Title
Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium : in qua omnes earum proprietates, praesertim quae ad generationem ipsarum pertinent, fusius enarrantur
Title Variants
Alternative:
Historie der Frösche
Translated:
Natürliche Historie der Frösche hiesigen Landes
By
Rösel von Rosenhof, August Johann, 1705-1759
Haller, Albrecht von, 1708-1777
Fleischmann, Johann Joseph, active 1744-1776
, printer
Tyroff, Martin, 1704-
, engraver
Preissler, Johann Justin, 1698-1771
, ill
Harrich, Christoph,
, ill
Heumann, Georg Daniel, 1691-1759
, engraver
Mechel, Christian von, 1737-1817
, engraver
Joninger, J. A.,
, engraver
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
Nürnberg, gedrucht bey Johann Joseph Fleischmann, 1758
Notes
Arranged in seven sections.
Issued with the numbered plates appearing in both hand-colored and uncolored versions. An unnumbered, hand-colored plate bound in after the title leaf, featuring frogs and other creatures frolicking in front of an inscribed marble fragment reading "Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum" (excerpted from Vergil's Georgics, book 4), was designed by Rösel and engraved by Tyroff. The plates were designed and engraved by Rösel.
The engraved head-pieces were designed by Rösel, Preissler, and Harrich, and engraved by Heuman, Tyroff, Rösel, Mechel, and Joninger.
Signatures: )(²-2)(² a⁴ A-2F².
Errata: p. [36], and p. [1] (4th group).
Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, | 3464
Latin and German in parallel columns.
Subjects
1758
,
Anura
,
Early works to 1800
,
Engravings
,
Errata lists (Printing)
,
Frogs
,
Germany
,
Hand coloring
,
Nuremberg
,
Pictorial works
BHL Collections
Blog Features
Call Number
QL668.E2 R63 1758
Language
Latin
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.149946
OCLC:
7042854
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