Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
July 15, 1797
Primary Source Reference:
Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser, 15 July 1797
Additional Source Text:
"This is a scarce and valuable work; chiefly on account of the Plates of amphibious animals. Although books of natural history with valuable plates ought not to be within the reach of every visitor of the museum, yet they are essentially necessary to, and very much wanted by, the attentive observer, who wishes to compare the real object with that described in a good author."
Notes:
One of the plates depicting amphibious animals is pictured here.
This donor was probably either Anthony Charles Cazenove (1775–1852), a Swiss merchant who immigrated to Philadelphia in 1794, or his cousin Theophilus Cazenove (1740-1811), a Dutch financier and one of the agents of the Holland Land Company who lived in Philadelphia 1790-1799.
Title Information:
Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiosissimis expressio, per universam physices historiam
Imprint Information:
4 vols. (Amsterdam, 1734-1764)
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Date of Object:
1734-1764
