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LOT 423
SOLD €340,00

[Conrad of Magdeburg] Wonderen der natuyr

of een beschryvingh van de wonderlijke geschapenheyt der natuyr, des hemelsche firmaments, sterren, planeten en cometen; als mede van dese sichtbare wereldt en der zee. (...) Uyt veele geloofwaardige schryvers by een vergadert, en t'samengestelt door J.H.S.M.F. 's Gravenhage, Meyndert Uytwerf, 1694. (48),463,(21) pp., with profusely engraved allegorical frontispiece and 29 (of 30) engraved plates (partly folding), incl. a world map and maps of the sun and the moon, contemporary vellum, 4to.

Binding rubbed and stained, lacks one plate, one folding plate torn, mild waterstaining, stamp to title. Somewhat used copy of the first and only edition. Curious scientific work. According to NCC compiled by Conrad of Magdeburg, others attribute the work to Johann Heinrich Seyfried. Scheepers I, 569.

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