The Digital Ark :: Robert Hubert

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

Robert Hubert (fl. 1669 - )

Alias Robert Forges
Alias Robert Hubbard

Hubert's title page to his printed catalogue (1664) declares that his collection could be viewed "at the place called the Musick-House at the Mitre, near the west end of St. Paul's church." Sir John Hawkins (1853) seems to take this location as an indication that Hubert was "a lover of music" (700). The Mitre was located at 8 London-House Yard. After the fire of 1666, the rebuilt house was named the Lyre, and in 1717, the Goose and Gridiron (Dead Pubs, cf Hawkins 8:10).

Daniel Colwall donated fossils to Hubert's collection in 1665 (Torrens, 208). He received his African electric ray from the King of France (George 184).

Hunter compares Hubert's catalogue with that of the Royal Society's catalogue and concludes, "It is almost as if the 'scientific' characteristics of Grew's catalogue were imposed on a collection which remained inspired by the criteria of rarity and curiosity typical of
virtuoso cabinets" (165). The membership of the Royal Society "clearly shared the preoccupation with the outlandish and the extraordinary, and the disdain for the commonplace, which is so marked in virtuoso collections like Hubert's" (Hunter 165).
Collector (major)
Relevant locations: Housed collection or remnant at Music House, Mitre Tavern
Housed collection or remnant at Mitre Tavern, London
Relationships: Robert Hubert was a recipient of object(s) from Louis XIV of France (1638-1715)

