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Read More Delices des yeux et de l'esprit ou collection generale des differentes espèces de coquillages que la mer renferme, communiquée au public. 6 volumes bound in 3. by Knorr, Georg Wolfgang - 1760-1765-1768-1770-1771-1773: A fine copy of a beautifully handcoloured shell book
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Delices des yeux et de l'esprit ou collection generale des differentes espèces de coquillages que la mer renferme, communiquée au public. 6 volumes bound in 3.: A fine copy of a beautifully handcoloured shell book
by Knorr, Georg Wolfgang
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6 handcoloured additional engraved and handcoloured title-pages, 190 handcoloured engraved plates of shells by and after G. W. Knorr, J. C. Keller, J. C. Dietzsch, C. N. Kleemann, G. P. Trautner, J. A. Eisenmann, A. Hoffer and others, the majority of them with engraved calligraphic names of owners of natural history cabinets and shell collections in lower part of the plates. 6 letterpress title-pages (included in pagination), 24, (16), 52 pages; 56 pages; 55 pages; 54, (14) pages; 48 pages; 76, 11 (1), 18 pages.
Cont. marbled calf in light brown and red with green streaks, flat spine richtly gilt with two contrasting green and red gilt morocco labels, covers framed by gilt border. Inner dentelles gilt. All edges gilt. Endpapers covered with blue veined paste papers. Letterpress ownership ticket of M. le. Bon G. de Joigny pasted onto front paste-down of first volume, other volumes with manuscript inked ownership entry on front fly-leaf. 4to (285 x 210 mm). Minor rubbing to covers and extremeties.
Cf. Cobres, p. 428, 30 (German edition). Brunet III, 679: "Les figures sont enluminées avec beaucoup de soin"; Nissen, ZBI 2235 and vol. II, p. 151 f. Heidrun Ludwig. Nürnberger naturgeschichtliche Malerei im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert, pp. 346-348 (for Knorr). First French edition of a splendid set of this most beautiful book on shells. The plates are handcoloured, bringing out all the exotic beauty in brilliant colors. The last ten plates show the shells in white on dark brown background. Knorr (1705-1761), an artist and naturalist from Nuremberg, is the author of several sumptuous and exquisitely illustrated books on the wonders of natural history, among them one on geology and petrification, and this present work, on corals and shells, and other salt water animals. It required particular care since these objects appear in many striking and diversified colours. Knorr, and the artists who continued his work, employed some of the most accomplished Nuremberg artists to make the illustrations as faithful and perfect as possible, and the result is one of the most exciting and colorful illustrated books of the 18th century. The majority of the shells depicted on the plates are sketched after specimens contained in four German and three Dutch private natural history cabinets and shell collections which are named on the respective plates. Ranking first regarding number of specimens depicted are examples from the collection of August Martin Schadeloock (1707-1774), a theologian from Nuremberg, and an ardent book collector, his library described in two volumes was sold in 1774, who had also built up a natural history cabinet which contained about 4000 specimens of shells, a large collection of minerals and fossils and other cabinet of wonder objects. According to the scholar J. S. Schröter his natural history collection was regarded as one of the most important private collections existing in Germany in 1775. Unfortunately no catalogue of this natural history collection seems to exist. (Grieb, Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon vol. III, 1303. Not mentioned in Wilson, The History of Mineral Collecting 1530-1799). Other examples are from the collection of Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725-1776), a German zoologist who published among many other works a German translation of Linnaeus' "Natursystem" and from the collection of Johann Phillipp Breyne FRS (1680-1764), a Polish botanist, palaeontologist, zoologist and entomologist. He is best known for his work on the Polish cochineal insect, used in the production of red dye. Proposed by Hans Sloane, he was elected, on 21 April 1703, a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was also a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (after 1715) and the Societas Litteraria (after 1720); last but not least a few examples are from the collection of a certain D. J. H. Sommer, a doctor from Nuremberg. Ranking second regarding number of specimens depicted are those from the shell collection of Martinus Houttuyn (1720 ?