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Nachricht von einer neuen Thierpflanze, 1st edition, Hamburg: Herold, 1770, bound with, as issued: Epistola de novo quodam zoophytorum genere, 1st edition in Latin, Hamburg: widow of Herold, 1771, 2 works in 1 volume, 12 and 11 pp., engraved hand-coloured folding plate, first title page slightly soiled and with contemporary ink inscription 'No. 274', contemporary marbled paper wrappers, spine chipped, small section of loss to corner of front wrapper, 4to (28 x 21 cm), together with Winterschmidt (Adam Wolfgang), Beobachtung einer Stuben-M�ke mit sehr viel kleinen Insekten, Nuremberg: [Winterschmidt], 1765, woodcut title vignette, engraved hand-coloured plate, modern marbled paper wrappers, 4to (23.5 x 18.5 cm); Sch�rg (Franz), Abbildungen und Beschreibung eines eisernen Back-Ofen, 1st edition, Munich, 1844, 2 lithographic text leaves, 7 lithographic plates, original lithograph wrappers, spine worn, edges nicked in places, folio Nissen ZBI 458 for Bolten (erroneously dating the Latin edition to 1770; despite the different dates in the imprints the two texts were apparently issued together). Bolten's work is an account of what is now known as the phylum cnidaria, and the Latin translation is dedicated to Linnaeus. Winterschmidt's describes the housefly (Musca domestica). Two copies of Sch�rg's work traced in libraries (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and Sachsische Landesbibliothek). (3)