Rariora musei Besleriani quae olim Basilius et Michael Rupertus Besleri collegerunt
Subtitle: aeneisque tabulis ad vivum incisa evulgarunt
By: nunc commentariolo illustrata a Johanne Henrico Lochnero ... ; denuo luci publicae commisit et laudationem ejus funebrem adjecit maestissimus parens Michael Fridercus Lochnerus ...
Contributors: Besler, Michael Rupert, 1607-1661; Lochner, Michael Friedrich, 1662-1720; Lochner, Johann Heinrich, 1695-1715; Heumann, Georg Daniel, 1691-1759, engraver; Bayer, Frederick M., former owner
Publisher: s.n. ]
Published: 1716
Place of publication: [Nuremberg
Language: lat
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Natural history; Pre-Linnean works
Description: A description with commentary of the natural history museum of Basilius Besler and his nephew Michael Rupert. The collection had been illustrated in previous publications including Besler's Fasciculus of 1616 and Rupert's Gazophylacium of 1642. This work is a more elaborate publication with 40 smaller engravings of the various collected objects (fruits, birds, alligators, fish, fossils, corals, etc.), 24 of which were previously depicted in the earlier works, 16 which were additional illustrations.
Notes: Engraved frontispiece part of J.H. Lochner by G.D. Heumann. Twenty-four of the plates were previously published in Michael Rupert Besler's Gazophylacium rerum naturalium e regno vegetabili, animali et minerali depromptarum. Lipsiae, 1642.

Includes funeral orations for Johann Lochner.

Title printed in red and black; head-piece and initial.

Signatures: )( -3)(² [a]² b-c² A-2E⁴.

BM (NH), v. 3, p. 1162

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SCNHRB has 2 copies; both copies have the plates, except port., numbered in ms. ink.

SCNHRB c.1 (39088003154937) is bound with: Commelin, Caspar, Flora malabarica ... Lugduni Batavorum, 1696; and Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de. Tournefortius contractus, sub forma tabularum sistens Institutiones rei herbariae ... Francofurti ad Moenum, 1715. Bound together subsequent to publication.

SCNHRB c.1 has contemporary full vellum binding, in later linen-covered box.

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088011499969) has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Dr. Frederick M. Bayer.

SCNHRB c.2 has stamped on t.p.: Bayer's monogram, Afgevoend uit de Bibliotheek van N.A.M., and unidentified blind stamp.

SCNHRB c.2 half-bound in vellum and marbled paper over boards; title in ms. on spine.