Albertus Seba's curious creatures: a most unusual collection of natural specimens Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time.Though it was common for men of his profession to collect natural specimens for research purposes, Amsterdambased pharmacist Albertus Seba (1665?1736) had a passion that led him far beyond the call of duty. His amazing, unprecedented collection of animals, plants ...
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Albertus Seba's curious creatures: a most unusual collection of natural specimens Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time.Though it was common for men of his profession to collect natural specimens for research purposes, Amsterdambased pharmacist Albertus Seba (1665?1736) had a passion that led him far beyond the call of duty. His amazing, unprecedented collection of animals, plants and insects from all around the world gained international fame during his lifetime. In 1731, after decades of collecting, Seba commissioned illustrations of each and every specimen and arranged the publication of a four-volume catalog detailing his entire collection?from strange and exotic plants to snakes, frogs, crocodiles, shellfish, corals, insects, butterflies and more, as well as fantastic beasts, such as a hydra and a dragon. Seba's scenic illustrations, often mixing plants and animals in a single plate, were unusual even for the time. Many of the stranger and more peculiar creatures from Seba's collection, some of which are now extinct, were as curious to those in Seba's day as they are to us now. This reproduction is taken from a rare, hand-colored original. The introduction offers background information about the fascinating tradition of the cabinet of curiosities to which Seba's curiosities belonged.
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VG (DJ and boards are lightly edgeworn/bumped; interior is in excellent condition; binding is solid. ) Off-white DJ with red illustration and black lettering; off-white boards with red illustration and black lettering; 415 pp.; richly illustrated. "A selection of the most important plates from the copy in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague."--WorldCat.
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Book. Quarto, 415 pages; VG; spine is white with red lettering, front cover has red lettering and a bright red coral design; binding has minmal shelf wear; pages clear; shelved front table. 1326152. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade. Large hardcover (folio) 13 x 8.5", 415 pp., dust jacket with 1" edge and corner tears, creases, covers with corner bumps, with hundreds of full-color illustrations with captions in English, French, German with comments, from the copy in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague printed on heavy glossy stock, tight and secure binding. Reproduction of all 449 of the original plates in full-color published originally between 1734 and 1765. Shipped boxed in bubble wrap with tracking. Oversized and heavy volume. liv room floor 0-C
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