VERZAMELLING VAN ALLERLEY BEKENDE HOORENS EN SCHULPEN DIE IN HAAR EIGEN KLEUREN AFGEBEELD ZYN: (Collection of many well known Horns and Shells which are shown in their original colors.)

by KNORR, GEORG WOLFGANG

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Amsterdam: Erven van F. Houttuyn, 1770-1775. First printing A Rare Near Fine Complete 2 Volume set. Quarto (8.75 x 11.25 inches, 222.25 x 285.75 mm.) 3/4 Calf with ochre speckled boards. Raised spine with 6 gilt-tooled panels. Gilt lettering set in panels 2 and 3. Minor paper loss to covers, corners bumped. 6 parts bound in 2 Volumes, complete with 190 superb original hand-colored copperplate engravings on fine watermarked paper. VOLUME I: Pp. [4], 118, plus 90 hand-colored copperplate engravings. (Organized thus: First Part; c. 1770, title-page, [intro], pp. 1-44, plates #1-30. Second Part; c. 1772, title-page, pp. 45-82, plates # 1-30, plates 26 & 27 are misbound, pl. 27 precedes pl. 26. Third Part; c. 1772, title-page, pp. 83-118, plates #1-30, plates 21 & 22 and 26 & 27 are misbound as pl. 22 precedes pl. 21, and pl. 27 precedes pl. 26.) VOLUME II: Pp. 117, plus 100 hand-colored copperplate engravings. (Organized thus: Fourth Part; c. 1773, title-page, pp. 1-34, plates #1-30. Pl. 1 & 2 and 6 & 7 are misbound as pl. 2 precedes pl. 1 and pl. 7 precedes pl. 6. Fifth Part; c. 1774, title-page, pp. 35-62, plates #1-30. Pl. #6 & 7, 16 & 17 and 26 & 27 are misbound in opposition. Sixth Part; title-page, pp. 63-117, plates #1-40. Plates 2 & 3 are misbound in opposition.)Plus Systematic Arrangement of Horns and Shells, and Alphabetical Register. This Dutch edition was not issued with the hand-colored frontispiece, as were the French and German editions, and is thus complete. Each volume with armorial bookplates from members of the family Oates, including Robert Washington Oates (1874-1958), on the first four leaves. (Robert Washington Oates funded the Oates Museum, which commemorates the life and work of The Reverend Gilbert White (1720-1793), author of the world-famous Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.) Georg Wolfgang Knorr (1705-61), a dedicated painter and engraver of natural subjects, earned the attention and respect of the celebrated Nuremberg doctor and Patron of the Arts, Christoph Jakob Trew, association with who was a merit of excellence and achievement. The complete title of this fabulous Conchology is "G. W. Knorr's Enjoyment for the Eyes and for the Mind or Collection of many well known horns and shells in their original colors: now examined, improved, continued, and published with a whole new Low-German [Dutch] description." During the 18th and early 19th centuries, shell collecting was a near obsession with European aristocrats and naturalists. The Dutch, in particular, were passionate collectors of the newly discovered natural curiosities acquired from all parts of the globe. This work documents and illustrates the vast array of the private holdings, with the name of each collector engraved beneath his or her own shell. In addition, the Dutch produced some of most lavish color plate volumes of the era. And although this work first appeared in both French and German editions, this Dutch edition features the richest coloration, which mirrors the actual specimens from which they were produced. (Dance p. 217; Blunt and Stearn p. 168; Buchanan, Nature into Art p. 189-191).

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