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465 - JONSTON, Jan. Description of the Nature of Four-Footed Animals [—fish and bloodless aquatic animals, —birds, —segmented or wriggling animals, snakes, and dragons] along with their images engraved in copper. Translated from the Latin by M. Grausius [...]. Amsterdam: J.J. Schipper, 1660. 4 parts in 1 vol., folio: [10, incl. engraved title page]–194, [8, incl. engraved title page]–179–[1]–56, 181, including engraved title page, [3], [8, including engraved title page]-152-39-[1] pp.; 250 plates (light marginal water stains in lower or upper corner; first quire and some text folios and plates in the first part and at the end of the last part loose or coming loose, plates in the first part bound out of order but complete, occasional spotting or staining, some small tears without loss). Contemporary vellum overleather, flat spine (rather soiled, corners slightly bumped). Complete set of the first Dutch translation (1st Latin 1657) of the encyclopedic study of animals known at the time by the Polish scholar and physician J. Jonston (1603–1675), who was descended from Scottish nobility and closely associated with the Polish magnate Leszczynski family. Illustrated with 4 engraved title pages and 250 plates depicting elephants, a unicorn, a rhinoceros, cats and dogs, frogs, whales, mermaids, falcons and other birds of prey, butterflies, beetles, seahorses, vipers, dragons, and dragon-like mythical creatures. Ref. Nissen (ZBI) 2136 (lists only 249 plates). - STCN.
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JONSTON, Jan. Description of the Nature of Four-Footed Animals [—fish and bloodless aquatic animals, —birds, —segmented or wriggling animals, snakes, and dragons] along with their images engraved in copper. Translated from the Latin by M. Grausius [...]. Amsterdam: J.J. Schipper, 1660. 4 parts in 1 vol., folio: [10, incl. engraved title page]–194, [8, incl. engraved title page]–179–[1]–56, 181, including engraved title page, [3], [8, including engraved title page]-152-39-[1] pp.; 250 plates (light marginal water stains in lower or upper corner; first quire and some text folios and plates in the first part and at the end of the last part loose or coming loose, plates in the first part bound out of order but complete, occasional spotting or staining, some small tears without loss). Contemporary vellum overleather, flat spine (rather soiled, corners slightly bumped). Complete set of the first Dutch translation (1st Latin 1657) of the encyclopedic study of animals known at the time by the Polish scholar and physician J. Jonston (1603–1675), who was descended from Scottish nobility and closely associated with the Polish magnate Leszczynski family. Illustrated with 4 engraved title pages and 250 plates depicting elephants, a unicorn, a rhinoceros, cats and dogs, frogs, whales, mermaids, falcons and other birds of prey, butterflies, beetles, seahorses, vipers, dragons, and dragon-like mythical creatures. Ref. Nissen (ZBI) 2136 (lists only 249 plates). - STCN.
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