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Hortus Eystettensis, Diligens et accurata omnium plantrium, florium, stirpium, qvae, ex variis orbis terrae partibus, singulari studio collectarum, quae in celeberrimis viridariis arcem episcopalem ibidem cingentibus, olim conspiciebantur delineatio et ad vivum repraesentatio et advivum repraesentatio opera.
Wolfg. Kil[ian].
Basilii Beslaeri Philiatri et Pharmacopoei. M.D C. XIII.
Copper engraving. Sheet size: 495 x 395mm (19½ x 15½). Very scarce. Trimmed inside platemark. Damaged. Laid on backing sheet.
The titlepage to 'Hortus Eystettensis' by Basilius Besler, published in 1613. The Bishop, Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, commissioned Besler to produce the work, which he compiled over sixteen years, although the bishop died before its completion. Besler had the assistance of his brother and a group of skilled German draughtsmen and engravers, including Sebastian Schedel, an accomplished painter, and Wolfgang Kilian, a skilled engraver from Augsburg. Kilian and his team engraved the initial copper plates, but after the bishop’s death, the operations moved to Nürnberg and a new team of engravers, among whom were Johannes Leypold, Georg Gärtner, Levin and Friedrich van Hulsen, Peter Isselburg, Heinrich Ulrich, Dominicus Custos and Servatius Raeven. Camerarius' nephew, Ludwig Jungermann (1572-1653), was a botanist and wrote most of the descriptive text.
[Ref: 39039] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Wolfg. Kil[ian].
Basilii Beslaeri Philiatri et Pharmacopoei. M.D C. XIII.
Copper engraving. Sheet size: 495 x 395mm (19½ x 15½). Very scarce. Trimmed inside platemark. Damaged. Laid on backing sheet.
The titlepage to 'Hortus Eystettensis' by Basilius Besler, published in 1613. The Bishop, Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, commissioned Besler to produce the work, which he compiled over sixteen years, although the bishop died before its completion. Besler had the assistance of his brother and a group of skilled German draughtsmen and engravers, including Sebastian Schedel, an accomplished painter, and Wolfgang Kilian, a skilled engraver from Augsburg. Kilian and his team engraved the initial copper plates, but after the bishop’s death, the operations moved to Nürnberg and a new team of engravers, among whom were Johannes Leypold, Georg Gärtner, Levin and Friedrich van Hulsen, Peter Isselburg, Heinrich Ulrich, Dominicus Custos and Servatius Raeven. Camerarius' nephew, Ludwig Jungermann (1572-1653), was a botanist and wrote most of the descriptive text.
[Ref: 39039] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
J.ph Hippolite Cloquet. (Médecin-Anatomiste et Zoologiste. Membre titulaire de l'Académie de Médicine.
Dessiné d'apres nature en 1826 et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple. 215 x 146mm (8½ x 5¾").
Portrait of Hippolyte Cloquet (1787-1840), anatomist who was a pioneer in the field of rhinology. In 1821 he published 'Osphrésiologie, ou traité des odeurs', a comprehensive treatise on olfaction, diseases of the nose, deviations of the septum and rhinoplasty. From a series of portraits of scientists engraved by Tardieu.
Wellcome: 627
[Ref: 38928] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Dessiné d'apres nature en 1826 et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple. 215 x 146mm (8½ x 5¾").
Portrait of Hippolyte Cloquet (1787-1840), anatomist who was a pioneer in the field of rhinology. In 1821 he published 'Osphrésiologie, ou traité des odeurs', a comprehensive treatise on olfaction, diseases of the nose, deviations of the septum and rhinoplasty. From a series of portraits of scientists engraved by Tardieu.
Wellcome: 627
[Ref: 38928] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
G. Frédéric Cuvier (Zoologiste)
Dessiné d'apres nature en 1826 et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple. 215 x 146mm (8½ x 5¾").
Georges-Frédéric Cuvier (1773-1838), French zoologist and paleontologist, head keeper of the menagerie at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris 1804-38, named the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) in 1825. He earned mentions in both Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' (his writings on animal behaviour and instinct) and 'Moby-Dick' (having written on the topic of whales). From a series of portraits of scientists engraved by Tardieu.
Wellcome: 741
[Ref: 38930] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
Dessiné d'apres nature en 1826 et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple. 215 x 146mm (8½ x 5¾").
Georges-Frédéric Cuvier (1773-1838), French zoologist and paleontologist, head keeper of the menagerie at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris 1804-38, named the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) in 1825. He earned mentions in both Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' (his writings on animal behaviour and instinct) and 'Moby-Dick' (having written on the topic of whales). From a series of portraits of scientists engraved by Tardieu.
Wellcome: 741
[Ref: 38930] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
Gulielmus Cowper Chyrurgus.
I. Closterman pinxit. I. Smith fecit.
[n.d., c.1698.]
Mezzotint. Platemark: 390 x 280mm (15¼ x 11").
