MAIER, Michael. Atalanta Fugiens, hoc est, Emblemata nova de secretis naturae chymica, accomodata partim oculis & intellectui, figuris cupro incisis, adjectisque sententiis, epigrammatis & notis, partim auribus & recreationi animi plus minus 50 fugis musicalibus Oppenheim: Hieronymus Galler for Johann Theodor de Bry, 1618.
4o (178 x 139 mm). Engraved title and 50 half-page emblematic engravings of chemical processes by Matthias Merian the elder. (Title cropped, some browning, some printed shoulder-notes shaved.) 18th-century calf gilt (rebacked, old spine laid down, rubbing to spine and edges). Provenance: some early marginalia; acquired from John Landwehr, 1973.
FIRST EDITION, second issue. See previous lot. Duveen p. 381; Ferguson II p. 62; McPhail 76; Wellcome 3980.
MAIER, Michael. Atalanta Fugiens, hoc est, Emblemata nova de secretis naturae chymica, accomodata partim oculis & intellectui, figuris cupro incisis, adjectisque sententiis, epigrammatis & notis, partim auribus & recreationi animi plus minus 50 fugis musicalibus Oppenheim: Hieronymus Galler for Johann Theodor de Bry, 1618.
4o (178 x 139 mm). Engraved title and 50 half-page emblematic engravings of chemical processes by Matthias Merian the elder. (Title cropped, some browning, some printed shoulder-notes shaved.) 18th-century calf gilt (rebacked, old spine laid down, rubbing to spine and edges). Provenance: some early marginalia; acquired from John Landwehr, 1973.
FIRST EDITION, second issue. See previous lot. Duveen p. 381; Ferguson II p. 62; McPhail 76; Wellcome 3980.
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