Daniel Colwall (-1690) was a purchaser from Robert Hubert
Daniel Colwall (-1690) was a donor to Robert Hubert
Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark (11 Sep 1656-26 Jul 1693) was a donor to Robert Hubert
Ferdinand IV (8 Sept 1633 (reg)-9 July 1654) was a donor to Robert Hubert
Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg (6 Jan 1655-19 Jan 1720) was a donor to Robert Hubert
Linked manuscripts: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Ashmole 967, Bodleian Library, Oxford University
Linked manuscript items: as Collector (major) - "[catalogue of Robert Hubert's museum]," Bodleian Library Ashmole 967, Oxford University
Linked print sources: as Collector (major) - A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London 1660-1800.
as Collector (major) - A General History of the Science and Practice of Music .
as Collector (major) - Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy: Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain.
as Mentioned or referenced by - The savage and modern self: North American Indians in eighteenth-century British literature and culture.
as Subject of/in a document - Early Collecting in the Field of Geology.
as Subject of/in a document - Establishing the New Science: The Experience of the Early Royal Society.
as Subject of/in a document - Science and Society in Restoration England.
as Subject of/in a document - The Cabinet Institutionalised: The Royal Society’s 'Repository' and its Background.
as Subject of/in a document - Zoological Collections in the Seventeenth Century.
Linked Objects: Collector - shells turned to stone
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Collector (major) - adder
Collector (major) - a dragon fish's horn
Collector (major) - a great Oyster shell in stone
Collector (major) - alcionum
Collector (major) - alcionums
Collector (major) - aligater
Collector (major) - ambar
Collector (major) - amber
Collector (major) - amethist
Collector (major) - angel fish
Collector (major) - ant-bear
Collector (major) - antimonium
Collector (major) - apple
Collector (major) - armadillo
Collector (major) - armadillo
Collector (major) - armadillo
Collector (major) - asbestos
Collector (major) - aspe
Collector (major) - bacbob
Collector (major) - bagge
Collector (major) - bag of a pelican
Collector (major) - ball
Collector (major) - bark
Collector (major) - barke
Collector (major) - bats-skin
Collector (major) - beane
Collector (major) - beane
Collector (major) - bill
Collector (major) - bill of a pelican
Collector (major) - birch wood turned to stone
Collector (major) - bird
Collector (major) - blossome
Collector (major) - blossome
Collector (major) - blossome
Collector (major) - bone of a whale
Collector (major) - bones
Collector (major) - bones
Collector (major) - bracelet of natural Beads
Collector (major) - branches grown together to form a cross
Collector (major) - branch of oak in stone
Collector (major) - bread
Collector (major) - brush
Collector (major) - bugelugey
Collector (major) - bunch of black feathers
Collector (major) - burre-fish
Collector (major) - butter-flie
Collector (major) - butter-flie
Collector (major) - cacaorche
Collector (major) - cake in stone
Collector (major) - calcedonian stone in a frame
Collector (major) - camaleon
Collector (major) - cantharides
Collector (major) - carab
Collector (major) - cassia
Collector (major) - cat
Collector (major) - cataphractus or mailed-fish
Collector (major) - catfish's [sea-cat's] head
Collector (major) - chest
Collector (major) - chests
Collector (major) - chests and boxes full of other objects
Collector (major) - chrysolits
Collector (major) - chrystals
Collector (major) - cinabaris
Collector (major) - claws
Collector (major) - coagulation of stones
Collector (major) - cocos
Collector (major) - codd
Collector (major) - codd
Collector (major) - comet or starfish
Collector (major) - concretion of mussels
Collector (major) - concretion of shells
Collector (major) - concretion of stones and iron
Collector (major) - concretions
Collector (major) - conny fish
Collector (major) - copper and crystal
Collector (major) - coral
Collector (major) - coral
Collector (major) - coral
Collector (major) - coral
Collector (major) - coral
Collector (major) - coral
Collector (major) - coral and plant
Collector (major) - coral and rock
Collector (major) - coral and shell
Collector (major) - coral called hart's horn
Collector (major) - coralins
Collector (major) - corall
Collector (major) - corne
Collector (major) - corne
Collector (major) - crab
Collector (major) - crab
Collector (major) - crab
Collector (major) - crab
Collector (major) - crocidile
Collector (major) - crocodile
Collector (major) - crystal
Collector (major) - crystal
Collector (major) - crystal
Collector (major) - crystal
Collector (major) - crystal
Collector (major) - crystal
Collector (major) - crystal
Collector (major) - crystal
Collector (major) - crystal
Collector (major) - crystal
Collector (major) - crystal
Collector (major) - dagger fish head
Collector (major) - deer horn
Collector (major) - deer horn
Collector (major) - deer horn
Collector (major) - deer horns
Collector (major) - DELETE
Collector (major) - DELETE
Collector (major) - DELETE
Collector (major) - DELETE
Collector (major) - diamond
Collector (major) - dog-fish
Collector (major) - dogfish
Collector (major) - dolphin head
Collector (major) - dolphin tail
Collector (major) - dragon-flie
Collector (major) - drumpanne of a whale
Collector (major) - eagle stone
Collector (major) - eagle stones
Collector (major) - earths
Collector (major) - [edible] nest
Collector (major) - egg of an ostrich
Collector (major) - emerauld
Collector (major) - ermine
Collector (major) - excrescence
Collector (major) - excrescences
Collector (major) - feather
Collector (major) - feather
Collector (major) - female mandrake
Collector (major) - fin of a whale
