Details - Kurzer Entwurf der königlichen Naturalienkammer zu Dresden

Kurzer Entwurf der königlichen Naturalienkammer zu Dresden

Title

Kurzer Entwurf der königlichen Naturalienkammer zu Dresden

Title Variants

Translated: Description du Cabinet roial de Dresde touchant l'histoire naturelle

By

Eilenburg, C. H. (Christian Heinrich), 1771 , author

Eilenburg, C. H. (Christian Heinrich), 1771
Keyl, Michael, 1722-1798
Walther, Georg Konrad, 1705-1778 , publisher
Königliche Naturalienkammer zu Dresden.
Königliche Naturalienkammer zu Dresden. , Description du Cabinet roial de Dresde, touchant l'histoire naturelle

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Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Dresden und Leipzig, In der Waltherischen Buchhandlung, 1755

Notes

Also published in a German and French ed., and in an ed. with French alone (title: Description du Cabinet roial de Dresde, touchant l'histoire naturelle).

Anonymous. Text by C.H. Eilenburg, according to Barbier.

Text by C.H. Eilenburg.

Parallel title page in French facing German title page: Description du Cabinet roial de Dresde touchant l'histoire naturelle.

Separate French and German editions were also published in 1755.

The engraved plates are plans of the 1st and 2nd floors of the Zwinger, housing the Königliche Naturalien-Galerien und Curiositäten-Cabineten; legends also in French. Armorial title vignette and headpiece view of the Zwinger by Michael Keyl.

Errata: p. [1] at end.

Engraved coats of arms and head-pieces signed by M. Keyl.

Signatures: pi² A-2B⁴ 2C².

Barbier, A.A. Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes (3. éd.), | I, column 901

Short title catalogue of eighteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine, | page 246

Schuh, Curtis Paul. Mineralogy & crystallography, | 1746

Grinke, Paul. From wunderkammer to museum, | 50

A catalog of the collections in the Königliche Naturalienkammer zu Dresden, including minerals, fossils, plants, anatomical specimens, animals, shells, coral, marine plants, and amber, as well descriptions of the models of the Temple of Solomon and the Tabernacle constructed by Gerhard Schott of Hamburg.

In French and German throughout, printed on opposite pages numbered in duplicate.