Naturalienkabinett Von Albertus Seba

Seba's "Cabinet of Curiosities" stands as one of the eighteenth-century's greatest natural history achievements, & remains one of the most prized natural-history books of any period. Albertus Seba (1665-1736), a German-born apothecary & a wealthy member of the Dutch East India Company, practiced in Amsterdam where this collection of specimens gained international fame. The resulting work collected, according to the prospectus "an excellent collection of various leaves, fruits, roots, etc. which have been dissected to illustrate their structure; strange & exotic plants; rare animals, in particular, winged ones such as flying dogs, cats, rats, mice, squirrels & other singular creatures...exotic & beautifully marked snakes, lizards, crocodiles ... beautiful shells, conches, starfish, marine plants, corals, sea spiders...rare insects which were gathered from all corners of the earth at great cost & pains."Muesch, Irmgard is the author of 'Naturalienkabinett Von Albertus Seba', published 2001 under ISBN 9783822855058 and ISBN 3822855057.