-1786), a Dutch naturalist who studied medicine in Leiden and an author of many books on natural history who brought together a large collection of shells which was said to contain numerous rare species. Other examples are from the collections of Joan Coenraad Brandt (1703-1791), an Amsterdam druggist, whose cabinet was famous and naturalists and travellers often came to see it and from the collection of Willem van der Meulen, a wealthy merchant from Amsterdam. (Cf. Dance, Shell collecting pp. 82-85). "In the French edition there are nearly a thousand figures, all extremely well drawn and beautifully painted ... No order is preserved in the figures, however, and the same species is sometimes figured more than once on different plates to show slight variations. The text is simply an amplification of the plates relating chiefly to the appearance of the shells represented" (Dance, Shell Collecting. An Illustrated History p. 74). According to Dance the plates to volume III in the French edition differ from those in the German edition (Dance p. 318). The six volumes are divided as follows: The first volume contains illustrations by Knorr himself, a few plates signed by him this being the only illustrations by Knorr for this book, and the shells represented not related to any specific collection. Volumes two through four contain illustrations after specimens from the collections of Schadeloock, Breyne, Müller and Sommer including a few from Houttuyn's collection in volume four. Volumes five and six contain illustrations after specimens from the collections of Hottuyn, van der Meulen and Brandt. "Trotz fehlender Universitätsbildung unterliess Knorr es nicht, die Texte zu seinen Werken selbst zu schreiben. Zwar bemerkte die gelehrte Welt durchaus, dass seine Werke unsystematisch angelegt waren und wissenschaftlich nicht befriedigten. Dennoch erfreuten sich seine schönen und sorgfältig gearbeiteten Kupferstiche grosser Beliebtheit. ... Wie in seinen Petrefakten- und Konchylienwerken griff Knorr auch hier auf Exponate aus Naturaliensammlungen zurück. ... Mit dem Werk wandte er sich nicht so sehr an die Naturgelehrten, sondern eher an ein bürgerliches Liebhaberpublikum, dem er auf dem Weg der graphischen Reproduktion rare Naturalien zugänglich machen wollte, die es selbst nicht erwerben konnte. ... Die meisterhaften Kolorierungen der Kupferstiche in Knorrs Publikationen sind besonders bestechend. ... Die alten Kolorierungen der Werke Knorrs, Seligmanns und Rösels gehören sicherlich zum Besten, was im 18. Jahrhundert auf diesem Gebiet geleistet wurde. Die schier unglaubliche Mühe, die um 1750 in Nürnberg für die Illumination naturgeschichtlicher Kupferstiche aufgewendet wurde, lässt sich nicht nur mit marktorientierten Verkaufsstrategien erklären. Wie in der naturhistorischen Kabinettmalerei waren es in den gedruckten Tafelwerken auch die ästhetischen Ideale der Physikotheologie, durch die diese hohen Qualitätsmassstäbe gesetzt wurden. Illuminatoren, Stecher, Sammler und Käufer orientierten sich am physikotheologischen Dogma der idealisierenden Mimesis." (Heidrun Ludwig. Nürnberger Naturgeschichtliche Malerei im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert, pp. 173-174). - Splendid set printed on very thick paper.
Cont. marbled calf in light brown and red with green streaks, flat spine richtly gilt with two contrasting green and red gilt morocco labels, covers framed by gilt border. Inner dentelles gilt. All edges gilt. Endpapers covered with blue veined paste papers. Letterpress ownership ticket of M. le. Bon G. de Joigny pasted onto front paste-down of first volume, other volumes with manuscript inked ownership entry on front fly-leaf. 4to (285 x 210 mm). Minor rubbing to covers and extremeties.
