CABINET OF NATURAL CURIOSITIES - DAS NATURALIENKABINETT - LE CABINET DES CURIOSITES NATURELLES - Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri 1734-1765

SEBA, ALBERTUS

ISBN 10: 3822847941 / ISBN 13: 9783822847947

Editore: TASCHEN, Köln, 2001

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. 543 pp. 38,5x26 cm. Ilustrado con 449 láminas dibujos color; son todas las láminas de su obra en 4 tomos. Contenido: Extraordinario catálogo de la colección de este naturalista del siglo XVIII, y una de las másimportantes obras en materia de ciencias naturales. (GASTOS DE ENVÍO INCLUIDOS EN EL PRECIO, para España, pago por transferencia previa) . CIENCIAS NATURALES CATALOGO DIBUJO ZOOLOGIA BOTANICA ENTOMOLOGIA 60363 VP3-3 Cartone con sobrecubierta y en estuche ilustrado.

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• Titolo: CABINET OF NATURAL CURIOSITIES - DAS NATURALIENKABINETT - LE CABINET DES CURIOSITES NATURELLES - Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri 1734-1765
• Editore: TASCHEN, Köln
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 3822847941
• ISBN 13: 9783822847947
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: Muy buen estado
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta

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<div>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.</div>