Collector (major) - fish
Collector (major) - fish
Collector (major) - fish bone
Collector (major) - fish head
Collector (major) - fish head
Collector (major) - fish head
Collector (major) - fish's head
Collector (major) - flie
Collector (major) - flie
Collector (major) - flie
Collector (major) - flie
Collector (major) - flie
Collector (major) - flie
Collector (major) - flie
Collector (major) - flie
Collector (major) - flie
Collector (major) - flie
Collector (major) - flie
Collector (major) - flint and copper grown together
Collector (major) - flores martis
Collector (major) - frog fish
Collector (major) - frogs
Collector (major) - frogs
Collector (major) - fruit
Collector (major) - fruit
Collector (major) - fruit
Collector (major) - fruits
Collector (major) - ganobany
Collector (major) - genipapa
Collector (major) - globe fish
Collector (major) - globe fish
Collector (major) - glossopetra [tongue stones] on rock
Collector (major) - gold in the midst of a white stone
Collector (major) - gourd
Collector (major) - gourd
Collector (major) - gourd
Collector (major) - granates
Collector (major) - great flat and broad tooth in stone
Collector (major) - great tooth of a land creature turned into stone
Collector (major) - great tooth of some fish
Collector (major) - guaena
Collector (major) - guiney wake
Collector (major) - haget
Collector (major) - hair
Collector (major) - hairy ball encrusted
Collector (major) - halcyon or kingfisher
Collector (major) - head
Collector (major) - head
Collector (major) - head of a morse or sea elephant
Collector (major) - head of an Ibis [with bill]
Collector (major) - head of an ostrich
Collector (major) - head of a pelican
Collector (major) - head of a sea tortoise
Collector (major) - head of a stone-pecker [with bill]
Collector (major) - head of a stork [with bill]
Collector (major) - head of a Toucan [with bill]
Collector (major) - hedgehog fish
Collector (major) - hermit fish
Collector (major) - hippocampus
Collector (major) - hippocampus
Collector (major) - hollow branch turned into a piple
Collector (major) - horns of a dog
Collector (major) - horns of a hare
Collector (major) - hummingbirds
Collector (major) - hyacinths
Collector (major) - ice glass
Collector (major) - icus marinus
Collector (major) - Indian tortoise
Collector (major) - insects and flies
Collector (major) - iron and crystal
Collector (major) - iron bullet in the midst of a stone
Collector (major) - jasper
Collector (major) - jasper
Collector (major) - jaw of a tabourein
Collector (major) - land tortoise
Collector (major) - land tortoise
Collector (major) - lapides judaici
Collector (major) - lapides lincei
Collector (major) - lapis ammonis
Collector (major) - lapis ammonis
Collector (major) - lapis haematites
Collector (major) - lapis lazuli
Collector (major) - lapis nephriticus
Collector (major) - large elphant tail
Collector (major) - large glossopetra [tongue stone]
Collector (major) - large yellowish sea feather
Collector (major) - leg of a cassowary
Collector (major) - leg of a dodo
Collector (major) - leg of an ostrich
Collector (major) - lemon
Collector (major) - limpet
Collector (major) - little sea-tortoise taken out of the egg
Collector (major) - lizard
Collector (major) - lizard
Collector (major) - lobster claw
Collector (major) - lodestone
Collector (major) - lynx
Collector (major) - malaguita
Collector (major) - male and female heads of a horned hog
Collector (major) - male mandrake
Collector (major) - manucodiata or bird of paradise
Collector (major) - maraca
Collector (major) - maraca
Collector (major) - marble stone
Collector (major) - marcasits
Collector (major) - may-cock
Collector (major) - metals
Collector (major) - metals
Collector (major) - mineralls
Collector (major) - minerals
Collector (major) - minerals
Collector (major) - minerals
Collector (major) - mineral substance
Collector (major) - mint fishes
Collector (major) - moss in stone
Collector (major) - mummy
Collector (major) - murienum
Collector (major) - navel fish
Collector (major) - neck bone of a whale
Collector (major) - needle-fish
Collector (major) - nest
Collector (major) - nest
Collector (major) - nest
Collector (major) - nest
Collector (major) - netted starfish
Collector (major) - nut
Collector (major) - nut
Collector (major) - nutts
Collector (major) - oaken wood turned into jasper
Collector (major) - ore
Collector (major) - ores
Collector (major) - ores
Collector (major) - ores
Collector (major) - ores
Collector (major) - ores
Collector (major) - oyster
Collector (major) - palme
Collector (major) - paraquito fish
Collector (major) - parret
Collector (major) - pearle
Collector (major) - pearls
Collector (major) - penguin
Collector (major) - penis of a whale
Collector (major) - pepper
Collector (major) - perforated coral
Collector (major) - phenicopter or passoflamingo [bird]
Collector (major) - piece of whale skin
Collector (major) - piece of wood and a shell grown together
Collector (major) - pine-apple
Collector (major) - plaice
Collector (major) - plant
Collector (major) - plant
Collector (major) - plant
Collector (major) - plant
Collector (major) - plant
Collector (major) - plant
Collector (major) - plant
Collector (major) - plant
Collector (major) - plant, a rock, and a shell
Collector (major) - plant grown on crystal
Collector (major) - plant rock and shell fastened altogether
Collector (major) - plants
Collector (major) - poison fish
Collector (major) - prickled fish
Collector (major) - purple-fish
Collector (major) - purse
Collector (major) - quicksilver
Collector (major) - ram horn
Collector (major) - ram horns
Collector (major) - rat
Collector (major) - rat fish
Collector (major) - remora
Collector (major) - rhinoceros claw
Collector (major) - rhinoceros horn
Collector (major) - rhinoceros scale
Collector (major) - rhinoceros tail
Collector (major) - rib of a merman
Collector (major) - rock
