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Caroli Nicolai Langii Lucernens. Helvet. Phil. & Medici ... Historia lapidum figuratorum Helvetiae : ejusque viciniae, in quâ non solùm enarrantur omnia eorum genera, species et vires aeneisque tabulis repraesentantur. Sed insuper adducuntur eorum loca nativa, in quibus reperiri solent, ut cuilibet facile sit eos colligere, modo adducta loca adire libeat

by: Lang, Carl Nicolaus, 1670-1741; Besozzi, Giovanni Ambrogio, 1648-1706, ill; Blancus, Paulus, engraver; Füesslin, J. Melchior, ill

Publication date: 1708

Topics: Lang, Carl Nicolaus, 1670-1741, Museum Lucernense Langianum, Paleontology, Paleontology, Plants, Fossil, Mollusks, Fossil, Mineralogy

Publisher: Venetiis : Sumptibus authoris, typis Jacobi Tomasini ... ; Lucernae : Apud haeredes Gottofredi Hautt & Joannem Jodocum Halter

Collection: biodiversity

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: Latin

An appendix to this work was published separately in 1735

Added engraved t.p., signed: Ambrosius Besutius del: Paulus Blancus Mediolan: sculp

Plate 1 is signed: J. Melchior Füessli ... delineavit

Title printed in red and black

Vignette on t.p

Head- and tail-pieces; initials; side-notes

C. Nissen, Zoologische Buchillistration, no. 2375, and Grasse, 4:98 describe as having 53 plates; library copy has unnumbered plates to face p. 6 and 41, and 52 numbered plates

Signatures: )a(-)c(⁴ )d(² A-X⁴ (leaf X4 is blank)

Indexes in Latin and German

Schuh, C.P. Mineralogy & crystallography

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration

Antiquariaat Junk;

Elecresource

SCNHRB copy 39088015923956 has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries. Purchased with funds from Dr. Alan Kabat

SCNHRB copy has several plates bound out of order: plate 8 follows plate 9; plate 17 follows plate 19; plate 18 follows plate 20; and plate 26 follows plate 27. The final (blank) leaf is present

SCNHRB copy has a contemporary spattered full leather binding with raised bands, gilt-tooled spine, marbled endpapers, and red and black spattered edges