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Broadside Türkischer Jamerspiegel, oder Buss sporren / C. Meyer fecit Meyer, Conrad [1618-1689]; Simler, Johann Wilhelm [1605-1672]; Burgerbibliothek Zürich, 1664. Flush ...

Broadsheet, Ode to the City Library in the Wasserkirche in Zurich Venator, Balthasar [1594-1664]; Simler, Johann Wilhelm [1605-1672]; H. Balthasar Venator's verteutschtes Ehren...

Johannes Meyer (1655–1712) Abriss der Kunst-Kammer auf der Wasser Kirchen In Zürich [Neujahrsblatt, hrsg. von der Stadtbibliothek in Zürich] Broadside issued on New Year’s Days 1688. Measures: 29.3 x 31 cm The Zurich library (Bürger Bibliothek) was first opened to the public on New Year's Day, 1634. The miscellaneous items in the collection had not yet been separated from the books and in 1667 was a given a stand-alone chamber with all types of art, globes and natural specimens set up in the upper story. The latter contained an encyclopaedic collection of artefacts, some of which can still be seen (coins, portraits, zoological, mineral, archaeological specimens, in addition to maps, scientific instruments and even furniture). This new institution was housed in the Wasserkirche, which was deconsecrated after the Reformation...

Johannes Meyer (1655–1712) Physica. Natur=Wussenschaft [Neujahrsblatt, hrsg. von der Stadtbibliothek in Zürich] Broadside issued on New Year’s Days 1697. Measures: 29 x 3...

Broadsheet Memento Mori. Ein jeder ist dem Tod verpflicht, Wann, Wie und Wo, das weiss er nicht. (A Putto sleeping on a scull). Underneath a rime in two columns of 4 lines each. Einer Tugend liebenden Jugend in Zürich ab der Burgerbibliothec für das 1668 Jahr Verehrt. Etching. 1668 Reference: Hollst. XXVII, 323b. Engraved surface 16.6 x 22.5 cm flush mounted on paper (17th Century). This allegory on death as sleep, etched by Conrad Meyer, was published by the Burgerlibrary as present for the youth of Zurich on the occasion of the New Year of 1668. In the background a view of Zurich and the river Limmat. In the river are the letters NB, also repeated in the lower right of the image, with the date 5...