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SCHEUCHZER, Johann Jakob (1672-1733)

Lot 53
29.10.2024 14:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
€ 4 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 53 | SCHEUCHZER, Johann Jakob (1672-1733)
Estimate value
€ 4 000 – 6 000
SCHEUCHZER, Johann Jakob (1672-1733)
Geestelyke natuurkunde, Uitgegeven in de Latynsche Taale. Amsterdam : Petrus Schenk, 1735-1738.

Bel exemplaire en reliure de l'époque de cette impressionante exégèse biblique illustrée de nombreuses illustrations scientifiques. Médecin et nauraliste suisse, Scheuchzer entend proposer un ouvrage alliant la raison à la religion - ou bien est-ce un prétexte pour avancer des théories scientifiques nouvelles sous couvert de commentaire biblique. Première édition en néerlandais, après deux éditions simultanées en latin et en allemand en 1731-1735. Nissen, BBI, 2661 ; Faber du Faur, 1855 (a book in which "Baroque attains, philosophically as well as artistically, its high point and its conclusion. It is the last of those elegant works which do not really contain illustrations to a text but which are, in effect, composed of splendid plates with a text to accompany them.")

15 vol. in-folio (399 x 254 mm). Pagination continue, texte en néerlandais. Illustré d'un frontispice, 2 portraits gravés (t. I) et 758 gravures sur cuivre, certaines dépliantes (erreurs dans la numérotation, et certaines planches numérotées a, b, c après le nombre). Les bibliographies diffèrent sur le nombre de gravures, certaines comptant deux gravures pour les planches dépliées - la collation de cet exemplaire correspond à celle d'autres exemplaires numérisés. Reliure de l'époque : veau marbré, dos à nerfs titré or, caissons ornés de filets et oiseaux dorés, pièce de titre en maroquin fauve, roulettes sur les coupes, tranches rouges. (reliure frottée, coins et coiffes abimés, accrocs sur certains plats)
Provenance : Thyssen-Bornemisza (ex-libris au contreplat de chaque volume)

First Dutch translation of Scheuchzer's "Sacred Nature", a very peculiar and ambitious book combining biblical exegesis and scientific illustration.
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