
Lot 1015
SHELLFISH. BORN, IGNAZ EDLER VON. 1742-1791. Index rerum naturalium Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis. Pars I. Testacea. Vienna: Kraus, 1778.
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SHELLFISH.
BORN, IGNAZ EDLER VON. 1742-1791. Index rerum naturalium Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis. Pars I. Testacea. Vienna: Kraus, 1778.
8vo (204 x 134 mm). [xlii], 458, [82] pp. Engraved title-page, hand-colored engraved plate. Early red calf over marbled boards, spine gilt. Faint dampstain in gutter margin of first several leaves and in fore-edge margin of final several leaves, else internally clean, flaking to joints, chips to head of spine, corners rubbed.
FIRST EDITION, ALL PUBLISHED. A catalogue of the Royal Imperial Natural History Collection in Vienna.
8vo (204 x 134 mm). [xlii], 458, [82] pp. Engraved title-page, hand-colored engraved plate. Early red calf over marbled boards, spine gilt. Faint dampstain in gutter margin of first several leaves and in fore-edge margin of final several leaves, else internally clean, flaking to joints, chips to head of spine, corners rubbed.
FIRST EDITION, ALL PUBLISHED. A catalogue of the Royal Imperial Natural History Collection in Vienna.