Amsterdam, Antiquariaat Junk B.V. and Antiquariaat Schierenberg, 2024. Portfolio with text volume and a set of 60 loose plates. Folio (29.8 x 21.3 cm). Sixty sheets, with original pages from famous zoological works mounted [plus one double-sized, unnumbered; the others matted, and numbered 1-28, 29a, 29b [on one sheet], 30-60]. In the original cloth box (50.0 x 36.5 x 8.5 cm), together with an explanatory book (96 pp., printed softcover).

This work contains 60 original illustrated pages and plates from works by German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, American, and Swiss authors from the 15th to 19th centuries. With an introduction, and bibliographies of all authors. It is noteworthy that this is not a direct translation of the German edition. Some of the plates (and hence the explanatory text revised) were taken from different books than the German edition, more focussing on the English-speaking authors. In 1968, a German edition of just 100 copies was issued. Plans for an English edition were delayed. In 1990, Albi Rosenthal translated the work, and it was then edited and revised by Sandra Rahael. But publication was delayed once again. Finally, in 2024, Nissen's wish to present his work to the English-speaking world became a reality. Most of the early specimens were once part of the herbal collection of Dr. Karl Becher in Karlsbad. Only 90 copies instead of a scheduled 100 copies were produced. This edition is further expanded with a preface by the British malacologist and bio-historian S. Peter Dance. Two leaves are from incunabula ( Ortus Sanitatis), of which one is hand-coloured; two are post-incunabula; six are later 16th-century works. [The unnumbered double-sized plate has a mounted facsimile of the 6th-century codex published as the Wiener Dioskusides]. Authors include Pierre Belon, Hendrik Ruysch, Adam Lonitzer, Gaius Plinius Secundus, Conrad Gessner, Ulisse Aldrovandi, John Jonston, Francis Willughby, Eleazar Albin, George Edwards, August Johan Roesel von Rosenhof, Johann Michael Seligmann, George-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon, Thomas Pennant, William Frederic Martyn, Sir William Jardine, Georges Cuvier, John James Audubon, etc. In general, the quality of the plates is very good. A few plates show signs of age, including toning, foxing, or offsetting. Otherwise in mint condition. Many zoological groups are represented but there is an emphasis on reptiles, birds, and insects. Every copy is unique, each box contains different plates or pages taken from the same books. The images on the website represent an example only. For the full list of plates, please see the last four images on the left.