Author: Johann Christoph Weigel (1661-1726)
Title: [Antique title page, 1737] Historia. Genealogia. Heraldica. Testes temporum et veritatis, published 1737 [?], 1 p.
Description: Allegorical frontispiece representing history and time with two putti. History holds a book in her hand, while Father Time is sitting in the foreground, looking at a genealogical tree drawn on a sheet of paper held by a putto. The other, in the right foreground, is playing with a helmet. Scattered in front of him other open books with heraldry images and coat of arms.Titled below: 'HISTORIA. GENEALOGIA. HERALDICA. / Testes temporum et veritatis'. Engraving on paper with margins, though plate mark not detectable; total: 198 x 122 mm; tiny tear on the left margin; traces of red ink on the sides, due to treatment of the book to which this plate was attached. In very good condition. In passepartout.

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