Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes

Item

Title: Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes
Subject: Australia--Discovery and exploration; Discoveries in science; Natural history; Drawing; French language; Indonesia
Category: 1. Settlement
Author: Fallours, Samuel; Coyett, Baltazar; Stell, Adrien van der
Publisher: Donné au public par Louis Renard
Place of Publication: Amsterdam
Creator: Renard, Louis
Current holder: State Library of New South Wales
Date: 1719
Link: https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKwvvb5JNZ/Awop4XBbxogBR
Series number: MRB/F597/R
Item number: 74VKwvvb5JNZ
Access rights: Digitised
Rights: The State Library of NSW
Country of origin: Netherlands
Place: Amsterdam
Language: French
Description from source: Physical content
2 v. in 1 ([8] p., 43 leaves of plates, [6] p., lvii leaves of plates, [4] p.) : col. ill. (459 figs.) ; 42 cm.

Analytical title
Histoire naturelle des plus rares curiositez de la mer des Indes.

Full title
Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires, que l'on trouve autour des isles Moluques et sur les côtes des terres australes : peints d'après nature durant la régence de messieurs Van Oudshoorn, Van Hoorn, Van Ribeek & Van Zwoll, successivement gouverneurs-généraux des Indes orientales pour la Compagnie de Hollande ... / divisé en deux tomes, dont le premier a été copié sur les originaux de Monsr. Baltazar Coyett ... ; le second tome a été formé sur les recueils de Monsr. Adrien Vander Stell ... avec une courte description de chaque poisson ... ; donné au public par Louis Renard ... .

General note
"Le tout muni de certificats & attestations authentiques".
1st edition.
Each vol. has half-title: Histoire naturelle des plus rares curiositez de la mer des Indes.

Illustrations: Hand-coloured etchings; in vol. 1. copies of paintings made for B. Coyett; in vol. 2, chiefly copies of paintings by Samuel Fallours made for A. Vander Stell. With brief descriptive remarks in vol. 2 said to have been provided by Fallours but modified by Renard. For discussion, cf. article by T. W. Pietsch in Natural history, v. 93, no. 1 (Jan. 1984), p. 58-67, and Fishes, crayfishes, and crabs : Louis Renard's Natural history of the rarest curiosities ... v. I, Commentary and English text. Edited by Theodore W. Pietsch. (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1995). For location of original paintings, cf. Nissen.

Includes index.
Physical format: Books
Related resources: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/images-from-the-first-colour-publication-on-fish-1754/