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Lot 129 | Hecatosteae
Georg Hieronymus WELSCH (1624-1677). Hecatosteae. II. Observationum Physico-Medicarum ad illustrem Societatem Natura Curiosorum in Germania. Augsburg: Joannes Schönigk for Theophilus Goebel, 1675.

First edition of Georg Welsch's treatise on medical and natural historical curiosities, bound with the second edition of work on bezoars. The author was a correspondent of Athanasius Kircher, member of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum, and best known for his translation of Avicenna and Sheikh Abu'l Wafa’s calendar. The present work describes and illustrates hundreds of fossils, shells, minerals, plants, insects, and other specimens. It was one of the sources for Beringer's infamous 1726 Lithographiae Wirceburgensis, in which he describes a series of "fossils" that turned out to have been forged and fraudulently planted by his rivals for the purposes of discrediting him. VD17 39:151672Y; Krivatsy 12929.

Quarto (199 x 156). Engraved additional title and 12 engraved plates (occasional foxing). Contemporary German vellum, title in ink on spine. Provenance: Melvin E. Jahn, author of The Lying Stones of Dr. Johann Bartholomew Adam Beringer (1963).

[Bound after:] –. Dissertatio medico philosphica prior de Aegagropilis. Augsburg: Johann Wehe, 1668. Corrected second edition of Welsch's "very rare treatise on the famous Bezoar stone, which since very ancient times was supposed to have all kinds of curative properties … [and] which was widely used in alchemical preparations" (Duveen). VD17 12:645600N and VD17 12 185851R; Duveen 616. Leav Q2 cancelled. Engraved title page, title to part two with engraved vignette, 7 engraved plates (lacking one plate and leaves }{1-2; some toning).
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