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Six treatises on various vertebrates and invertebrates by the famous German Zoologist Pallas, translated in Dutch by Pieter Boddaert

PALLAS, Peter Simon.
Dierkundig mengelwerk, in het welke de neiuwe of nog duistere zoorten van dieren door naauwkeurige afbeeldingen, beschryvingen en verhandelingen opgehelderd worden. Vertaald en met aanmerkingen voorzien door P. Boddaert. VI stukken. Met plaaten.

Title printed in red and black. With one folding and 9 full-pageengraved plates by J. Van Hiltrop (2), & J.J. Bylaert (8, 2 of which after the design of J.B.G. Hopfer), all finely coloured by hand.

Title printed in red and black. With one folding and 9 full-pageengraved plates by J. Van Hiltrop (2), & J.J. Bylaert (8, 2 of which after the design of J.B.G. Hopfer), all finely coloured by hand.

Title printed in red and black. With one folding and 9 full-pageengraved plates by J. Van Hiltrop (2), & J.J. Bylaert (8, 2 of which after the design of J.B.G. Hopfer), all finely coloured by hand.

Title printed in red and black. With one folding and 9 full-pageengraved plates by J. Van Hiltrop (2), & J.J. Bylaert (8, 2 of which after the design of J.B.G. Hopfer), all finely coloured by hand.

Title printed in red and black. With one folding and 9 full-pageengraved plates by J. Van Hiltrop (2), & J.J. Bylaert (8, 2 of which after the design of J.B.G. Hopfer), all finely coloured by hand.



Utrecht, Abraham van Paddenburg & J. van Schoonhoven, 1770 (1767-1770). 6 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with title label lettered in gold. Title printed in red and black. With one folding and 9 full-pageengraved plates by J. Van Hiltrop (2), & J.J. Bylaert (8, 2 of which after the design of J.B.G. Hopfer), all finely coloured by hand. VIII, 32; 38; 35; 32; 30; 28, (2) pp

Origional edition of the Dutch translation of Pallas's Miscellanea Zoologica by Pieter Boddaert (1733-1795) with the plates beautifully coloured by hand.
Boddaert was a lecturer on natural history at the University of Utrecht. The present translation is divided in six parts, all with a separate title-page, dated 1768-1770, and all dedicated to resp. J. Baster physician at Flushing (1) Prof. J. Hahe (Utrecht) & J.A. Schlosser, physician at Amsterdam (2), Prof. Jacobus Willemsen (Middelburg) & Prof. Gysbertus Bonnet (Utrecht) (3), Carolus Linnaeus & Prof. Nicolais Laur. Burmannus (Amsterdam) (4), W. van der Meulen (Amsterdam) & P. Cramer (Flushing) (5), and M. Slabber (Flushing) (6).
Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) was a very famous German Zoologist, botanist and above all traveller. He studied at Halle, Göttingen and Leiden, where he submitted his doctoral thesis in 1760. In 1761 he went to England to study the natural history collections and to make geological observations. In 1763 he settled in The Hague, where in 1766 he published his acclaimed Elenchus zoophytorum, which was highly praised by Georges Cuvier.
His Miscellanea Zoologica, which he wore also in The Hague in 1766, includes the descriptions of the deer ('Hartebok', part 1), bats ('vledermuizen', part 2), and several vertebrates and invertebrates new to science which he had discovered in the Dutch museum collections: the 'zeerupsen' (part 3), 'Zeeduizendbeenen' (part 4), 'Zandkookers', with a account on the anteater and oppossum (part 5), and the guinea fowl (part 6).

A planned voyage to southern Africa and the East Indies fell through when his father recalled him to Berlin. Here, he began work on his Spicilegia Zoologica (1767-80). Pallas soon attracted the attention of Catherine II of Russia and he was invited to St. Petersburg, where he was appointed professor of natural history at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in 1767. At the request of Catherine, he was very quickly placed in charge of the academy expedition  to central Russian provinces, Urals, West Siberia and Transbaikal collecting natural history specimens (1768-1774). which expedition made him famous for his observations on the mammoth and rhinoceros fossils found in the Siberian ice.

Fine copy.
Landwehr, Studies in Dutch books with coloured plates, 1662-1875, 152; Nissen ZBI 3072 (by mistake mentioning 11 plates).

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  Natural History 

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