Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 240

Price Realized: $ 5,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 2,500
Schott, Gaspar (1608-1666)
Physica Curiosa [and] Technica Curiosa.

Wurzburg: Sumptibus Endter & Wolffgang Jr. Haeredum, Excudebat Hertz, 1662.

Three thick quarto volumes, the two parts of Physica Curiosa illustrated with engraved title in the first volume and fifty-eight engraved plates (some folding) throughout the set, bound in uniform rough parchment (or alum-tawed skin) over wooden boards, ruled in blind, 8 x 6 1/4 in.; Technica Curiosa with half-title and engraved title, engraved full-paged arms and an additional sixty plates, lacking typographical title page and author portrait; bound in full contemporary parchment, some spotting, 8 1/2 x 6 in. (3)



Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.