SCHEUCHZER JOHANN JAKOB Kupfer Bibel in welcher die Physica

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SCHEUCHZER, JOHANN JAKOB. Kupfer-Bibel, in welcher die Physica Sacra, oder Beheiligte Natur-Wissenschaft derer in Heil. Schrifft vorkommenden Natürlichen Sachen, deutlich erklärt und bewährt. Engraved frontispiece, 2 (of 3) portraits, one of them a mezzotint, and 575 (of 760) plates of natural history subjects and scenes from the Bible by various engravers after Johann Melchior Füssli. 4 volumes. Folio, 392x450 mm, contemporary sheep, badly worn, bindings broken; some marginal soiling and dampstaining, Volume 1 lacks preliminary leaf listing contributing engravers and leaf with pages 543-44. 19th-century booklabel of the Schrötersche Leihbibliothek, their stamp on several plates. Augsburg & Ulm, 1731-35

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