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Conchiglie - Concologia - Bonanni, Filippo

Recreation of the eye and the mind in the observation of the Snails, 1681

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€ 1.500 - 2.500

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€ 1.935

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Rome, for Varese, at the expense of Felice Cesaretti, 1681. 2 vols. in 1 volume, one textual and the other with plates. In 4th. Each part with an elegant allegorical frontispiece engraved in copper drawn and engraved by Gio. Fr. Venturini, in the I vol. 4 tipped-in plates and 2 in-text engravings (pp. 301 and 326), in the II vol. 109 plates with wide margins, including the 3 engraved titles, slight water mark on the upper margin of *3 and *4, very rare and slight reddening, few leaves with light browning, coeval leather binding, author and title embossed in gold on the spine with 5 raised bands, slight defects.

Specialist Notes

First edition of this splendid baroque book, one of the few copies not to have been trimmed. This is the first treatise dedicated entirely to the study of shells and molluscs, consisting of a textual volume divided into two parts and a volume of elegant tables describing a total of 439 shells, bound in a single tome. In the first part of the text Filippo Bonanni (1638-1725), Italian Jesuit, biologist and scholar, is dedicated to the general characteristics, in the second part the specifics of each shell are described: shape, colour, name and sea where it was found.

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