Lot 107
Herbinius, Dissertationes de cataractis
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06-05-2025 / Lot 97-197 / session starting 3.45 PM
Herbinius, J. Dissertationes de admirandis mundi cataractis supra & subterraneis... nec non terrestri ac primigenio Paradiso locus. Amsterdam, Janssonius-Waesberge, 1678. 4to (21:16,5 cm). Mit gest. Titel, 2 (1 eingefalt.) Kupfertaf., 2 gefalt. Kupferkarten u. 21 halbseit. Textkupfern. 7 Bll., 267 S., 8 Bll. Prgt. d. Zt. mit hs. Rtit.; gering fleckig.
Second enlarged edition. With engr. title, 2 engr. plates, 2 engr. folding maps and 21 half-page engravings in the text. - Slight browning and foxing. Marginal tear to 2 plates, title with owner's insription. Bound in in contemp. full vellum with ms. title to spine.
Poggendorff I, 1075 (etwas abw.); Wellcome III, 251; Thorndike VII, 587. - Zweite, stark erweiterte Ausgabe. Interessante, teilw. auch kuriose Beschreibungen von Katarakten in Mitteleuropa, Skandinavien, Afrika u. Asien, ferner über die Lage des Paradieses u. v. a. Die Kupfer zeigen Karten (darunter "Situs Paradisi in terra Canaan") u. Ansichten, darunter Donau-Strudel u. -Wirbel, Bingen mit dem Mäuseturm, Rheinfall, Rheinschnellen bei Tiengen, Trollhättan-Fall etc. - Etwas gebräunt u. schwach fleckig. 2 Taf. mit Randeinriss, Titel mit altem Namenszug.