Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V : quibus continentur variae relationes, observationes & descriptiones rerum Persicarum & ulterioris Asiae : multâ attentione in peregrinationibus per universum orientem collectae

By

Kaempfer, Engelbert, 1651-1716

Meyer, Heinrich Wilhelm, 1657-1722 , printer
Marot, Daniel, 1661-1752 , ill
Gole, Jacob, 1660?-1737? , engraver
Brandshagen, F. W. , engraver

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Lemgoviae, Typis & impensis Henrici Wilhelmi Meyeri, aulae Lippiacae typographi, 1712

Notes

Title printed in red and black.

Added engraved half title signed: D. Marot inv., T. Gole sculp.; many of the engraved plates are signed: F.W. Brandshagen.

Engraved title vignette; woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces.

"Inscriptio Persepolitana"--Plate facing p. 332.

"Tabula hydrographica Sinus Persici"--Plate facing p. 764.

Signatures: pi² [a]² b⁴ c² A-6C⁴.

Errata: p. [30]-[32], last count.

Includes index.

Contents: I. Relationes de aulae persicae statu hodierno -- II. Relationes & observationes historico-physicas de rebus variis -- III. Observationes physico-medicas curiosas -- IV. Relationes botanico-historicas de Palma dactylifera, in Perside crescente -- V. Plantarum japonicarum, quas regnum peragranti solum natale conspiciendas objecit, nomina & characteres sinicos; intermixtis, pro specimine, quarundam plenis descriptionibus, unà cum iconibus.

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration, no. | 1018

Pritzel (2nd ed.), | no. 4564

Hunt botanical cat., | no. 427

Subjects

Achaemenian inscriptions , Asia , Botany , Cuneiform inscriptions , Date palm , Description and travel , Early works to 1800 , Iran , Japan , Pre-Linnean works

Call Number

DS7 .K4

Language

Latin

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.147012
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/agr15000121
OCLC: 4382729