ZAPF , Georg Wilhelm (1747-1810). Reisen in einige Klöster Schwabens, durch den Schwarzwald und die Schweiz im Jahre 1781. Worinn von Bibliotheken, Alterthümern, Geschichte und vom Zustand der Litteratur überhaupt Nachricht gegeben wird. Erlangen: Johann Jakob Palm, 1786. 4 o (242 x 202 mm). 13 engraved folding plates. Contemporary half calf, spine with red and green morocco lettering piece (light rubbing to egges). Provenance : Augsburg, City Library ("Eigentum der Stadt Augsburg" early ink stamp on title and verso of last plate). FIRST EDITION. This travel account to the south western region of Germany and its "libraries, antiquities, history and literature" (title) shows what "kind of treasure can be found in Swabia" (preface) and includes remarkable excepts of catalogues of Libraries in Weingarten, Salmannsweil, St. Blasien, Rheinau, Lindau and Weissenau. Zapf was one of the foremost 18th-century bibliographers and an authority on incunabula.
ZAPF , Georg Wilhelm (1747-1810). Reisen in einige Klöster Schwabens, durch den Schwarzwald und die Schweiz im Jahre 1781. Worinn von Bibliotheken, Alterthümern, Geschichte und vom Zustand der Litteratur überhaupt Nachricht gegeben wird. Erlangen: Johann Jakob Palm, 1786. 4 o (242 x 202 mm). 13 engraved folding plates. Contemporary half calf, spine with red and green morocco lettering piece (light rubbing to egges). Provenance : Augsburg, City Library ("Eigentum der Stadt Augsburg" early ink stamp on title and verso of last plate). FIRST EDITION. This travel account to the south western region of Germany and its "libraries, antiquities, history and literature" (title) shows what "kind of treasure can be found in Swabia" (preface) and includes remarkable excepts of catalogues of Libraries in Weingarten, Salmannsweil, St. Blasien, Rheinau, Lindau and Weissenau. Zapf was one of the foremost 18th-century bibliographers and an authority on incunabula.
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