Accession number
PML 29762
Creator
Colonna, Fabio, 1567-1650.
Published
Romae : Apud Jacobum Mascardum, 1616.
Notes
Engraved title page.
The earliest ed. with the 3rd part - Purpura. The first ed. of the work - 1608 - was the second book with copper-plate etchings of plants. Has the portrait of the author.
... Aquatilium ... lxxiiipp.; index 7 p. Part II. Title - Minus cogitarum ... pars altera - eng'd in border & prels. - (12 p.) Text and Index, 99 p. Part III. Purpura. Title, eng'd & prels. - (10 p.) Text & Index 42 p. With 132 plates of plants and 20 of shellfish and other objects of natural history. The plates are enclosed in borders composed of printers' ornaments.
Written on t.p. of pt. I; Ad usum Jacobi Salvador.
The earliest ed. with the 3rd part - Purpura. The first ed. of the work - 1608 - was the second book with copper-plate etchings of plants. Has the portrait of the author.
... Aquatilium ... lxxiiipp.; index 7 p. Part II. Title - Minus cogitarum ... pars altera - eng'd in border & prels. - (12 p.) Text and Index, 99 p. Part III. Purpura. Title, eng'd & prels. - (10 p.) Text & Index 42 p. With 132 plates of plants and 20 of shellfish and other objects of natural history. The plates are enclosed in borders composed of printers' ornaments.
Written on t.p. of pt. I; Ad usum Jacobi Salvador.
Description
[8], 340 p.; [12], 99 p.; lxxiii, [7] p. : illus., port. ; 23 cm
Binding
Blue morocco original st. 17th century Italian binding.
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