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Description Abregée du fameux Cabinet de M. Le Chevalier de Baillou, pour Servir a l'Histoire Naturelle des Pierres Précieuses, Métaux, Minéraux, et Autres Fossiles.
Lueques, Marescandoli, 1746. - (23,5 x 17 cm). (2) VIII, 156 S. Mit 1 Tafel. Pergamentband der Zeit.
Einzige Ausgabe dieses überaus seltenen Bandes, der die Beschreibung eines kleinen Teils des umfangreichen mineralogischen Kabinetts des Florentiner Naturforschers Johann de Baillou beschreibt und für ein nie zustande gekommenes Editionsprojekt wirbt. - "Very rare. Sole edition of this remarkable 1746 prospectus that describes only a small portion of the extensive mineralogical cabinet of the Florentine naturalist Johann De Baillou. At the time, the complete collection comprised 30,000 samples of minerals, fossils, rocks and shells, and was one of the largest in the world. This volume provides details of Baillou's collecting philosophy and descriptions of some of the finest specimens of precious stones, native metals, minerals, crystals and other fossils contained in the collection. Baillou vainly hoped that the publication of this small volume would help obtain support for a much more ambitious catalog of his collection; however, its only effect was that it influenced Emperor Franz Stefan I. into purchasing the collection in 1748 and retaining De Baillou as its curator, when the whole was moved to Vienna. Upon the Emperor's death in 1765, the Empress Maria Theresa presented the collection to the state and opened it to public viewing. The remnants of it are preserved today in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna. - The volume opens with a preliminary discourse, followed by 27 chapters. Topics include a general idea of the cabinet, the philosophy behind collecting natural history specimens, the principles of the cabinet and petrifications. Other chapters describe the metals, precious stones, marine fossils, corals, crustaceans, animal fossils, earths, salts, sulfurs, alabaster & marble, jaspers of various types, agates & cornealians, pyrites, semi-metals, and rock crystal. The last chapter provides a general description of the cabinet's organization. - Facing page 149 is a plate printed in red and black, showing the title page of a proposed and never published work. It was Baillou's wish to prepare a full descriptive catalog of the collection, utilizing his own system of classification. It would appear in seven folio size volumes, printed on imperial paper and illustrated by 600 plates rendering the finest specimens. It was a grandiose plan, and without the backing of a wealthy patron, impossible to complete. Unfortunately, the publication never went further than this preliminary solicitation for funds" (Schuh's Annotated Bio-Bibliography). - Modernes Wappenexlibris. Stellenweise leicht gebräunt bzw. braunfleckig und mit kleinem Wasserrand im Bug oben, sonst wohlerhaltenes Exemplar. - Sinkankas 3230; Wilson, History of Mineral Collecting 101, 124 und 159; Gatterer I, 271
Description Abregée du fameux Cabinet de M. Le Chevalier de Baillou, pour Servir a l'Histoire Naturelle des Pierres Précieuses, Métaux, Minéraux, et Autres Fossiles.
Lueques, Marescandoli, 1746. - (23,5 x 17 cm). (2) VIII, 156 S. Mit 1 Tafel. Pergamentband der Zeit.
Einzige Ausgabe dieses überaus seltenen Bandes, der die Beschreibung eines kleinen Teils des umfangreichen mineralogischen Kabinetts des Florentiner Naturforschers Johann de Baillou beschreibt und für ein nie zustande gekommenes Editionsprojekt wirbt. - "Very rare. Sole edition of this remarkable 1746 prospectus that describes only a small portion of the extensive mineralogical cabinet of the Florentine naturalist Johann De Baillou. At the time, the complete collection comprised 30,000 samples of minerals, fossils, rocks and shells, and was one of the largest in the world. This volume provides details of Baillou's collecting philosophy and descriptions of some of the finest specimens of precious stones, native metals, minerals, crystals and other fossils contained in the collection. Baillou vainly hoped that the publication of this small volume would help obtain support for a much more ambitious catalog of his collection; however, its only effect was that it influenced Emperor Franz Stefan I. into purchasing the collection in 1748 and retaining De Baillou as its curator, when the whole was moved to Vienna. Upon the Emperor's death in 1765, the Empress Maria Theresa presented the collection to the state and opened it to public viewing. The remnants of it are preserved today in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna. - The volume opens with a preliminary discourse, followed by 27 chapters. Topics include a general idea of the cabinet, the philosophy behind collecting natural history specimens, the principles of the cabinet and petrifications. Other chapters describe the metals, precious stones, marine fossils, corals, crustaceans, animal fossils, earths, salts, sulfurs, alabaster & marble, jaspers of various types, agates & cornealians, pyrites, semi-metals, and rock crystal. The last chapter provides a general description of the cabinet's organization. - Facing page 149 is a plate printed in red and black, showing the title page of a proposed and never published work. It was Baillou's wish to prepare a full descriptive catalog of the collection, utilizing his own system of classification. It would appear in seven folio size volumes, printed on imperial paper and illustrated by 600 plates rendering the finest specimens. It was a grandiose plan, and without the backing of a wealthy patron, impossible to complete. Unfortunately, the publication never went further than this preliminary solicitation for funds" (Schuh's Annotated Bio-Bibliography). - Modernes Wappenexlibris. Stellenweise leicht gebräunt bzw. braunfleckig und mit kleinem Wasserrand im Bug oben, sonst wohlerhaltenes Exemplar. - Sinkankas 3230; Wilson, History of Mineral Collecting 101, 124 und 159; Gatterer I, 271
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