Title
Binding, Amsterdam, Kircher-binder, c. 1671
Creator
Kircher-binder (boekbinder/bookbinder)
Year
[1671]
Type
boekband, binding
Related term
boekbanden, marokijn, goudstempeling
Period
17e eeuw
Classification
F: Bindkunst
Content
Gold-tooled bookbinding, dark-brown morocco. The boards are decorated with motifs such as birds in vine tendrils, curls and husks. The binding is attributed to an anonymous Amsterdam bookbinder, called `Kircher-binder', because he bound many books by Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), a German theologian who had a great part of his publications published in Amsterdam. The work of the Kircher-binder is strongly connected with that of the master bookbinder Albert Magnus, also active in Amsterdam.
Original
Kircherus, Athanasius. - Latium. Id est, Nova & parallela Latii tum veteris tum novi descriptio. - Amsterdam: J. Janssonium à Waesberge and haer. E. Weyerstraet, 1671
available in
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag 144 A 14
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Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek
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Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek