KNORR, Georg Wolfgang - Les délices des yeux et de l'esprit, ou Collection générale des différentes espèces de coquillages que la mer renferme, communiquee au public.
Description: 2 parts (of 6) in 1 vol., 4to: 52-[16] pp.; 31 pl.; 65 (= 56) pp.; 31 pl. (only some very min. browning towards the margins and a single damp stain). - The first two parts only of the first edition of this splendid work by Knorr (1705-1761), German palaeontologist, painter, engraver & art dealer. Illustrated with 2 beautiful engraved titles and 60 hand-coloured engraved pl. featuring all sorts of shells. At the end of each part a classification table made after Rumpf and Linnaeus. - Ref. Nissen (ZBI) 2235. - BnF. - COPAC. - Joined: Moquin-Tandon, A. [Pseud. Frédol, A.] - Le monde de la mer. Illustré de 21 planches sur acier tirées en couleur et de 200 vignettes sur bois dessinées par P. Lackerbauer. Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1865. 4to: vii-632 pp. (some spotting, one pl. missing). Contemp. quarter shagreen, blindst. aubergine buckram covers, spine with 4 raised bands (faded), a.e.g. Later edition (first 1863) by the French naturalist and doctor Moquin-Tandon (1804-1863). Ill. with 20 (of 21) chromolithographs. Ref. Nissen (ZBI) 2881 (mentions 21 plates: 1-22 and missing pl.19). - COPAC. - Not in Casey A. Wood. (2 vol.)
Artist Name: KNORR, Georg Wolfgang Circa: 1760-1765
Condition: Contemp. calf (corners rubbed), gilt orn. border on covers (sl. rubbed), gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands (joints splitting, bands rubbed, head and tail def.), marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Good copy.
Sale price
Estimate
Reserve
Time, Location
Auction House
Description: 2 parts (of 6) in 1 vol., 4to: 52-[16] pp.; 31 pl.; 65 (= 56) pp.; 31 pl. (only some very min. browning towards the margins and a single damp stain). - The first two parts only of the first edition of this splendid work by Knorr (1705-1761), German palaeontologist, painter, engraver & art dealer. Illustrated with 2 beautiful engraved titles and 60 hand-coloured engraved pl. featuring all sorts of shells. At the end of each part a classification table made after Rumpf and Linnaeus. - Ref. Nissen (ZBI) 2235. - BnF. - COPAC. - Joined: Moquin-Tandon, A. [Pseud. Frédol, A.] - Le monde de la mer. Illustré de 21 planches sur acier tirées en couleur et de 200 vignettes sur bois dessinées par P. Lackerbauer. Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1865. 4to: vii-632 pp. (some spotting, one pl. missing). Contemp. quarter shagreen, blindst. aubergine buckram covers, spine with 4 raised bands (faded), a.e.g. Later edition (first 1863) by the French naturalist and doctor Moquin-Tandon (1804-1863). Ill. with 20 (of 21) chromolithographs. Ref. Nissen (ZBI) 2881 (mentions 21 plates: 1-22 and missing pl.19). - COPAC. - Not in Casey A. Wood. (2 vol.)
Artist Name: KNORR, Georg Wolfgang Circa: 1760-1765
Condition: Contemp. calf (corners rubbed), gilt orn. border on covers (sl. rubbed), gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands (joints splitting, bands rubbed, head and tail def.), marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Good copy.
