ALDROVANDI, ULISSE
Monstrorum historia cum paralipomenis historiae omnium animalium.
Folio (cm 35.5), 2 parts in one vol. (containing the often missing 'Paralipomena') in contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine (margin. rest. and few worming), inside a clean and very good copy. Engraved frontispiece, text illustrated throughout with hundreds of woodcuts; pp. (8), 748, (28); 159, (7). First edition (published after his death) of this fascinating work of the famous naturalist and botanic, a mid way between a wunderkammer and a bestiary, showing many fantatic animals and creatures, mixing up the science with popular fantasy. Waller 10725; Osler 1769; Krivatsy 187; Heirs of Hippocrates, 330: "Several hundred excellent woodcuts"; Garrison/M. 534.53; Wellcome I, 172; Nissen , ZBI, 74.
Bologna, Nicolo' Tebaldini, 1642
€ 8.000,00
