COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Books Internet Archive
Record
Author:
Olearius, Adam, 1603-1671.
Author (contributor):
German Americana Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library)
Author (contributor):
Cormi, Ivana.
Author (contributor):
Solinus, Christian.
Title:
Gottorffische Kunst-Kammer, : worinnen allerhand ungemeine Sachen, so theils die Natur, theils künstliche Hände hervor gebracht und bereitet. Vor diesem aus allen vier Theilen der Welt zusammen getragen, und vor einigen Jahren beschrieben, auch mit behörigen Kupffern gezieret /
Publisher:
Auff Gottfriedt Schultzens Kosten 1674 In dessen Buchladen zu Schlesswig solche zu finden ist
Begin Publication Date:
1674
MMS Id (Alma identifier):
991030931309706966
Permanent Call Number:
J674 .O45g1
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 17-205
Subjects:
Friedrich--III,--Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf,--1597-1659--Art collections--Catalogs.
Subjects:
Friedrich--III,--Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf,--1597-1659--Natural history collections--Catalogs.
Subjects:
Art objects--Germany--Schleswig (Germany and Denmark)--Catalogs.
Subjects:
Natural history--Germany--Schleswig (Germany and Denmark)--Pre-Linnean works--Catalogs.
Subjects:
Natural history museums--Germany--Schleswig (Germany and Denmark)--Catalogs.
Subjects:
Ethnological museums and collections--Germany--Schleswig (Germany and Denmark)--Catalogs.
Subjects:
Imprint 1674.
General Note:
Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.; Date of publication printed before place of publication on title page.; First edition printed in Schleswig, 1666.; Another edition printed by Gottfriedt Schultze in Schleswig in the same year includes the addition of the Holsteinische Chronica and has title: Gottorffische Kunst-Kammer, worinnen allerhand ungemeine Sachen, so theils die Natur, theils künstliche Hände hervor gebracht und bereitet. Vor diesem aus allen vier Theilen der Welt zusammen getragen, und vor einigen Jahren beschrieben, auch mit behörigen Kupffern gezieret durch Adam Olearium, Weil. Bibliothecarium und Antiquarium auff der fürstl. Residentz Gottorff. Welchem zu Ende angefüget ist, des itzt-gedachten seel. Herrn Olearii Holsteinische Chronica.; Added, engraved title page reads: Gottorffische Kunst-Kammer, and has imprint: Schlesswig in Gottfriedt Schultzens Buchladen.; This is the augmented edition of the illustrated catalogue of the renown Wunderkammer of Friedrich II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, housed at Gottorp Castle. The Gottorffische Kunst-Kammer was authored by the collection's curator and librarian, the noted mathematician, geographer, diplomat and traveller Adam Olearius. It contained several objects from the New World, including a mannequin of a West Indian woman from Mexico, showing how she carried her children. She wore as ornaments the teeth and claws of wild animals in place of gold chains. She is pictured on plate no. II which is bound to face p. 2, 2nd count; also depicted are new world animals such as the iguana and armadillo (plate no VI and VII), a snake from Mexico (plate no. XI), and a penguin and toucan (plate no. XIII),; Signatures: a⁴ (a1 recto blank) b² A-K⁴; Added engraved t.p. included in 1st count.; Text printed in double columns.; Engraved head piece; initial.; Plates are numbered I-XXXVII; plate XXXII is bound to face p. 42.; Instruction to binder for insertion of plates printed on verso of title page.
Local Note:
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in later marbled paper covered boards.; John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.; Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Ivana Cormi (?): bookplate on rear pastedown.