ALDROVANDI, Ulisse (1522-1605). Monstrorum historia. Cum paralipomenis historiae omnium animalium. Bartholomaeus Ambrosinus ... volumen composuit. Edited by Marco Antonio Bernia. Bologna: N. Tebaldini, 1642 (but colophon dated 1658).
2 parts in one, 2° (330 x 225mm). Engraved title by G.B. Coriolano, 477 woodcuts, many full-page, decorative head- and tailpieces. (Engraved title cropped at head and tail, into imprint, small marginal chip to B1, minor dampstain to lower margin, some variable browning, heaviest to a few leaves in second part.) Late 18th-/early 19th-century half calf (extremities lightly rubbed).
Aldrovandi's celebrated history of monstrosity and deformity. This is the reprint of the 1642 edition, retaining the unchanged engraved title, dispensing with the privilege leaf, and with a new colophon dated 1658. BM(NH) 1, 27.
ALDROVANDI, Ulisse (1522-1605). Monstrorum historia. Cum paralipomenis historiae omnium animalium. Bartholomaeus Ambrosinus ... volumen composuit. Edited by Marco Antonio Bernia. Bologna: N. Tebaldini, 1642 (but colophon dated 1658).
2 parts in one, 2° (330 x 225mm). Engraved title by G.B. Coriolano, 477 woodcuts, many full-page, decorative head- and tailpieces. (Engraved title cropped at head and tail, into imprint, small marginal chip to B1, minor dampstain to lower margin, some variable browning, heaviest to a few leaves in second part.) Late 18th-/early 19th-century half calf (extremities lightly rubbed).
Aldrovandi's celebrated history of monstrosity and deformity. This is the reprint of the 1642 edition, retaining the unchanged engraved title, dispensing with the privilege leaf, and with a new colophon dated 1658. BM(NH) 1, 27.
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