Apr 12, 2012 - Sale 2275
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Sale 2275 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 5,520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
FORSKÅL, PETER. Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium, quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Folding engraved map. 19, [1], xxxiv, 164 pages * Icones rerum naturalium quas in itinere orientali depingi curavit Petrus Forskål. 43 engraved botanical and zoological plates. 15 pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 4to, contemporary 1/4 calf, spine scuffed and chipped at top; infrequent marginal foxing, minimally affecting plates. Signature of J. van der Hoeven dated 1836; 19th-century stamp of Léon Vaillant; 20th-century stamp of the George Vanderbilt Foundation. Copenhagen: Möller, 1775; 1776
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first editions of descriptions and illustrations of natural history specimens collected during the ill-fated 1761-67 Danish scientific expedition to Arabia, during which all but one of the participants died. Forskål (1732-63) was a physician and botanist who studied under Linnaeus. DSB V, 74; Hogarth, The Penetration of Arabia, pages 39-63; Nissen ZBI 1412.