Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History

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Buonanni, Filippo

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Ricreatione dell' occhio e della mente nell' osservation' delle chiocciole. Rome: Varese, 1681
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 4 parts in one volume, 4to (240 x 180mm.), engraved additional title, engraved title to part 4, three engraved sectional titles in part 4, 3 (?of 4) engraved plates in the main text, 106 engraved plates in part four, contemporary vellum, [Nissen ZBI 753], ?lacking a plate in the main text, occasional spotting and foxing

Catalogue Note

“The first book of any size restricted to molluscs” - (Peter Dance, Shell Collecting, p.43). The precise contents of the book seems to vary from copy to copy. This copy may lack a plate in the main body of the text.