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VALENTINI, MICHAEL BERNARD. Museum museorum, oder vollständige Schau-bühne aller Materialien und Specereyen, nebst deren natürlichen Beschreibung... Aus andern Material-Kunst- und Naturalien-Kammern, Oost- und West-Indischen Reiss-Beschreibungen... Z...

Auction 05.06.1997
05.06.1997
Schätzpreis
4.000 $ - 6.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
8.625 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 670

VALENTINI, MICHAEL BERNARD. Museum museorum, oder vollständige Schau-bühne aller Materialien und Specereyen, nebst deren natürlichen Beschreibung... Aus andern Material-Kunst- und Naturalien-Kammern, Oost- und West-Indischen Reiss-Beschreibungen... Z...

Auction 05.06.1997
05.06.1997
Schätzpreis
4.000 $ - 6.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
8.625 $
Beschreibung:

VALENTINI, MICHAEL BERNARD. Museum museorum, oder vollständige Schau-bühne aller Materialien und Specereyen, nebst deren natürlichen Beschreibung... Aus andern Material-Kunst- und Naturalien-Kammern, Oost- und West-Indischen Reiss-Beschreibungen... Zum Vorschub der Studierenden Jugend, Materialisten, Apothecker... Frankfurt: Johann David Zunners, 1714. 3 volumes (5 parts) in 2, folio, 375 x 232 mm., contemporary vellum, slightly rubbed, splitting to upper portion of joints of vol. I; few marginal tears, vol. II with some staining in upper margin and corner, a few plates affected, plate 38 becoming loose. FIRST COMPLETE EDITION, second issue of volume one (first issue 1704), 2 additional engraved titles, 95 engraved plates, (including 36 double-page), one full-page woodcut, approximately 290 engraved text illustrations (one woodcut), engraved and woodcut head- and tail- pieces. Alden 714/147; Eales 1259; Ferguson II pp. 493-95; Nissen BBI 2035 and ZBI 4217; Sabin 98357. An unusual encyclopedia of natural curiosities, describing and copiously illustrating the contents of the typical eighteenth-century cabinet. Part 1 treats plants, animals, minerals, metals, and related products, and includes numerous chapters on American plants; part 2 deals with stones, fossils, coins, tropical plants, shells, unicorns and other mythical creatures or monsters; and part 3 is devoted to physics and natural philosophy. Two appendices in vol. 1 contain a list of 159 museums ("Kunst- und Naturalien-Kammern") known to exist at the time, including a section on American and Asian museums, and separately titled compilation from Georg Eberhard Rumph on various Caribbean rarities, mostly botanical. Provenance : Hertel, bookplate; Kenneth K. Mackenzie; Horticultural Society of New York, bookplate. (2)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 670
Auktion:
Datum:
05.06.1997
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, East
Beschreibung:

VALENTINI, MICHAEL BERNARD. Museum museorum, oder vollständige Schau-bühne aller Materialien und Specereyen, nebst deren natürlichen Beschreibung... Aus andern Material-Kunst- und Naturalien-Kammern, Oost- und West-Indischen Reiss-Beschreibungen... Zum Vorschub der Studierenden Jugend, Materialisten, Apothecker... Frankfurt: Johann David Zunners, 1714. 3 volumes (5 parts) in 2, folio, 375 x 232 mm., contemporary vellum, slightly rubbed, splitting to upper portion of joints of vol. I; few marginal tears, vol. II with some staining in upper margin and corner, a few plates affected, plate 38 becoming loose. FIRST COMPLETE EDITION, second issue of volume one (first issue 1704), 2 additional engraved titles, 95 engraved plates, (including 36 double-page), one full-page woodcut, approximately 290 engraved text illustrations (one woodcut), engraved and woodcut head- and tail- pieces. Alden 714/147; Eales 1259; Ferguson II pp. 493-95; Nissen BBI 2035 and ZBI 4217; Sabin 98357. An unusual encyclopedia of natural curiosities, describing and copiously illustrating the contents of the typical eighteenth-century cabinet. Part 1 treats plants, animals, minerals, metals, and related products, and includes numerous chapters on American plants; part 2 deals with stones, fossils, coins, tropical plants, shells, unicorns and other mythical creatures or monsters; and part 3 is devoted to physics and natural philosophy. Two appendices in vol. 1 contain a list of 159 museums ("Kunst- und Naturalien-Kammern") known to exist at the time, including a section on American and Asian museums, and separately titled compilation from Georg Eberhard Rumph on various Caribbean rarities, mostly botanical. Provenance : Hertel, bookplate; Kenneth K. Mackenzie; Horticultural Society of New York, bookplate. (2)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 670
Auktion:
Datum:
05.06.1997
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, East
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