1696 ILLUSTRATED Specula physico-mathematico-historica antique 2 FOLIO VOLUMES

Specula physico-mathematico-historica notabilium ac mirabilium sciendorum, in qua mundi mirabilis oeconomia...
collectus, thesaurus cosmosophis proponitur.


3 parts  in 2 volumes


Nuremberg, Lochner ; 1696.


With 1 engraved frontispiece, 32 copperplates survived, some of the plates are missing, and 16 double-page tables.


Original blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, spines with raised bands, lacks clasps

With damage to pigskin at the back cover of one of the volumes.

Also lacks upper right corner of first 2 leaves of the same volume.

Occasional foxing and toning.

- Graesse VI/2, 503. Ferchl 593. Poggendorff II, 1293. -


Only edition.

Large-scale encyclopedic work.

Part I covers:
astronomy, astrology, cometary science, meteorology.

Part II:
geology and geography (with a list of spas and healing springs), mineralogy (precious stones and metals such as gold, platinum, silver, etc.), botany and zoology;

Part III:
medicine, anatomy, and general anthropology with excursions into deformities and monsters, physiognomy, as well as music, arithmetic, and much more.


- Part 1 contains 11 plates,
Part 2 contains 14,
and Part 3 contains 7 plates

 Bookplate of the Royal Bavarian Forestry School, Weihenstephan.


Size:  10 b y 15 1/2 inches

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