A top-of-the-bill plate from Knorr's famous Deliciae Naturae

Knorr, G.

Delices de la nature ou choix de tout ce que les trois regnes de la nature renferment de plus digne des recherches d'un curieux, pour en former un cabinet ouvrage communiqué ci-devant au public par Georg Wolfgang Knorr célébre graveur de Nuremberg continué par ses héritiers avec les descriptions et remarques de Philippe louis Statius Müller ... revû, corrigé et augmenté d'une préface par Mr. Jean Ernest Emanuel Walch ... traduit de l'allemand par Jaques Frederic Isenflamm. [bird bills].

Published 1767
Item ID 72723
€450.00

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[Nuremberg, les héritiers de feu G. W. Knorr, 1767]. Large folio (54.6 x 37.5 cm). One very beautiful hand-coloured engraved plate.

This is the splendid plate of peculiar large bird bills, from species belonging to the tropical African-Asian hornbill family (Bucerotidae). This plate is of the rare first edition of the large format French printing of Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae oder auserlesenes Naturaliencabinet.... Knorr's Deliciae is a rare, truly great and sumptuously illustrated German natural history book from the 'Golden Age' of southern German printing. The plate, numbered I.4, was drawn and engraved by Johann Ludwig Colve (1750-1799), and engraved by Johann Sebastian Leitner (1715-1795), after specimens in the ‘Museum Breyniano’ [i.e., the collection of the Dresden physician Johann Philipp Breyn (1680-1764); see Dijkstra]. This plate is much larger than those in Knorr's other works. Clean and brightly coloured. Minimal fraying to the - uncut - edges, one very small, marginal spot, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Dijkstra (2014), A Collation of the Three Editions of Georg Wolfgang Knorr’s Conchological Work “Vergnügen” (1757-1775); Horn-Schenkling, 12038; Nissen ZBI, 2227.

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