Author: Sellius, Godofredus (Sell, Godefried)
Title: Historia Naturalis Teredinis seu Xylophagi Marini, Tubulo-Conchoidis speciatim Belgici
Description: Hermann Besseling 1733 [30], 353, [11], 4 folding engraved plates (2 hand coloured). 4to. HB. Later quarter Morocco, raised bands, gt.; orig. marbled boards, endpapers and top-edge. Some spotting to title page and first few pages, but largely clean; wide margins. Vg.. ZBI 3801. There are two copies of each of the two plates (one uncoloured and one coloured). An early treatise on shipworms (Teredo), a worm-like marine mollusc which bores into submerged timber. While resident in the Netherlands, Sellius used a microscope to study the shipworm which was causing great damage to Dutch ships and dikes..
Keywords: ABABOOKFAIR; B8592; Bivalve Molluscs; Marine Mollusca; Shipworms; Teredinidae; Teredo
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Title: Historia Naturalis Teredinis seu Xylophagi Marini, Tubulo-Conchoidis speciatim Belgici
Description: Hermann Besseling 1733 [30], 353, [11], 4 folding engraved plates (2 hand coloured). 4to. HB. Later quarter Morocco, raised bands, gt.; orig. marbled boards, endpapers and top-edge. Some spotting to title page and first few pages, but largely clean; wide margins. Vg.. ZBI 3801. There are two copies of each of the two plates (one uncoloured and one coloured). An early treatise on shipworms (Teredo), a worm-like marine mollusc which bores into submerged timber. While resident in the Netherlands, Sellius used a microscope to study the shipworm which was causing great damage to Dutch ships and dikes..
Keywords: ABABOOKFAIR; B8592; Bivalve Molluscs; Marine Mollusca; Shipworms; Teredinidae; Teredo
Price: GBP 795.00 = appr. US$ 1135.25 Seller: Pemberley Natural History Books
- Book number: A13954
- Book number: A13954
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