Das Geöffnete Antiquitäten-Zimmer.
Book Description
FEUSTKING, Friedrich Christian. Das Geöffnete Antiquitäten-Zimmer. Worinnen Kurtze Anleitung gegeben wird, wie man Inscriptionen, Statuen und andere Reliquien des Alterthums mit Nutz verstehen und betracheten soll. 186, [2]pp., one folding plate and numerous woodcuts in the text of inscriptions, monuments and alphabets. A very good clean copy bound in recent plain boards. Light marginal waterstain to the final few pages. Scarce.
12mo. Hamburg, Benjamin Schillern, 1704.
~ Second edition, first published in 1702, a pioneering handbook compiled by Feustking (1678-1739), and intended to aid archeologists in deciphering ancient inscriptions on classical antiquities from the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern worlds.
FirstSearch, BL (not noting the plate); Munchen; OCLC: Chicago, Cornell in USA.
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1704 guide for archaeologists in deciphering ancient inscriptions on classical antiquities
Date
1704
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