Page 12 - Catálogo #78 2020 Bostn Virtual Book Fair

Librería José Porrúa Turanzas 2020 Boston Virtual Book Fair

7. ENGLISH BIBLE. The Holy Bible. The Old Testament... (The New Testament) embel-
lished with Engravings, from Pictures and Desings by the most eminent English Artists.
London, Thomas Bensley, 1800. Large folio (462x 370)mm. 6 volumes boind in 7. Con-
6. CORDIER, F.S. Les Champignons de La temporary English red morocco. 12,000 € / US$ $13,990
France. Histoire - description - culture - us- First edition of Macklin’s great illustrated bible. Like his contemporary John Boydell,
ages des espéces comestibles, vénéneuses, Macklin’s publishing enterprises entailed the commissioning of the most successful art-
suspectes, employées dans les artes, l’indus- ist of the day, including Reynolds, Stothard, Hamilton and Fuseli. The Bible was his
trie, l’economie domestique et la médicine. most ambitious and ultimately sumptuous undertaking. Very good copy in contempo-
Paris, J. Rothschild, 1870. Smal folio (265 x rary English red morocco.
167)mm. xii-231, 274 pp., 60 plates in cro-
molithography. Contemprary green calf.
700 € / US$ $820

First edition of Cordier’s most important book
on mycology. Illustrated with 60 beautiful
color plates printed in chromolithography.
It includes extensive descriptions of mush-
rooms and champignons from France, with
a chapter dedicated to their culinary proper-
ties and another to their medical properties.
Good copy.

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