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PRANGE, Christian Friedrich.

(1756 – 1836)

(Born: 1756; Died: 1836) German art expert.

Prange was a professor of art at the University of Halle.

Biographical references: DBA: I 977, 79-86. Hamberger & Meusel, Gelehrte Teutschland, 1796-1834. Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen. WBI.

Systematisches, 1784

1. German, 1784 [Bibliography].
Systematisches | Verzeichniß | aller derjenigen Schriften | welche | die Naturgeschichte | betreffen; | von den ältesten bis auf die neuesten Zeiten. | [ornament] | [double rule] | Halle, | bey Johann Christian Hendel. | 1784.

8°: viii, 446 p.

Rare. Published anonymously, but attributed to Prange. This is a classified bibliography listing c2500 entries relavent to natural history from the earliest times to the late 18th century. Petzholdt says that it was excerpted from Cobres' Deliciae Cobresianae (2 vols., Augsburg, 1781-2) [which see].

Bibliographical references: Besterman, Bibliography of Bibliographies, 1965-6: col. 4150. BL [727.g.13.]. Bridson, History of Natural History, 1994: Ca101. Petzholdt, Bibliotheca Bibliographica, 1866: p. 546.

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