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Albertus Seba: Cabinet of Natural Curiosities: The Complete Plates in Colour, 1734-1765

Door Irmgard Musch e.a.

Categorie
Grafiek & Tekeningen
Boeknummer
#334500-MA12
Titel
Albertus Seba: Cabinet of Natural Curiosities: The Complete Plates in Colour, 1734-1765
Auteur
Musch, Irmgard & Rainer Willmann
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Köln : Taschen
Jaar van uitgave
2005
ISBN10
3822847941
ISBN13
9783822847947
Taal
Engels, Duits, Frans
Beschrijving
Original red boards, dust jacket, decorated endpapers, numerous (full page) colour illustrations, pictorial board slipcase, folio.
Samenvatting

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, Amsterdam based 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... (Lees verder), 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.
Pagina's
543
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 45,00

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