SCHEUCHZER, JOHANN JAKOB. Physica Sacra. [Augsburg and Ulm: C.U. Wagner, 1734-35]. Bound in one vol., thick folio, contemporary diced and blind-panelled russia, rebacked, new endpapers, plates 24-26 with small tears, plate 593 torn and repaired, lower outer corners of plates 700 to 750 dampstained, a few minor stains, no leaves of letterpress. Engraved portrait of Pfeffel by I.G. Pintz after G. de Marees, mezzotint of Scheuchzer by T. Laub after I.H. Heidigger, engraved allegorical frontispiece by Sperling after Preisler, 760 engraved plates comprising: 750 numbered engravings on 748 sheets (with nos. 37, 38 and 39 on one double-page sheet) plus 10 bis plates (nos. 39, 99, 133, 217, 223, 340, 446, +446, 463 and 470); nos. 1, 37-39, 291, 423 and 432 are double page, most plates in ornamental frames. Nissen ZBI 3660 (noting 762 plates in error).

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SCHEUCHZER, JOHANN JAKOB. Physica Sacra. [Augsburg and Ulm: C.U. Wagner, 1734-35]. Bound in one vol., thick folio, contemporary diced and blind-panelled russia, rebacked, new endpapers, plates 24-26 with small tears, plate 593 torn and repaired, lower outer corners of plates 700 to 750 dampstained, a few minor stains, no leaves of letterpress. Engraved portrait of Pfeffel by I.G. Pintz after G. de Marees, mezzotint of Scheuchzer by T. Laub after I.H. Heidigger, engraved allegorical frontispiece by Sperling after Preisler, 760 engraved plates comprising: 750 numbered engravings on 748 sheets (with nos. 37, 38 and 39 on one double-page sheet) plus 10 bis plates (nos. 39, 99, 133, 217, 223, 340, 446, +446, 463 and 470); nos. 1, 37-39, 291, 423 and 432 are double page, most plates in ornamental frames. Nissen ZBI 3660 (noting 762 plates in error).

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