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Natuurkundige beschryving eener uitmuntende verzameling van zeldsaame gedierten, bestaande in Oost-en Westindische Viervoetige dieren, vogelen en slangen, weleer leevend voorhanden geweest zynde, buiten den Haag, op het Kleine Loo ...] Amsterdam, J.B. Elwe, 1766-1787. 31 parts (bound in 2 volumes). 4to (220 x 210mm). With 1 plain engraved plate and 31 fine handcoloured engraved plates. Later half calf.
31 of the 33 separately published monographs by Vosmaer. In 1804 these tracts were published together with a general title and half title as well as a frontispiece. Our set does not have the 2 later published monographs 'Ceilonsche Kameel-Duif' and 'Africaansche of Kaapsche wulp' published in 1804. Our copy lacks the printed title and plate of the 'Langstaartige ruw-geschubde Slang-Hagedis'. Landwehr 204: "Vosmaer was advisor to Prince Willem V whose mother Princess Anna started a zoological cabinet and a menagerie on the grounds of their summer palace Het Loo near Apeldoorn. Many animals were imported from Borneo, the Philippines, Surinam, Cape of Good Hope and even from Japan. During decades tracts were published giving a description of an animal to which a hand-coloured copperplate was added ...; Wood 615; B.M.(N.H.) V, 238: "Under this collective title are brought together 33 separate papers, each with its destinctive title-page". Important treatises, as many mammals and birds from South-Africa are described and illustrated for the first time.