Paradis-Gaertlein voller Christlicher Tugenden. Solche durch and aechtige und trostreiche gebete, in die seele zu plfanzen
Nurnberg (Nuremburg): Peter Conr. Monath, 1739. Later Edition. Fine binding with heavily gilded and tooled fore edges and watercolor fore edge painting visible when closed from an unknown but likely early/contemporary artist. Illustrated with copper engravings and frontispiece depciting the author. Leather covers heavily gilded at borders. The spine has five raised bands with gilding between each band. Signature on first blank, top 1/3 of blank has been cut out, no other damage or alterations to pages. Paste downs and first and last "blank" are heavily designed and gilded pages depicting floral images. Johann Arndt, was a 16th and 17th century Lutheran theologian who wrote many influential works of which this is his most well known.
Pages: (50) 458 (22)
Dimensions: 5¾ x 3⅜ x 1⅛. Near Fine. Item #1739PGV-ARN-9-NF
Price: $1,000.00