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…

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