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an open book with a picture of a man on a horse and a woman on a horsean open book with a black and white title on itan image of a piece of wood with a number on itan old book with a brown cover sitting on top of a white table
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603 - WOLFART (Dr Peter): *Historiae naturalis Hassiae inferioris,…
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Estimate €300 - €500
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WOLFART (Dr Peter): *Historiae naturalis Hassiae inferioris, pars prima: qua potiora & elegantiora hujus fossilia,…* Kassel, printed by Heinrich Harmes, the Princely Court Printer of Hesse, Court Printer, 1719, folio. Includes an allegorical frontispiece engraved by Johann August Corvinus after a design by Johann Andreas Thelot. The plates were engraved by Johann August Corvinus. 52 pp. in Latin and German (magnificent Gothic typefaces), 25 plates of engravings of minerals, fossils and polished axes, including a study of the latter, then known as ‘thunderstones’. Full marbled calfskin, spine with six raised bands and decoration, title label, triple gilt fillets on the covers, double fillets on the edges, marbled edges, rounded corners. Handwritten bookplate on the title page: ‘Je suis au duc de Mortemart’. Second printed bookplate (G. de Reynold, captain in the Swiss Guards). Bound together with: Memorandum presented to His Majesty’s Council, on the basis of which the King ordered the establishment of free education in the arts..., In Paris, printed by Jacques Quillau, 1724, 43 pp. + 103 pp. of supporting documents to demonstrate that the profits from the privileges of the Messageries of the University of Paris are insufficient to provide free education in the colleges. Bound together with: *Amours des Rois de France de la seconde race*, without a title page, 40 pp.
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About the sale Original comic strips and comic books, antique and modern books – Afternoon sale at 2 pm
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Auction time 09/09/2026 at 2:00 PM
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