NICOLAI, JOHANNE. - BOPPENHAUSEN d. ældre.

Disquisitio de chirothecarum usu & abusu, in qua Varii ritus, varia jura, & symbola illarum fuse exhibentur, Lectu jucundissima & in bonum publicum edita.

Giessæ-Hassorum (Giessen), Impensis Henningi Mülleri, 1701. 12mo. Særdeles smukt samt. helldrbd. m. spejl. Fire oph. bd. på ryg, rig rygforgyldn. Permer m. forgyldte bordurer samt rig blindtrykt dekoration uden om det lyse spejl. Alle kanter af permer blindtrykte. Helt blåmarmoreret snit. Særdeles velholdt m. kun få brugsspor. Indvendig pæn og ren. Enkelte træskårne initialer. (24), 144 pp.

Beautiful Cambridge style binding with raised bands on back, blindtooled and gilt boards with light brown "mirror", marbled endpapers and blue marbled edges.
The so-called Cambridge style binding was very popular in England in the 18th century, and was considered the speciality of the bookbinders of Cambridge, -thus the name; however, this bookbinding-style was practised even earlier in Denmark, where it is called a "mirror-binding", due to the effect caused by the lighter coloured oblong, square centre-piece which is polished and sourrounded by blindtooling and darker coloured mottled calf, creating a mirror-like look. The English were probably inspired by this new Danish method of binding, which is the only important Danish contribution to the art of bookbinding, and annexed the style, giving it the international term for it.
This binding is an early example by the first and most important bookbinder in the history of the Cambridge style binding, the Danish J. Boppenhausen the elder. It is in exceptionally good condition.
The contents are by the German professor of antiquities in Tübingen, Johannes Nicolai (1665-1708), who wrote this curious and interesting work on different uses and abuses of the glove, considered legally, ritually etc. Among many other examples on the use af the glove, we are told how the heated iron-glove was used for punishing criminals. First and only edition. Brunet IV:61.

Order-nr.: 28300