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Catalogue systematique d'un magnifique cabinet de très beaux & très rares coquillages coraux et plantes marines; crabbes et ecrevisses; d'oiseaux exotiques de couleurs superbes animaux étranges, papillons, insectes, etc. : comme aussi un très beau & très complet cabinet de simples : livres d'histoire naturelle ... délaissé par feu Monsr. K. : dont la vente se fera le mercredi 16 May 1770 à Amsterdam dans la maison de Jean Weyers ...

by: Blinkvliet, Nicolaas; K**; Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI

Publication date: 1770

Topics: Natural history, Shells

Publisher: [Amsterdam] : Gedrukt by J.C. Sepp ...

Collection: biodiversity; americana

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: French; Dutch

Added t.p. in Dutch

Printed in both French and Dutch

Publisher's information from colophon

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces

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SCNHRB copy (39088013486311) interleaved, with ink ms. notes including sale prices

SCNHRB copy has bookplate of William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks Sectional Library. Stamped on front free endpaper and verso of Dutch t.p.: Division of Mollusks Sectional Library

SCNHRB copy stamped on verso of 1st front free endpaper: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Oct 1906 [ms. acc. no.] 193393

SCNHRB copy quarter bound in red sheepskin and marbled paper boards, title in ink on front cover, red sprinkled edges; housed in an archival cardboard box