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Icones rerum naturalium : quas in itinere orientali depingi

by: Forsskål, Peter, 1732-1763; Niebuhr, Carsten, 1733-1815; Haas, Peter, 1754-1804, engraver; Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI

Publication date: 1776

Topics: Botany, Botany, Botany, Zoology, Zoology

Publisher: Hauniae : Ex officina Mölleri, aulae typographi, prostat apud Cl. Philibert

Collection: biodiversity

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: Latin

Constitutes the atlas to the author's works Flora Ægyptiaco-Arabica and Descriptiones animalium

Varies only in imprint of same title also published in 1776

Plates are signed by Peter Haas

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces

Signatures: A-B

SCNHRB copy (39088013481858) has bookplate: William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks, Sectional Library

SCNHRB copy stamped on t.p.: Division of Mollusks Sectional Library

SCNHRB copy is stamped on verso of t.p.: Smithsonian Library Oct 2 1953 [ms. acc. no.] 349670

SCNHRB copy is interleaved with blank leaves

SCNHRB copy in green library buckram binding, title in gilt on spine