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Historia Naturalis Teredinis seu Xylophagi Marini, Tubulo-Conchoidis speciatim Belgici

by Sellius, Godofredus (Sell, Godefried)

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  • Catalogue No : 13954
  • Published : 1733
  • Cover : Hardback
  • Pages : [30], 353, [11]
  • 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.

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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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