SCHEUCHZER, JOHANN JAKOB. Kupfer-Bibel, in welcher die Physica sacra, oder geheiligte Natur-Wissenschaft derer in heil. Schrifft vorkommenden natürlichen Sachen deutlich erklaert und bewaehrt. Augsburg und Ulm; Christian Ulrich Wagner 1731-35. 4 vols., folio, 376 x 237 mm. (14 13/16 x 9 5/16 in.), contemporary German mottled sheep over pasteboards, covers with blind-tooled border, spines gilt, calf lettering-pieces, comb-marbled edges, rubbed, gilding darkened, upper inner hinges weak, 4-inch tear to fol. 1:Nn2, a very few short marginal tears, some marginal soiling, occasional light foxing, a few text leaves browned, particularly in vol. 3. FIRST EDITION, gothic type, double column, 1 mezzotint and 1 engraved portrait, engraved frontispiece, 760 engraved plates on 758 sheets, those showing Biblical scenes (the majority) each within a different elaborate architectural or emblematic border, the plates by various engravers after J. M. Füssli, the borders after J. D. Preissler, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Nissen ZBI 3659 (erroneously calling for 3 portraits and 762 plates).An imaginative attempt to reconcile the Bible with "the principles of the new philosophy and natural sciences" (Foreword, p. [1]), through illustrations of and analytical commentary on the natural, supernatural and sociological phenomena described in the Old and New Testaments. A physician by training, Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a formidably prolific Swiss geologist and natural historian who left the municipal library of Zurich over 260 folio volumes on his death, all the product of his labors. A serious Alpinist, he was the first great student of European paleontology and the founder of the science of paleobotany, and contributed original work to several other branches of science and medicine, as well as a 29-volume history of Switzerland. (4)

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SCHEUCHZER, JOHANN JAKOB. Kupfer-Bibel, in welcher die Physica sacra, oder geheiligte Natur-Wissenschaft derer in heil. Schrifft vorkommenden natürlichen Sachen deutlich erklaert und bewaehrt. Augsburg und Ulm; Christian Ulrich Wagner 1731-35. 4 vols., folio, 376 x 237 mm. (14 13/16 x 9 5/16 in.), contemporary German mottled sheep over pasteboards, covers with blind-tooled border, spines gilt, calf lettering-pieces, comb-marbled edges, rubbed, gilding darkened, upper inner hinges weak, 4-inch tear to fol. 1:Nn2, a very few short marginal tears, some marginal soiling, occasional light foxing, a few text leaves browned, particularly in vol. 3. FIRST EDITION, gothic type, double column, 1 mezzotint and 1 engraved portrait, engraved frontispiece, 760 engraved plates on 758 sheets, those showing Biblical scenes (the majority) each within a different elaborate architectural or emblematic border, the plates by various engravers after J. M. Füssli, the borders after J. D. Preissler, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Nissen ZBI 3659 (erroneously calling for 3 portraits and 762 plates). An imaginative attempt to reconcile the Bible with "the principles of the new philosophy and natural sciences" (Foreword, p. [1]), through illustrations of and analytical commentary on the natural, supernatural and sociological phenomena described in the Old and New Testaments. A physician by training, Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a formidably prolific Swiss geologist and natural historian who left the municipal library of Zurich over 260 folio volumes on his death, all the product of his labors. A serious Alpinist, he was the first great student of European paleontology and the founder of the science of paleobotany, and contributed original work to several other branches of science and medicine, as well as a 29-volume history of Switzerland. (4)

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SCHEUCHZER, JOHANN JAKOB. Kupfer-Bibel, in welcher die Physica sacra, oder geheiligte Natur-Wissenschaft derer in heil. Schrifft vorkommenden natürlichen Sachen deutlich erklaert und bewaehrt. Augsburg und Ulm; Christian Ulrich Wagner 1731-35. 4 vols., folio, 376 x 237 mm. (14 13/16 x 9 5/16 in.), contemporary German mottled sheep over pasteboards, covers with blind-tooled border, spines gilt, calf lettering-pieces, comb-marbled edges, rubbed, gilding darkened, upper inner hinges weak, 4-inch tear to fol. 1:Nn2, a very few short marginal tears, some marginal soiling, occasional light foxing, a few text leaves browned, particularly in vol. 3. FIRST EDITION, gothic type, double column, 1 mezzotint and 1 engraved portrait, engraved frontispiece, 760 engraved plates on 758 sheets, those showing Biblical scenes (the majority) each within a different elaborate architectural or emblematic border, the plates by various engravers after J. M. Füssli, the borders after J. D. Preissler, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Nissen ZBI 3659 (erroneously calling for 3 portraits and 762 plates).

An imaginative attempt to reconcile the Bible with "the principles of the new philosophy and natural sciences" (Foreword, p. [1]), through illustrations of and analytical commentary on the natural, supernatural and sociological phenomena described in the Old and New Testaments. A physician by training, Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a formidably prolific Swiss geologist and natural historian who left the municipal library of Zurich over 260 folio volumes on his death, all the product of his labors. A serious Alpinist, he was the first great student of European paleontology and the founder of the science of paleobotany, and contributed original work to several other branches of science and medicine, as well as a 29-volume history of Switzerland. (4)