£1,500 - £2,000
Valentini, Michael Bernhard
Museum museorum, oder Vollständige Schau-Bühne aller
Materialien und Specereyen [...] aus andern Material-Kunst und
Naturalien Kammern Oost und West-Indischen Reisbeschreibungen.
(Francfort, Zunner, 1714)
Extensive work about the products of that time, especially tea, coffee, cacao, choclate, silk etc. Furthermore about exotic plants, animals, scientific instruments, diving-bell, Laterna Magica, air-ship, divining rod, telescope, air-pump etc. Describes also museums of curiosities, their collections and their localities.
Fol. 13 lvs., 520 pp., 2 1vs., 76 pp., 2 18e 236) PR:, 6 INg:
2 parts (= 3 parts) in 1 binding .119 pp, 6 lvs, 11 1vs., 196, 116pp, 4 lvs, 228
With 2 engraved titles, 38 fold. engraved plates, 57 engraved plates and more than 300 engraved or woodcuts.
Condition: browned in places, trimmed to margin edge and few subsequent leaves, but a very good copy. Bound in later 3/4 vellum, over paper covered boards. New endpapers. 380mm x 250mm.
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