{"id":201,"date":"2024-02-02T06:28:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T06:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/answerfaqpro.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2024-02-02T06:28:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T06:28:15","slug":"a-natural-history-compendium-catalogs-albertus-sebas-exotic-specimens-through-exacting-illustrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/answerfaqpro.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/a-natural-history-compendium-catalogs-albertus-sebas-exotic-specimens-through-exacting-illustrations\/","title":{"rendered":"A Natural History Compendium Catalogs Albertus Seba\u2019s Exotic Specimens through Exacting Illustrations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/answerfaqpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/seba-5-960x682-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Packed with careful illustrations of striped snakes, preserved creatures, and now-extinct animals,\u00a0<em>Cabinet of Natural Curiosities\u00a0<\/em>is one of the most impressive natural history compendiums of the 18th Century. Spanning nearly 600 pages, the new edition from\u00a0Taschen\u00a0features the work of Amsterdam-based pharmacist and zoologist\u00a0Albertus Seba, who was a renowned collector of natural life. He commissioned the meticulous illustrations in 1731 that he then published into four, hand-colored volumes. The new\u00a0<em>Cabinet of Natural Curiosities\u00a0<\/em>catalogs these original drawings of exotic specimens in a single text and features writing by Irmgard M\u00fcsch, Jes Rust, and Rainer Willmann. Grab your copy from\u00a0Taschen\u2019s site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1488\" src=\"https:\/\/answerfaqpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/seba-2-960x1488-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Packed with careful illustrations of striped snakes, preserved creatures, and now-extinct animals,\u00a0Cabinet of Natural Curiosities\u00a0is one of the most impressive natural history compendiums of the 18th Century. Spanning nearly 600 pages, the new edition from\u00a0Taschen\u00a0features the work of Amsterdam-based pharmacist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/answerfaqpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/answerfaqpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/answerfaqpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/answerfaqpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/answerfaqpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/answerfaqpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/answerfaqpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/answerfaqpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/answerfaqpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/answerfaqpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/answerfaqpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}