A portrait of English surgeon and anatomist William Cowper (1666 - 1709) , half-length in an oval. This portrait was prefixed to Cowper's 'Anatomy of Humane Bodies' (Oxford, 1698).
Chaloner Smith. 64. Wellcome: 701
[Ref: 39383] £380.00
I. Closterman pinxit. I. Smith fecit.
[n.d., c.1698.]
Mezzotint. Platemark: 390 x 280mm (15¼ x 11").
A portrait of English surgeon and anatomist William Cowper (1666 - 1709) , half-length in an oval. This portrait was prefixed to Cowper's 'Anatomy of Humane Bodies' (Oxford, 1698).
Chaloner Smith. 64. Wellcome: 701
[Ref: 39383] £380.00
Heelmeester. De duyvel, Meester Hans, is dat myn arm verbinden! [/] Riep Teuwes; op die schreeu trok Griet een schere bek. [/] Je praat zo wat, zei Hans, ik moet kwaad eerst vinden, [/] Zal ik 't geneezen: wel hoe baarje, ben je gek? A.B.
Corn: dusartfec. et inv. 1695.
Etching. Sheet: 180 x 260mm (7 x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A scene in a Dutch surgeon's surgery in which a surgeon in a cloth cap performs an operation on the arm of a man sitting in a chair, behind them a woman clasps her hands in horror. The surgeon's room is full of tools and a stuffed armadillo hangs from the ceiling above them.
[Ref: 39495] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Corn: dusartfec. et inv. 1695.
Etching. Sheet: 180 x 260mm (7 x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A scene in a Dutch surgeon's surgery in which a surgeon in a cloth cap performs an operation on the arm of a man sitting in a chair, behind them a woman clasps her hands in horror. The surgeon's room is full of tools and a stuffed armadillo hangs from the ceiling above them.
[Ref: 39495] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Friedrich Hoffmann]](jpegs/39209.jpg)
[Friedrich Hoffmann] Fridericus Hoffmannus Regiae Majestatis Prussiae Consiliarius intimus Archiater et Professor [...]
Anton Pesne Pictor R. Effigiem Pinx Petit Sculpsit Parisiis 1739
Engraving, platemark 305 x 205mm (12 x 8"). Large margins. Creasing lower right; fold through centre.
Friedrich Hoffmann (1660-1742), German physician and chemist. He became professor of medicine and natural philosophy at the University of Halle shortly after it was established in 1693, and spent the rest of his career there with the exception of four years in Berlin as royal physician. Hoffmann's achievements were acknowledged by many learned societies, including the Royal Society in England, which made him a fellow in 1720. After Antoine Pesne (1683 - 1757), French painter who spent most of his career as court painter to Frederick the Great.
Wellcome: 1418-8
[Ref: 39209] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Anton Pesne Pictor R. Effigiem Pinx Petit Sculpsit Parisiis 1739
Engraving, platemark 305 x 205mm (12 x 8"). Large margins. Creasing lower right; fold through centre.
Friedrich Hoffmann (1660-1742), German physician and chemist. He became professor of medicine and natural philosophy at the University of Halle shortly after it was established in 1693, and spent the rest of his career there with the exception of four years in Berlin as royal physician. Hoffmann's achievements were acknowledged by many learned societies, including the Royal Society in England, which made him a fellow in 1720. After Antoine Pesne (1683 - 1757), French painter who spent most of his career as court painter to Frederick the Great.
Wellcome: 1418-8
[Ref: 39209] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
![[Francesco Moneti]](jpegs/38940.jpg)
[Francesco Moneti] Fu Teologo Astronomo, e Poeta / Ma perchè troppo critico egli serisse / Trasse la vita sua, or trista or lieta / Di caduta mori come predisse.
[c.1715]
Engraving, platemark 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"). Creasing. Small margins.
Francesco Moneti (1635-1712), mendicant friar, astronomer and writer. He published an annual almanac of astrological predictions, and author of the poem 'Cortona convertita'.
[Ref: 38940] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[c.1715]
Engraving, platemark 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"). Creasing. Small margins.
Francesco Moneti (1635-1712), mendicant friar, astronomer and writer. He published an annual almanac of astrological predictions, and author of the poem 'Cortona convertita'.
[Ref: 38940] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Martin Vahl. (Botaniste), Professeur de Botanique à Copenhague.
Dessiné et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple. 215 x 146mm (8½ x 5¾").
Martin Henrichsen Vahl (1749-1804),a Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist who studied under Carolus Linnaeus. From a series of portraits of scientists engraved by Tardieu.
Wellcome: 3010.
[Ref: 38931] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Dessiné et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple. 215 x 146mm (8½ x 5¾").
Martin Henrichsen Vahl (1749-1804),a Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist who studied under Carolus Linnaeus. From a series of portraits of scientists engraved by Tardieu.
Wellcome: 3010.
[Ref: 38931] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)