COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Geve, Nicolaus Georg
Author:
Schultze, Johann Dominik 1751-
Date:
1790
Short Title:
Tab. X.
Publisher:
Gebruden Herold
Publisher Location:
Hamburg
Type:
View
Obj Height cm:
26
Obj Width cm:
22
Note:
Tab. X to Belustigung im Reiche der Natur. Includes Figures 74-77b. Each figure is a detailed illustration of a shell, through delicate hand-painted copperplate engravings, in a pastel palette. Illustrations described in Classe seconde, Famille Seconde, Chapitre premier, Section prémiere, which spans pages 71-76.
Subject:
Zoological
Full Title:
Tab. X. Geve. Pinxit.
List No:
14324.015
Page No:
X
Series No:
15
Publication Author:
Geve, Nicolaus Georg
Publication Author:
Schultze, Johann Dominik 1751-
Pub Date:
1790
Pub Title:
Belustigung im Reiche der Natur. Erster Band aus den Papieren des Verstorbenen vollendet durch Johannes Dominicus Schultze Dr. des Buchthauses, der Garnison, und Armen : Ordnung verordneter Arzt. Mit 18 ausgemahlten Kupfertafeln. Hamburg, bei den Gebrüden Herold, 1790.
Pub Note:
Belustigung im Reiche der Natur, published in Hamburg by Gebruden Herold, 1790. Title translates to: Amusement in the realm of nature. Bound with board, covered in green and black marbled paper. Corners and spine in leather, with gilded spine title. Collation: 4° : [1-2], [I-III], IV-VI, [1], 2-121, [3]; XVIII leaves of plates throughout (first 2 and last 3 pages blank). Includes a preface. Beyond title page, all text provided in parallel German (in Gothic script) and French. Volume contains 18 leaves of plates, with 175 figures illustrating shells through delicate hand-painted copperplate engravings, in a pastel palette. Illustrations described in accompanying text. For instance, for Figure I: Le grand Nautille que les Hollandois appellent coquille, representé fur la premiere planche Fig. 1 est une coquille univalve, à la quelle les Naturalistes assignent la premiere place dans leurs collections, autant par rapport à sa beauté, que par rapport à sa construction particuliere & differente de tout autre coquillage [= The great Nautilus that the Dutch call shell, represented on the first plate Fig. 1, is a univalve shell, to which the Naturalists assign the first place in their collections, as much in relation to its beauty, as in relation to its particular construction and different from any other shell]. Nautiluses are the sole living cephalopods whose bony body structure is externalized as a planispiral shell. Full text available via the Biodiversity Heritage Library (see Pub Reference for link). Nicolaus Georg Geve (1712-1789) was a Danish painter and illustrator, of portraits and natural history. Geve studied with the royal Danish court painter Johann Saloman Wahl in Copenhagen.
Pub List No:
14324.000
Pub Type:
Geography Book
Pub Maps:
18
Pub Height cm:
27
Pub Width cm:
23
Image No:
14324015.jp2
Authors:
Geve, Nicolaus Georg; Schultze, Johann Dominik 1751-
Link To Source
Tab. X.
