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PROPERTY OF THE EARLS OF HAREWOOD
JOACHIM JOHANN NEPOMUK ANTON SPALOWSKY (1752-1797)
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JOACHIM JOHANN NEPOMUK ANTON SPALOWSKY (1752-1797)
Beytrag zur Naturgeschichte der Vogel. Vienna: 1790-1792. Parts I-III (only, of 6) bound in one volume, 2° (378 x 259mm). 9 hand-coloured engraved plates of arms, and 130 hand-coloured engraved plates, the birds presented within a water- and bodycolour landscape without engraved backing and extending into the broad margins beyond the plate mark, each plate numbered in the top right-hand corner and captioned in Latin and German in the lower margin in red manuscript. (14 plates trimmed close touching image.) Contemporary green morocco, covers with a gilt border composed of an external dotted roll tool and single fillet within which various scroll tools and sprays with foliate cornerpieces, gilt spine with raised bands, red gilt morocco lettering piece to second compartment, the others with gilt foliate centre- and cornerpieces, decorative endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Henry George Charles, Viscount Lascelles (engraved armorial bookplate).
SPAWLOWSKY'S EXTREMELY RARE SPECTACULAR ORNITHOLOGICAL WORK WITH ELABORATELY DECORATED BACKGROUNDS. J.J.N.A. Spalowsky is known as the official physician to the Bürgerliches Regiment of Vienna and the author of other books on natural history, all of which are scarce. He has been described as 'a veritable polymath' (Kabat) on account of his diverse publications ranging from poisonous plants, mammals, conchology, and birds through to economics and numismatics. The plates in the present lot are remarkable. The engravings are fully and finely hand-coloured, and have complete painted backgrounds which extend well beyond the actual plate mark. Graesse VI, 457; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.143; Nissen IVB 888; cf. Alan R Kabat 'J.J.N.A. Spalowsky (1752-97) and the Prodromus in Systema Historicum Testaceorum (1795)' in Archives of Natural History (1996) 23 (2): 245-54.
Beytrag zur Naturgeschichte der Vogel. Vienna: 1790-1792. Parts I-III (only, of 6) bound in one volume, 2° (378 x 259mm). 9 hand-coloured engraved plates of arms, and 130 hand-coloured engraved plates, the birds presented within a water- and bodycolour landscape without engraved backing and extending into the broad margins beyond the plate mark, each plate numbered in the top right-hand corner and captioned in Latin and German in the lower margin in red manuscript. (14 plates trimmed close touching image.) Contemporary green morocco, covers with a gilt border composed of an external dotted roll tool and single fillet within which various scroll tools and sprays with foliate cornerpieces, gilt spine with raised bands, red gilt morocco lettering piece to second compartment, the others with gilt foliate centre- and cornerpieces, decorative endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Henry George Charles, Viscount Lascelles (engraved armorial bookplate).
SPAWLOWSKY'S EXTREMELY RARE SPECTACULAR ORNITHOLOGICAL WORK WITH ELABORATELY DECORATED BACKGROUNDS. J.J.N.A. Spalowsky is known as the official physician to the Bürgerliches Regiment of Vienna and the author of other books on natural history, all of which are scarce. He has been described as 'a veritable polymath' (Kabat) on account of his diverse publications ranging from poisonous plants, mammals, conchology, and birds through to economics and numismatics. The plates in the present lot are remarkable. The engravings are fully and finely hand-coloured, and have complete painted backgrounds which extend well beyond the actual plate mark. Graesse VI, 457; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.143; Nissen IVB 888; cf. Alan R Kabat 'J.J.N.A. Spalowsky (1752-97) and the Prodromus in Systema Historicum Testaceorum (1795)' in Archives of Natural History (1996) 23 (2): 245-54.