LOT 3200
17th May 2011
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LOT 3200
JONSTON, John. Historiae Naturalis de Piscibus et Cetis Libri V. Frankfurt: Matthaeus Merian, [n.d. but 1649.] [bound with:] Historiae Naturalis de Exanguibus Aquaticis Libri IV. Frankfurt: Matthaeus Merian, 1650. Two parts in 1 vol., first editions, folio (325 x 204mm.) Engraved decorative title and 47 plates to Libri V, 21 plates to Libri IV. (Some spotting and browning, occasional creasing, 1 plate reinserted, ink annotation to beached whale plate.) Contemporary vellum (soiled, extremities bumped). Note: Libri V includes the famous plate of a beached whale, and another of a Merman and Mermaid, Libri IV includes two versions of plate II.
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