Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiosissimis expressio, per universam physices historiam : Opus, cui, in hoc rerum genere, nullum par exstitit

Seba, Albertus, 1665-1736 · 1734 · Amstelaedami : Apud J. Wetstenium, & Gul. Smith, & Janssonio-Waesbergios · 5 pictures

Seba's Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri, published in Amsterdam in 1734 by Albertus Seba, is a pre-Linnean natural history catalogue of animals, plants and minerals for collectors and scholars. Its pages are dense Latin text in two-column blocks with numbered headings, while the plates show snakes drawn in soft, sepia-toned outline with fine shading on the scales that a designer could use for pattern or scientific-diagram references.

Pre-Linnean works · Pictorial works · Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works · Natural history -- Pictorial works

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