May 17, 2013

mucholderthen:

NATURAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATIONS

from  Albertus Seba
Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri Accurata Descriptio et Iconibus Artificiosissmis Expressio per Universam Physices Historiam

AMSTERDAM: 1734-1765

The most complete record of any of the eighteenth-century cabinets of natural history.

Albertus Seba was an apothecary in Amsterdam who became rich in the service of the Dutch East India Company. During this time the Dutch, through the Company, commanded the most extensive network of trade and colonies in the world, and it was by exploiting this that Seba managed to acquire his collection.

Accordingly, Seba gathered a vast array of specimens from Sri Lanka, Greenland, Indonesia and other far-flung places. Many specimens were South American, particularly Brazilian; these came to him via the Dutch colony in Surinam.

The present work is a catalogue of his second and grandest cabinet of natural rarities, including mammals, birds, plants, insects, butterflies, reptiles, amphibians, fish, crustaceans, shells, minerals and fossils.

Seba’s cabinet played an important part in Linnaeus’s classification of the natural world. …  Maria Sybilla Merian made use of the cabinet in her great work on Surinamese insects.

 Many of Seba’s specimens still survive in European museums.

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May 14, 2013

Loligo gigas [now Dosidas gigas] - Humboldt Squid/Jumbo Squid

Loligo gigas [now Dosidas gigas] - Humboldt Squid/Jumbo Squid

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May 14, 2013
scientificillustration:

Turtle (top view) (May 1852) by The Ernst Mayr Library on Flickr.

scientificillustration:

Turtle (top view) (May 1852) by The Ernst Mayr Library on Flickr.

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May 11, 2013

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May 10, 2013
puszcza:

from Exotic Moths by James Duncan, 1868

puszcza:

from Exotic Moths by James Duncan, 1868

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May 10, 2013
wapiti3:

Morchella conica on Flickr.
 Edible mushrooms in the Canton of Neuchatel: espces vnneuses and with which they could be confused (1861) Author: Favre, Louis, 1822-1904 Subject: Mushrooms — Switzerland Neuchtel (Canton) Pictorial works Publisher: Neuchtel : Socit neuchateloise d’utilit publique Biodiversity Heritage Library.

wapiti3:

Morchella conica on Flickr.


Edible mushrooms in the Canton of Neuchatel: espces vnneuses and with which they could be confused (1861)
Author: Favre, Louis, 1822-1904
Subject: Mushrooms — Switzerland Neuchtel (Canton) Pictorial works
Publisher: Neuchtel : Socit neuchateloise d’utilit publique
Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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May 10, 2013
scientificillustration:

n206_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

scientificillustration:

n206_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

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May 7, 2013
growhousegrow:

Charles Hayter, A New Practical Treatise on the Three Primitive Colours, 1830.

growhousegrow:

Charles Hayter, A New Practical Treatise on the Three Primitive Colours, 1830.

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May 7, 2013
wapiti3:

Histoire naturelle des poissons (1828) on Flickr.
 Author: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832; Valenciennes, M., 1794-1865, joint author Volume: color plates 9-140 Subject: Fishes Publisher: Paris, Chez F. G. Levrault; [etc., etc.] Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT Language: French Digitizing sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library Book contributor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library Collection: biodiversity; Harvard_University; americana

wapiti3:

Histoire naturelle des poissons (1828) on Flickr.




Author: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832; Valenciennes, M., 1794-1865, joint author
Volume: color plates 9-140
Subject: Fishes
Publisher: Paris, Chez F. G. Levrault; [etc., etc.]
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: French

Digitizing sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Book contributor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Collection: biodiversity; Harvard_University; americana

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May 7, 2013
jomobimo:

Agaris procerus, Plate LXXXVIII, Illustrations of British mycology,. London,1847-55

jomobimo:

Agaris procerus, Plate LXXXVIII, Illustrations of British mycology,.
London,1847-55

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May 6, 2013
heracliteanfire:

1. Olive tree Warbler 2. Olivaceous Warbler 3. Pale Warbler
A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles /. London :G. Bell & Sons,1875-1876. (by BioDivLibrary)

heracliteanfire:

1. Olive tree Warbler 2. Olivaceous Warbler 3. Pale Warbler

A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles /. London :G. Bell & Sons,1875-1876. (by BioDivLibrary)

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May 5, 2013

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April 30, 2013
lacalaveracatrina:

The Cheetah (1886) - THE BESTIARIUM OF ALOYS ZÖTL (1831-1887)

lacalaveracatrina:

The Cheetah (1886) - THE BESTIARIUM OF ALOYS ZÖTL (1831-1887)

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April 28, 2013

velveteenrabbit:

wnycradiolab:

Are there more of these? There certainly are.

(myfavoriteanimalisbees.)

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April 27, 2013

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