Live auction - Lot 1158
[Gemology - Amber]
Ambrae historiam ad [...] hominum sanitatem exhibet Justus Fidelis Klobius D in Acad. Witteb.
Wittenberg, M. Henckel for the Heirs of T. Mevius & E. Schumacher, 1666
Hammer price: €
700
€ 150 / 250
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Lot description
4to: [4]-76 pp. (toned).
Contemp. sheep, covers with gilt ruled border, a.e.g. (rubbed). Good copy.
Early treatise on amber by the Wittenberg physician Klobius (active 1649-1666), dealing with the characteristics and medicinal uses of amber, and its supposed origin as either bird or whale excrement. Ill. with 4 engr., i.a. a folding map of Europe, Africa, and Asia, also showing Greenland and small part of Australia.
Ref. VD17 39:123211D. - Sinkankas 3466.