliche, Fundamental: und circularische Austheillung und Aufreissung der alten Romanischen Versalien. 13 plates by Johann Friedrich Fleischberger, including title. Late 1600s/early 1700s?
Steisslinger, Johann. Nützliche Anweisung zu unterschiedlichen Teutschen und weiland Wolffgang Függers Romanische[n] . . . Versal-Alphabet. Part 2 (of 2). 10 plates by Gabriel Bodenehr, including title, followed by 6 extraneous plates. Augsburg: Jeremias Wolff, circa 1700?
L'Art d'Écrire dans sa perfection toutes Sortes d'Écritures Françoises et Italiennes bastardes. 18 plates, including title. Early 1700s?
Gründliche Unterricht der edlen Schreib-Kunst. 15 (of 16) plates, including title; lacks plate 7. Early 1700s?
Paritius, Georg Heinrich. Gründliche Handleitung zur Schreib-Kunst. 15 plates, including title. One plate loose. 1703.
Paritius, Georg Heinrich. Deliciae seu Manductio genuine variorum insigniumq[ue] scripturarum Ebraicae, Graecae, Latinae, Italicae, ac Gallicae litteraturae. 15 plates, including title. 1703.
