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1663 Broadsides (2) with 12 engravings, Farming Calendar, Conrad Meyer

1663 Broadsides (2) with 12 engravings, Farming Calendar, Conrad Meyer

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Two fine Broadsides together comprising 12 engravings.

Outlining and describing the XII months after their main agricultural duties.

Meyer, Conrad [1618-1689] ; Simler, Johann Wilhelm [1605-1672]

Abriss, und Beschreibung der XII. Monaten nach ihren Haubtwerken

Published in Zurich: by the Burgerbibliothek, 1663.

Etching; each approximately 31.5 x 29 cm 

References:Hollstein's German engravings, etchings and woodcuts, Vol. XXVII, Amsterdam 1980, p. 131, No. 218 ; Martina Sulmoni: "Einer Kunst- und Tugendliebenden Jugend verehrt": the picture-text combinations in the New Year's papers of the Burgerbibliothek Zürich from 1645 to 1672, Bern 2007; Zurich New Year's Leaves, Zurich 1971, p. 3

Rarissimum. Fine economic calendar typical of the time.

Very rare. A few minor age spots to margins.

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