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KLOBIUS, JUSTUS FIDUS. Ambrae historiam. 3 engraved plates; folding engraved map of Europe, Africa, and Asia, also showing Greenland and small
KLOBIUS, JUSTUS FIDUS. Ambrae historiam. 3 engraved plates; folding engraved map of Europe, Africa, and Asia, also showing Greenland and small portion of Australia. [8], 76 pages. 4to, contemporary vellum; old institutional stamp on title and page 1; institutional bookplate. Wittenberg: Matthaeus Henckel for heirs of Tobias Mevius & Elerdus Schumacher, 1666
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Notes: first edition of a tract on the characteristics and medicinal uses of amber, which Klobius believed to originate either as the dung of a bird native to Madagascar or as whale excreta. Duveen, page 325; Sinkankas 3466; Thorndike VIII, 18.
bound with: Malpighi, Marcello. Dissertatio epistolica de formatione pulli in ovo. 2 (of 4) engraved plates; lacks plates 2 and 3. [4], 42, [1] pages. London, 1673. Garrison-Morton 469. and: Swammerdam, Jan. Miraculum naturae; sive, Uteri muliebris fabrica. 2 (of 3) engraved plates; lacks plate 1. [6], 57, [1] pages. Leiden, 1672. and: Wedel, Georg Wolfgang. Pharmacia in artis formam redacta. [14], 245, [10] pages. Contents browned. Jena, 1677. and: Hannemann, Johann Ludwig. Aetiologia philosophico-medica curiosa facultatis purgatricis. [16] leaves. Hamburg, 1677.
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