Historia Naturalis Teredinis seu Xylophagi Marini, Tubulo-Conchoidis speciatim Belgici
- Publisher : Hermann Besseling
- Published In : Trajecti ad Rhenum (
- Illustrations : 4 folding engraved plates (2 hand coloured)
Description:
ZBI 3801. There are two copies of each of the two plates (one uncoloured and one coloured). An early treatise on shipworms (Teredo), a worm-like marine mollusc which bores into submerged timber. While resident in the Netherlands, Sellius used a microscope to study the shipworm which was causing great damage to Dutch ships and dikes.
Condition
Later quarter Morocco, raised bands, gt.; orig. marbled boards, endpapers and top-edge. Some spotting to title page and first few pages, but largely clean; wide margins. Vg.
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