A lobster-lovers dream

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. [Écrivisses - crustaceans].

Published 1766
Item ID 67520
€1,500.00

excl. VAT

Nuremberg, les héritiers de feu G. W. Knorr, 1779. Folio (54.5 x 38.0 cm). 22 text pages; seven very beautiful hand-coloured engraved plates, numbered F, F.I-F.VI.

Plates of the section écrivisses et autres insectes aptères (crabs, lobsters, shrimps, arachnids) of the rare first edition of the large format French printing of Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae oder auserlesenes Naturaliencabinet.... It is a rare, truly great and sumptuously illustrated German natural history book from the 'Golden Age' of southern German printing. The plates were drawn and engraved by Christian Leinberger, C. N. Kleemann, and Knorr himself. They are much larger than in Knorr's other works. All plates clean and brightly coloured. The descriptive text is complete. Nissen ZBI, 2227.

Very flexible return policy
Secure payments by Adyen
Sent in 2 business days with Track & Trace
We are members of ILAB-LILA and NVvA

Recently Viewed

Advanced Search