Albertus Seba’s Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri...
US: A SCIENTIFIC library formed by New York businessman Joseph A. Frielich was sold by Sotheby’s New York for $10.7m (£7.2m) on January 10-11, 2001, and among many lots that made much higher than predicted sums was a magnificent copy of Albertus Seba’s Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri...
A first edition of the Dutch-Latin text issue of 1734-69, this four-volume record of one of the grea…