The Digital Ark :: Gazophylacii naturæ & artis decas prima[-decima]: In quâ animalia, quadrupeda, aves, pisces, reptilia, insecta, vegetabilia; item fossilia, corpora marina & stirpes minerales è terra eruta, lapides figurâ insignes &c. Descriptionibus brevibus & iconibus illustrantur. Hisce annexa erit supellex antiquaria, numismata, gemmæ excisæ, & soulpturæ, opera figulina, lucernae, urnae, instrumenta varia, inscriptiones, busta, reliquaque ad rem priscam spectantia: item machinæ, effigies clarorum virorum, omniaque arte producta

The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

Gazophylacii naturæ & artis decas prima[-decima]: In quâ animalia, quadrupeda, aves, pisces, reptilia, insecta, vegetabilia; item fossilia, corpora marina & stirpes minerales è terra eruta, lapides figurâ insignes &c. Descriptionibus brevibus & iconibus illustrantur. Hisce annexa erit supellex antiquaria, numismata, gemmæ excisæ, & soulpturæ, opera figulina, lucernae, urnae, instrumenta varia, inscriptiones, busta, reliquaque ad rem priscam spectantia: item machinæ, effigies clarorum virorum, omniaque arte producta

Secondary Title (i.e. Proceedings Title): Periodical Title: Publication Type:book Authors:Petiver, James Editors: Publisher:Ex officinâ Christ. Bateman ad insignia Bibliæ & Corona, vico vulgo dict. Pater-Noster-Row Place of Publication:London Publication Date:1702-1709 Alternate Date (i.e. Conference Date): Volume: Issue: Start Page: End Page: Abstract: Descriptors/Keywords: ISBN: URL:

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Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Petiver, James (c. 1665-Apr 1718)
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Annotation:Published serially (possibly by subscription) in a series of ten plates at time ("decas") from 1702 to 1709. The plates are dedicated by Petiver to benefactors. This appears to be a more digested form of Petiver's Musei Petiveriani.

One hundred "tables" (plates) of illustrations are the main feature of this publication, broken into two volumes with an index of specimens at the start of each categorizing them by region: England, Asia, Africa, and America. Volume one lists 610 specimens, and volume two lists 608. Accompanying each table of illustrated specimens are annotations for each object (typically twelve per plate) providing a brief description and its origin, often with indication of how it came into Petiver's collection.

Published again in 1764 in the first volume of Jacobi Petiveri Opera, Historiam Naturalem Spectantia: Or, Gazophylacium.