Lot 436* - A182 Books - Monday, 18. September 2017, 02.00 PM
Plinius, Caius.
Bücher und Schrifften, von Natur, art und eigenschafft aller Creaturen oder Geschöpffe Gottes... Von den Fischen... den Vögeln... und auch von den unreinen Kriechenden Würmen, als Schlangen etc. Aus dem Lateinischen übersetzt durch Johannes Heyden von Dhaun. With engraved title vignette and 210 woodcuttings by J. Amman and V. Solis as well as 1 woodcut printer's remark. - Bound in: Estienne, Ch. & J. Liebeault. Siben Bücher von dem Feldbau, und vollkommener bestellung eynes ordentlichen Meyerhofs oder Landguts Etwann... Frantzösisch beschrieben. Nun aber... inn Teutsch gebracht. With 1 woodcut title border, 1 engraved portrait and 36 woodcuts in the text by T. Stimmer and Chr. Murer.
I: Frankfurt a. M., S. Feyerabend, 1571. - II: Strassburg, Bernhard Jobin, 1580. In-4°. [5] leaves, 430 pp., [7] leaves, [6] leaves, 643 pp., [17] leaves. Pig skin over wooden boards and 4 bunches, richly decorated (clasps detached, some missing in the binding and partly refurnished, flying leaves renewed, browned and finger spots).
I. VD16 P 3554 - Nissen ZBI 3189 - Schweiger II, 795 - Graesse V, 343. - II. VD16 E 4000 - Lindner 11.563.02 - Schoene 3688 - Schwerdt I, 167 - Graesse IV, 206. - Both second editions (first 1565; 1579). - I: Missing the 5th part "von den Schlangen". - Throughout browned and a little foxings, in the last third some water stains, finger spots, worn on the lower corner. Tears to margins professionally restored (also on the title), flying leaves reinforced to gutter. - Old handwritten annotation on the last leaf.
CHF 1 000 / 1 500 | (€ 1 030 / 1 550)
Sold for CHF 3 000 (including buyer’s premium)
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