Wilhelm Gumppenberg (1609-1675)

MARIANISCHER ATLASS VON ANFANG VND URSPRUNG ZWÖLFHUNDERT WUNDERTHÄTIGER MARIA-BILDER (VOL. 1 AND 2)

Munich, 1673
Format 16°, 15x8.8 cm. 578 (Erster Theil) and 355 (Ander Theil) numbered pages, in German, translated from the Latin by R. P. Maximilian Wartenberg. Copper-engraved frontispieces. Title pages printed in black. Solid full-leather binding (both volumes bound together) with clasps (1 missing). Published by Johann Herman von Gelder in Munich in 1673. Binding slightly loosened at the beginning and end of the book, worn on the outside, spine torn at the lower part, book block complete, leaves damaged by damp and in places also by woodworm. Condition corresponding to the age. The first two volumes (of a total of four) of the monumental Baroque encyclopedic work by the Bavarian Jesuit and theologian Wilhelm Gumppenberg. The German translation of his expanded Latin treatise Atlas Marianus (published in Latin in 1672) was made by his fellow Jesuit Maximilian Wartenberg. The book catalogues and describes in detail the history, origin and miracles of a total of 1200 miraculous Marian images and statues (Gnadenbilder) from across the then-Christian world.