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<dl><dd>Title is that on the title page of the first set of engravings in this collection of suites and single prints</dd>
<dd>Leaves have been numbered in ink 1-261, with a 6-leaf unnumbered sequence, the work of Joh. Christoph Weigel, inserted between 249 and 250. Engraved illustrated t.p. included in leaf count, as are additional t.p.s throughout. The leaves are further annotated in pencil with appropriate Wüthrich nos</dd>
<dd>Leaves [2]-[18] are views of, or of the vicinity of, Basel; leaf [19] has title: Novae regionum aliquot amaenissimarum delineationes / aeri incise per Mathaeum Merianum Basiliensem. Anno 1624. Peter Aubry Excudit, Argent. (i.e. Strasbourg). The plates, [19]-[43], are German city views, captioned in Latin with Latin and German maxims; leaves [44]-[55], ca. 1622, are captioned views of monthly activities, January-December; leaves [56]-[59] with Latin captions represent the four seasons (Basel, 1622); various views follow, of France, Germany, Switzerland including a series of 6 hunting scenes (Wüthrich 404-409); plate [143] reads: Novae quaedam ac paganae regiunculae circá acidulas Swalbacenses / delineatae per Antonium Miruleum ; in aes verò incise per Matthæ Merianum, 1620 (issued as a suite of 26 engravings); following a miscellany of landscape views, plates [187]-[198] are by Caspar Merian after drawings by "Chevalier de Ros"; Plate [200], captioned Scherzi d'amore, through [209] have Italian verses and are after O. Fialetti, followed by a similar but unassociated plate (by Weigel?), engraved "12" and entitled Verba dedit, with text in Latin and German, and a second, with Latin inscription and "Pet. Ouer ex."; [212]-[217] hunting scenes, Mathæus Merian Basiliensis fecit ... Peter Aubry excudit, with the earlier "et excudit Oppenheimj" somewhat scrubbed out</dd>
<dd>"Rerum a Clinio Arato ...", [218]-[227], battle scenes after Tempesta follow in several states; [228]-[231] depict the Good Samaritan; [232]-[249] are hunting scenes after Tempesta; "Allerhand Vorstellungen von Jagten, Joh. Christoph Weigel excudit, num. 237", 6 numbered leaves with 2 plates on each (but not included in the hand numbering of this collection); [250]-[261] are hunting scenes with Latin verses, the first plate reading: P. Aubry ex</dd>
<dd>Wüthrich, L.H. Das druckgraphische Werk</dd>
<dd>Nagler, G.K. Künstler-Lexicon</dd>
<dd>Hollstein's German engravings</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Roos, Johann Heinrich, 1631-1685; Tempesta, Antonio, 1555-1630; Mirou, Anton, fl. 1586-1661; Fialetti, Odoardo, 1573-1638; Hunting; Battles; Good Samaritan (Parable) in art</div>
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<dl><dd>Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650</dd>
<dd>Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650. Novae regionum aliquot amaenissimarum delineationes. 1624</dd>
<dd>Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650. Novae quaedam ac paganae regiunculae circa acidulas Swalbacenses</dd>
<dd>Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650. Scherzi d'amore</dd>
<dd>Weigel, Johann Christoph, 1661-1726. Allerhand Vorgestellung von Jagten</dd>
<dd>Merian, Caspar, 1627-1686</dd>
<dd>Aubry, Peter, 1596-1666</dd></dl></div>
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