KLAUBER, Joseph Sebastian & Johann Baptist. Historiae Bi - Lot 191

KLAUBER, Joseph Sebastian & Johann Baptist. Historiae Biblicae veteris et novi testamenti, for the young to facilitate learning, for the elderly to refresh their memory, and for preachers of the Divine Word to stimulate [...] curiosity, presented in one hundred fruitful plates. A superb engraver’s book presenting the biblical history of the Old and New Testaments in 100 Baroque plates. Augsburg, Klauber, 1757. In-4 obl., soft brown leather binding, ribbed spine, brown sheepskin title label, red-speckled edges. 1 title page and 100 engraved plates, numbered and captioned. Binding rubbed, small tear at the upper hinge, foxing on a few plates, paper slightly browned on some. A beautiful series of 100 Baroque plates engraved with a burin by the Klauber brothers after those of Johann Adam Stockmann. Title printed in black and red in two columns: Latin and German. Each plate bears a caption in Latin. Ex-libris stamped “Marcos y Francisco Virals de Madrid.” Plates with deep black tones, in good condition, in a flexible contemporary binding.