Details

Subject(s)

• Polyglot glossaries, phrase books, etc—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Picture dictionaries, German—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Picture dictionaries, Polyglot—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Mnemonics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Publisher

• Engelbrecht, Martin, 1684-1756 [Browse]

Former owner

• Harer, Pamela K. [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Engravings—Germany—18th century [Browse]

Notes

• Tentative dated from Engelbrecht peepshows.
• "Cum privileg: sacra Caes: Maj." --Title page.
• Hand-colored picture dictionary comprising 100 engraved plates with nine images on each plate, with corresponding German, Latin, French and Italian terms below each image.
• The plates are organized by nouns by Latin declination, adjectives grouped by termination, verbs by conjugation, and concluding with irregular verbs and anomalies.
• The layout of the plates--grids of images similar to a lottery sheet--is similar in concept to Louis Couvay's Methodus novus et accurata docendi (also in Cotsen collection).
• Cotsen copy: Gift of Pamela K. Harer.

Binding note

Crimson-stained ribbed calf, gilt spine with spine label "Gavinete," hand-colored floral-patterned endpapers.

Place name(s)

Germany Augsberg

Other title(s)

Bilder-Cabinet

OCLC

177783808

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