Joh. Reinhold Forster Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Joh. Reinhold Forster Art Value Price Guide

Apr. 09, 2024
* FORSTER, Johann Reinhold, 1729 – 1798.
Est: €1,200 - €1,600
* FORSTER, Johann Reinhold, 1729 – 1798. Eigenh. Stammbuchblatt m. U. Halle a. d. Saale 18.III.1782. In einem Hallenser Gelehrtenstammbuch. Quer-8o (ca. 12 × 19 cm). Mit weiteren 207 Eintragungen, überwiegend Halle 1782 – 1827. Paginiert "1" bis "362", 46 Seiten fehlen, 6 unpaginierte Seiten einmontiert. Mit 11 Zeichnungen, 2 Scherenschnitten und 1 Notenzitat. Vereinzelt kleine Fleckchen, einige Seiten lose. Lederband der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Vorderdeckel, Goldschnitt. Einband schadhaft, Gelenke teilweise gerissen. Forsters Eintrag auf S. 133 lautet: "Ne quid nimis! Hac aurea Comici & ad vitam imprimis utili sententia facile Tibi memoriam recovabis Joannis Reinoldi Forster. / LL. Med. & Ph.D. G.G.O." Darunter Zusätze von fremder zeitgenössischer Hand, wohl vom Stammbuchinhaber (es finden sich im Stammbuch über 130 weitere Eintragungen von derselben Hand). – Seit 1779 hatte Forster an der Universität Halle den Lehrstuhl für Naturkunde und Mineralienforschung inne. Weitere Eintragende sind u. a. (in Klammern die jeweilige Seitenzahl): die Naturforscher Georg Heinrich Borowski, Frankfurt a. d. Oder 1784 (155) und Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, Halle 1782 (239), die Philosophen Johann August Eberhard, Halle 1782 (127) und Christian Friedrich Prange, Halle 1782 (180), die Schriftsteller Johann Ernst Fabri, Potsdam 1783 (157) und Friedrich Christian Laukhard, Halle 1783 (195), die Theologen Gottlieb Anastasius Freylinghausen, Halle 1782 (129), Christian Friedrich Karl Herzlieb, Vater der Goethe-Freundin Minna Herzlieb, Züllichau 1790 (204), Georg Christian Knapp, Halle 1782 (135), August Hermann Niemeyer, Halle 1782 (141), Johann Ludwig Schulze, Halle 1782 (137), Johann Salomo Semler, Halle 1782 (125) und Heinrich Balthasar Wagnitz, Halle 1816 (33) sowie Charles Dantal, "Lecteur du Roi de Prusse", Potsdam 1784 (351), Unter den Zeichnungen ein Plan von der Schlacht bei Mollwitz. Mit Namensverzeichnis der Eintragenden (S. 357–361).
Stargardt Autographenhandlung
Nov. 10, 2013
FORSTER, JOHANN REINHOLD. 1729-1798. Histoire des découvertes et des voyages faits dans le Nord. Paris: Cuchet, 1798.
Est: -
FORSTER, JOHANN REINHOLD. 1729-1798. Histoire des découvertes et des voyages faits dans le Nord. Paris: Cuchet, 1798.
Bonhams
Jun. 25, 2013
FORSTER, JOHANN REINHOLD. 1729-1798.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Histoire des découvertes et des voyages faits dans le Nord. Paris: Cuchet, 1798. 2 volumes. 8vo (209 x 131 mm). xv, 399; xii, 410, [2] pp. Half titles. 3 engraved folding maps. Original plain wrappers, manuscript spine labels. Some browning to one map and two small stains to one other, tear to blank inner margin of maps, occasional browning to text, wrappers repaired. WITH: Another copy. Quarter morocco. Maps hand-colored in outline. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. Howes F269; Sabin 25137.
Bonhams
Jun. 25, 2013
FORSTER, JOHANN REINHOLD. 1729-1798.
