KNORR, Georg Wolfgang. Les Delices des Yeux et de l'Esprit, ou collection générale des differentes especes de coquillages, Nuremberg: 1764-70, parts I-IV in 2 volumes only (of 6 parts), 4° (242 x 198mm.), each part with engraved hand-coloured title, 120 hand -coloured engraved plates (shell names in pencil to most plates, text occasionally spotted), contemporary tree calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments (upper and lower joints of vol. I cracked, rubbed), marbled edges. [Nissen ZBI 2235] (2)

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KNORR, Georg Wolfgang. Les Delices des Yeux et de l'Esprit, ou collection générale des differentes especes de coquillages, Nuremberg: 1764-70, parts I-IV in 2 volumes only (of 6 parts), 4° (242 x 198mm.), each part with engraved hand-coloured title, 120 hand -coloured engraved plates (shell names in pencil to most plates, text occasionally spotted), contemporary tree calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments (upper and lower joints of vol. I cracked, rubbed), marbled edges. [Nissen ZBI 2235] (2)
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Tullibody, contemporary ownership inscription to engraved title of volumes I and III.

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