NATURAL HISTORY
Catalogue Information: 63 lots | 50 with images
Lot 1: pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus.
Herbarium Apulei. [Rome:] Johannes Philippus de Lignamine, [c.1481-82]. Chancery 4o (200 x 138mm). Collation: [1 6 2-13 8 14 6 ] (1/1-6 dedication and table, 2/1r text, 14/5v register, 14/6 blank). 84 leaves (of 108, lacking quire 1, 2/1, 3/2.7, 12/8 [...more]
Lot 2: Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840).
[ Delineations of Exotick Plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew... published by W.T.Aiton. London: W.Bulmer & Co, for George Nicol, 1796 (one plate watermarked 1794)]. Part I only (615 x 387mm. and smaller). 5 hand-coloured engraved and etched [...more]
Lot 3: Basilius Besler (1561-1629).
Hortus Eystettensis. [Nuremberg]: 1613. 2 volumes, royal broadsheet (555 x 423mm). Letterpress: dedication to Johann Christoph, Prince Bishop of Eichst„tt, 2 leaves of privileges for France, Belgium and the Netherlands in roman, italic, or gothic typ [...more]
Lot 4: Basilius Besler (1561-1629).
Hortus Eystettensis. [Nuremberg]: 1613. Royal broadsheet (545 x 447mm). Collation of preliminaries: π engraved title, (:)r-3(:)r letterpress dedication to Johann Conrad, Prince Bishop of Eichst„tt, 3(:)v encomium from the Dean of the Medical Col [...more]
Lot 5: Basilius Besler (1561-1629).
Hortus Eystettensis. [Nuremberg and Eichst„tt: Strauss,] 1713-[1750]. Royal broadsheet (545 x 412mm). One-leaf letterpress address to the reader by Johann Starckmann, 14 index leaves giving plant names in Latin and German, dispersed at the end of eac [...more]