Collector (major) - rock
Collector (major) - rock a kind of emerald and amethyst
Collector (major) - rock like grapes
Collector (major) - rock like silver
Collector (major) - rock like wax
Collector (major) - rock of copper and crystal
Collector (major) - rock of vitriol
Collector (major) - rock with mussel shell
Collector (major) - rock with shells
Collector (major) - rose of Jericho
Collector (major) - rose of Jericho
Collector (major) - rubies
Collector (major) - saffor
Collector (major) - salamander
Collector (major) - sawfish
Collector (major) - saw of a sawfish
Collector (major) - scarabeus
Collector (major) - scarabeus
Collector (major) - scorpions
Collector (major) - sea ape
Collector (major) - sea apple
Collector (major) - sea calf or seal
Collector (major) - sea-chairs
Collector (major) - sea cocke
Collector (major) - sea crab
Collector (major) - sea-crow
Collector (major) - sea curlew or arcuata coccinea
Collector (major) - sea eye
Collector (major) - sea fan
Collector (major) - sea fan
Collector (major) - sea fan
Collector (major) - sea-fleas
Collector (major) - sea leopard
Collector (major) - sea-lions head
Collector (major) - sea louse
Collector (major) - sea mouse
Collector (major) - sea otter
Collector (major) - sea-parrot
Collector (major) - sea pelican
Collector (major) - sea plant like a kind of sponge
Collector (major) - sea porcupine fish
Collector (major) - sea-scorpions
Collector (major) - sea serpent
Collector (major) - sea swallow [flying fish]
Collector (major) - sea tortoise
Collector (major) - sea tortoise
Collector (major) - sea wolf [eel]
Collector (major) - serpent
Collector (major) - serpent
Collector (major) - serpent
Collector (major) - serpent
Collector (major) - serpent
Collector (major) - serpent
Collector (major) - serpent
Collector (major) - serpent
Collector (major) - serpent
Collector (major) - several glossopetra or tongue stones
Collector (major) - shark
Collector (major) - shell
Collector (major) - shell
Collector (major) - shells
Collector (major) - shells
Collector (major) - shells
Collector (major) - shells
Collector (major) - shoveller
Collector (major) - shrub with shell fish
Collector (major) - silver and crystal
Collector (major) - sincus terrestris
Collector (major) - skin of a rattlesnake
Collector (major) - skin of a serpent
Collector (major) - skin of a whale
Collector (major) - skull of a sea morse
Collector (major) - slate with an impression of a red herring
Collector (major) - slate with the impression of a fish
Collector (major) - sloth
Collector (major) - slow-worme
Collector (major) - small crocodile
Collector (major) - smith fish
Collector (major) - soal fish
Collector (major) - soldier fish [shrimp]
Collector (major) - sponge
Collector (major) - sponge in shape like a hedgehog
Collector (major) - spotted lizard
Collector (major) - spouting
Collector (major) - spunge
Collector (major) - squilla fluviatilis
Collector (major) - stalk of a plant grown like a net
Collector (major) - star-fish
Collector (major) - starfish
Collector (major) - starfish
Collector (major) - starfish
Collector (major) - starre fish
Collector (major) - starre fish
Collector (major) - stick
Collector (major) - stick
Collector (major) - stick
Collector (major) - stick
Collector (major) - stone
Collector (major) - stone
Collector (major) - stone
Collector (major) - stone
Collector (major) - stone
Collector (major) - stone
Collector (major) - stone
Collector (major) - stone
Collector (major) - stone
Collector (major) - stone
Collector (major) - stone
Collector (major) - stone
Collector (major) - stone
Collector (major) - stone
Collector (major) - stone
Collector (major) - stone in form of human face
Collector (major) - stone like oyster shell
Collector (major) - stone like wax
Collector (major) - stone (oculus mundi)
Collector (major) - stone picture
Collector (major) - stone picture
Collector (major) - stone picture
Collector (major) - stone picture
Collector (major) - stone picture
Collector (major) - stone picture
Collector (major) - stone picture
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones
Collector (major) - stones like serpents
Collector (major) - strange fish head
Collector (major) - strange lobster claw
Collector (major) - strange plant
Collector (major) - sturgeon
Collector (major) - sturgeon
Collector (major) - sturgeon's head
Collector (major) - substance
Collector (major) - sucking fish
Collector (major) - sulphur
Collector (major) - sun fish
Collector (major) - swordfish's head [with sword]
Collector (major) - tail of a sea-cat
Collector (major) - teeth
Collector (major) - thigh-bone
Collector (major) - tin and crystal
Collector (major) - toade
Collector (major) - toad fish [globe fish]
Collector (major) - toad stones
Collector (major) - tomarus
Collector (major) - tooth
Collector (major) - tooth of a whale
Collector (major) - topaz
Collector (major) - topaz
Collector (major) - torpedo
Collector (major) - tortoise
Collector (major) - tortoise
Collector (major) - tortoise
Collector (major) - tortoises
Collector (major) - touch stone
Collector (major) - touchstone
Collector (major) - triangular fish
Collector (major) - tropic bird
Collector (major) - trumpet fish
Collector (major) - turkeise
Collector (major) - tuske
Collector (major) - two branches in the form of St. Andrew's cross
Collector (major) - various eggs
Collector (major) - various talcs
Collector (major) - vein of the tongue of a whale
Collector (major) - vermilions
Collector (major) - viper
Collector (major) - viper
Collector (major) - wave fish
Collector (major) - weapon fish
Collector (major) - weapon fish or file fish
Collector (major) - wood
Collector (major) - wood
Collector (major) - wood
Collector (major) - wood
Collector (major) - wood
Collector (major) - woodcock fish
Collector (major) - wooden post turned to stone
Collector (major) - wood turned to stone
References in Documents:

