(Buchinger, Matthias) | Buchinger as he looked in Stuttgart

(Buchinger, Matthias)
Engraved portrait of Buchinger by Brühl

Engraved frontispiece portrait of Buchinger on a bifolium (171 x 215 mm) with the letterpress title-page to a section of vol. 2 of Eberhard David Hauber's Bibliotheca, Acta et Scripta Magica (Lemgo: Joh. Heinrich Meyer, 1740); some separation, with minor loss, at central fold.

Buchinger is shown standing next to a desk, with a rifle leaning against it. "Beneath the image is the familiar facsimile of Buchinger's writing, in conventional, upside-down, and mirror calligraphy, here dated Stuttgart 1709. Although Buchinger's inscription tells us that a separately published print must exist, I have never seen or heard of one" (MB, p. 12).

REFERENCE:
Exemplars , p. 73; MB, fig. 4; Wordplay 74

Condition Report:
Condition as described in catalogue entry.

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