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ZAHN, Johann (1641-1707). Specula physico-mathematico-historica notabilium ac mirabilium sciendorum. Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Lochner, 1696.
First edition of this superbly illustrated compendium of mathematics and natural history by Zahn, a member of the Premonstratensian order of Oberzell near Würzburg. It includes celestial maps after Hevelius, maps of the sun and moon after Eimmart, and world maps, one after Kircher. The pagination of different copies appears to be irregular. Our volume I has 27 unnumbered preliminary leaves: the number called for by VD-17 (only 20 recorded in the Macclesfield copy, hereafter M); 8 unnumbered end leaves to vol. I called for by VD (in addition to the index and errata), are not found here or in M. Our vol. II has 7 preliminaries compared to 9 called for by VD-17 and 12 in the M copy; VD-17 also calls for 13 unnumbered end leaves in vol. II, not found in either this or M copies. Vol. III has 5 preliminary leaves (7 called for by VD, 8 recorded in M); VD-17 also calls for 6 unnumbered leaves at the end, not found here or in M. In our volume I, the total of 25 engraved plates (15 double-page, one folding, and 9 single-page), exceeds the M total by one while VD-17 calls for only 22 plates in vol. I. In vols. II-III the plate counts conform. BL/STC German, IV Z16; Brunet V, 1519; VD-17 39:125300D; Shirley 583 & 584 (the world map and hemispheres); McLaughlin, California as an Island, 122 (plate in vol. II depicting western hemisphere).
3 volumes in one, folio (392 x 241 mm). 3 engraved frontispieces, 3 engraved portraits, 55 engraved plates, of which 26 are double-page, one folding, 16 double-page letterpress tables. Titles in red and black (some browning and staining to text, double-plate bound at p. 30 with a clean tear, one preliminary leaf with internal closed tear, short closed tear to the folding map in vol. I, further minor marginal tears or chips, occasional marginal staining). Contemporary Austrian/German pigskin over wooden boards, tooled in blind with stamps and rolls around a central lozenge, manuscript title on spine (rubbed, lightly stained, one clasp missing and one defective, new front flyleaf). Provenance: Steyr, Austria, Kloster Gleink, Benedictine monastery (contemporary inscription on first title) – Linz, Austria, Jesuit college (18th-century inscription and later faint stamp on first title).
First edition of this superbly illustrated compendium of mathematics and natural history by Zahn, a member of the Premonstratensian order of Oberzell near Würzburg. It includes celestial maps after Hevelius, maps of the sun and moon after Eimmart, and world maps, one after Kircher. The pagination of different copies appears to be irregular. Our volume I has 27 unnumbered preliminary leaves: the number called for by VD-17 (only 20 recorded in the Macclesfield copy, hereafter M); 8 unnumbered end leaves to vol. I called for by VD (in addition to the index and errata), are not found here or in M. Our vol. II has 7 preliminaries compared to 9 called for by VD-17 and 12 in the M copy; VD-17 also calls for 13 unnumbered end leaves in vol. II, not found in either this or M copies. Vol. III has 5 preliminary leaves (7 called for by VD, 8 recorded in M); VD-17 also calls for 6 unnumbered leaves at the end, not found here or in M. In our volume I, the total of 25 engraved plates (15 double-page, one folding, and 9 single-page), exceeds the M total by one while VD-17 calls for only 22 plates in vol. I. In vols. II-III the plate counts conform. BL/STC German, IV Z16; Brunet V, 1519; VD-17 39:125300D; Shirley 583 & 584 (the world map and hemispheres); McLaughlin, California as an Island, 122 (plate in vol. II depicting western hemisphere).
3 volumes in one, folio (392 x 241 mm). 3 engraved frontispieces, 3 engraved portraits, 55 engraved plates, of which 26 are double-page, one folding, 16 double-page letterpress tables. Titles in red and black (some browning and staining to text, double-plate bound at p. 30 with a clean tear, one preliminary leaf with internal closed tear, short closed tear to the folding map in vol. I, further minor marginal tears or chips, occasional marginal staining). Contemporary Austrian/German pigskin over wooden boards, tooled in blind with stamps and rolls around a central lozenge, manuscript title on spine (rubbed, lightly stained, one clasp missing and one defective, new front flyleaf). Provenance: Steyr, Austria, Kloster Gleink, Benedictine monastery (contemporary inscription on first title) – Linz, Austria, Jesuit college (18th-century inscription and later faint stamp on first title).
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