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Catalogue of valuable printed books: comprising continental and English books of the sixteenth to twentieth century of natural history, science and medicine, including : Audebert's Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis, 1798 ; Curtis's Flora Londinensis, 1777-98 ; Ercker's Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen ertzt unnd bergwercks arten, 1598 ; Euclid's Elements of geometrie, 1570 ; Galileo's Dialogo, 1632 ; Gesner's De omni rerum fossilium genere, 1565-66 ; Linnaeus's Hortus cliffortianus, 1737 ; Schlegel & Verster de Wulverhorst's Traité de fauconnerie, 1844-53 ; Spix's Selecta genera et species piscium, 1829-32 ; and continental and English books of the fifteenth to twentieth century of literature, history, philosophy, theology, etc., including : Almanach de Gotha, an extensive run, 1784-1944 ; Boccaccio's The fall of princes, 1494 ; Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, 1719-20 ; Diderot & d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, 1778-81 ; Dodwell's Views in Greece, 1821 ; Eden's The state of the poor, 1797 ; Legenda Aurea, Dutch. Passionael, 1516 ; Locke's Essay concerning humane understanding, 1690 ; Platea's Opus restitutionum usurarum excommunicationum, 1472 ; Repton's Fragments on landscape gardening, 1816 ; Restif de la Bretonne's Monument du costume physique et moral de la fin du dix-huitième siècle, 1789 ; Schedel's Nuremberg chronicle, extensively hand-coloured, 1493 ; Turrecremata's Quaestiones euangeliorum, 1478 ; Wotton's Speculum christiani, circa 1486

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Title Catalogue of valuable printed books : comprising continental and English books of the sixteenth to twentieth century of natural history, science and medicine, including : Audebert's Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis, 1798 ; Curtis's Flora Londinensis, 1777-98 ; Ercker's Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen ertzt unnd bergwercks arten, 1598 ; Euclid's Elements of geometrie, 1570 ; Galileo's Dialogo, 1632 ; Gesner's De omni rerum fossilium genere, 1565-66 ; Linnaeus's Hortus cliffortianus, 1737 ; Schlegel & Verster de Wulverhorst's Traité de fauconnerie, 1844-53 ; Spix's Selecta genera et species piscium, 1829-32 ; and continental and English books of the fifteenth to twentieth century of literature, history, philosophy, theology, etc., including : Almanach de Gotha, an extensive run, 1784-1944 ; Boccaccio's The fall of princes, 1494 ; Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, 1719-20 ; Diderot & d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, 1778-81 ; Dodwell's Views in Greece, 1821 ; Eden's The state of the poor, 1797 ; Legenda Aurea, Dutch. Passionael, 1516 ; Locke's Essay concerning humane understanding, 1690 ; Platea's Opus restitutionum usurarum excommunicationum, 1472 ; Repton's Fragments on landscape gardening, 1816 ; Restif de la Bretonne's Monument du costume physique et moral de la fin du dix-huitième siècle, 1789 ; Schedel's Nuremberg chronicle, extensively hand-coloured, 1493 ; Turrecremata's Quaestiones euangeliorum, 1478 ; Wotton's Speculum christiani, circa 1486
Publisher London : Sotheby's, 1982
Physical desc. 86 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates ; illustrations ; 25 cm.
Note 06/07/1982
Property of Professor Lord Zuckerman, F.R.S., John Ehrman, the late Brigadier W. G. Carr, D.S.O., and others.
Includes a loosely inserted list of price estimates and a booklet of price lists for Sotheby's sales held between Monday 5 and Friday 9 July 1982.
Annotated at page 68 (lot 410, Nuremberg chronicle).
Date & place of sale Tuesday 6 July 1982, London
Person as subject Zuckerman, Solly -- Baron -- 1904-1993 -- Library -- Catalogs
Ehrman, John -- Library -- Catalogs
Carr, William Greenwood -- Library -- Catalogs
Subject Rare books -- Catalogs
Illustrated books -- Catalogs
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