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347 - Knorr (Georg Wolfgang) Delices Physiques Choisies...pour en former un Cabinet Choisi de Curiositez Naturelles, [or Deliciae Naturae Selectae], 2 vol., first edition, titles in French and German, text also in both languages in double column, vol.1 with hand-coloured additional engraved vignette title (dated 1754), 91 fine hand-coloured plates, one folding, engraved vignette head-piece in vol.1, Smith-Dorrien family bookplate, contemporary mottled and diced calf, gilt, worn, vol.1 upper cover and endpapers detached, [Nissen ZBI 2227], folio, Nuremberg, 1766-67.
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Knorr (Georg Wolfgang) Delices Physiques Choisies...pour en former un Cabinet Choisi de Curiositez Naturelles, [or Deliciae Naturae Selectae], 2 vol., first edition, titles in French and German, text also in both languages in double column, vol.1 with hand-coloured additional engraved vignette title (dated 1754), 91 fine hand-coloured plates, one folding, engraved vignette head-piece in vol.1, Smith-Dorrien family bookplate, contemporary mottled and diced calf, gilt, worn, vol.1 upper cover and endpapers detached, [Nissen ZBI 2227], folio, Nuremberg, 1766-67. *** Containing beautiful illustrations from some of the foremost cabinets of curiosities in eighteenth-century Europe. Many of the examples are from the collection of Christoph Jacob Trew. Nissen calls for a portrait, although this hardly ever seems to present. Includes fine plates of corals (15), shells (7), butterflies (6), sea urchins (4), minerals (6), lobsters and spiders (7), starfish (4), fish (9), birds (7), mammals (14) and reptiles (12).
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