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Vlyssis Aldrouandi patricii Bononiensis Monstrorum historia : cum Paralipomenis historiae omnium animalium
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
Public domain. The Library considers that this work is no longer under copyright protection
Ppi
300
References
Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, 74; Sorbelli, A. "Contributo alla bib. di U. Aldrovandi." In Intorno alla vita e alle opere di U. Aldrovandi, 69-139, XI. 1 (page 121); Catalogue of seventeenth century Italian books in the British Library, page 15; Beckwith, J. Bruce. Bibliotheca Beckwithiana (unpublished), P2