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fruit; amongst them chestnut, walnut, cedar, plum, cherry, blackthorn, oak, dog roses (several
representations), etc. Published in separate booklets from 1826 to 1835. The volume, which
contains the plates, is supposedly the second edition because the first few plates show the sign
of the publishing company “Müller & Oehme”. Some parts of the text show stronger foxing,
waterstained margins in the beginning, volume containing plates partly stained.
48 LAMBERT, J.H. Freye Perspective, oder Anweisung, jeden perspektivischen Aufriß von freyen
Stücken und ohne Grundriß zu verfertigen. 2nd extended edition. 2 parts in 1 vol. Zürich, Orell,
Geßner, Füeßlin u Comp., 1774. 8vo. 4 unn. ll., 206 pp., 1 unn. l.; 181 pp., 1 unn. l., with 10
folded engraved plates. Contemporary half calf with label on spine, gilt, (slightly worn).
£ 1.200.00
Second edition, enlarged with the second part. Classical work on perspective, rare. Poggendorff
I, 1355; comp. with Darmstädter 203 (ed. 1759). "Intended for the artist wishing to give a
perspective drawing without first having to construct a ground plan, it is nevertheless a
masterpiece in descriptive geometry, caontaining a wealth of geometrical discoveries." (DSB VI,
599). Plates with some minor foxing, front- and endpaper with numerous handwritten notes,
Name on title verso.
49 LEMERY, Nicolas. Pharmacopée Universelle, contenant toutes les compositions de
pharmacie... Avec un lexicon pharmaceutique... 4me edition, revue, corrigée et augmentées.
Den Haag, Gosse et Neaulme, 1729. 4to. 8 unn. ll., 780 pp., 13 unn. ll., with engraved vignette
on title. Contemporary calf, richly gilt, (worn, hinges and lower end of spine restored). £ 500.00
Fourth revised edition of the popular French book. This edition not with Wellcome and Blake.
Name on frontpaper, some foxing on margins.
50 LENCKER, Hans. Perspectiva hierinnen auffs kürtzte beschrieben, mit Exemplen eröffnet.... ein
newe besonder kurtzer, doch gerechter unnd sehr leichter weg, wie allerley ding, es seen
Corpora, Gebew, oder was möglich zuerdencken und in grund zulegen ist, verruckt oder
unverruckt, ferner in die Perspectyf gebracht werden mag, on einige vergeblich linie, riß un(d)
puncten etc. dergleichen weg bißhero noch nit bekant gewesen. Nuremberg, Dietrich Gerlatz
(Gerlach), 1571. Folio. 6 unn., XXIX num. ll., with woodcut ornamental border on title, 1 folded
woodcut plate and 10 full-page text woodcuts. New blind-stamped pigskin on wooden boards in
a green half-morocco case (signed Lobstein). £ 4.900.00
First edition. VD 16, L 1147; British Museum, STC German Books 493; Kat. Ornamentstichslg.
Berlin 4696. Famous textbook on perspective with lots of examples of use. Lencker is a
descendant of one of the most distinguished goldsmith families in Renaissance Nuremberg. He
invented optical instruments and fabricated geometric and perspective models. By his own
account he also processed ideas of Albrecht Dürer. The publication of this work was the reason
for his employment as a teacher for perspective at the court of Christian I. in Dresden. Nowadays
Hans Lencker is reckoned as one of the three 16 th century Nuremberg constructivists, along with
Wenzel Jamnitzer and Lorenz Stöer. Minor stocking, slightly water-stained margins on few
pages, fine copy.
51 MILLER, John Frederik. Cimelia Physica. Figures of rare and curious Quadrupeds, Birds, etc.
Together with several of the most elegant Plants. Engraved and coloured from the subjects
themselves. With descriptions by George Shaw. London, Bensley for Benjamin and John White
and John Sewell, 1796. Imp.-Folio. 2 unn. ll., 106 pp., with 60 contemporary hand-coloured
engraved plates. Contemporary green half marocco, gilt label, gilt edges, (slightly rubbed,
corners marginal bumped). £ 16.000.00
Re-issue of the second edition (some plates are watermarked 1811 or 1816). Scarce. The first
edtion was 1776-1792 published as: "Various Subjects of Natural History, wherein are delineated
Birds, Animals and many curious Plants..." and is on the wantlist by the British Museum. Nissen
IVB 638; Zimmer II, 585; Wood S. 465; BLNH III, S. 1313; Anker S. 34; Sitwell S. 123. Our copy
with the often lacking list of plates. 41 of the plates are showing birds (mostly in landscapes or
with plants), 7 plants, the other ones are of an elk; monkeys, a chameleon, a turtle and so on.
Most of the plates have watermarks by the famous manufactures of J.Whatman or J.Taylor. The
text by George Shaw was first published in the second editon. Plates in fine contemporary handcolouring,
showing many newly discovered plants and animals, but mostly birds (among parrots
and penguins). "Miller [...] had accompanied Banks and Solander as draughtsman on the voyage
to Iceland, engraved and coloured the plates himself, 41 of which contain figures of birds 'from