Ending Aug 15, 2023 10:03 EST

Rare Books, Autographs & Maps

 
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CAMERARIUS, JOACHIM Symbolorum et emblematum animalibus quadrupedibus.

CAMERARIUS, JOACHIM
Symbolorum et emblematum animalibus quadrupedibus.
Nuremberg: P. Kaufmann, 1595. First edition. Early 20th-century tan calf, all edges gilt, maroon morocco spine label. (19.5 x 14 cm); 116 ff.; Illustrated with engraved title-page and 100 engraved circular emblems by Hans Sibmacher. Binding with some wear, some very light marginal staining, overall very good. Earl of Mexborough copy with his bookplate on the front paste-down; bookplate (by Marie Angel?) initialed "DP" on the front fly-leaf.

A charming emblem book on quadrupeds, both real and fantastical, compiled by the renowned botanist, Joachim Camerarius. This is the second of a four-part series of emblem books on natural subjects by him, the others depicting ornithological and botanical subjects. He owned and cultivated a large garden of rare plants in Nuremberg, some of which he supplied to travelling merchants; in 1588 he published a catalogue of these, the Hortus Medicus. Besler's Hortus Eystettensis of 1613 celebrates the garden that Camerarius began. Faber du Faur 668. Landwehr, German 166. Nissen ZBI 792. Praz p. 295.

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CAMERARIUS, JOACHIM
Symbolorum et emblematum animalibus quadrupedibus.
Nuremberg: P. Kaufmann, 1595. First edition. Early 20th-century tan calf, all edges gilt, maroon morocco spine label. (19.5 x 14 cm); 116 ff.; Illustrated with engraved title-page and 100 engraved circular emblems by Hans Sibmacher. Binding with some wear, some very light marginal staining, overall very good. Earl of Mexborough copy with his bookplate on the front paste-down; bookplate (by Marie Angel?) initialed "DP" on the front fly-leaf.

A charming emblem book on quadrupeds, both real and fantastical, compiled by the renowned botanist, Joachim Camerarius. This is the second of a four-part series of emblem books on natural subjects by him, the others depicting ornithological and botanical subjects. He owned and cultivated a large garden of rare plants in Nuremberg, some of which he supplied to travelling merchants; in 1588 he published a catalogue of these, the Hortus Medicus. Besler's Hortus Eystettensis of 1613 celebrates the garden that Camerarius began. Faber du Faur 668. Landwehr, German 166. Nissen ZBI 792. Praz p. 295.

Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, ending Aug 15, 2023

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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle held a successful auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on August 15, 2023. Offered was a summer miscellany of sporting material, Americana, fine bindings, literature, autographs, maps and more!
 

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