Author: Knorr, G.
Title: Delices de la nature ou choix de tout ce que les trois regnes de la nature renferment de plus digne des recherches d'un curieux, pour en former un cabinet ouvrage communiqué ci-devant au public par Georg Wolfgang Knorr célébre graveur de Nuremberg continué par ses héritiers avec les descriptions et remarques de Philippe Louis Statius Müller ... revû, corrigé et augmenté d'une préface par Mr. Jean Ernest Emanuel Walch ...traduit de l'allemand par Jaques Frederic Isenflamm. [Mammalian embryos and peculiar species].
Description: Nuremberg, les héritiers de feu G. W. Knorr, 1779. Folio (54.5 x 38.0 cm). A very beautiful hand-coloured engraved plate. = A fine, large plate illustrating two embryos, including one of a panther, and some other images from the mammal section of the rare first edition of the large format French printing of Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae oder auserlesenes Naturaliencabinet... - a rare, truly great and sumptuously illustrated German natural history book from the 'Golden Age' of southern German printing. This plate was drawn and engraved by Knorr's son in law, C. N. Kleemann. This plate is much larger than the plates in Knorr's other works. A clean and brightly coloured plate. Rare. Nissen ZBI, 2227.

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