Est: $300 - $600
History of the Voyages and Discoveries Made in the North. Dublin: Luke White and Patrick Byrne, 1786. 8vo (209 x 119 mm). [8], xvi, 489, [30] pp. Folding engraved map. Period calf rebacked. Light spotting to map, leaves toned, a few leaves loose at end. Provenance: J.R. Coxe, M.D. (period ownership signature to title). FIRST DUBLIN EDITION published the same year as the first English edition in London. Forbes 113; Howes F269; Sabin 25138.
Bonhams
Jun. 25, 2013
FORSTER, JOHANN REINHOLD. 1729-1798.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
History of the Voyages and Discoveries Made in the North. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1786. 4to (271 x 205mm) [8], xvi, 489, [19] pp. 3 engraved folding plates. Modern half tan calf over marbled boards, green and red leather gilt-lettered spine labels, remaining compartments with alternating gilt ship and anchor devices. Some foxing, front flyleaf detached, binding fine. Provenance: Andover Theological Seminary Library (stamp to verso of title). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Includes information about Cook's three voyages with notes on Hawaii and Cook's death at Kealakekua. Forbes 112; Howes F-269; Sabin 25138.
Bonhams
May. 19, 2011
KALM, Peter (1717-1779). Travels into North America; containing its Natural History, and A circumstantial Account of its Plantations and Agriculture in general... Translated into English by John Reinhold Forster (1729-1798). Warrington [vols.
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
KALM, Peter (1717-1779). Travels into North America; containing its Natural History, and A circumstantial Account of its Plantations and Agriculture in general... Translated into English by John Reinhold Forster (1729-1798). Warrington [vols. 2-3: London] 1770-71. 3 volumes, 8υo (220 x 145 mm). Large engraved map. Contemporary boards, uncut. Provenance: W.H. Samson (bookplate). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, first issue with the Warrington imprint. Peter Kalm, a Swedish naturalist and student of Linnaeus, travelled in America between 1748 and 1751. One aim of his travels was to introduce new useful plants from that temperate region, and more especially to find strains of Morus rubra fit for introduction into Sweden. Kalm travelled in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Canada and gives a very important contemporary account of the Swedish settlements in New Jersey. The first edition was published in Stockholm in 1753--61. "One of the most important and reliable eighteenth-century accounts of American natural history, social organization and political situation" (Streeter). Howes K-5; Lande 482; Sabin 36989; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 3493; W.T. Streeter sale II:823. (3)
Christie's
Feb. 14, 2010
FORSTER, JOHN REINHOLD. 1729-1798.
Est: $250 - $350
History of the Voyages and Discoveries Made in the North. Dublin: Luke White, 1786. [8], xvi, 490, [30] pp. Folding engraved map of northern hemisphere. 8vo (220 x 125 mm). Later green sheep. 2 library stamps neatly washed out (one on title), binding rubbed. Forbes 113. Provenance: bookplate of George Nesbitt Tredennick.
Bonhams
Dec. 09, 2009
KALM, Peter (1717-1779). Travels into North America; containing its Natural History, and A circumstantial Account of its Plantations and Agriculture in general... Translated into English by John Reinhold Forster (1729-1798). Warrington [vols.
