BOSSCHE, Guilielmus van den ( ca 1756 - ca 1832). Historia medica, in qua libris IV. Animalium natura, et earum medica utilitas exacte & luculenter tractantur. Brussels: J. Mommart, 1639.
4o (186 x 150 mm). Woodcuts in text by Christoph Jegher. (Some pale browning, but generally clean and crisp.) 18th-century vellum, morocco lettering piece.
FIRST EDITION. A very fine series of woodcuts of animals decorates this book, cut by Christoph Jeghers, one of the best woodcutters of the Rubens school. RARE: only three copies have been sold in at least the last thirty years, according to American Book Prices Current, and none since 1987. See Wood, p.250 (lists an octavo edition).
BOSSCHE, Guilielmus van den ( ca 1756 - ca 1832). Historia medica, in qua libris IV. Animalium natura, et earum medica utilitas exacte & luculenter tractantur. Brussels: J. Mommart, 1639.
4o (186 x 150 mm). Woodcuts in text by Christoph Jegher. (Some pale browning, but generally clean and crisp.) 18th-century vellum, morocco lettering piece.
FIRST EDITION. A very fine series of woodcuts of animals decorates this book, cut by Christoph Jeghers, one of the best woodcutters of the Rubens school. RARE: only three copies have been sold in at least the last thirty years, according to American Book Prices Current, and none since 1987. See Wood, p.250 (lists an octavo edition).
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