Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiosissimis expressio, per universam physices historiam. Opus, cui, in hoc rerum genere, nullam par exstitit. Ex toto terrarum orbe collegit, digessit, descripsit, et depingendum curavit Albertus Seba, Etzela Oostfrisius, Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum Collega Xenocrates dictus; Societatis Regiae Anglicanae, et Instituti Bononiensis, sodalis. ...
Seba, Albertus
Category
Books
Date
1734 - 1765
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3212352
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v., plates (some fold.) : ill., port. ; 52 cm (fol.). Provenance: v.1 inscribed: "Windham Brussels"; v.2-4 inscribed "Adl. Windham" [i.e. Vice-Admiral William Lukin, later William Lukin Windham (1768 –1833)]. Binding: early nineteenth-century half calf, with marbled paper boards; gilt fillets; sewn onto six raised bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered and numbered: Cabinet d'Albertus Seba / Tomus I [-IV] Amst. 1758.
Makers and roles
Seba, Albertus Jacobus Wetstein (1706 - 1777) Smith, William Maria Janssonius van Waesberghe (fl.1709-1747) Schouten, Petrus Arkstée et Merkus