VALENTINI, Michael Bernhard.

Museum Museorum, oder Vollständige Schau Bühne aller Materialien und Specereyen, Nebst deren Natürlichen Beschreibung, Election, Nutzen und Gebrauch, Aus andern Material- Kunst- und Naturalien-Kammern, Oost- und West-Indischen Reiss- Beschreibungen...

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Two added engraved titles, 97 plates (many folding), & very numerous engraved illus. in the text. 14 p.l. (incl. added engraved title), 520, [4], 76, 119, [12] pp.; 12 p.l. (incl. added engraved title), 196, 116 pp.; 4 p.l., 228, [11] pp. Three vols. in two. Folio, cont. mottled calf (extremities a bit rubbed & worn), sides ruled in gilt, spines nicely gilt, black & red morocco lettering pieces on spines. Frankfurt am Main: J.D. Zunner, 1714-14-14. Second edition of Vol. I (1st ed.: 1704) and first editions of Vols. II and III. This is a very fine set of a marvelous work; it is one of the great illustrated books of the Baroque era and an inexhaustible repertorium of all oversea products of the late 17th century. Valentini has also described all known cabinets of natural history specimens. The first part illustrates plants (including American specimens), flowers, herbs, trees, many of which were used in pharmaceutical preparations. There are sections on tobacco, coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar, cotton, silk, minerals, metals, and animal husbandry. Part Two treats geological specimens, jewels, fossils, coins, shells, tropical plants, monsters, unicorns and other mythological creatures. The third part is dedicated to natural history and physics, with descriptions of Boyle's air pump, acoustic and optical apparatus, Lana's airship (with suggestions for other aeronautical machines), a chapter on the divining-rod, the lodestone, the threshing machine, etc. There are two appendices, one of which features a list of 159 museums (called "Kunst- and Naturalien-Kammern"), including those in America and Asia. Fine and handsome set from the Macclesfield library. Alden, European Americana, 704. Nissen, BBI, 2035. Nissen, ZBI, 4217. Pritzel 9663. Sabin 98357.

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