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Vlyssis Aldrovandi philosophi, et medici Bononiensis De reliquis animalibus exanguibus libri quatuor / post-mortem ejus editi ; nempe de mollibus, crustaceis, testaceis, et zoophytis

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Catalog Data

Author:
Aldrovandi, Ulisse 1522-1605?  Search this
Printer:
Ferroni, Giovanni Battista 1628?-1678?  Search this
Publisher:
Bernia, Marco Antonio active 1638-1661  Search this
Author:
Aldrovandi, Francesca Fontana  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- ,- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
[8], 422, 421-593, [29] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 36 cm (folio)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Pre-Linnean works
Early works
Date:
1642
Notes:
Engraved title page; title within architectural border.
Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials; side-notes.
On title page, statement "Sumptibus Marci Antonii Berniae" precedes place of publication.
Dedication signed: Francisca Aldrouanda.
Colophon: Bononiae : Apud Ioannem Baptistam Ferronium MDCXXXXII [1642]. Sumptibus Marci Antonij Berniae.
Printer's device part of colophon; register above printer's device.
Signatures: pi⁴ A-3F⁶ (pi4 blank).
Page numbers 421-422 are repeated; page 492 misnumbered as 294.
Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, 68
Also available online.
SCNHRB copy (39088006358949) has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Bequest of S. Stillman Berry. Stamped on front paste-down: S. Stillman Berry ... Redlands, California [in manuscript] 2. VII. 1957.
SCNHRB copy in modern binding of taupe goatskin and black cloth, title in gilt within black leather spine label, red sprinkled edges.
Elecresource
Topic:
Invertebrates  Search this
Mollusks  Search this
Crustacea  Search this
Zoology  Search this
Call number:
QL362 .A36 1642
QL362.A36 1642
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_384410