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JONSTON, John (1603-75). Theatrum Universale Omnium Animalium Quadrupedum. Heilbronn: Christian de Lannoy for Franz Josef Eckebrecht, 1750. 2° (330 x 210mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, dedication, engraved title to first edition, 80 engraved plates after Merian. (Plate V misbound after plate VIII, plates LVII, LVIII, LXXVIIII and LXXV with slight stain at lower margin, occasional extremely light spotting to text.) Old vellum (lightly soiled). Nissen ZBI 2139;
Theatrum Universale de Avibus. Heilbronn: Christian de Lannoy for Franz Josef Eckebrecht, 1756. 2° (330 x 210mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved title to first edition, 62 engraved plates after Merian. (Repair to lower margin of P1 and P4, very light offsetting onto two or three plates.) Uniform old vellum (repair to lower outer corner of front cover, slightly soiled). Anker 237; Zimmer p.342; Nissen IVB 482, note (requires 13 unspecified preliminary pages);
Theatrum Universale Omnium Animalium Insectorum. Heilbronn: Johannes Adam Sigmund for Franz Josef Eckebrecht, 1757 [-68]. Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved title to first edition, 28 engraved plates after Merian. (Plates 13 and 14 misbound, ink stains to lower margin of text pages 121-146 and 167-end, not affecting plates.) [Bound with:] Historiae Naturalis de Serpentibus, libri duo. Heilbronn: Franz Joseph Eckebrecht, 1757. Letterpress title, 12 engraved plates after Merian. (Plate X misbound at end.) 2 works in 1 volume, 2° (330 x 210mm). Uniform old vellum, lettered on spine in ink (lightly soiled and scuffed). Nissen ZBI 2139.
A later edition of Jonston's Historiae Naturalis, libri VI, first published in Frankfurt in 1650. The plates are the same, and the text only slightly altered. The present copy comprises four of the six parts of the work, and is complete up until 1757. (3)
Theatrum Universale de Avibus. Heilbronn: Christian de Lannoy for Franz Josef Eckebrecht, 1756. 2° (330 x 210mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved title to first edition, 62 engraved plates after Merian. (Repair to lower margin of P1 and P4, very light offsetting onto two or three plates.) Uniform old vellum (repair to lower outer corner of front cover, slightly soiled). Anker 237; Zimmer p.342; Nissen IVB 482, note (requires 13 unspecified preliminary pages);
Theatrum Universale Omnium Animalium Insectorum. Heilbronn: Johannes Adam Sigmund for Franz Josef Eckebrecht, 1757 [-68]. Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved title to first edition, 28 engraved plates after Merian. (Plates 13 and 14 misbound, ink stains to lower margin of text pages 121-146 and 167-end, not affecting plates.) [Bound with:] Historiae Naturalis de Serpentibus, libri duo. Heilbronn: Franz Joseph Eckebrecht, 1757. Letterpress title, 12 engraved plates after Merian. (Plate X misbound at end.) 2 works in 1 volume, 2° (330 x 210mm). Uniform old vellum, lettered on spine in ink (lightly soiled and scuffed). Nissen ZBI 2139.
A later edition of Jonston's Historiae Naturalis, libri VI, first published in Frankfurt in 1650. The plates are the same, and the text only slightly altered. The present copy comprises four of the six parts of the work, and is complete up until 1757. (3)