Friedrich August Weber (1753-1806) Matthäus Merian... Lot 4

Friedrich August Weber (1753-1806) Matthäus Merian ml. (1621-1687) NATURGESCHICHTE AUS DEN BESTEN SCHRIFTSTELLERN MIT MERIANISCHEN UND NEUEN KUPFERN. 1.-6. ABSCHNITT DER VÖGEL Germany, Heilbronn, Franz Joseph Eckebrecht, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1779 Size 2°, 33.8x20.5 cm, 580 numbered pp. Hard parchment binding on wooden boards, with blindstamped decoration, spine with 5 bindings and two colour plates with gold stamped types and decoration; staples preserved in torso. Frontispiece and coloured copperplate pictorial appendices, partly taken from Merian`s Historia Naturalis (the plates have numbers 1-40 - of which no. 14, 15 and 31 are missing, often bound over), also vignettes, friezes, decorative lines. Binding rubbed, book block in good condition, complete, only spots of stains, bent corners.