Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
DILLENIUS, JOHANN JAKOB. Historia Muscorum; or, A General History of Land and Water, &c. Mosses and Corals, containing All the Known Species. 85 uncolored engraved plates. [2], 13, [1], 10 pages. 4to, contemporary tree calf, rebacked retaining original gilt-tooled flat spine, cover corners worn; unobtrusive pencil marginalia on most plates, institutional stamp on title and text leaves and in blank lower margin of several plates. London: J. Millan, 1768
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Reissue of the plates from the author's 1741 Historia muscorum with abbreviated explanatory text in English and Latin. DSB IV, 99; Henrey 641; Nissen BBI 491.