Important Work by Georg Wolfgang Knorr Now Part of Our Collection

Abbildung aus Delices de la nature von Wolfgang Georg Knorr — Delices de la nature, tome second by Georg Wolfgang Knorr, H61/2 RAR.A 143[1/2, Tab. K. XII.

11/04/2025

The University Library Erlangen-Nürnberg has a significant collection of botanical, zoological, and anatomical works. A large part of this collection comes from the collection of the Nuremberg physician and botanist Christoph Jakob Trew (1695–1769).

Thanks to the support of the Universitätsbund Erlangen-Nürnberg, the University Library was able to add an important work by Georg Wolfgang Knorr to its collection.

The two-volume work Delices de la Nature, printed in Nuremberg in 1779, is not yet available in any Bavarian library and features 91 hand-colored copperplate engravings of birds, shells, amphibians, fish, corals, quadrupeds (four-legged animals), etc.