Cf. Cobres, p. 428, 30 (German edition). Brunet III, 679: "Les figures sont enluminées avec beaucoup de soin"; Nissen, ZBI 2235 and vol. II, p. 151 f. Heidrun Ludwig. Nürnberger naturgeschichtliche Malerei im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert, pp. 346-348 (for Knorr). First French edition of a splendid set of this most beautiful book on shells. The plates are handcoloured, bringing out all the exotic beauty in brilliant colors. The last ten plates show the shells in white on dark brown background. Knorr (1705-1761), an artist and naturalist from Nuremberg, is the author of several sumptuous and exquisitely illustrated books on the wonders of natural history, among them one on geology and petrification, and this present work, on corals and shells, and other salt water animals. It required particular care since these objects appear in many striking and diversified colours. Knorr, and the artists who continued his work, employed some of the most accomplished Nuremberg artists to make the illustrations as faithful and perfect as possible, and the result is one of the most exciting and colorful illustrated books of the 18th century. The majority of the shells depicted on the plates are sketched after specimens contained in four German and three Dutch private natural history cabinets and shell collections which are named on the respective plates. Ranking first regarding number of specimens depicted are examples from the collection of August Martin Schadeloock (1707-1774), a theologian from Nuremberg, and an ardent book collector, his library described in two volumes was sold in 1774, who had also built up a natural history cabinet which contained about 4000 specimens of shells, a large collection of minerals and fossils and other cabinet of wonder objects. According to the scholar J. S. Schröter his natural history collection was regarded as one of the most important private collections existing in Germany in 1775. Unfortunately no catalogue of this natural history collection seems to exist. (Grieb, Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon vol. III, 1303. Not mentioned in Wilson, The History of Mineral Collecting 1530-1799). Other examples are from the collection of Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725-1776), a German zoologist who published among many other works a German translation of Linnaeus' "Natursystem" and from the collection of Johann Phillipp Breyne FRS (1680-1764), a Polish botanist, palaeontologist, zoologist and entomologist. He is best known for his work on the Polish cochineal insect, used in the production of red dye. Proposed by Hans Sloane, he was elected, on 21 April 1703, a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was also a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (after 1715) and the Societas Litteraria (after 1720); last but not least a few examples are from the collection of a certain D. J. H. Sommer, a doctor from Nuremberg. Ranking second regarding number of specimens depicted are those from the shell collection of Martinus Houttuyn (1720 ?-1786), a Dutch naturalist who studied medicine in Leiden and an author of many books on natural history who brought together a large collection of shells which was said to contain numerous rare species. Other examples are from the collections of Joan Coenraad Brandt (1703-1791), an Amsterdam druggist, whose cabinet was famous and naturalists and travellers often came to see it and from the collection of Willem van der Meulen, a wealthy merchant from Amsterdam. (Cf. Dance, Shell collecting pp. 82-85). "In the French edition there are nearly a thousand figures, all extremely well drawn and beautifully painted ... No order is preserved in the figures, however, and the same species is sometimes figured more than once on different plates to show slight variations. The text is simply an amplification of the plates relating chiefly to the appearance of the shells represented" (Dance, Shell Collecting. An Illustrated History p. 74). According to Dance the plates to volume III in the French edition differ from those in the German edition (Dance p. 318). The six volumes are divided as follows: The first volume contains illustrations by Knorr himself, a few plates signed by him this being the only illustrations by Knorr for this book, and the shells represented not related to any specific collection. Volumes two through four contain illustrations after specimens from the collections of Schadeloock, Breyne, Müller and Sommer including a few from Houttuyn's collection in volume four. Volumes five and six contain illustrations after specimens from the collections of Hottuyn, van der Meulen and Brandt. "Trotz fehlender Universitätsbildung unterliess Knorr es nicht, die Texte zu seinen Werken selbst zu schreiben. Zwar bemerkte die gelehrte Welt durchaus, dass seine Werke unsystematisch angelegt waren und wissenschaftlich nicht befriedigten. Dennoch erfreuten sich seine schönen und sorgfältig gearbeiteten Kupferstiche grosser Beliebtheit. ... Wie in seinen Petrefakten- und Konchylienwerken griff Knorr auch hier auf Exponate aus Naturaliensammlungen zurück. ... Mit dem Werk wandte er sich nicht so sehr an die Naturgelehrten, sondern eher an ein bürgerliches Liebhaberpublikum, dem er auf dem Weg der graphischen