Jun 06, 2019 - Sale 2512

Sale 2512 - Lot 306

Price Realized: $ 1,820
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JOHNSTON, JOHN. Historiae Naturalis de Piscibus et Cetis Libri V. Title-page in red and black, 228 pages, 47 full-page engraved plates of fishes and whales by Matthaeus Merian. bound with: Johnston, John. Historia Naturalis de Exanguibus Aquaticis Libri IV. Title-page, 78, [6] pages, 20 full-page engraved plates of crustaceans, shells and sea life by Merian. Two volumes in one. Folio, 13 1/2x8 1/4 inches, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and recornered; light foxing, letterpress offsetting to many plates. Heilbronn: F.J. Eckebrecht, 1767