Seba. Cabinet of Natural Curiosities by Musch, Irmgard; Rust, Jes; Willmann, Rainer - 2011

TASCHEN, 2016-12-24. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.6929 13.5433 9.9213.

Taschen, 2011. Later Printing 5th or later Printing. Hardback. Very Good/No Dw as Issued. one corner bumped and a small scrape to the Edge of the rear spine panel. short gift inscription of previous owner on front free endpaper

Decorative cloth. 416 pages including a Bibliography. Text in English, German and French. Color plates. Cover has a few smudges, rear fore-edge corner tip is lightly bumped.

Germany: Taschen America Llc, 2016. Hardcover. Very Good+. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Tachen, 2016. Hardcover. Cream cloth over boards, color embossed pictorial cover. Folio. vg+ (shelf worn, cover dusty, bump to spine tail, internal binding tight and illustrations bright and clean) 415pp.

Taschen, Köln, 2011. 1st edition thus. Pictorial hard covers. Fine/No Jacket. Reissue of the classic "Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio et iconibus artificiosissimis expressio (etc.) by the Dutch polymath and collector Albertus Seba (1665-1736), with interpretive chapters in English, German and French and with copious colour illustrations (some full-page, some four to the page) taken from the copy at the Royal Library in the Hague. Designed and printed to Taschen's highest standards. The surviving parts of the whole collection can still be seen in a museum dedicated to Cabinets of Curiosities in St. Petersburg, Russia, known as the Kunstkamera. It was Russia's first public museum, established in 1714 when Tsar Peter "the Great", having bought the collection, arranged for its transfer to his newly established capital city.

Taschen,, 2011. Hardcover Hardcover. Fine. Quarto. A new and sealed copy but with slight fading to spine and lower front edge.

Taschen, 1765. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 415 p. Size: 34 cm