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Lot 191

[WAGNER (PETER CHRISTIAN)
Abbildungen der seltensten und schönsten Stücke des Hochfürstlichen Naturalienkabinets in Bayreuth], first edition, [Leipzig and Nuremberg, Fritsch, 1762-4]

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[WAGNER (PETER CHRISTIAN)

Abbildungen der seltensten und schönsten Stücke des Hochfürstlichen Naturalienkabinets in Bayreuth], first edition, as issued without title, double-column text in German and Latin, 16 hand-coloured engraved plates on 15 sheets, some printed in sepia, first plate remargined, another trimmed at fore-edge and a third tightly bound touching numeral, first gathering soft and mounted on stub, early manuscript title to verso of first plate, and Latin names supplied on plates, contemporary boards, rubbed, modern solander box [Nissen ZBI 4309], folio (415 x 290mm.), [Leipzig and Nuremberg, Fritsch, 1762-4]

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EXTREMELY RARE work, in which Wagner describes the specimens in the princely Wunderkammer of Bayreuth. It was issued in four parts, without a title page; the title comes from a sole surviving subscription leaf which was issued in 1762. The fine plates depict a crocodile preserved in a jar, apes, a miniature goat, squirrels, toads, a chameleon, and other natural curiosities. No other copy appears on ABPC; one appears in a 1977 bookseller's catalogue on Rare Book Hub.

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