[2], 78, [2] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : diagrams ; 26 cm (4to)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Date:
1669
Notes:
"Ex typographia sub signo Stellae" is an imprint associated with the Accademia della Crusca.
Title page printed in red and black.
Engraved title vignette, with motto of Ferdinando II: Gratia obvia vltio quaesita.
Head- and tail-pieces; initials; side-notes.
Two folded leaves are inserted after the title leaf, containing descriptive letterpress ("explicatio figurarum") on one leaf, and an engraved selection of diagrams numbered 1 through 25 on the other (facing) leaf. According to Curtis Schuh, "The plate was originally created as a large double plate, half engraved and half printed. However, due to its large size it is common to find it bound into the book as two plates." In some copies, the folded leaves are bound in at the end of the volume.
Signatures: pi1 A-K⁴.
Errata on page [1] (3rd group).
The final page is blank.
Dibner Library. Heralds of science, 90
Burndy Library. Heralds of science, 90
Schuh, C. Mineralogy & crystallography, 5143
Also available online.
SCDIRB copy H106481A is bound with: Redi, Francesco. Esperienze intorno alla generazione degl' insetti. Firenze : All' insegna della Stella, MDCLXVIII [1668]. Bound together subsequent to publication.
SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
SCDIRB copy has an old beige textured paperboard binding with smooth paper spine; with the title inked on the spine. There is an old shelfmark ("168") for an unidentified former owner's library at the foot of the spine.
