Marcus Elieser Bloch
Ichthyologie, ou histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des Poissons. Avec des figures enluminées, dessinées d'après nature. Translated from the German by Jean-Charles Thibault de Laveux. Berlin: Louis Phillippe Wegner for the author and François de
Estimate: 15.000 - 20.000 GBP
Price realised: 17.625 GBP
Price realised: 17.625 GBP
Description
Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723-1799)
Ichthyologie, ou histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des Poissons. Avec des figures enluminées, dessinées d'après nature. Translated from the German by Jean-Charles Thibault de Laveux. Berlin: Louis Phillippe Wegner for the author and François de la Garde (parts 1-6) and Didot le jeune in Paris and White & Son in London (parts 4-6), 1785-1788. 6 parts only (of 12) in 3 volumes (440 x 290mm). Half-titles, 4pp. subscribers' list, engraved title vignettes by Berger after Rosenberg. 3 engraved additional emblematic titles by Berger after Rosenberg, 216 fine hand-coloured engraved plates, 6 printed in sanguine, 2 in bistre, and 1 in blue, by F.G. Berger, Berger sen., G. Bodenehr, C. Darchow, P. Haas, J.F. Henning, C. Ludwig Schmidt, J.G. Schmidt and others after J.F. Henning, Krüger jun. and others, most plates uncut. (Lacking the portrait as usual, old repaired 120mm. tear to plate 95 running horizontally from inner margin into image.) Contemporary blue marbled paper board
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of Bloch's 'fundamental treatise on general ichthyology' (Wood), and an excellent, unsophisticated example although incomplete. All the plates are finely hand-coloured by a contemporary hand, many are heightened in silver, and some are hand-coloured over a printed base of brilliant colour. Bloch was born in Ansbach and studied medicine and the natural sciences; he practised as a physician in Berlin, and while the Ichthyologie is rightly considered his masterpiece, he also wrote various other important scientific works. The German edition of the Ichthyologie, entitled Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische, was published in 12 parts with 432 plates. The work was subdivided into a section on the fish of Germany (parts 1-3, published in 1782-1785) and a second on 'foreign' fish (parts 4-12, published from 1785-1795). The present French edition, without the sub-division, was also eventually completed in twelve parts (with parts 6 to 12 appearing between 1795 and 1797
Ichthyologie, ou histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des Poissons. Avec des figures enluminées, dessinées d'après nature. Translated from the German by Jean-Charles Thibault de Laveux. Berlin: Louis Phillippe Wegner for the author and François de la Garde (parts 1-6) and Didot le jeune in Paris and White & Son in London (parts 4-6), 1785-1788. 6 parts only (of 12) in 3 volumes (440 x 290mm). Half-titles, 4pp. subscribers' list, engraved title vignettes by Berger after Rosenberg. 3 engraved additional emblematic titles by Berger after Rosenberg, 216 fine hand-coloured engraved plates, 6 printed in sanguine, 2 in bistre, and 1 in blue, by F.G. Berger, Berger sen., G. Bodenehr, C. Darchow, P. Haas, J.F. Henning, C. Ludwig Schmidt, J.G. Schmidt and others after J.F. Henning, Krüger jun. and others, most plates uncut. (Lacking the portrait as usual, old repaired 120mm. tear to plate 95 running horizontally from inner margin into image.) Contemporary blue marbled paper board
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of Bloch's 'fundamental treatise on general ichthyology' (Wood), and an excellent, unsophisticated example although incomplete. All the plates are finely hand-coloured by a contemporary hand, many are heightened in silver, and some are hand-coloured over a printed base of brilliant colour. Bloch was born in Ansbach and studied medicine and the natural sciences; he practised as a physician in Berlin, and while the Ichthyologie is rightly considered his masterpiece, he also wrote various other important scientific works. The German edition of the Ichthyologie, entitled Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische, was published in 12 parts with 432 plates. The work was subdivided into a section on the fish of Germany (parts 1-3, published in 1782-1785) and a second on 'foreign' fish (parts 4-12, published from 1785-1795). The present French edition, without the sub-division, was also eventually completed in twelve parts (with parts 6 to 12 appearing between 1795 and 1797
A top price for Marcus Elieser Bloch - as previously expected
In November 2000 Christies in London held the auction Natural History, which included the work Ichthyologie, ou histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des Poissons. Avec des figures enluminées, dessinées d'après nature. Translated from the German by Jean-Charles Thibault de Laveux. Berlin: Louis Phillippe Wegner for the author and François de by Marcus Elieser Bloch. The price achieved of GBP 17,625.00 (€ 28,807.37) was within expectations - the estimate range had previously been set by the auction house as GBP 15,000.00 – 20,000.00. Even if this result could not surprise positively, Ichthyologie, ou histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des Poissons. Avec des figures enluminées, dessinées d'après nature. Translated from the German by Jean-Charles Thibault de Laveux. Berlin: Louis Phillippe Wegner for the author and François de is the most expensive artwork by Marcus Elieser Bloch that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis mit Ansage
Im November 2000 führte Christies in London die Auktion Natural History durch, in der auch die Arbeit Ichthyologie, ou histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des Poissons. Avec des figures enluminées, dessinées d'après nature. Translated from the German by Jean-Charles Thibault de Laveux. Berlin: Louis Phillippe Wegner for the author and François de von Marcus Elieser Bloch zur Versteigerung kam. Der dabei erzielte Preis von GBP 17.625,00 (€ 28.807,37) lag im Rahmen der Erwartungen – die Schätzpreisspanne war von dem Auktionshaus zuvor mit GBP 15.000,00 – 20.000,00 angegeben worden. Auch wenn das Ergebnis damit nicht positiv überraschen konnte, ist Ichthyologie, ou histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des Poissons. Avec des figures enluminées, dessinées d'après nature. Translated from the German by Jean-Charles Thibault de Laveux. Berlin: Louis Phillippe Wegner for the author and François de das teuerste Kunstwerk von Marcus Elieser Bloch, d
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