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KNORR, Georg Wolfgang (1705-1761) Recueil des monumens des c...

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KNORR, Georg Wolfgang (1705-1761) Recueil des monumens des c...

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5.000 £ - 8.000 £
ca. 7.492 $ - 11.987 $
Zuschlagspreis:
8.750 £
ca. 13.111 $
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KNORR, Georg Wolfgang (1705-1761). Recueil des monumens des catastrophes que le globe terrestre a éssuiés, contenant des pétrifications dessinées, gravées et enluminées d'apres les originaux …. avec I'histoire naturelle de ces corps par Mr. Jean Ernest Emanuel Walch . Nuremberg: [Heirs of G.W. Knorr], 1777 [-1768] – 1775 – 1778.
KNORR, Georg Wolfgang (1705-1761). Recueil des monumens des catastrophes que le globe terrestre a éssuiés, contenant des pétrifications dessinées, gravées et enluminées d'apres les originaux …. avec I'histoire naturelle de ces corps par Mr. Jean Ernest Emanuel Walch . Nuremberg: [Heirs of G.W. Knorr], 1777 [-1768] – 1775 – 1778. 4 volumes bound in 5, 2° (420 x 262mm, vol. V 428 x 257mm). 2 portraits, one engraved portrait of Knorr by I.A. Schweikart after J.E. Ihle and one aquatint portrait of Walch by A. Vind after J. Elias Haid, hand-coloured double-page engraved plate of a marble quarry in Solnhofen, Bavaria, and 272 coloured-printed or hand-coloured plates, of which 8 double-page, 4 plates of titles engraved in German. (Titles and margins of text lightly spotted, marginal small ink spots in vols. II & V, first plate in vol. IV lightly spotted, final plate with marginal soiling.) Volumes I-IV in 20th-century half morocco, volume V contemporary calf (worn, covers detached). Provenance : purchased by the Royal Institution on 1 July 1806 for £6 16s 6d from Hardy's (lot 820). FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of a rare work on fossils, continued after Knorr's death by his heirs and J.E.I. Walch, a scholar from Jena. ‘The extraordinary quality of the plates, representing the eighteenth-century continuation of the tradition of Dürer, led to the expansion of the work by Walch, as well as to French and Dutch editions. It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that the beauty of some of Knorr’s illustrations exceeds that of their models and that in all cases the artist’s eye has transformed neutral, natural objects into permanent, formal aspects of humanism. The detail and accuracy of Knorr’s engravings not only made possible zoological classification but firmly established the distinction between fossils of organic origin and sports of nature’ (DSB). The plates are celebrated for being printed in multiple colours, and then finished by hand. With the final fourth volume which does not contain any plates. DSB VII, 411ff; Nissen ZBI 2232; cf. Wellcome III, 405.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 251
Auktion:
Datum:
01.12.2015
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London
Beschreibung:

KNORR, Georg Wolfgang (1705-1761). Recueil des monumens des catastrophes que le globe terrestre a éssuiés, contenant des pétrifications dessinées, gravées et enluminées d'apres les originaux …. avec I'histoire naturelle de ces corps par Mr. Jean Ernest Emanuel Walch . Nuremberg: [Heirs of G.W. Knorr], 1777 [-1768] – 1775 – 1778.
KNORR, Georg Wolfgang (1705-1761). Recueil des monumens des catastrophes que le globe terrestre a éssuiés, contenant des pétrifications dessinées, gravées et enluminées d'apres les originaux …. avec I'histoire naturelle de ces corps par Mr. Jean Ernest Emanuel Walch . Nuremberg: [Heirs of G.W. Knorr], 1777 [-1768] – 1775 – 1778. 4 volumes bound in 5, 2° (420 x 262mm, vol. V 428 x 257mm). 2 portraits, one engraved portrait of Knorr by I.A. Schweikart after J.E. Ihle and one aquatint portrait of Walch by A. Vind after J. Elias Haid, hand-coloured double-page engraved plate of a marble quarry in Solnhofen, Bavaria, and 272 coloured-printed or hand-coloured plates, of which 8 double-page, 4 plates of titles engraved in German. (Titles and margins of text lightly spotted, marginal small ink spots in vols. II & V, first plate in vol. IV lightly spotted, final plate with marginal soiling.) Volumes I-IV in 20th-century half morocco, volume V contemporary calf (worn, covers detached). Provenance : purchased by the Royal Institution on 1 July 1806 for £6 16s 6d from Hardy's (lot 820). FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of a rare work on fossils, continued after Knorr's death by his heirs and J.E.I. Walch, a scholar from Jena. ‘The extraordinary quality of the plates, representing the eighteenth-century continuation of the tradition of Dürer, led to the expansion of the work by Walch, as well as to French and Dutch editions. It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that the beauty of some of Knorr’s illustrations exceeds that of their models and that in all cases the artist’s eye has transformed neutral, natural objects into permanent, formal aspects of humanism. The detail and accuracy of Knorr’s engravings not only made possible zoological classification but firmly established the distinction between fossils of organic origin and sports of nature’ (DSB). The plates are celebrated for being printed in multiple colours, and then finished by hand. With the final fourth volume which does not contain any plates. DSB VII, 411ff; Nissen ZBI 2232; cf. Wellcome III, 405.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 251
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Datum:
01.12.2015
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Christie's
London
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