A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1664) Robert Hubert A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities, with Great Industry, Cost, and thirty Years travel in Foraign Countries, collected by Robert <span class="highlight">Hubert</span>, alias FORGES, Gent. and sworn Servant to His Majesty. And dayly to be seen, at the place called the Musick House, at the Miter, near the West end of St. Pauls Church London Printed by Tho. Ratcliffe, for the Author 1664

A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1664) A large bush of black feathers, that for the Rarity and beauty, doth exceed that which the master of these Rarities did see, of the great Turks or Sultans at Constantinople.

A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1664) A Great Jawe of a large Tabourein, it is a Species of Sharke, and hath four or five tyre or rows of teeth, it was sent the master of these Rarities from the West India.

A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1664) A peece of Wood, and part stone together; His Majesty King Charles the first did try it, and gave it to the owner of these Rarities.

A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1664) A very rare stone picture like a City all on fire. The Master of these Rarities, had it as a rare thing from the Prince Elector of Cullens hands.

A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1664) A very strange kind of Mineral, held to be Quicksilver, that is fixed in his mine; for being burnt it evaporates its self into a stinking vapour like to Quicksilver, it is something rare; for the master of these Rarities, in his travells never saw more then two peeces, and this was one of them.

A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1664) Besides these above mentioned things, there are Chests and Boxes furnished with many hundreds of Rarities, as several shells, stones, bones, marcasits, mineralls, fruits, Nutts, excrescences, and such like things all different in shapes, and operations, and of divers countries, Their Names and Natures being omitted for to avoid prolixity: But if the owner of this collection of Rarities does sell them to any Noble minded party, he then, God willing, will write at large a more ample declaration to the expressing of each thing in particular, to honour that vertuous person that shall buy them.

