Amusement microscopique tant pour l'esprit, que pour les yeux : contenant cinquante estampes dessinées d'après nature et enluminées, avec leurs explications

by: Ledermüller, Martin Frobenius, 1719-1769; Winterschmid, Adam Wolffgang; Gleichen-Russwurm, Wilhelm Friedrich, Freiherr von, 1717-1783; Preissler, Johann Justin, 1698-1771

Publication date: 1764

Topics: Microscopy, Natural history

Publisher: A Nuremberg : Se grave et se vend chés Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt : Imprimé chés de Lanoy

Collection: getty; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Getty Research Institute

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: French

Volume: v. 2 c. 1

Library's copy lacks frontispiece in vol. 3, found in some copies

Bound in modern paper-covered boards; leather label with gilt title on spine; vols. 1 and 2 have bookplate of Baron de Warenghien on front pastedown; vol. 1 has "Table des estampes", handwritten in ink, bound in at end; frontispiece and most of the illustrations are hand-colored

Supplement has special t.p. with title: Reponse de Martin Frobène Ledermuller a quelques objections et doutes a lui faits par Monsieur le baron de Gleichen ... avec une addition de l'entrepeneur de l'ouvrage, Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt ..

Title ornament; head- and tail-pieces

Illustrated with 152 plates, engraved mostly by Winterschmidt after designs by Ledermüller

Vol. 1 includes frontispiece engraved by Johann Justin Preissler after Ledermüller

Notes

No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.

Addeddate: 2017-03-15 17:07:01

Associated-names: Winterschmid, Adam Wolffgang; Gleichen-Russwurm, Wilhelm Friedrich, Freiherr von, 1717-1783; Preissler, Johann Justin, 1698-1771