Catalogus uariorum exoticorum rarissimorum maximam partem incognitorum et nullibi descriptorum partim medicinae partim curiositati inseruientium quae in museo suo breui luci exponendo possidet
By: Abrahamus Vater D. et P.P Anat. et Botan. substitutus, ...
Contributors: Vidua Gerdesia, publisher; Königliche Bibliothek zu Berlin
Publisher: Apud Viduam Gerdesiam
Published: 1726
Place of publication: Wittembergae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Plants; Botany; Catalogs; Curiosities and wonders; Catalogs and collections; Early works to 1800; Seeds; Natural history collections; Natural history; Minerals; Materia medica
Other titles: Catalogus variorum exoticorum rarissimorum maximam partem incognitorum
Work titles: Catalogus variorum exoticorum rarissimorum maximam partem incognitorum et nullibi descriptorum partim medicinae partim curiositati inservientium
Description: Brief listings of Vater's collection of natural history specimens; some mention place of origin.
Notes: Preface dated at end (p. [6], 1st group): Ex museo Wittenbergae d. xvi. mai. MDCCXXVI.

Woodcut vignette on t.p.; head- and tail-pieces; initial.

Signatures: )((-)(4) A-B.

Lacking the illustrated plate in D. Murray's bibliographic description of this edition, which was probably based on an extra-illustrated copy.

BM (Nat. Hist.) v. 5, 2196

Murray, D. Museums; their history and their use, v. 3, p. 233

Pritzel, G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium, 9696

Antiquariat Michael Kuehn (Berlin, Germany); purchase; 03/2012; $3160.00.

SCNHRB copy 39088016713760 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Endowment.

SCNHRB copy has stamps on the verso of the t.p.: 1. (red ink) Ex biblioth. Regia Berolinensi; 2. (black ink) Vend. ex bibl. Reg. Berol.

SCNHRB copy has a modern marbled paperboard binding, predominantly in bronze and brown tones.
Table of contents: title: Radices; title: Ligna; title: Cortices; title: Herbae folia et flores; title: Semina et fructus; title: Gummata et balsama sicca; title: Balsama fluida succi et olea destillata; title: Lapides bezoardici et animalia alia itemque marina atque mineralia.