Lot 192
Zoology.- Klobius (Justus Fidus) Ambræ Historiam ad omnipotentis dei gloriam, et hominum sanitatem exhibit, Wittenberg, Tobias Mevius and Elerdi Schaunacheri, 1666
Hammer Price: £550
Description
Zoology.- Klobius (Justus Fidus) Ambræ Historiam ad omnipotentis dei gloriam, et hominum sanitatem exhibit, engraved folding map and 3 plates (1 folding, all with pagination to head in manuscript), 1 plate with short tear, title with marginal browning, occasional ink marginalia, contemporary mottled calf, head of spine chipped, rubbed, g.e., [Kress 1179; Krivatsy 6455; Sinkankas 3466; Thorndike VIII p.18; VD17 39:123211D], small 4to, Wittenberg, Tobias Mevius and Elerdi Schaunacheri, 1666.
⁂ Scarce treatise on ambergris and its medical and culinary use, and its supposed origin from bird dung and sperm-whale secretions. One of the plates depicts the obtaining of amber by means of collecting bird dung.
Description
Zoology.- Klobius (Justus Fidus) Ambræ Historiam ad omnipotentis dei gloriam, et hominum sanitatem exhibit, engraved folding map and 3 plates (1 folding, all with pagination to head in manuscript), 1 plate with short tear, title with marginal browning, occasional ink marginalia, contemporary mottled calf, head of spine chipped, rubbed, g.e., [Kress 1179; Krivatsy 6455; Sinkankas 3466; Thorndike VIII p.18; VD17 39:123211D], small 4to, Wittenberg, Tobias Mevius and Elerdi Schaunacheri, 1666.
⁂ Scarce treatise on ambergris and its medical and culinary use, and its supposed origin from bird dung and sperm-whale secretions. One of the plates depicts the obtaining of amber by means of collecting bird dung.
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