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KLOBIUS, JUSTUS FIDUS. Ambrae historiam. 3 engraved plates; folding engraved map of Europe, Africa, and Asia, also showing Greenland and small portion of Australia. [8], 76 pages. bound with: WURFFBAIN, JOHANN PAUL. Salamandrologia; h. e., Descriptio Historico-Philologico-Philosophico-Medica Salamandrae. 5 etched plates. [8], 133, [14] pages, including etched additional title, and errata leaf at end. Together, 2 works in one volume. 4to, 188x164 mm, contemporary vellum boards, covers warped; contents toned, occasional marginal dampstaining, folding map in first work and additional title in second cropped at bottom with slight image loss, imprint cropped on letterpress title in second work. Wittenberg: Matthaeus Henckel for Tobias Mevius & Elerdus Schumacher, 1666; Nuremberg: Johann Michael Spörlin for Georg Scheurer, 1683
first editions. The first work deals with the characteristics and medicinal uses of amber, and its supposed origin as either bird or whale excrement; the second, with the anatomy, behavior, lore, and iconography of the salamander. Sinkankas 3466 (for Klobius); Nissen ZBI 4485 (for Wurffbain); Thorndike VIII, 18 and 47.