Reproduktion rare Naturalien zugänglich machen wollte, die es selbst nicht erwerben konnte. ... Die meisterhaften Kolorierungen der Kupferstiche in Knorrs Publikationen sind besonders bestechend. ... Die alten Kolorierungen der Werke Knorrs, Seligmanns und Rösels gehören sicherlich zum Besten, was im 18. Jahrhundert auf diesem Gebiet geleistet wurde. Die schier unglaubliche Mühe, die um 1750 in Nürnberg für die Illumination naturgeschichtlicher Kupferstiche aufgewendet wurde, lässt sich nicht nur mit marktorientierten Verkaufsstrategien erklären. Wie in der naturhistorischen Kabinettmalerei waren es in den gedruckten Tafelwerken auch die ästhetischen Ideale der Physikotheologie, durch die diese hohen Qualitätsmassstäbe gesetzt wurden. Illuminatoren, Stecher, Sammler und Käufer orientierten sich am physikotheologischen Dogma der idealisierenden Mimesis." (Heidrun Ludwig. Nürnberger Naturgeschichtliche Malerei im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert, pp. 173-174). - Splendid set printed on very thick paper.
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- Keywords shell collections, natural history
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Les Delices Des Yeux Et De L'esprit: Ou Collection Generale Des Differentes Espees De Coquillages Que La Mer Renferme, Communiquée Au Public (French Edition)
by Georg Wolfgang Knorr
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Les delices des yeux et de l'esprit, ou, Collection generale des differentes especes de coquillages que la mer renferme (French Edition)
by Isaac Lea, Georg Wolfgang Knorr, William Healey 1845-1927 former Dall (Creator)
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
by Engle, Joanna
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
by John B. Wyeth
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Key to the Fishes of Northern Europe
by Alwyne Wheeler
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London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., 1976. Good. Softbound limp edition. Cased edition also available Illustrations by Peter Stebbing 1976. Limp. Good. Peter Stebbing.
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ICEBERGS AND GLACIERS
by Simon Seymour
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New York: William Morrow and Company, inc., 1987. First Edition. Extensively illustrated with large and beautiful photographs. Square 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. (30). A fine, bright copy. In clear, concise text and exceptional, full color photographs, noted science author Seymour Simon explains how different types of glaciers and icebergs are formed, how they move, and how they affect life on Earth. He also explores some of their mysteries: Can icebergs be used as a source of fresh water for dry lands? And will the ice ages return, covering the continents with glaciers as they did twenty thousand years ago?
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The Natural History of Selborne; With Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and The Naturalist's Calendar
by WHITE, Rev. Gilbert
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London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. Leather Bound. Good. Half leather over cloth boards in good condition. Marbled endpapers. TEG. With 40 hand-colored engravings. Raised bands on the spine. A few words underlined pp. 115-116. Some foxing. Eight pages have a dark mark in the center of the page, but the text is still legible. A damp stain on the lower corner of many pages. With additions and Supplementary notes by William Jardine. Edited with further illustrations, a biographical sketch of the author and a complete index by Edward Jesse.
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Winter - Notes from Montana
by Bass, Rick
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket and mylar cover. Signed by author on title page. Dust jacket has sticker residue over the price, otherwise no wear or soiling present. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 162 pp; Signed by Author .
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The Silence Of The North
by Olive A. Fredrickson with Ben East
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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The Polynesian Triangle
by Berry, Erick & Best, Herbert
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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Island Folk: The People of Isle Royale
by Peter Oikarinen
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Houghton, Michigan: Isle Royale Natural History Association, [1979]. Softcover book with pictorial wraps. 160p. B&W photos throughout text. This is the original printing, later reprinted by the University of Minnesota Press. Book has been well read and is in very good - condition with wear to the cover image along the edge and reading crease to front cover, corners bumped and shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked with light staining on the edge of a few pages. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
by Verne, Jules
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Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."
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