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