A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1665) Robert Hubert A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities, with Great Industry, Cost, and thirty Years Travel in Foraign Countries. Collected by Robert <span class="highlight">Hubert</span>, aliàs Forges, Gent. and sworn Servant to His Majesty. And daily to be seen, at the place for-merly called the Musick House, near the West end of St. Pauls Church London Printed by Tho. Ratcliffe, for the Author 1665

A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1665) A <lb/>CATALOGUE <lb/>OF MANY <lb/>Natural RARITIES, <lb/>WITH <lb/>Great Industry, Cost, and thirty Years <lb/>Travel in Foraign Countries. COLLECTED BY ROBERT HUBERT aliàs FORGES, Gent. and sworn Servant to His Majesty. And daily to be seen, at the place for-merly called the Musick House, near the West end of St. Pauls Church. LONDON, Printed by Tho. Ratcliff, for the Author, Anno Domini 1665.

A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1665) A large bush of black Feathers, in Rarity and beauty exceeding that of the great Turks or Sultans, which the master of these Rarities saw at Constantinople.

A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1665) A very perfect great and true Remora of of of India, whose property is to hinder or stay ships as they swim, (if we will believe Heathen Philosophers) it hath on its head many open spaces out of which proceeds a glutinous humour, whereby it sticks so fast to any smooth thing, that a man cannot well loosen it, unlesse he shove it from him, as the Master of these Rarities hath tryed,

A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1665) The great jaws of a very great Tabourein; it is a species of Sharke, and hath four or five tyre or rows of teeth. It was sent the Master of these Rarities from the West Indies, by the Governor of St. Christophers, Sr. Thomas Wardner.

A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1665) A very rare stone picture, like a City all on fire; the Master of these Rarities had it as a rare thing from the Prince Elector of Cullens hands, as a favour.

A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1665) A very strange kind of Mineral held to be Quick-silver, that is fixed in his mine, for being burnt, it turns into a stinking vapour, as Quick-silver doth. It is something rare, for the master of these Rarities, in his travels never saw more then two peeces, and this was one of them.

A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1665) Besides these above mentioned things, there are 40. Chests or Boxes furnished with many hundreds of Rarities, as several shells, rare stones of the Sea, different Coralls, strange plants of the Sea, many strange bones and teeth of different Creatures, sundry egges of Birds and other Creatures; with hundreds of strange fruits, nutts, excrescences, marcasits, minerals, and stones of rare shapes, and such like things, all different; their names and natures being omitted to avoid prolixity: but if the owner of this collection of Rarities do sell them, he then God willing will write at large a more ample account of each thing in particular, for the satisfaction of that vertuous person that is pleased to buy them.

A Catalogue of Those Rarities Collected (Authorial, print 1669) Robert Hubert A catalogue of part of those rarities collected in thirty years time with a great deal of pains and industry, by one of His Majesties sworn servants. R. H. aliàs Forges, Gentleman. They are to be seen at the place formerly called the Musique House at the West end of Pauls [London][1669]

A Catalogue of Those Rarities Collected (Authorial, print 1669) A <lb/>CATALOGUE <lb/>Of part of those <lb/>RARITIES <lb/>Collected in thirty years <lb/>time with a great deal <lb/>of Pains and Industry, by one of his Majes-ties sworn Servants. R.H. aliàs Forges, Gentleman. They are to be seen at the place formerly called the Musique-House at the West end of Pauls.

A Catalogue of Those Rarities Collected (Authorial, print 1669) A great Jaw of a very large Taboureyn or Sharke, it hath four or five tear of Teeth; it was sent the master of these Rarities from the west-indies by the Governour of St. Christoph. Islands, by Sir Tho. Warner.

A Catalogue of Those Rarities Collected (Authorial, print 1669) A sprig or large bush of black Feathers that for the Rarity; the Emperour Mattheus, gave two thousand Rich Dollers for it, which is almost five hundred l. sterling, it was taken out of the Treasury of Rarities at Prague, and doth exceed that which the Master of the Rarities did see of the great Turks at Constantinople.

