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MR. AND MRS. BERNARD AND ELLA MAZEL
REGENFUSS, FRANZ MICHAEL. Auserlesene Schnecken Muscheln und andre Schaaltiere/Choix de Coquillages et de Crustacés. Copenhagen 1758. Large folio, 622 x 460mm. (24 3/4 x 18 1/8in.), nineteenth-century red half morocco gilt, t.e.g., binding badly worn and upper inner joint broken, plates very slightly darkened, lacks mezzotint frontispiece portrait bust of King Frederick V printed in sanguine (as often). FIRST EDITION, Second issue (the first issue, with the same plates and a shorter text, was published the same year and withdrawn by order of the King), first volume only (Nissen cites a single copy of plates, without text, for a second volume, in the Royal Libary, Copenhagen). [14], XIV, 22, LXXXVII pp., comprising: title and dedicatory leaves in German and French (6 leaves), advertisement in German and French (1 leaf), chronological catalogue in German and French (pp. I-XIV), preliminary discourse in German and French (pp. [1]-22), explanation of the plates (pp. I-LXXXVI). Text by J.A. Cramer, C.G. Kratzenstein, P. Ascanius and L. Spengler. Mezzotint vignette headpiece and tailpiece printed in sanguine and 12 FINELY HAND-COLORED ENGRAVED PLATES showing 145 different shells and crustaceans by and after Regenfuss. Nissen ZBI 3338.
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REGENFUSS, FRANZ MICHAEL. Auserlesene Schnecken Muscheln und andre Schaaltiere/Choix de Coquillages et de Crustacés. Copenhagen 1758. Large folio, 622 x 460mm. (24 3/4 x 18 1/8in.), nineteenth-century red half morocco gilt, t.e.g., binding badly worn and upper inner joint broken, plates very slightly darkened, lacks mezzotint frontispiece portrait bust of King Frederick V printed in sanguine (as often). FIRST EDITION, Second issue (the first issue, with the same plates and a shorter text, was published the same year and withdrawn by order of the King), first volume only (Nissen cites a single copy of plates, without text, for a second volume, in the Royal Libary, Copenhagen). [14], XIV, 22, LXXXVII pp., comprising: title and dedicatory leaves in German and French (6 leaves), advertisement in German and French (1 leaf), chronological catalogue in German and French (pp. I-XIV), preliminary discourse in German and French (pp. [1]-22), explanation of the plates (pp. I-LXXXVI). Text by J.A. Cramer, C.G. Kratzenstein, P. Ascanius and L. Spengler. Mezzotint vignette headpiece and tailpiece printed in sanguine and 12 FINELY HAND-COLORED ENGRAVED PLATES showing 145 different shells and crustaceans by and after Regenfuss. Nissen ZBI 3338.