Abhandlung von den Land- und Flusschnecken, oder von Solchen Conchylien, welche nicht im Meere sondern auf der Erde und in sussen Wassern zu leben pflegen: Mit zwanzig nach der Natur gemalten und durch lebendige Farben erleuchteten Kupfertafeln.
by Chemnitz, Johann Hieronymus
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Nurnberg: Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, 1786. First Edition. Cloth over Marbled Boards. Very Good Plus. 4to. xxvi, 194 pp. With 20 hand-colored plates. The text pages have a light ink-blot-like foxing in many of the leaves where the text is. Most will not find this disconcerting, as since it seldom shows up in the margins, it is surely the result of a chemical reaction involving the paper composition and the ink over an extended period of time. In other words, it is to be found probably in virtually all extant copies. The plates are not only spared this, but they are immaculate, their coloring breathtaking.
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Details
- Bookseller
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001720
- Title
- Abhandlung von den Land- und Flusschnecken, oder von Solchen Conchylien, welche nicht im Meere sondern auf der Erde und in sussen Wassern zu leben pflegen
- Author
- Chemnitz, Johann Hieronymus
- Format/Binding
- Cloth over Marbled Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe
- Place of Publication
- Nurnberg
- Date Published
- 1786
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About the Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
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About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...