Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes
Date |
1719 |
Place |
Amsterdam |
Subject | |
Category | |
Author |
Fallours, Samuel Coyett, Baltazar Stell, Adrien van der |
Publisher |
Donné au public par Louis Renard |
Creator |
Renard, Louis |
Current holder | |
Series number |
MRB/F597/R |
Item number |
74VKwvvb5JNZ |
Access rights |
Digitised |
Rights |
The State Library of NSW |
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Description from source |
Physical content 2 v. in 1 ([8] p., 43 leaves of plates, [6] p., lvii leaves of plates, [4] p.) : col. ill. (459 figs.) ; 42 cm. Analytical title Histoire naturelle des plus rares curiositez de la mer des Indes. Full title Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires, que l’on trouve autour des isles Moluques et sur les côtes des terres australes : peints d’après nature durant la régence de messieurs Van Oudshoorn, Van Hoorn, Van Ribeek & Van Zwoll, successivement gouverneurs-généraux des Indes orientales pour la Compagnie de Hollande … / divisé en deux tomes, dont le premier a été copié sur les originaux de Monsr. Baltazar Coyett … ; le second tome a été formé sur les recueils de Monsr. Adrien Vander Stell … avec une courte description de chaque poisson … ; donné au public par Louis Renard … . General note “Le tout muni de certificats & attestations authentiques”. 1st edition. Each vol. has half-title: Histoire naturelle des plus rares curiositez de la mer des Indes. Illustrations: Hand-coloured etchings; in vol. 1. copies of paintings made for B. Coyett; in vol. 2, chiefly copies of paintings by Samuel Fallours made for A. Vander Stell. With brief descriptive remarks in vol. 2 said to have been provided by Fallours but modified by Renard. For discussion, cf. article by T. W. Pietsch in Natural history, v. 93, no. 1 (Jan. 1984), p. 58-67, and Fishes, crayfishes, and crabs : Louis Renard’s Natural history of the rarest curiosities … v. I, Commentary and English text. Edited by Theodore W. Pietsch. (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1995). For location of original paintings, cf. Nissen. Includes index. |
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Books |
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Place of Publication |
Amsterdam |
Record author |
Siobhan Campbell |
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