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Metamorphosis et historia naturalis insectorum. / Autore Joanne Goedartio. ;Cum commentariis D. Joannis de May ... & duplici ejusdem appendice, una de hemerobiis, altera de natura cometarum, & vanis ex iis divinationibus.

Accession number
PML 151414-16
Creator
Goedaert, Johannes, 1617-1668.
Published
Medioburgi, : Apud Jacobum Fierensium bibliopolam ..., 1662-[1669?]
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
Third pt. has special t.p.: Metamorphoseos et historiæ naturalis insectorum pars tertia & ultima, / autore Joanne Goedartio, aucta observationibus et appendice D. Joannis de Mey ... Medioburgi, Apud Jacobum Fierensium, biblipolam ...
Dedication to pt. 1 dated 1662; dedication to pt. 2 dated 1667; pt. 3 undated.
Vol. 1: [30], 236 p., [64] leaves of plates; v. 2: [32], 259, [1] p., [44] leaves of plates; v. 3: [16], 159, [1] p., [22] leaves of plates (leaves [19] and [21] folded); bound in 2 v.
Title vignette; some decorated initials; each vol. introduced by added engraved colored t.p.
Second pt. has special t.p.: Metamorphoseos et historiæ naturalis pars secunda, de insectis, / autore Joanne Goedartio, latinitate donata, commentariis, & notis, textui insertis, illustrata, & auctuario notarum sive appendice locupletata, de insectorum origine, utilitate & usu a Paulo Veezaerdt ... Medioburgi, Apud Jacobum Fierensium, & Johannem Martinum bibliopolas ...
Description
3 v. : col. ill., port., coat of arms ; 17 cm
Provenance
Lady Mary Howe bookplate and West port House. From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Contemporary red morocco.
Classification
Department