Historia naturale di Ferrante Imperato napolitano : nella quale ordinatamente si tratta della diuersa condition di minere, pietre pretiose, & altre curiosità : con varie historie di piante, & animali, sin'hora non date in luce.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Imperato, Ferrante, 1550-1625 (Author)
Other Authors: Ferro, Giovanni Maria, -1682, Combi, Giovanni Battista, active approximately 1672-1678 (Printer), La Noù, Giovanni (Printer), John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1625-1679
Format: Book
Language:Italian
Published: Venetia : Presso Combi & La Noù, MDCLXXII [1672]
Edition:In questa seconda impressione aggiontoui da Gio. Maria Ferro spetiale alla sanità, alcune annotationi alle piante nel libro vigesimo ottavo ...
Subjects:
Description
Item Description:Original edition published: Dell'historia naturale di Ferrante Imperato ... libri XXVIII ... Napoli : C. Vitale, 1599.
"Dedicata all' Altezza Serma. di Giovan Federico duca di Brunsvvick, et Lunenburg"
Signatures: [cross]⁴ A-3M⁶, a⁴ ; 356 leaves.
Leaves 3A2-6 are signed 2A2-6; 3C1 is signed 3T1; 3H3 is signed 3G3; 3K2-3 are signed 2L2 and 3L3, respectively.
Title page printed in red and black; initials; head- and tail-pieces.
Illustrations: Large engraving with legend "Ritratto del museo di Ferrante Imperato" (reproduced in Baroque book illustration / by Philip Hofer. Cambridge [Mass.], 1951, number 76); engraved title page vignette; approximately 125 woodcuts, copies of those in the original edition, depicting minerals and rocks, marine organisms, plants, snakes and insects.
Errata on final page.
Includes index.
Physical Description:8 unnumbered pages, 696 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 34 cm (folio)
Place of Publication:Italy -- Venice.