A Catalogue of Those Rarities Collected (Authorial, print 1669) A piece of wood, part stone, and part wood, King Charles the first did try it, and gave it the owner of these Rarities:

A Catalogue of Those Rarities Collected (Authorial, print 1669) Another very Rare stone, pictured like a City all on fire; the Master of these Rarities, had it as a Rare Thing of the Prince Elector of Cullin.

A Catalogue of Those Rarities Collected (Authorial, print 1669)

Moreover, The Gentleman of these Rarities can shew thousands of other Rarities of Nature besides the things aforementioned, to those that are more curious, and will be at some more Charge. The manner of shewing as followeth.

On Mondayes and Thursdayes, things of the Sea: as, several sorts of Sea-plants, Zoophyts, Rare stones of the Sea, strange Corals, and things of two or three Natures growing together, and likewise beautifull Rare Shels.

On Tuesdayes and Fridayes things of the Land; as Metals, Minerals, Transmutations, or things turned into stones: stones of Rare shapes, Chrystals and precious stones, as they are natural in ther mines; strange Fruits and Excrescents, and things of strange nature and operation.

On Wednesdayes and Saturdayes, things of the Sea, Land, and Ayre: as strange Bones, and Teeth of divers Creatures, several Eges of Fowls and Serpents, several small Creatures of the Sea, several small creeping or venomous Creatures of the Land; 200 or 300 species of Insects, or Flies of the land or ayr, several pieces of Amber with Flyes or Insects, involved in the transparent Amber.

Be pleased to note further, that if any Nobleman or person of quality be desirous to see alone with their Families and Friends, all, or most of them: The owner of them will endeavour to give satisfaction for half a day together, so that the noble minded person be pleased to give the Master of the Rarities notice a day before by some sufficient party, to put by the great Concourse of people for that day.

SsoSo likewise, if any forraign Ambassadours be pleased to do the same, the Gentleman that owneth the above-mentioned things, will do his best to declare them to their Excellencies content in three or four Languages, if they please to repair to his dwelling, which hath been formerly the Musique-house at the West end of S. Pauls.

Selections from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665-1669) The Molucca Crab. Mus. Regal. Soc. 120.

2. In Virginia and several parts of the Continent of 2. America, they call it, synonyms. ( 394 ) The King Crab. Mus. Tradesc. 8.

A King Crab of the Molucos Island. Hubert's Nat. Rarities, p. 21. Clus. Exot. 128. Laet. Latin. --- Gallic. 60 Mus. Wor. 249. Mus. Tradesc. 8. Bont. H. Nat. 83. Hubart. Nat. Ra. 21 Jonst. H. Exang. Aq. Tab. 7. Mus. Reg. Soc. 120. Cancer Bont. Hist. Nat. p. 83. Fig. Malâ & Descript. Cancer Moluccanus Clus. Exot. 128. Fig. opt. Dorsi & Ventris cum Descriptione accuratâ. Mus. Worm. 249. Fig. 1, & 2. sine descript. Mus Regal. Societ. 120. Cancer Molucensts Jonst. Hist. de Exang. Aquat. Tab. 7. Fig. 1, & 2. sine descript. Mus. Regal. Societ. 120. Signoc seu Siquenoc Incolis Novæ Franciæ, Aragneæ de Mer. nob. Laet. Ind. Occid. 60. Fig. D. & V. opt. & Desc. Gal. id. Lat.

The whole Structure of this Animal is very remarkable, and particularly his Eyes are wonderfully contrived; viz. Between the fourth and last Pair of Claws on each Side, reckoning from his Mouth (and excluding the small Pair there plac'd) are inserted, as it were, the Rudiments of another Pair or a Claw broken off on each side at the second Joynt or Elbow; On these Extremities, are the Eyes placed (like those on the Horns of Snails) but being under the Covert of a very thick and Opake Shell, Nature in that Place has wonderfully contrived a Transparent Lanthorn, through which the Light is conveyed, whose Superficies very exactly resembles the great Eyes of our large Libellæ, or Adderbolts, which to the naked Sight are plainly perceived to be composed of innumerable Globuli; these, like them, are oblong, and guarded with a Testaceous Supercilium.

Selections from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665-1669) A King Crab of the Molucos Island. Hubert's Nat. Rarities, p. 21.