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BORN, IGNATUS. Testacea Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis. Vienna, J.P. Kraus. 1780. Engraved title-vignette, 2 engraved vignettes, 18 engraved colored plates and 35 in text engravings. Folio, contemporary half morocco over marbeled boards, backstrip defective; marginal dampstaining to last pages and plates, slight browning and offsetting. Nissen ZBI 470.

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BORN, IGNATUS. Testacea Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis. Vienna, J.P. Kraus. 1780. Engraved title-vignette, 2 engraved vignettes, 18 engraved colored plates and 35 in text engravings. Folio, contemporary half morocco over marbeled boards, backstrip defective; marginal dampstaining to last pages and plates, slight browning and offsetting. Nissen ZBI 470.

拍品專文

The Empress of Austria, Marie Theresia had a Museum in Vienna containing a large collection of shells. She instructed Born to publish the above work on the imperial collection in a sumptuous volume. The collection, now housed in the Natural History Museum in Vienna, is of great importance to systematists, as Born described from it a number of species new to science.