Albertus Seba (1665-1736), Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri Accurata Descriptio et Iconibus Artificiosissimis Expressio, Per Universam Physices Historiam

Albertus Seba (1665-1736) Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri Accurata Descriptio et Iconibus Artificiosissimis Expressio, Per Universam Physices Historiam Amsterdam, Wetsten, Smith and Jannson-Waesberg, 1734-1765. 4 volumes. Folio (20 x 13 inches). Text in Latin and Dutch. Half-titles, title-pages printed in red and black with engraved vignettes. Engraved allegorical frontispiece after L.F. Dubourg by P. Tanj, portrait of Seba by J. Houbraken after J.M. Quinkhard, and 449 engraved plates including 175 double-page, by P. Tanji, A Van der Laan, F. de Bakker, A. van Buysen, de la Croix, J. Folkema, W. Jongman, F. Morellon, K.D. Ptter, J. Punt and J. van der Speyk, engraved headpieces, blank label pasted over the last two digits of date on colophon of volume III. Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked in 1932 in brown morocco, very worn).   Provenance: with the 18th -century bookplate of the Earl of Moira, probably John Rawdon, the first early (1720-1793), on the verso of each half-titl