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Lot 184
VOSMAER, Arnout (1720-1799)
[Allgemeene natuurkundige en historische Beschryving des zeldzaamste en verwonderenswaardigste Schepsel in der Natuur]. Amsterdam: P. Meijer, 1766-1784.
Closed12 July 2023
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GBP 3,024
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VOSMAER, Arnout (1720-1799)
[Allgemeene natuurkundige en historische Beschryving des zeldzaamste en verwonderenswaardigste Schepsel in der Natuur]. Amsterdam: P. Meijer, 1766-1784.
Rare complete of this first edition of description of exotic animals by the director of the menagerie of William V, Prince of Orange, including extensive monographs on the orangutan and giraffe. William V actively imported animals from every continent for his museum at Voorburg; when the animals died, their remains became part of his natural history cabinet. Nissen ZBI 4294.
31 parts in one volume, quarto (270 x 210mm). 33 engraved plates coloured by a contemporary hand, one of the giraffe folding, complete with blanks, one part stitched [?as issued] and loosely inserted, together with a duplicate of one part on 2 short-tailed birds from the East Indies loosely inserted (this latter browned and spotted, the bound volume mainly clean and crisp with only light marginal spotting to 2 text leaves in part 7, plate in part 25 faintly creased and soiled, plates in part 1 and 23 with tiny insignificant ink spots, blank in pt 8 with short marginal tear, front free endpaper almost detached). Contemporary half calf, uncut (extremities lightly rubbed, covers lightly abraded). Provenance: J.G. Van Marle (20th-century ornithologist; bookplate).
[Allgemeene natuurkundige en historische Beschryving des zeldzaamste en verwonderenswaardigste Schepsel in der Natuur]. Amsterdam: P. Meijer, 1766-1784.
Rare complete of this first edition of description of exotic animals by the director of the menagerie of William V, Prince of Orange, including extensive monographs on the orangutan and giraffe. William V actively imported animals from every continent for his museum at Voorburg; when the animals died, their remains became part of his natural history cabinet. Nissen ZBI 4294.
31 parts in one volume, quarto (270 x 210mm). 33 engraved plates coloured by a contemporary hand, one of the giraffe folding, complete with blanks, one part stitched [?as issued] and loosely inserted, together with a duplicate of one part on 2 short-tailed birds from the East Indies loosely inserted (this latter browned and spotted, the bound volume mainly clean and crisp with only light marginal spotting to 2 text leaves in part 7, plate in part 25 faintly creased and soiled, plates in part 1 and 23 with tiny insignificant ink spots, blank in pt 8 with short marginal tear, front free endpaper almost detached). Contemporary half calf, uncut (extremities lightly rubbed, covers lightly abraded). Provenance: J.G. Van Marle (20th-century ornithologist; bookplate).
VOSMAER, Arnout (1720-1799)
[Allgemeene natuurkundige en historische Beschryving des zeldzaamste en verwonderenswaardigste Schepsel in der Natuur]. Amsterdam: P. Meijer, 1766-1784.
Rare complete of this first edition of description of exotic animals by the director of the menagerie of William V, Prince of Orange, including extensive monographs on the orangutan and giraffe. William V actively imported animals from every continent for his museum at Voorburg; when the animals died, their remains became part of his natural history cabinet. Nissen ZBI 4294.
31 parts in one volume, quarto (270 x 210mm). 33 engraved plates coloured by a contemporary hand, one of the giraffe folding, complete with blanks, one part stitched [?as issued] and loosely inserted, together with a duplicate of one part on 2 short-tailed birds from the East Indies loosely inserted (this latter browned and spotted, the bound volume mainly clean and crisp with only light marginal spotting to 2 text leaves in part 7, plate in part 25 faintly creased and soiled, plates in part 1 and 23 with tiny insignificant ink spots, blank in pt 8 with short marginal tear, front free endpaper almost detached). Contemporary half calf, uncut (extremities lightly rubbed, covers lightly abraded). Provenance: J.G. Van Marle (20th-century ornithologist; bookplate).
[Allgemeene natuurkundige en historische Beschryving des zeldzaamste en verwonderenswaardigste Schepsel in der Natuur]. Amsterdam: P. Meijer, 1766-1784.
Rare complete of this first edition of description of exotic animals by the director of the menagerie of William V, Prince of Orange, including extensive monographs on the orangutan and giraffe. William V actively imported animals from every continent for his museum at Voorburg; when the animals died, their remains became part of his natural history cabinet. Nissen ZBI 4294.
31 parts in one volume, quarto (270 x 210mm). 33 engraved plates coloured by a contemporary hand, one of the giraffe folding, complete with blanks, one part stitched [?as issued] and loosely inserted, together with a duplicate of one part on 2 short-tailed birds from the East Indies loosely inserted (this latter browned and spotted, the bound volume mainly clean and crisp with only light marginal spotting to 2 text leaves in part 7, plate in part 25 faintly creased and soiled, plates in part 1 and 23 with tiny insignificant ink spots, blank in pt 8 with short marginal tear, front free endpaper almost detached). Contemporary half calf, uncut (extremities lightly rubbed, covers lightly abraded). Provenance: J.G. Van Marle (20th-century ornithologist; bookplate).
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