{"product_id":"knorr-recueil-monumens-catastrophes-first-edition-1768-1778-124264","title":"Recueil de Monumens des Catastrophes que le Globe Terrestre a Éssuliées,","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003eFirst edition, an attractive copy in contemporary calf, of the most important work on fossils of the eighteenth century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorg Wolfgang Knorr (1705-1761) trained an an engraver and 'was introduced to natural history engraving when, while still an apprentice, he worked on the plates for Johann Scheuchzer's popular \u003cem\u003ePhysica Sacra\u003c\/em\u003e (1731-35). In the 1750s, Knorr began issuing his own sumptuous folios' (Ashworth, 'Georg Wolfgang Knorr: Scientist of the Day', Linda Hall Library, 2020).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The detail and accuracy [of the present work]... not only made possible zoological classification but firmly established the distinction between fossils of organic origin and sports of nature' (Dictionary of Scientific Biography 7:412). The plates were largely made from drawings after samples supplied by the owners of cabinets such as J. C. Gmelinus, pharmacist in Turingen; Johann Gessner, professor in Bern; Collison, Knoerr, Trew, and others. Some 58 plates feature fossils found at the famous quarries of Solenhofen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst edition; 5 vols bound in 4, folio (42 x 26 cm); 2 engraved portraits and 273 hand-coloured plates of which 15 are folding, bookplates to front pastedowns, library stamps of Biblioteca Cavaglià-Cossato, contemporary manuscript notes in the lower margins of nearly all the plates, a handful of pages with closed tears; contemporary speckled calf, wide gilt floral border in double gilt fillets, gilt turn-ins, brown endpapers, all edges gilt, joints split at head and tail of all vols. with vol. I particularly weak, a very good set.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrunet III 682; Nissen ZBI 2232.","brand":"KNORR, Georg Wolfgang; Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57443197845879,"sku":"124264","price":37500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/124264_01.jpg?v=1788800419","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/products\/knorr-recueil-monumens-catastrophes-first-edition-1768-1778-124264","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}