41 - General - Happel, Eberhard Werner. The Greatest Curiosities of the World, or So-Called *Relationes Curiosae*. In which the most notable phenomena in physics, mathematics, historical, and other remarkable curiosities, which occur in our visible sky, on and beneath the earth, and in the sea... 5 volumes. With the continuation by Barthold Feind the Younger: *Relationes curiosae, or Curiosities of the World*... In 3 volumes. Total: 8 volumes. With a total of 205 (of 207) copperplate plates, some folded, 23 woodcut plates, 4 text copperplate plates, 2 folded tables, and several woodcut illustrations in the text. Hamburg, Wiering, 1683–1691, and Hamburg and Leipzig, Reumann, 1707–1709. 20.5 x 16 cm. Contemporary leather bindings with 2 spine labels and rich spine gilding (spine partially worn).

General - Happel, Eberhard Werner. The Greatest Curiosities of the World, or So-Called *Relationes Curiosae*. In which the most notable phenomena in physics, mathematics, historical, and other remarkable curiosities, which occur in our visible sky, on and beneath the earth, and in the sea... 5 volumes. With the continuation by Barthold Feind the Younger: *Relationes curiosae, or Curiosities of the World*... In 3 volumes. Total: 8 volumes. With a total of 205 (of 207) copperplate plates, some folded, 23 woodcut plates, 4 text copperplate plates, 2 folded tables, and several woodcut illustrations in the text. Hamburg, Wiering, 1683–1691, and Hamburg and Leipzig, Reumann, 1707–1709. 20.5 x 16 cm. Contemporary leather bindings with 2 spine labels and rich spine gilding (spine partially worn). First edition. - Bircher B 6841–45 (Happel) - Hayn-Gotendorf III, 79f. (Happel) and VI, 422 (Feind) - Seebaß I, 399 and III, 460. - Contains treatises in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, navigation, trade, crafts, alchemy, ethnology, zoology, and botany, etc. - “It is less a ‘journal,’ as is often claimed, than rather one of those Baroque anthologies of curiosities typical of the era … for later generations, they constituted an inexhaustible source of material …” (Dünnhaupt). - “The contents are still curious throughout, remarkable things from all over the world, presented in a sensational manner with many dreadful slaughters, executions, and so on. There is much material of importance for the history of culture, well described and richly illustrated with excellent copperplate engravings.” (Faber du Faur). - Two copperplate engravings are missing: one plate each in Volume 2 (33 of 34) and Volume 5 (42 of 43). Volumes 3 and 5 are each missing the subheading and preface to Part 2. - Gold-stamped coat of arms on the inside front cover; endpaper bears the owner’s inscription “Christian Thomsen.” - Slightly browned or foxed due to the paper, with occasional water stains; Volumes 1, 3, and 4 are slightly more trimmed, resulting in the loss of margins on 3 plates. 17 plates have been restored, 3 of which have image loss. - A beautiful set in decorative bindings. *