Martini Lister, De cochleis : Liber [I-III]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lister, Martin, 1638?-1712.

Contributor:

Lister, Susanna.

Lister, Anna.

Lee Peachey Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Shells--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.

Shells.

Mollusks--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.

Mollusks.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Penn Provenance:

Peachey, Lee D. (donor) (Peachey Collection copy)

Melvill, J. Cosmo (bookplate) (Peachey Collection copy)

Dale, M. A. (autograph, 1886) (Peachey Collection copy)

Physical Description:

3 volumes in 1 ( leaf of plates, 276 unnumbered leaves of plates) : chiefly illustrated ; 29 cm (folio)

Place of Publication:

Londini : Aere incisi, sumptibus authoris, 1685-1687.

Summary:

Martin Lister devoted his life to the compilation of the first organized, systematic publication on shells, creating a work that represented a landmark in the way scientists thought about natural history. In its final edition, the work was illustrated with 1062 plates of shells, the work of Lister's two daughters, Anna and Susanna.

Contents:

v. 1-2. De cochleis, tam terrestribus, quàm fluviatilibus, exoticis, item de ijs quae etiam in Anglia inveniantur.

v. 3. Conchyliorum marinorum.

v. 4. Buccinorum marinorum.

Notes:

Proof sheets of his Historiae sive synopsis methodicae conchyliorum.

"Susanna et Anna Lister pin."

Local Notes:

Peachey Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Lee Peachey.

Peachey Collection copy has Liber 1-3 only. Leaves numbered by Peachey. Plates given Huddesford numbers by H. K. Swann.

OCLC:

937005605