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
KALM, Peter (1717-1779). Travels into North America; containing its Natural History, and A circumstantial Account of its Plantations and Agriculture in general... Translated into English by John Reinhold Forster (1729-1798). Warrington [vols. 2-3: London] 1770-71. 3 volumes, 8υo (200 x 120 mm). Large engraved engraved map (slightly torn near inner margin) and 6 engraved plates of birds and animals. (U1 in first volume torn and repaired, some minor staining.) Contemporary calf gilt (chipping to heads of spines, upper joint of volume one splitting). Provenance: James Robertson (bookplate); The Rt. Hon. Viscount Eccles (his sale Christie's New York, 18 November 1983, lot 156). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, first issue with the Warrington imprint. Peter Kalm, a Swedish naturalist and student of Linnaeus, travelled in America between 1748 and 1751. One aim of his travels was to introduce new useful plants from that temperate region, and more especially to find strains of Morus rubra fit for introduction into Sweden. Kalm travelled in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Canada and gives a very important contemporary account of the Swedish settlements in New Jersey. The first edition was published in Stockholm in 1753--61. "One of the most important and reliable eighteenth-century accounts of American natural history, social organization and political situation" (Streeter). Howes K-5; Lande 482; Sabin 36989; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 3493; W.T. Streeter sale II:823. (3)
Christie's
Oct. 19, 2009
FORSTER, JOHANN REINHOLD, 1729-1798.
Est: $700 - $900
Histoire des decouvertes et des voyages fait dans le nord. Paris: Cuchet, 1788. 2 volumes. xv, [1], 399; xii, 410, [2] pp. Illustrated with 3 engraved folding maps. 8vo (214 x 130 mm). Period marbled wrappers, uncut. Some light foxing, spines absent, wrapper detached and somewhat worn. First French edition. Forster and his eldest son, Georg, served as naturalists aboard Cook's Second Voyage. This work includes remarks on Cook's Third Voyage and on his death. Forbes 148; Sabin 25137.
Bonhams
Apr. 17, 2007
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729-1798). History of the Voyages and Discoveries Made in the North . London: for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1786.
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729-1798). History of the Voyages and Discoveries Made in the North . London: for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1786. 4 o (273 x 208 mm). Half-title. 3 engraved folding maps (one map with small marginal tear not affecting map, some occasional spotting). Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance : Freke family of Castle-Freke, County Cork (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of an important chronicle of northern exploration written by the German naturalist and scientist who accompanied Cook on his second voyage. First published in Germany in 1784, Forster's work traces the development of Arctic discovery, beginning with the voyages of Cabot in 1497, and including information on French, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, and Russian voyages. He devotes significant space to British voyages searching for the northwest passage and also places particular emphasis on voyages around the Hudson Bay. Arctic Bibliography 5161; Cox III:22; Forbes 112; Howes F-269; Lande S785; Sabin 25138; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 528.
Christie's
Apr. 16, 2007
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729-1798). History of the Voyages and Discoveries Made in the North . London: for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1786.
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729-1798). History of the Voyages and Discoveries Made in the North . London: for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1786. 4 o (273 x 208 mm). Half-title. 3 engraved folding maps (one map with small marginal tear not affecting map, some occasional spotting). Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance : Freke family of Castle-Freke, County Cork (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of an important chronicle of northern exploration written by the German naturalist and scientist who accompanied Cook on his second voyage. First published in Germany in 1784, Forster's work traces the development of Arctic discovery, beginning with the voyages of Cabot in 1497, and including information on French, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, and Russian voyages. He devotes significant space to British voyages searching for the northwest passage and also places particular emphasis on voyages around the Hudson Bay. Arctic Bibliography 5161; Cox III:22; Forbes 112; Howes F-269; Lande S785; Sabin 25138; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 528.
Christie's
Dec. 19, 2002
FORSTER, John Reinhold (1729-1798) and George (1754-1794). Characteres generum plantarum, quas in itinere ad insulas maris austalis. London: B. White, T. Cadell and P. Elmsly, 1776.
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
4 o (275 x 218 mm). Errata leaf at end. 78 engraved plates (some light foxing). Contemporary mottled calf gilt (wear to hinges and corners). Provenance : J.F. de S. Grande (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of the first botanical work to result from Cook's second voyage to the South Pacific. It records a large number of new names relating to the plants of Australasia and Polynesia and "it has been said to be the foundation of our knowledge of New Zealand, Antarctic, and Polynesian vegetation" (Hill, pp.422-3). Holmes 17; Mitchell Library Cook 1385; Nissen BBI 644; Pritzel 2981; Sabin 25134.
