delices yeux espirit collection generale von knorr george wolfgang (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Quarto (10 1/16" x 7 3/4", 255mm x 197mm): Vol. I: [Full collation available upon request]. 102 leaves, pp. [4] (title, blank, 2pp. preface) 1 2-4 (introduction to Linnaean taxonomy) 5 6-24, 25 6-52, 31-5 6-56 [16] (15pp. binomial index, postface), 41-5 36-55 [1] (blank). With 93 hand-colored engraved plates, of which 3 are half-titles. Vol. II: [Full collation available upon request]. 96 leaves, pp. 1-5 6-54 [14] (14pp. index), 21-5 26-48, 31-5 36-76. With 103 hand-colored engraved plates, of which 3 are half-titles. With 196 hand-colored engraved plates in toto. Bound in contemporary diced Russian calf with a gilt roll border. On the spine, 5 raised bands. "COQUILLAGES / DE / KNORR" gilt to the second panel, number gilt to third. With marbled endpapers and a green silk ribbon marker. All edges of the text-block gilt. Boards scratched and worn at the fore-corners. Sporadic pale foxing, but overall a clean example. Faint graphite scrawl to the top edge of plate XVIII. Ink stain from opposite plate to vol. II 3A4, light ink transfers from plates with black backgrounds (part VI, plates XXXI-XL). Bookplate of Annie Geraldine Tennant to the front pastedown of volume I. Bookseller's ticket of "Holland Bros. Booksellers Birmingham" to the rear pastedown of volume II. The greatest eighteenth-century work of conchology, Knorr's Delices (a German edition, Vergnügen der Augen und des Gemüths, began publication in 1757) gathers the specimens of the Wunderkammern (similar to cabinets of curiosities) of Nuremberg, Amsterdam, and beyond. The descriptions -- there was a contemporaneous Latin edition, and a later Dutch edition -- are unusually descriptive and readable, and not, as so often, truncated and terse. Still, nothing lacks in precision; vol. VI includes a concordance to Rumpf, who came to supplant Linnæus as the authority on mollusks. Knorr was introduced to natural history engraving when, while still an apprentice, he worked on the plates for Johann Scheuchzer's popular Physica sacra. In the 1750s, Knorr began issuing his own sumptuous folios. Knorr died in 1761, and so the introduction to each part but the first is signed by his heirs. Perhaps this is the reason that the title-page is sometimes found bearing the year 1760 and sometimes 1764; his death may well have delayed publication of the first volume. The present copy bears the 1760 date, but a small disc of paper has been pasted over the 0, altering it to a 4 (see our 3 volume set bearing the same affliction). Annie Geraldine Tennant (neé Redmayne, 1863-1956) married into the aristocratic Tennant family (her father-in-law being 1st Baronet, Sir Charles Clow Tennant of the Glen) in 1886. She lived out her days in a seaside town on the south shore of Scotland's Firth of Forth, which one can imagine stoked a fancy for conchology. The present example was lot 27 in Sotheby's 22 November 2022 sale of John Golden's library. An executive of a family-owned packaging and printing company, John Golden began collecting through a fascination with the superlative papers and printing techniques of earlier centuries. Initially seeking inspiration for his work at Stephen Gould Corporation, an international leader in innovative and custom packaging and branding, Golden soon developed an appreciation for the primary publications of the age of enlightenment. Over the course of nearly four decades Golden meticulously collected a superb library, compact and cohesive, representing the very apex of printing and illustration in the golden age of scientific discovery. Golden likely acquired this volume in the Sotheby's sale of the collector Michael J. Kuse's botanical library, 20 June 2003. Nissen ZBI 2228. Cataloged by G.R. Murdock and J.L. Rosenberg.