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    Hardcover. Condition: Good. second edition - 12,7 x 7 cm - [6]+578 (really 576)+[2] pgs - full vellum - title+author in manuscript on back - ex libris in manuscript on first free endpaper - part of first endpaper that has to be glued on board is missing, probably to see what is underneath - in all very good copy - Garrisson Morton 287.

  • Seller image for Historiae Naturalis de Insectis for sale by ecbooks

    Joh. Jonstonus; John Jonston; Johannes Jonstonus; Jan Jonston

    Language: Latin

    Published by Joannem Jacobi fil. Schipper, 1657

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    Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 2nd Edition. A fair copy of the extremely scarce Insectis section of Jan Jonston's famous work Historiae Naturalis. Jonston (1603-1675) studied botany and medicine and was a doctor. This copy is classed as 'fair' because it has been rebound in plain buckram binding without the title page, and the paper is very soft and lightly stained to the bottom outer corner margin. Contents are otherwise complete with 28 full page plates. The binding is clean and sound with gilt titles to spine. Contents: new endpapers; dedication 1p; Preface with plate list 3pp; Referenda ad pagninam 2pp with Plate I; text liber I pp 1-84; liber II 85-128; liber III 129-138; liber IV 139-147 with 27 further plates placed with relevant text; index 1p. Interestingly the final section includes starfish and seahorses. The contents are in very good clean condition apart from the paper damage mentioned above which has resulted in crumbling to the bottom corner of the dedication and preface leaf.

  • Seller image for Thaumatographia naturalis in decem classes distincta in quibus admiranda for sale by Librairie Alain Brieux

    JONSTON, Joh

    Publication Date: 1632

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    Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. [4] ff., 5 à 501 pp. Amsterdam, Guilhelm Blaev, 1632, in-12, [4] ff, 5 à 501 pp, Vélin de l'époque, dos lisse titre à l'encre. qq rouss, f. A4 dentelé. ex-libris manuscrit, I - Coeli, II - Elementorum, III - Meteororum, IV - Fossilium, V - Plantarum, VI - Alium, VII - Quadrupedum, VIII - Exanguium, IX - Piscium, X - Homini. Première édition. La Thaumatographia Naturalis (ou description des merveilles de la nature) a paru pour la première fois en 1632. Outre l'aspect scientifique on trouve dans ce recueil sur les animaux, les plantes, les météores, les fossiles, les oiseaux, etc, nombre d'anecdotes curieuses et étranges. Johnston rapporte plusieurs cas de somnambulisme. Ainsi un jeune homme sortait toutes les nuits de son lit, vêtu seulement de sa chemise ; puis montant sur la fenêtre de sa chambre, il sautait à cheval sur le mur et le talonnait pour accélérer la course qu'il croyait faire. Un autre descendit dans un puits et s'éveilla aussitôt que son pied eut touché l'eau froide. On trouve collecté dans l'ouvrage nombre de superstitions et croyances anciennes sur les propriétés des plantes. Provenance : Philibert-Joseph Le Roux, (auteur du Dictionnaire comique, satyrique, critique, burlesque, libre et proverbial, 1752) avec sa signature sur le page de titre. Incomplet des 4 premières pages matérialisées par des ff. bl. Garrison-Morton 287" A compilation of all the contemporary zoological knowledge". DSB VII, p. 164 "the significant contribution his works made to the growing interest in natural history during the first half of the seventeenth century.".