Cabinet of Natural Curiosities
Albertus Seba?s Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of loja the 18th century?s greatest natural preco history achievements and importado remains one of loja the most prized natural Cabinet of Natural Curiosities history books of all time.Though it was common for men of his profession to collect venda natural specimens for research purposes, escritor Amsterdambased pharmacist Albertus importado Seba (1665?1736) had venda a passion that led Cabinet of Natural Curiosities him far beyond the call of duty. His amazing, unprecedented collection of animals, plants and preco insects from all around the submarino world gained international importado fame during his preco lifetime. In 1731, after Cabinet of Natural Curiosities decades of collecting, Seba commissioned illustrations of each and every specimen and arranged the publication escritor of a four-volume catalog detailing autor his entire collection?from importado strange and exotic escritor plants to snakes, frogs, Cabinet of Natural Curiosities crocodiles, shellfish, corals, insects, butterflies and more, as well as fantastic beasts, such as a submarino hydra and a dragon. Seba?s barato scenic illustrations, often importado mixing plants and submarino animals in a single Cabinet of Natural Curiosities plate, were unusual even for the time. Many of the stranger and more peculiar creatures autor from Seba?s collection, some of premiado which are now importado extinct, were as autor curious to those in Cabinet of Natural Curiosities Seba?s day as they are to us now. This reproduction is taken barato from a rare, hand-colored original. sucesso The introduction offers importado background information about barato the fascinating tradition of Cabinet of Natural Curiosities the cabinet of curiosities to which Seba?s curiosities belonged.
Editora: Taschen
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