{"product_id":"cabinet-of-natural-curiosities-selected-plates-from-the-thesaurus-by-albertus-seba","title":"Cabinet of Natural Curiosities: Selected Plates from the Thesaurus by Albertus Seba","description":"\n\u003cdiv style=\"display:inline-block;background-color:#f0ebe3;color:#8b7355;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.03em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:8px 16px;border-radius:16px;margin:0 0 18px 0;\"\u003e📖 Delivered as a downloadable ePub file.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.04em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#8b7355;margin:0 0 10px 0;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e101 hand-colored plates selected from Albertus Seba's four-volume \u003ci\u003eThesaurus\u003c\/i\u003e (1734–1765), among the most lavish natural-history books ever printed. Seba, an Amsterdam pharmacist, built one of the largest private collections of his age from specimens brought home by sailors from the East and West Indies. The plates show it as he arranged it: snakes coiled into ornamental loops, shells fanned into rosettes, butterflies and moths in symmetrical rows beside their caterpillars, plus birds, mammals, reptiles, corals, crustaceans and minerals. Presented in the original order, each plate with a short caption and its volume, scanned from the Smithsonian Libraries copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Nile Book Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67580261040376,"sku":"EN-seba-cabinet","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/cover_final_07c0c8a6-2915-48cb-864c-3aeaf78ba7e9.jpg?v=1791656959","url":"https:\/\/nilebookstore.com\/ar\/products\/cabinet-of-natural-curiosities-selected-plates-from-the-thesaurus-by-albertus-seba","provider":"Nile Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}