Marine life.- Rumpf (Georg Eberhard) Thesaurus imaginum piscium testaceorum, engraved portrait of the author and elaborate additional title, title in red and black with engraved vignette, 3 engraved head-pieces and one tail-piece, 60 engraved plates, some very small scattered ink stains to portrait, mostly marginal, additional title with very short closed tear to lower margin, plate 60 with small stain just within platemark, some light browning, plates with occasional light marginal spotting or minor soiling, but overall good, some foxing to text, modern calf-backed boards, spine label little chipped, extremities lightly rubbed, [Nissen ZBI 3520], folio, Leiden, Peter van der Aa, 1711.*** A first edition in Latin of Rumpf's landmark work on marine life in the Moluccan Archipelago of Indonesia, first published in Dutch in 1705. The plates include shells, sea urchins, crabs and lobsters etc.