Musei Gottwaldiani Testaceorum Stellarum Marinarum Et Coralliorum Quae Supersunt Tablulae Die

by Johann Samuel Schroter

$12,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Contemporary German gray marbled boards, spine with gilt paper label and gilt in compartments, red edges. Provenance: Dr. J. M. W. Baumanni emblematic bookplate The catalogue of celebrated Gottwald cabinet. First edition of a fine illustrated catalogue of the shell collection from the famous cabinet of the Danzig physician Christoph Gottwald 1636-1700 . Gottwald's collection of natural history objects, one of the largest in Germany, was continued after

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