D. Joannis Bartholomaei Adami Beringer ... Lithographia Wirceburgensis : ducentis lapidum figuratorum, a potiori, insectiformium, prodigiosis imaginibus exornata

Title Variants

Uniform: Lithographia Wirceburgensis

By

Beringer, Johann Bartholomäus Adam, 1667-1738
Beringer, Johann Bartholomäus Adam, 1667-1738
Puschner, Johann Georg,

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Francofurti et, Apud Tobiam Goebhardt, 1767

Edition

Editio secunda.

Notes

A publication based on the famous Würzburg Lügensteine hoax.

Originally published with title: Lithographiae Wirceburgensis ducentis lapidum figuratorum, a potiori insectiformium, prodigiosis imaginibus exornatae. (Wirceburgi : P.W. Fuggart, 1726).

"The 2nd ed. of the Lithographiae Wirceburgensis consisted of original sheets with a new title page. The sheets undoubtedly came from copies of the original ed. recalled from booksellers and the press by Beringer but not destroyed. The reissue of the work as a literary curiosity is often attributed to one of Beringer's sons."--DSB, v. 2, p. 16.

Numbers 79-80 are each repeated once in the pagination sequence, without repetition of text (leaf X1).

The unnumbered plate, apparently intended as a frontispiece, is signed: Puschner sc.

Engraved device on t.p., with motto "Pretiosior illis" and monogram [GE?].

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Signatures: pi2 A-2A² 2B² (-2B2).

Leaf pi2 is blank.

Nissen, C. Zool. Buchillustration, | Nr. 330

Subjects

Beringer, Johann Bartholomäus Adam, , d. 1740 , Early works to 1800 , Forgeries , Forgery of antiquities , Fossils , Germany , Natural history collections , Paleontology , Würzburg

BHL Collections

Unearthed! Smithsonian Libraries' Paleo Collection

Call Number

QE709 .B47 1767

Language

Latin

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.150131
OCLC: 3799089