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. [Falcon]
[Nuremberg, les héritiers de feu G. W. Knorr, 1767]. Folio (54.5 x 38.0 cm). One very beautiful hand-coloured engraved plate.
This is the splendid falconry plate of the rare first edition of Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae oder auserlesenes Naturaliencabinet..., printed on very large paper for the French market. It is a rare, truly great and sumptuously illustrated German natural history book from the 'Golden Age' of southern German printing. The plate, numbered I.3, was drawn by B. R. Dietzschin, and engraved by J. A. Eisemann. Dietzschin probably was also the colourist. This plate is much larger than those in Knorr's other works. Clean and brightly coloured. Horn-Schenkling, 12038; Nissen ZBI, 2227.