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AUGUST JOHANN ROESEL VON ROSENHOF (1705-1759)
Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium .... Die natrliche Historie der Frsche hiesigen Landes .... Nuremberg: Johann Joseph Fleischmann, [1753-] 1758. 2 (435 x 294mm). Half title, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece after Roesel by M. Tyroff, text in parallel columns in Latin and German, 24 hand-coloured engraved plates by and after Roesel, each accompanied by an anatomical key plate, 8 large engraved headpieces after Roesel, C. Harrich and J. J. Preissler. (Some light soiling, mainly at margins, plate XVI slightly more soiled than the rest, the uncoloured version with two small stain marks, old paper repair to outer margin of E1.) Contemporary French green morocco, triple gilt fillet, spine in 7 compartments with raised bands, lettered in one, the rest with gilt floral tooling, marbled endpapers, gilt turn-ins and board edges, pink silk page ribbon (joints and corners rubbed).
FIRST EDITION OF A CLASSIC WORK ON AMPHIBIANS. With a strikingly beautiful frontispiece after the author, preface by Alfred von Haller and plates depicting all the then known species of frogs and toads indigenous to the locality of Nuremberg. This is among the finest of natural history books and one of the great works of amphibiology. Wood himself describes the work as "one of the classics of amphibiology. The illustrations are of the finest, and the whole work is admirably done ... altogether a very valuable, early contribution to the literature of the batrachia." Nissen ZBI 3464; Wood 541. (2)
Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium .... Die natrliche Historie der Frsche hiesigen Landes .... Nuremberg: Johann Joseph Fleischmann, [1753-] 1758. 2 (435 x 294mm). Half title, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece after Roesel by M. Tyroff, text in parallel columns in Latin and German, 24 hand-coloured engraved plates by and after Roesel, each accompanied by an anatomical key plate, 8 large engraved headpieces after Roesel, C. Harrich and J. J. Preissler. (Some light soiling, mainly at margins, plate XVI slightly more soiled than the rest, the uncoloured version with two small stain marks, old paper repair to outer margin of E1.) Contemporary French green morocco, triple gilt fillet, spine in 7 compartments with raised bands, lettered in one, the rest with gilt floral tooling, marbled endpapers, gilt turn-ins and board edges, pink silk page ribbon (joints and corners rubbed).
FIRST EDITION OF A CLASSIC WORK ON AMPHIBIANS. With a strikingly beautiful frontispiece after the author, preface by Alfred von Haller and plates depicting all the then known species of frogs and toads indigenous to the locality of Nuremberg. This is among the finest of natural history books and one of the great works of amphibiology. Wood himself describes the work as "one of the classics of amphibiology. The illustrations are of the finest, and the whole work is admirably done ... altogether a very valuable, early contribution to the literature of the batrachia." Nissen ZBI 3464; Wood 541. (2)