Cornelius van Dyk - Osteologia, of nauwkeurige geraamt beschryving van verscheyde dieren, - 1680

rare book with beautiful prints by Jan Luyken

Cornelius van Dyk
Osteologia, of nauwkeurige geraamt beschryving van verscheyde dieren, nevens hare historien, uit de vermaartste, soo oude als nieuwe schrijvers, by een gebragt
Amsterdam: Johannes [Jan Claesz] ten Hoorn, 1680
(6)+286+(2) pp.; 20 plates outside text (Jan Luyken fecit); 17 × 11 cm

Contemporary leather cover (wear especially at edges and corners, front hinge broken but binding attached), title page loose (soiled, piece torn off with loss of some letters), frontispiece and 2 pages of dedication are missing (added in photocopy), many leaves well-thumbed or slightly soiled and with marks in colouring pencil; figure VII (Starling) lacks a small piece and figure IX has a tear in the edge; tear in index leaf.