ZOOLOGY -Rösel
ZOOLOGY -Rösel
von Rosenhof,
August Johann.
Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium in qua omnes earum proprietates, praesertim quae ad generationem ipsarum pertinent, fusius enarrantur... The natural history of the frogs of the local country...with a preface by Mr. Albrecht von Haller. With gest. Title by M. Tyroff after Rösel, 24 col. Copper plates and suite of 24 not col. Copper plates (in repetition) from Heumann, Tyroff, Joninger and others as well as 8 (1 gr.) used
Text vignette from Heumann to Rösel and Tyroff after
Preissler.
Nuremberg, J.J. Fleischmann, 1758. Fol. Gest. col. Frontisp. [4] Letter, VIII, 115 p. Rest. Leather currently with gold-tooled spine label and fillets on lid (spine and corners expertly restored and completed, lid slightly warped, slightly rubbed, scratched and somewhat browned
).
Nissen ZBI 3464 - Junk Rara 162 f. - Graesse VI, 146 - Lundsgaard 661 - Steinke/Profos 323 (Haller) - Agassiz IV, 211 - First edition of this masterpiece of zoological book illustration and highly significant natural history of an amphibian species. The magnificent illustrations show the frogs, toads and toads known in Central Europe at that time with detailed natural history descriptions of their habitat, reproduction, development of the tadpoles and their organs. The extensive and detailed natural history descriptions in two-column Latin-German parallel text. The following are treated: 'The Brown Grass Frog', 'The Tree Frog', 'The Green Water Frog', 'The Garlic Smelling Toad with Brown Spots', 'The Leafy Toad with Red Eyes', 'The so-called Fire Toad, or the Little Toad with Fire-coloured Spots on the Lower Surface' and 'The Stinking Toad'. Each plate exists in double form, on the one hand extremely carefully coloured by hand, on the other hand as an outline etching with numbering and additions. - Very beautiful specimen of this herpetological main work of the famous Nuremberg zoologist and painter A. J. Rösel (1705-1759). Due to Rösel's early death, a follow-up work made at the same time with plates of lizards and salamanders could no longer be published - the plates are only occasionally slightly stained, the colouring fresh in preservation. The text plate somewhat foxed and slightly browned in places, title slightly creased, p. 111 with rest. Torn edge (approx. 3 cm). Inner joint reinforced in the course of the restoration of the binding. - Provenance: From the property of Karl Fritz (1859-1942) and Paul Benedict Sarasin (1856-1929) with blind-tooled stamp on endpaper "C. F. & P. B. B. Sarasin" - stamped "B. Klinkert" (?).
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ZOOLOGY -Rösel
von Rosenhof,
August Johann.
Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium in qua omnes earum proprietates, praesertim quae ad generationem ipsarum pertinent, fusius enarrantur... The natural history of the frogs of the local country...with a preface by Mr. Albrecht von Haller. With gest. Title by M. Tyroff after Rösel, 24 col. Copper plates and suite of 24 not col. Copper plates (in repetition) from Heumann, Tyroff, Joninger and others as well as 8 (1 gr.) used
Text vignette from Heumann to Rösel and Tyroff after
Preissler.
Nuremberg, J.J. Fleischmann, 1758. Fol. Gest. col. Frontisp. [4] Letter, VIII, 115 p. Rest. Leather currently with gold-tooled spine label and fillets on lid (spine and corners expertly restored and completed, lid slightly warped, slightly rubbed, scratched and somewhat browned
).
Nissen ZBI 3464 - Junk Rara 162 f. - Graesse VI, 146 - Lundsgaard 661 - Steinke/Profos 323 (Haller) - Agassiz IV, 211 - First edition of this masterpiece of zoological book illustration and highly significant natural history of an amphibian species. The magnificent illustrations show the frogs, toads and toads known in Central Europe at that time with detailed natural history descriptions of their habitat, reproduction, development of the tadpoles and their organs. The extensive and detailed natural history descriptions in two-column Latin-German parallel text. The following are treated: 'The Brown Grass Frog', 'The Tree Frog', 'The Green Water Frog', 'The Garlic Smelling Toad with Brown Spots', 'The Leafy Toad with Red Eyes', 'The so-called Fire Toad, or the Little Toad with Fire-coloured Spots on the Lower Surface' and 'The Stinking Toad'. Each plate exists in double form, on the one hand extremely carefully coloured by hand, on the other hand as an outline etching with numbering and additions. - Very beautiful specimen of this herpetological main work of the famous Nuremberg zoologist and painter A. J. Rösel (1705-1759). Due to Rösel's early death, a follow-up work made at the same time with plates of lizards and salamanders could no longer be published - the plates are only occasionally slightly stained, the colouring fresh in preservation. The text plate somewhat foxed and slightly browned in places, title slightly creased, p. 111 with rest. Torn edge (approx. 3 cm). Inner joint reinforced in the course of the restoration of the binding. - Provenance: From the property of Karl Fritz (1859-1942) and Paul Benedict Sarasin (1856-1929) with blind-tooled stamp on endpaper "C. F. & P. B. B. Sarasin" - stamped "B. Klinkert" (?).
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