Christie's
Sep. 26, 2002
JOHANN REINHOLD FORSTER (1729-1798)
Est: $3,900 - $5,460
Observations made during a Voyage round the World, on Physical Geography, Natural History and Ethic Philosophy. London: for G.Robinson, 1778. 4o (271 x 216mm.). 1p. subscribers' list at end. 1 folding letterpress table, folding engraved map. (Neat small repair to folding table.) Contemporary calf (rebacked to style, one original lettering-piece laid down, corners neatly repaired). PROVENANCE: William Bartlett (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. 'Forster accompanied Cook as naturalist on his second voyage. An account is given of the countries visiited in 1772-5, but for the most part this work concerns the South Sea Islands. The observations concerning the "human species" are particularly interesting... The last section presents a detailed evaluation of steps taken for the preservation of health on the voyage, notably the suggestions of James Lind. Forster deals at considerable length with the health and diseases of the South Sea islanders. He discusses venereal disease... and suggests that it was endemic in the islands, thus removing the reproach that it was introduced by the crews of Bougainville, Byron, and Wallis' (Hill). Conrad p.12; Hill p.109; Mitchell 1262; Rosove 140.A1 ('Very scarce'); Spence 467.
Christie's
May. 09, 2002
Johann Reinhold Forster (1729-1798)
Est: $1,450 - $2,175
History of the Voyages and Discoveries made in the North. Translated from the German of... Forster. London: for G.G.J and J.Robinson, 1776. 4o (279 x 220mm). 1p. errata, 3 folding engraved maps. (Some spotting, generally light.) Contemporary diced russia gilt (expertly rebacked to style). Provenance : Anthony Michaelis ('A.R.Michaelis' bookplate, sale Christie's 22 April 1988, lot 286). ENGLISH EDITION of Forster's Geschichte der Entdeckungen und Schiffahrten im Norden published in Frankfurt in 1784. Two English-language editions were published in 1776: the present example and another in Dublin. The work is a 'Chronicle of northern hemispheric exploration from antiquity to the middle of the 18th century, which includes... chapters on the voyages of principal seafaring countries, beginning in the 15th century' (Arctic Bibliography 5159.).
Christie's
May. 09, 2002
Johann Reinhold Forster (1729-1798)
Est: $1,740 - $2,610
Observations made during a voyage round the world, on physical geography, natural history, and ethic philosophy. London: for G.Robinson, 1778. 4o (289 x 228mm). 1p. errata, 1p. subscribers' list. 1 folding engraved chart, 1 folding letterpress table. Contemporary speckled calf (expertly rebacked to style). Provenance : Earl Fitzwilliam (Milton [Hall,] Peterborough, [Northamptonshire] book-label). THE FITZWILLIAM COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF AN 'EXCESSIVLY RARE BOOK' (Wood) based on the author's experiences during Captain James Cook's second voyage. The work includes numerous fascinating observations including a lengthy section on 'Ice and its formation' (pp.69-102), remarks on South Georgia and 'On the Question concerning the Existence of a Southern Land': the expedition was the first to cross the Antarctic Circle, and Forster appears to have been in broad agreement with Cook that there was no 'great Southern continent'. 'Forster accompanied Cook as naturalist on his second voyage. An account is given of the countries visited in 1772-75, but for the most part this work concerns the South Sea Islands... their populations, food, cannibalism, the status of women, customs, languages, and mythology. The last section presents a detailed evaluation of the the steps taken for the preservation of health on the voyage, notably the suggestions of James Lind. Forster deals at considerable length with the health and diseases of the South Sea Islanders. He discusses venereal disease on several pages and suggests that it was endemic in the Islands, thus removing the reproach that it was introduced by the crews of Bougainville, Byron, and Wallis' (Hill). Conrad p.12; Hill I, p.109; Mitchell Cook 1262; Spence 467; Wood 346.
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