BRU DE RAMON, Juan Bautista. Coleccion de laminas que representan los animals y monstrous del real gabinete de historia natural de Madrid. Madrid: Andres de Sotos, 1784. 2 volumes in one, 8° (270 x 182mm). Each volume with engraved frontispiece, 71 engraved plates, of which 54 hand-coloured. (First frontispiece torn at lower inner gutter, coloured plates in vol. I tipped-in and with very slightly shorter margins, text slightly soiled throughout, a few plates lightly soiled, lower margin lightly waterstained towards end.) Contemporary marbled calf (rubbed and scuffed).FIRST EDITION. According to Palau this is a rare work, and particularly so if complete. The naturalist and engraver Juan Battista Bru was the first curator of the Real Gabinete de Historia Natural in Madrid (later Museo Nacional de Ciencia). Palau calls for 71 plates, through Nissen ZBI calls for 101. Nissen ZBI 616; Palau 36258.

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BRU DE RAMON, Juan Bautista. Coleccion de laminas que representan los animals y monstrous del real gabinete de historia natural de Madrid. Madrid: Andres de Sotos, 1784. 2 volumes in one, 8° (270 x 182mm). Each volume with engraved frontispiece, 71 engraved plates, of which 54 hand-coloured. (First frontispiece torn at lower inner gutter, coloured plates in vol. I tipped-in and with very slightly shorter margins, text slightly soiled throughout, a few plates lightly soiled, lower margin lightly waterstained towards end.) Contemporary marbled calf (rubbed and scuffed). FIRST EDITION. According to Palau this is a rare work, and particularly so if complete. The naturalist and engraver Juan Battista Bru was the first curator of the Real Gabinete de Historia Natural in Madrid (later Museo Nacional de Ciencia). Palau calls for 71 plates, through Nissen ZBI calls for 101. Nissen ZBI 616; Palau 36258.

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BRU DE RAMON, Juan Bautista. Coleccion de laminas que representan los animals y monstrous del real gabinete de historia natural de Madrid. Madrid: Andres de Sotos, 1784. 2 volumes in one, 8° (270 x 182mm). Each volume with engraved frontispiece, 71 engraved plates, of which 54 hand-coloured. (First frontispiece torn at lower inner gutter, coloured plates in vol. I tipped-in and with very slightly shorter margins, text slightly soiled throughout, a few plates lightly soiled, lower margin lightly waterstained towards end.) Contemporary marbled calf (rubbed and scuffed).

FIRST EDITION. According to Palau this is a rare work, and particularly so if complete. The naturalist and engraver Juan Battista Bru was the first curator of the Real Gabinete de Historia Natural in Madrid (later Museo Nacional de Ciencia). Palau calls for 71 plates, through Nissen ZBI calls for 101. Nissen ZBI 616; Palau 36258.

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