Vlyssis Aldrouandi patricii Bononiensis Monstrorum historia : cum Paralipomenis historiae omnium animalium

by: Aldrovandi, Ulisse, 1522-1605?, author; Bernia, Marco Antonio, active 1638-1661, publisher; Tebaldini, Nicolò, active 1602-1649, printer; Coriolano, Giovanni Battista, -1649, engraver; Ambrosini, Bartolommeo, 1588-1657. Paralipomena accuratissima historiae omnium animalium; Hoeven, J. van der, (Physician), active 1923, former owner; Beckwith, J. Bruce, 1933-, donor; Browning, Nancy Gay, donor; Saintyves, P. (Pierre), 1870-1935, bookseller; Jeremy Norman & Co., bookseller; Beckwith-Browning-Peterson Teratology Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)

Publication date: 1642

Topics: Teratology, Monsters, Human anatomy, Abnormalities, Human, Animals, Abnormalities, Plants, Natural history, Fetal presentation, Conjoined twins, Teratology -- Early works to 1800, Monsters -- Early works to 1800, Human anatomy -- Early works to 1800, Abnormalities, Human -- Early works to 1800, Animals -- Abnormalities -- Early works to 1800, Plants -- Abnormalities -- Early works to 1800, Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works, Fetal presentation -- Early works to 1800, Conjoined twins -- Early works to 1800

Publisher: Bononiae : Typis Nicolai Tebaldini

Collection: smithsonian; biodiversity

Digitizing sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: Latin

2 volumes in 1 : 36 cm (folio)

Engraved title page, with historiated border, signed: Io. Bapta. Coriolanus F. Bonon

"Paralipomena accuratissma [sic] historiae omnium animalium ..." (part 2) has separate title page with imprint: Bononae : Typis Nicolai Tebaldini, 1642 (leaf A1 recto); as well as separate paging and signatures

Colophon: Impensis Marci Antonij Berniae

Head- and tail-pieces; initials; side-notes

Printer's device on colophon, with motto: Ferro et igne

Part 1: [8], 748, [28] pages (the last page is blank); part 2: 159, [9] pages (the last 2 pages are blank)

Errors in paging in part 1: page 48 is misnumbered as 40; page 98 is misnumbered as 108; page 107 is misnumbered as 97; and page 427 is misnumbered as 527

Includes indexes

Errata: page [27] (3rd group) of part 1; and page [6] (2nd group) of part 2

Signatures: part 1: [cross]⁴ A-3P⁶ 3Q⁸ 3R⁶ 3S⁸; part 2: A-O⁶ (leaf O6 is blank)

Leaf I2 is mis-signed as H2; leaf 3R1 is signed as Rrrrr