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Ambra - Biologia - Sendel, Nathanael

Historia succinorum corpora aliena involventium et naturae works pictorum et caelatorum ex regis augustorum cimeliis Dresdae, 1742

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Leipzig, Fridericum Gleditschium, 1742. Intaglio brand on the frontispiece within a frame decorated with the publisher's interwoven monogram, at the end, the typographer's initials on a woodcut frieze, copper-engraved headboards, complete with 13 numbered plates outside the text engraved in copper, light uniform browning, some slight flowering and rare halos, hole in the upper white margin of F1, pl. with seams in evidence and from 1-6 partially detached, coeval binding in marbled calfskin, red cuts, title imprinted in gold within a gusset on the spine with 6 nerves, peeling on the plates and signs of wear at the edges, gaps in the spine, defects. Signed traces of belonging to the guard card.


Specialist Notes

First edition. Most likely the first scientific collection of the Royal Dresden Natural History Collection. Born in Elbing on the Baltic Sea coast, in addition to his profession as a doctor, Sendel (1686 - 1757) devoted himself with passion to the collection and study of Baltic amber. This treatise extensively describes the organic inclusions observed in amber and is accompanied by 13 splendid plates of animals and plants included in amber showing hundreds of specimens, giving great impetus to paleobiological research. Although his conception of the genesis of the fossil resin is outdated, Sendel is considered an extraordinary pioneer of amber research.

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