0129

„Histoire des insectes de l'Europe. Traduite du hollandois en francois par Jean Marret“
Amsterdam, Jean Frederic Bernard, 1730
half-title, title printed in red/black with engraved vignette, 84 pp., with 1 engraved vignette, 42 (of 186) numbered copper engravings: 10 plates with 4 copper engravings each, one plate half with 2 copper engravings, present: 1/1, 1/2, 2-3, 12-23, 25-26, 32-35, 51/1, 51/2, 52-53, 62-69, 82-85, 90-93; handwritten note on fly-leaf: „Aus: Frau Emma Teschners Bibliothek: / Geschenk an Lucia Jirgal / Assistentin im ‚Figurenspiegel‘: / Teschners Puppenspiel“, upper left inner cover with label Lucia Jirgal's library; browned and partly damp-stained, one plate coloured; contemporary brown leather binding, scraped and bruised, front and back cover gilt-stamped, faded and scuffed, title on spine, binding loosened, imperial-folio

Provenance

private property, Austria

Literature

Nissen BBI 1342. Hunt 483. Horn-Schenkling 14993. First folio-edition in French.

bound with:
Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium…, Den Haag, Pierre Gosse, 1726.
Two titles printed in red/black (French and Latin) with engraved copper vignette, 1 engraved coat of arms vignette, without the engraved frontispiece, (3), 72 pp., with 27 (of 72) numbered full-page copper plates, present: 2-4, 18, 23, 28-30, 33, 38, 46-50, 56-57, 59, 62-64, 66, 68-72; browned, 4 plates loosened, one partly coloured;
Nissen BBI 1341. Pritzel 6105. Hagen I, 535. Third edition, the first with parallel text in Latin and French.

Estimate: € 1.500 - 3.000
Result: € 4.864 (incl. fees)
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