Title
Testacea Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis
Title Variants
Alternative:
Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis, Testacea
By
Born, Ignaz, Edler von, 1742-1791
, author
Schütz, Karl, 1745-1800
, engraver
Adam, J.
, engraver
Mansfeld, Johann Ernst, 1739-1796
, engraver
Fuxeder, Franz, 1725-1797
, artist
Krauss, Johann Paul, 1701-1776
, publisher
Vienna (Austria). K.K. Hof-naturalien-cabinet.
Naturhistorisches Museum (Austria)
Litteris Geroldianis,
, printer
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
Vindobonae, Sumptibus Joannis Pauli Kraus, MDCCLXXX [1780]
Notes
Elaborate engraved publisher's device on title page; numerous engraved or woodcut head- and tail-pieces.
Hand-colored plates engraved by Schütz or J. Adam after Fr. Fuxeder.
Some of the illustrations in the text and plates are signed "C. Schütz inv. et feceit 1779."
Some of the vignettes signed Conti, J.E. Mansfeld sc., C. Schütz
With indexes in Latin, German, Dutch, English, and French.
Colophon: Viennae, Litteris Geroldianis.
Signatures: [*]² 2*-9*² A-5Z²
Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, | 470.
One of the most famous works on conchology, an example of the Golden Age of Viennese natural history book production, which was patronized by the House of Habsburg. The Empress of Austria, Maria Theresa, instructed Born to compile a work on the imperial collection of shells held in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Subjects
Austria
,
Catalogs
,
Catalogs and collections
,
Mollusks
,
Naturhistorisches Museum (Austria)
,
Shells
,
Vienna
Call Number
QL406.2 .N37 1780
Language
Latin
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.152209
OCLC:
7410807
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