cover image: Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium / quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål ... ; post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr ; adjuncta est materia medica kahirina atque tabula maris Rubri geographica

Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium / quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål ... ; post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr ; adjuncta est materia medica kahirina atque tabula maris Rubri geographica

1775

Map signed: I. Haas sc. [probably Jonas Haas?]. Signatures: A-B⁴ C² a-d⁴ e², ²A-²C⁴ D-R⁴ S² T-X⁴. Also available online. SCNHRB has three copies. SCNHRB c. 1 (39088013489356) stamped on front free endpaper: Ex libris Hri. de Saussure. Inscribed in pencil: Prof. Baird a bequest (?) of H. de Saussure. SCNHRB c. 1 stamped on t.p.: Library, U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution Feb 9 1882 [ms. acc. no.] 124442. SCNHRB c. 1 bound in mottled calf, marbled edges, gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers; housed in a gray archival portfolio. SCNHRB c. 2 has ink signature on front wrapper: H. Jekel. SCNHRB c. 2 (39088013489398) has stamp on front wrapper: Bibliothèque de la Feuille des jeunes naturalistes. SCNHRB c. 2 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Bequest of S. Stillman Berry. Gift of Clyde Roper. SCNHRB c. 2 in original plain blue paper wrappers with title in ink on front; uncut; overlay of brown paper, housed in an archival cardboard box. SCNHRB c. 3 (39088013489430) stamped on t.p.: Division of Fishes U.S. National Museum [and] Smithsonian Institution U.S. National Museum; pencilled acc. no.: 172875. Blind embossed on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum. SCNHRB c. 3 has ink and pencil ms. notes in margins. SCNHRB c. 3 bound in brown library buckram, title in gilt on spine. Elecresource
materia medica zoology forsskål, peter niebuhr, carsten saussure, henri de medicine, arab berry, s. stillman haas, jonas jekel, henri bibliothèque de la feuille des jeunes naturalistes roper, clyde f. e

Authors

Forsskål, Peter 1732-1763, Niebuhr, Carsten 1733-1815, Haas, Jonas 1720-1775, Saussure, Henri de 1829-1905 DSI, Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI, Jekel, Henri 1816-1891 DSI, Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI, Bibliothèque de la Feuille des jeunes naturalistes DSI

Dates
1775
Format
19, [1], xxxiv, [2], 164 p., [1] leaf of plates : map ; 27 cm. (4to)
Place Discussed
Egypt Arabian Peninsula
Provider
Smithsonian Institution
Published in
Egypt
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/94954ce3c1f2d6c5303b94edae516fd5

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