Friedrich Christian Lessers, der Kirche St. Jacobi und Martini zu Nordhausen pastoris ... Testaceo-theologia, oder, Gründlicher Beweis des Daseyns und der vollkommnesten Eigenschaften eines göttlichen Wesens
Subtitle: aus natürlicher und geistlicher Betrachtung der Schnecken und Muscheln, zur gebührenden Verherrlichung des grossen Gottes, und Beförderung des ihm schuldigen Dienstes ausgefertiget
Contributors: Brühl, Johann Benjamin, 1691-1763, engraver; Sysang, Johann Christoph, 1703-1757, engraver; Blochberger, Michael, publisher
Publisher: Verlegts Michael Blochberger
Published: 1744
Place of publication: Leipzig
Language: ger
Number of pages: 984
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Snails; Mollusks; Religion and science; Mussels; Catalogs and collections
Other titles: Testaceo-theologia, oder, Gründlicher Beweis des Daseyns und der vollkommnesten Eigenschaften eines göttlichen Wesens; Testaceo-theologia; Testaceotheologie; Gründlicher Beweis des Daseyns und der vollkommnesten Eigenschaften eines göttlichen Wesens
Work titles: Testaceo-theologia
Description: Describes over 100 private German collections of shells.
Notes: Portrait frontispiece signed: Sysang sc.; one of the plates is signed: Brühl sc. Lips.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Signatures: )(⁴ (-)(4) A-3P⁸ 3Q⁴ a-e⁸.

Page 389 lacks the page numbering (misprint).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, 2459

William Patrick Watson Antiquarian Books; purchase; 05/2016; $2250.00.

SCNHRB copy 39088018523902 has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Endowment.

SCNHRB copy has some apparently contemporary brief handwritten annotations and marking in the margins, including some price information for certain specimens.

SCNHRB copy has a contemporary full vellum binding over boards, with title inked on spine, and red edges.