La vie de Samson [graphic] : le genie de la peinture prefere l'histoire sainte à la profane qui paroist à l'opposite pour donner au public la vie de Samson, suget de l'Ancien Testament ...

[Augsburg] : [Krauss], [ca. 1700]

1 item 20 x 31 cm

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Germany -- Augsburg, -- publication place.

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From dealer's description: "19. KRAUS, Johanna Sibylla. Simsonischer Lebens-Laüff [sic]. Wundervoller Lebens-Laüff Glor-würdiger ünd Preiß-würdiger Thaten-haüff… Vita Samsonis… La vie de Samson ... Augsburg: Johann Ulrich Kraus, [ca. 1700?]. Oblong 4to. [30.5 x 19.5 cm], with plates 16.7 x 13.6 cm. Engraved title-page, (2) pp of letterpress, 39 numbered plates. Rebound in modern half vellum, with earlier bookplate of Clément Wenceslaus, Comte de Renesse-Breidbach (1776-1833) transferred to pastedown (his sale, 1835, Lot # 635). Lengthy acquisition note on upper margin of title: “Dieses Buch habe ich gekauft Annot 1784 den 30 [????]… Carl von Mohren Land…” [an Ethiopian??]. Sole edition of this delightful suite narrating – in three different languages – the violent life of the Biblical superhero Samson. Johanna Sibylla Kraus (1650-1717) here gives a full authorial statement on the title-page (“Johanna Sibylla Krausin eine geborne Küslen sculpsit” and signs many of the plates with her initials, “J. S. K. fe[cit].” The designs are mainly reduced copies of the painter-engraver François Verdier’s 1698 suite, here co-opted by the enterprising husband-and-wife team of J. U. and J. S. Kraus, and evidently produced for the trilingual export market. OCLC shows US copies at Yale, Duke (Jantz Collection), and Harvard." Ordered from Editio Altera, D9634, 2023-05-01, Cat. "The New York Antiquarian Book Fair, 2023", item #19

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