Bowyer Bible print 0108 Land of Gold and Bdellium. Genesis 2 v 12. Füssli engraved by Corvinus

by phillipmedhurst

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Bowyer Bible 8g. print 0108 Land of Gold and Bdellium. Genesis 2 v 12. Füssli engraved by Corvinus on Flickr.

A print from the Bowyer Bible, a grangerised copy of Macklin’s Bible in Bolton Museum and Archives, England.

https://archive.org/details/bowyer-bible-prints-creation-and-adam-and-eve

GENESIS IN THE BOWYER BIBLE. Robert Bowyer (1758-1834) expanded his own copy of the Macklin Bible to 45 volumes after acquiring and inserting over 6200 different prints of Biblical events. The Bowyer Bible is now housed in Bolton Museums and Archives. For a presentation of many of these prints see https://archive.org/details/bowyer-bible
where Philip De Vere has created flip-books from Phillip Medhurst’s collection of photos.

From Scheuchzer: “Physica Sacra”.

Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a physician by training, with a strong interest in natural history and paleontology. Born in Switzerland, the son of a physician, he studied at University in Germany and later returned to Zurich to take a professorship in Mathematics. Like many scientists of the day, he considered the Old Testament a factual account of the history of the earth. In his extensive travels he amassed one of the largest fossil collections of the 18th century. He hypothesized that all plants had perished in the flood described in the bible, and discovered what he believed to be the fossil of a human flood victim. In his masterpiece, “Physica Sacra”, he details his theory at length, using references to the 1611 King James Bible. The book was a sensation and was published simultaneously in Latin, German and French, each issue with exactly the same plates.

SCHEUCHZER, JOHANN JAKOB. “Kupfer-Bibel, in welcher die Physica Sacra, oder Beheiligte Natur-Wissenschaft derer in Heil. Schrifft vorkommenden Natürlichen Sachen, deutlich erklärt und bewährt.” 4 volumes Folio, 392 X 450 mm. Engraved frontispiece, 3 portraits, one of them a mezzotint, and 760 plates of natural history subjects and scenes from the Bible by various engravers including Corvinus, Sperling and Linz after designs by Johann Melchior Füssli. Each print measures 10 inches wide by 16 inches.