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378 - Marine Life.- Rumpf (Georg Eberhard) Thesaurus Imaginum Piscium Testaceorum; Quales sunt Cancri Echini Echinometra Stellae Marinae&c. ut et Conchlearum..., second Latin edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional title, and 60 plates, title printed in red and black, Richard I. Johnson ink ownership stamp to titles, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with red morocco label, rubbed, [Nissen ZBI 3520], folio, The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1739.
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Marine Life.- Rumpf (Georg Eberhard) Thesaurus Imaginum Piscium Testaceorum; Quales sunt Cancri Echini Echinometra Stellae Marinae&c. ut et Conchlearum..., second Latin edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional title, and 60 plates, title printed in red and black, Richard I. Johnson ink ownership stamp to titles, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with red morocco label, rubbed, [Nissen ZBI 3520], folio, The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1739. *** An important work on shells and minerals, the first modern work on tropical fauna. Rumphius was far ahead of his time by accurate recording of locality and the attention he paid to molluscan ecology. It is only recently known that the fine plates of this work are by Maria Sibylla Merian.
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