Historia naturalis Ranarum nostratium / Die naturliche Historie der Froesche hiesigen Landes Nine of the mats contain

Nine of the mats contain an impression from the original wood block

This is the very rare privately printed first edition that was limited to 50 copies only

Name stamp Ron Sauey Memorial Library on rear endpaper and the top page edge

Publisher Homann Publisher Place Nuremberg Date Published 1728 Date Published Estimated No Edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Near Fine Condition Description Light fraying to the outer edges of the paper far from the map image

Kraig Alder

Historia naturalis Ranarum nostratium / Die naturliche Historie der Froesche hiesigen Landes Nine of the mats containPp. (10), viii, 116, 48 engraved plates (24 are hand colored each with a matching uncolored key plate), 1 hand colored frontispiece, engraved title page, 8 engraved headpieces in the text. Contemporary mottled calf, probably German, spine with 7 raised bands, gilt lettered on red morocco label in one compartment and with a repeating emblematic gilt scene showing St. Francis in the other 7 compartments, folio (17. 5 x 12 inches), in black cloth covered