Jacob Petiver - Opera, 1767


272
Jacob Petiver
Opera, 1767
Estimate:
€ 3,500 / $ 4,025
Sold:
€ 11,400 / $ 13,109

(incl. surcharge)
272
Jacob Petiver
Opera, 1767
Estimate:
€ 3,500 / $ 4,025
Sold:
€ 11,400 / $ 13,109

(incl. surcharge)
 

Petiver, J., Opera, historiam naturalem spectantia: Containing several thousand figures of birds, beasts, fish, reptiles, insects, shells, corals, and fossils ... To which are now added seventeen curious tracts ... The additions corrected by the late J. Empson. 2 Tle. in 1 Bd. Mit 1 ganzseit. gest. Widmung und 291 (26 kol.) Kupfertafeln und 13 Kupfertafeln mit Text. London, J. Millan 1767. Neuer HLdr. mit 2 alten RSch. Folio.
Agassiz IV, 98, 1. - Freeman 2980. - Henrey 1225. - Vgl. Pritzel 7089, De Belder 275 und Wood S. 517 (EA 1764). - Zweite Ausgabe der posthum erstellten Sammlung von Schriften des britischen Botanikers und Entomologen Petiver (1658-1718). - "The most remarkable natural history collection of his time. The Gazophylacii illustrates several thousand botanical and zoological specimes from Petivier's cabinet. Besides their botanical significance, these publications are crucial in their fields of conchology and entomology" (De Belder zur EA). Die vorlieg. zweite Ausgabe mit zahlr. kl. Traktaten ergänzt (Kollation: 2 Bll., 12, 12, 10, 4, 30 S.; 1 Bl., 4 S., 1 Bl., 3 S., 1, 2 Bll., 3 S., 1 Bl., 4, 12 S., 1 Bl., 12, 4 S., 11 gefalt. Bll., 2 Bll., 1 Bl.). - Etw. gebräunt und stockfl., Titel mit kl. ergänzten Eckabschnitt. - 2 Exlibris (1 gest. Wappen-Exlibris von Joseph Cobres).
Second edition of this posthumous collection of Petiver's works. With 1 full-page engr. dedication and 291 (26 col.) copperplates. New half calf with 2 contemp. labels. - Slightly browned and foxed, title with marginal cutout (rebacked). - 2 ex-libris (1 engr. armorial ex-libris of Joseph Cobres).






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