Title
Catalogus uariorum exoticorum rarissimorum maximam partem incognitorum et nullibi descriptorum partim medicinae partim curiositati inseruientium quae in museo suo breui luci exponendo possidet
Title Variants
Alternative:
Catalogus variorum exoticorum rarissimorum maximam partem incognitorum
Uniform: Catalogus variorum exoticorum rarissimorum maximam partem incognitorum et nullibi descriptorum partim medicinae partim curiositati inservientium
By
Vater, Abraham, 1684-1751
Vidua Gerdesia,
, publisher
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
Wittembergae, Apud Viduam Gerdesiam, MDCCXXVI [1726]
Notes
Preface dated at end (p. [6], 1st group): Ex museo Wittenbergae d. xvi. mai. MDCCXXVI.
Woodcut vignette on t.p.; head- and tail-pieces; initial.
Signatures: )((-)(4) A-B.
Lacking the illustrated plate in D. Murray's bibliographic description of this edition, which was probably based on an extra-illustrated copy.
Contents: Radices -- Ligna -- Cortices -- Herbae folia et flores -- Semina et fructus -- Gummata et balsama sicca -- Balsama fluida succi et olea destillata -- Lapides bezoardici et animalia alia itemque marina atque mineralia.
BM (Nat. Hist.) | v. 5, 2196
Murray, D. Museums; their history and their use, | v. 3, p. 233
Pritzel, G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium, | 9696
Brief listings of Vater's collection of natural history specimens; some mention place of origin.
Subjects
1684-1751
,
Botany
,
Catalogs
,
Catalogs and collections
,
Curiosities and wonders
,
Early works to 1800
,
Germany
,
Materia medica
,
Minerals
,
Natural history
,
Natural history collections
,
Plants
,
Seeds
,
Vater, Abraham,
,
Wittenberg (Saxony-Anhalt)
Call Number
QH70.G32 W58 1726
Language
Latin
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.101284
OCLC:
768767221
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