1734 Seba Albertus Engraving Graveur Fauna Frogs #LXXI

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LOCUPLETISSIMI RERUM NATURALIUM THESAURI ACCURATA DESCRIPTIO, ET ICONIBUS ARTIFICIOSSIMIS EXPRESSIO, PER UNIVERSAM PHYSICES HISTORIAM
BY ALBERTUS SEBA
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Title:
LOCUPLETISSIMI RERUM NATURALIUM THESAURI ACCURATA DESCRIPTIO, ET ICONIBUS ARTIFICIOSSIMIS EXPRESSIO, PER UNIVERSAM PHYSICES HISTORIAM
Author(s):
ALBERTUS SEBA.
Publisher:
Janssonio-Waesbergios, & J. Wetstenium, & Gul. Smith.
Place of Edition:
Amsterdam.
Year of Edition:
1734.
Copies of Edition:
1
Pages:
Large Folio.
Sizes:
54.0 x 41.3cm
Condition:
EXCELLENT overall condition. Fine laid and bright paper.
You are bidding on the extremely rare gravure from the book LOCUPLETISSIMI RERUM NATURALIUM THESAURI ACCURATA DESCRIPTIO... - # LXVII.
About the author
Albertus Seba was an apothecary in Amsterdam who became rich in the service of the Dutch East India Company. During this time the Dutch, through the company, commanded the most extensive network of trade and colonies in the world, and it was by exploiting this that Seba managed to acquire his collection. Accordingly, Seba gathered a vast array of specimens from Sri Lanka, Greenland, Indonesia and other far-flung places. Many specimens were South American, particularly Brazilian, and came to him via the Dutch colony in Surinam. The present work is a catalogue of his second and greatest cabinet of natural rarities, including mammals, birds, plants, insects, butterflies, reptiles, amphibians, fish, crustaceans, shells, minerals, and fossils. His first collection had been sold in 1717 to Peter the Great of Russia for the then huge sum of 15,000 guilders. However, his new collection soon surpassed the earlier one, and was much admired by Linnaeus, although the latter denounced the seven-headed hydra as a fake. This notwithstanding, Seba's cabinet played an important part in the Linnaeus classification of the natural world. Such was the magnitude of Seba's collection that his private museum became something of a tourist attraction, visited both by passing dignitaries and naturalists. One of the latter was Maria Sybilla Merian, who made use of the cabinet in her great work on Surinamese insects. Seba died in 1736 with the last two volumes of the catalogue still awaiting publication. The collection itself was auctioned in 1752 in order to finance the completion of the catalogue. Many of Seba's specimens still survive in European museums.
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