Bytemeister, Henrici Johannis | Second, enlarged edition of Bytemeister’s illustrated catalogue of scientific and natural curiosities

Bytemeister, Heinrich Johann

Bibliothecae appendix, sive catalogus apparatus curiosorum artificialium et naturalium, subjunctis experimentis a possessore editus in usum praelectionum academicarum experimentalium mathematicophysicocuriosarum. Helmstedt: Academia Julia, 1735

4to (256 x 201 mm). Elaborate engraved title-page with architectural border, 28 folded engraved plates; some browning and spotting, lacking frontispiece portrait. Contemporary vellum over boards, printed paper spine label.

Second, enlarged edition of Bytemeister’s catalogue of the curiosities maintained at the University of Helmstedt, listing and illustrating an extraordinary array of scientific instruments, minerals, fossils, shells, plants, and mechanical devices.

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