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Item #GRM0070 Historiæ naturalis De exanguibus aquaticis libri iv. Cum figuris Æneis. Joannes...

Jonston, John; Hendrik Ruysch

Historiæ naturalis De exanguibus aquaticis libri iv. Cum figuris Æneis. Joannes Jonstonus Med. D. concinnavit WITH Theatri universalis animalium pars quarta sive historiæ naturalis de exanguibus aquaticis libri iv. Cum Enumeratione Morborum quibus Medicamina ed his Animalibus petuntur, ac Notitia Animalium, ex quibus vicissim Remedia præstantissima possunt capi, cura Henrici Ruysch, M.D.

[Historiæ naturalis]: Amsterdam: Johannis Jacobi Schipperi, 1657. [Theatri universalis animalium]: Amsterdam: R. & G. Wetstenios, 1718.Historiæ naturalis: folio in 4s (14 13/16” x 9 ¼”, 375mm x 236mm): a–f4 g6 [$3 signed; +g4; e2 signed “d2”]. 30 leaves, pp. 1–2 3–58 [2] (index, instructions for the binder). With an engraved vignette.....

Price: $5,125

Item #GRM0069 Testacea musei cæsarei vindobonensis, quæ jussu Mariæ Theresiæ Augustæ...

Born, Ignaz Edler von

Testacea musei cæsarei vindobonensis, quæ jussu Mariæ Theresiæ Augustæ disposuit et descripsit Ignatius a Born, equ. S. Cæs. Reg. Apost. Majest. In re monetaria et metallica a consiliis aulicis. Academ. Scient. Imp. Nat. Curios. Petropolit. Londinens. Holmens. Göttingens. Tolosan. Upsaliens. Sienens. Manacensis &c. Sodalis

Vienna: Joannis Pauli Kraus, 1780. Second edition, expanded. Folio (17 9/16” x 10 13/16”, 446 x 275mm): binder’s blank, *2 **–9*2 A–Zzzzz2, binder’s blank [$2 signed; –**1, *****1]. 248 leaves, pp. i–vii viii–xxxvi 1 2–442 [18] (17pp. index, blank). With an engraved vignette, numerous in-text engravings, and 18 engraved plates.....

Price: $15,290

Item #GRM0031 Les delices des yeux et de l’espirit, ou collection generale des differentes...

Knorr, George Wolfgang

Les delices des yeux et de l’espirit, ou collection generale des differentes especes de coquillages que la mers renferme, communiquee au public par George Wolffgang Knorr.

Six volumes bound in two. Nuremberg: by the author, 1764 [-1765, -1768, -1770, -1771, -1773]. First edition in French. Quarto (10 1/16” x 7 ¾”, 255mm x 197mm): Vol. I: 2 binder’s blanks, π2 a–c4 A4 (–A1, A2) B–F4 G2, 2A–G4 2a–b4, 3A–G4, 2 binder’s blanks [$3 signed, –2A1, 2A2, 3A1.....

Price: $21,000

Item #6JLR0028 Thesaurus Cochlearum, Concharum, Conchyliarum et Mineralium (Thesaurus imaginum...

Rumpf, Georg Eberhard

Thesaurus Cochlearum, Concharum, Conchyliarum et Mineralium (Thesaurus imaginum Piscium Testaceorum…)

THE HENRY CAVENDISH COPY Leiden: Apud Petrum vander Aa, 1711. First Latin edition. Folio (15 7/8” x 10”, 403mm x 254mm): binder’s blank, *2 A-C2; plates “foliated” a-ooo1; ppp-qqq2, binder’s blank [$2 signed; –A1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and an engraved title; engraved headpieces to *2r and to.....

Price: $15,000

Item #6JLR0027 Les Delices des yeux et de l’esprit, ou Collection Generale des differentes...

Knorr, George Wolfgang

Les Delices des yeux et de l’esprit, ou Collection Generale des differentes especes de Coquillages que la mer renferme, communiquee Au Public

EXTRA-ILLUSTRATEDTHE CHAUNCY-GRAY COPY Six parts in three volumes. Nuremberg: [No publisher], 1764 (but see below)–1773. First French edition. With 201 instead of the called-for 196 hand-colored engraved plates. Quarto: (10” x 7 ¾”, 253mm x 194mm). Vol. I: two binder’s blanks, A-F4 G2, 2A-G4, binder’s blank [$3 signed; –A1.....

Price: $22,000