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Five letters by Schlosser and Boddaert on a newly discovered lizard, rare fish, reptiles and amphibians

SCHLOSSER, Johan Albert.
Epistola ad Ferdinandum Dejean, De lacerta Amboinensi. Brief ... aan Ferdinand Dejean, Behelzende eene naauwkeurige beschrijving der Amboinsche haagdis.

With folding engraved plate of the Amboinese lizard in two copies, one of which is beautifully handcoloured.

With folding engraved plate of the Amboinese lizard in two copies, one of which is beautifully handcoloured.



Amsterdam, for the author, 1768. 5 works in one volume. Large 4to. Contemporary half sprinkled calf, red title label on spine. With folding engraved plate of the Amboinese lizard in two copies, one of which is beautifully handcoloured. (2), 18 lvs.

With:
(2) Petrus BODDAERT. Epistola ad J. Burmannum, De chaetodonte argo. Brief aan Joh. Burmannus, Behelzende eene naauwkeurige beschrijving van den gevlakten klipvisch. Amsterdam, Cornelius van Tongerlo, 1770.  With hand coloured folding engraved plate. (4), 43, (1) pp.

(3) IDEM. Epistola ad W. Roëll, De testudine cartilaginea. Brief aan W. Roëll, Behelzende eene naaukeurige beschrijving van de kraakbeenige schildpad. Amsterdam, Cornelius van Tongerlo, 1770. With hand coloured folding engraved plate. (4), 39, (1) pp.

(4) IDEM. Epistola ad Joh. Oosterdyk Schacht, De rana bicolore. Brief aan Joh. Oosterdyk Schacht, behelzende eene naaukeurige beschrijving van den twee-koleurige kikvorsch. Amsterdam, M. Magerum, 1772. With three  hand coloured folding engraved plates. 48 pp.

(5) IDEM. Epistola ad Hier. David Gaubium, De chaetodonte diacantho. Brief aan Hier. David Gaubius, behelzende eene naaukeurige beschrijving van den tweedoornigen klipvisch. Amsterdam, M. Magerum, 1772. With hand coloured folding engraved plate. 43, (1) pp.

First editions of five letters to colleague scholars, elaborately describing and depicting cods, a frog, a turtle, and a lizard. With in total 8 engraved folding plates of which seven handcoloured. Only the first letter is written by the Dutch Doctor of Medicine, naturalist and collector of natural historyobjects Johan Albert Schlosser (?-1769), the other four are by Petrus Boddaert, describing also animals of Schosser's famous 'Wunderkammer', or Natural History Cabinet, after Schlosser's death in 1769..
Ad 1: First and only edition of a rare treatise on the Amboinese lizard by Schlosser, published here simultaneously in Dutch and Latin. The treatise is in the form of a letter to Ferdinand Dejean, official surgeon and physician of Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies, who had taken with him the lizard to Amsterdam to present it to Schlosser, the owner of a well-known 'Wunderkammer'. The treatise is dated Amsterdam, 16 September 1768. Schlosser argues that the newly found animal is nor an iguana, nor a basilisk but belongs to an until now unknown species. His extensive description is illustrated by a large and very beautiful plate designed by G. Dadelbeek and engraved by the famous Amsterdam engraver S. Fokke, and finely coloured in our copy (with an extra uncoloured copy of the plate).
Ad 2-5: First and only editions of treatises on cods, a frog and a turtle by Pieter Boddaert (1730-1796), all four published simultaneously in Dutch and Latin  and all in the form aof a letter to collegues: Prof. of Botany in Amsterdam, Johannes Burman, W. Roëll, Prof. of Medicine in Utrecht, Joh. Oosterdyk Schacht (1704-1792) and the famous Leiden physician, Prof. Hieronymus David Gaubius (1705-1780). The treatises were published between 1770 and 1772 and are mostly bound together. The plates are by F. de Bakker after the drawings by Dadelbeek and are beautifully coloured by hand.

Fine large-paper copy.- (Lower part of spine sl. damaged).
Ad 1: Nissen, ZBI 3689; Bijdr. dierk., 27 (1939), p. 313; ad 2-5: Nissen, ZBI 433-436; Bijdr. Dierk, 27 (1939), p. 130, 145; ad 4: Cobres 128.

Related Subjects: Germany  Ichthyology  Natural History  Reptiles & Amphibians 

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