Lot 58: LEDERMÜLLER, Martin Frobenius (1719-1769). Versuch, bey angehender Frühlingszeit die Vergrösserungs Werckzeuge... Essai d'employer les instruments microscopiques avec utilityé et plaisir dans la saison de printemps . Nuremberg: A.L.Wirsing, 1764.

LEDERMÜLLER, Martin Frobenius (1719-1769). Versuch, bey angehender Frühlingszeit die Vergrösserungs Werckzeuge... Essai d'employer les instruments microscopiques avec utilityé et plaisir dans la saison de printemps. Nuremberg: A.L.Wirsing, 1764. 2o (422 x 286mm). Hand-colored engraved title with rococo border, 12 hand-colored engraved plates, all by Adam Ludwig Wirsing. (A few light mostly marginal stains.) Contemporary quarter leather and paper covered boards (worn, spine and extremities chipping). Provenance: Cornel der Van Neubeouck (ink inscription on flyleaf dated 1773); J.B.B. Cornet (ink inscription on flyleaf). "By profession a lawyer, Ledermüller shows a discerning interest in the art and science of botany, and in the newer science of microscopy... it was he who prepared the good drawings and the text for the book. [Wirsing was] a precise artist [who] did the engravings for several botanical works, including J.C.Trew's Hortus nitidissimus" (Hunt). Cleveland Collections 471, HA Copy 2 this copy; Hunt 581; Nissen BBI 1160.

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