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VOSMAER, Aernout

Regnum Animale. Natuurkundige beschryving eener uitmuntende verzameling van zeldsaame gedierten, bestaande in Oost- en Westindische viervoetige dieren, vogelen en slangen
Amsterdam
J.B. Elwe
1766-1804
€600 - €800

"33 parts in one volume in-4°, with one cont. handcol. engraved frontispiece and 35 cont. handcol. engr. plates. Lacking part of first title. Mod. half calf, spine with gilt-lettered title. Nissen, Zoology, 4293; Landwehr, Studies in Dutch books with colour plates, n° 204. Brunet V, p. 1472"

"Landwehr 204 'Vosmaer was advisor to Prince Willem V whos mothe Princess Anna started a zoological cabinet and a menagerie on the grounds of their summer palace Het Loo near Apeldoorn. Many animals were imported from Borneo, the Philippines, Surinam, Cape of Good Hope and even from Japan. During decades tracts were published giving a description of an animal to which a hand-coloured copperplate was added...'; Woor 615; B.M. (N.H.) V, 238 'Under this collective title are brought together 33 separate papers, each with its distinctive title-page'. Important treatises, as many mammals and birds form South-Africa are described and illustrated for the first time"

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