Sale: 366 / Rare Books including Marine Art, May 17./18. 2010 in Hamburg Lot 324

 
Johann Christoph Volckamer - Flora Noribergensis, 1700


324
Johann Christoph Volckamer
Flora Noribergensis, 1700
Estimate:
€ 1,500 / $ 1,620
Sold:
€ 1,440 / $ 1,555

(incl. surcharge)
Volckamer, J. G., Flora Noribergensis sive catalogus plantarum in agro Noribergensi. With 25 copperplates . Nuremberg, Knorz for Michaelli 1700. Contemp. vellum. 4to. 11 ll., 407 (recte 437) pp., 1 l.

Nissen 2079. - Pritzel 9850. - Hirsch/Hüb. V, 796. - First edition. - Rare book on the flora of the Nuremberg region, in form of an alphabetic lexicon. The younger Johann Georg Volckamer (1662-1744) was regarded as the "greatest botanists in Germany in his days, and at the same time an important physician" (Hirsch/H.). - Interleaved copy. - Slightly colored and somewhat foxed, with small worming in places (minor loss of printed matter in places), pagination towards the end corrected by an old hand, flying endpaper with small marginal cutout.

First edition. With 25 copperplates. Contemp. vellum. - Interleaved copy. Sligthly browned and somewhat foxed, partly with small wormtraces (here and there minim. loss of letters), page numbering corrected by old hand at the end, front flying endpaper with small marginal cutout.




324
Johann Christoph Volckamer
Flora Noribergensis, 1700
Estimate:
€ 1,500 / $ 1,620
Sold:
€ 1,440 / $ 1,555

(incl. surcharge)