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Musæum historicum et physicum / Joannis Imperialis ... In primo illustrium literis virorum imagines ad vivum expresse continentur, additis elogiis ... In secundo animorum imagines, sive ingeniorum nature, differentie, cause, ac signa physice perpenduntur. Adeo ut artis exactissim[ae] loco possit esse, dignoscendi ad quam quisq[ue] artem ac scientiam sit habilis.

Accession number
PML 195921
Creator
Imperiali, Giovanni, 1596?-1670.
Published
Venetiis : Apud Juntas, 1640.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Engraved t.p. in architectural frame with allegorical figures.
Errors in paging: 137-144 numbered 237-244, 212 numbered 122.
Part [2] has half title: Musaeum physicum; sive, De humano ingenio, and colophon on p. 219 dated 1639.
Portraits (full-page) engraved by Andrea Salmincio, included in pagination with letterpress on recto/verso. Woodcut Giunti devices at colophons of both pts., the first signed V.F. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, historiated and floriated initials.
Printing error: frame on p. 47 (part [1]) lacks portrait of Bernardinus Tomitanus.
Errata: p. [21-22].
Includes indexes.
Description
2 pts. in 1 v. ([16], 122 [i.e. 212], [8], 219, [23] p.) : ports. ; 24 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
1/4 brown leather.
Classification
Department