Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 300

Price Realized: $ 488
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(WEEPING ICON OF MÁRIAPÓCS.) Abgetrocknete Thränen; das ist, Von der wunderthätigen zäher-trieffenden Bildnus der gnaden-reichen Gottes-Gebährerin . . . Lob-, Press-, Danck-, und Lehr-Discursen. Folding etched plate; 35 etched emblems in text. [38], 456; 404 [i. e., 104], [14] (of [16]) pages, including engraved frontispiece; lacks last (blank?) leaf. 4to, 197x167 mm, contemporary sheep, spine darkened and chipped at top, white ink shelf number, front joint cracked, cords intact; contents browned, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title, accession number on next leaf, ink stain in blank upper margins toward beginning, clean tear across plate, repair in blank lower inner corner of 3G4. Frankfurt & Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Lochner, 1698

Additional Details

first edition of an emblem book devoted to the icon of the Virgin at Máriapócs in eastern Hungary, which shed tears for 35 days in 1696 and was subsequently installed in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna by order of Emperor Leopold I. Not in Praz or Landwehr, German Emblem Books.

Bound with 4 tracts by Abraham à Sancta Clara: Aller Freud, und Fried, Fried und Freud. 54, [2] pages, including final blank. Np, 1698 Frag und Antwortt mit Ja, und Nein. [12] leaves. "Lintz, erstlich gedruckt bey Johann Rädlmayr," [1697?] Die verblümblete Wahrheit. [12] leaves. "Lintz, erstlich gedruckt bey Johann Rädlmayr," [1697?] Lob und Prob der herrlichen Tugenden. [10] leaves. "Erstlich gedruckt zu Wienn," [1696?].