Valentini, Michael Bernhard. Historia simplicitium reformata, sub Musei Museorum titulo antehac in vernacula edita, sub directione, emendatione & locupletatione autoris J. C. Beckero latio restituta. 2 parts in 1 volume. 13 Bl., 376 pp., pp. (377)-664, 7 Bl. With engraved title vignette and 28, partly double-leaf copper boards. 36 x 21 cm. Parchment d. C. (back is missing, stained, toasted). Frankfurt, Zunner, 1716. Nissen, BBI 2036. Pritzel 9664. Blake 467. Eales I, 1261. Ferguson II, 495. Hünersdorff II, 1530. – First Latin edition, strongly shortened compared to the German "Museum Museorum". The work deals with the overseas repertory for pharmaceutical science, overseas products from the mineral, plant and animal kingdom and their application in medicine and household. – Front lid dissolved. Moist and sticky spots as well as occasionally kink-marked.