LEDERMULLER, Martin Froben (1719-69). Mikroskopische Gemüths- und Augen-Ergötzung. [Nuremberg:]... LEDERMULLER, Martin Froben (1719-69). Mikroskopische Gemüths- und Augen-Ergötzung. [Nuremberg:] Gedruckt ben Christian de Launoy, 1760-61. Volumes I - II only (of 3), 4to (228 x 190mm). 2 engraved frontispieces including one of the dedicatee in vol. II, woodcut ornaments on titles, elaborate head-pieces and initials, 100 hand-coloured plates engraved by Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt after Martin Froben Ledermüller (a few plates with plate number cropped in the first vol., some supplied in manuscript, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary marbled boards, spines with black and blue morocco lettering-pieces, red edges (some wear to spines with loss to lettering-pieces, extremities rubbed). Provenance: old illegible signatures on front free endpapers; Leopold Epstein (modern stamps on front free endpapers); inconspicuous old stamps on titles. FIRST EDITION of "one of the most beautiful microscopical works issued during the XVIII. century" (Sotheran). The very scarce third part, published c. 1765, is often lacking. Please see the following lot. Blake S. 261; Graesse IV, 139; Hirsch III, pp.645-646; Nissen BBI 1156; Poggendorf I, 1403; Stafleu & Cowan 4288; Wellcome III, p.472; this work not in Brunet (1843). (2)
LEDERMULLER, Martin Froben (1719-69). Mikroskopische Gemüths- und Augen-Ergötzung. [Nuremberg:]... LEDERMULLER, Martin Froben (1719-69). Mikroskopische Gemüths- und Augen-Ergötzung. [Nuremberg:] Gedruckt ben Christian de Launoy, 1760-61. Volumes I - II only (of 3), 4to (228 x 190mm). 2 engraved frontispieces including one of the dedicatee in vol. II, woodcut ornaments on titles, elaborate head-pieces and initials, 100 hand-coloured plates engraved by Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt after Martin Froben Ledermüller (a few plates with plate number cropped in the first vol., some supplied in manuscript, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary marbled boards, spines with black and blue morocco lettering-pieces, red edges (some wear to spines with loss to lettering-pieces, extremities rubbed). Provenance: old illegible signatures on front free endpapers; Leopold Epstein (modern stamps on front free endpapers); inconspicuous old stamps on titles. FIRST EDITION of "one of the most beautiful microscopical works issued during the XVIII. century" (Sotheran). The very scarce third part, published c. 1765, is often lacking. Please see the following lot. Blake S. 261; Graesse IV, 139; Hirsch III, pp.645-646; Nissen BBI 1156; Poggendorf I, 1403; Stafleu & Cowan 4288; Wellcome III, p.472; this work not in Brunet (1843). (2)
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