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Natural history, Pre-Linnean works, Corals, Amber, Medicinal plantsBook Details
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Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.
Colophon reads: Jena, Gedruckt bey Paul Ehrichen.
Translation of the author's: Museo di fisica e di esperienze variato e decorato di osservazioni naturali, first printed in Venice in the same year.
Text primarily in German with Latin and Greek passages; preliminary material also in Latin and Greek.
Though primarily a natural history of southern Italy and Sicily there are references to various medical drugs from plant sources of the Americas, amber, and corals.
Signatures: )(¹⁰ A-X¹²
Title page printed in red and black; head and tail pieces; initials.
Pritzel 861n.
Krivatsky, P. Seventeenth cent. printed books in the NLM, 1405.
Wellcome cat. of printed books, II:185.
Alden, J.E. European Americana, 697/18.
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: p. 57-64 misbound between p. 72 and 73.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full vellum over boards.
John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund.
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