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Large 4to (289 x 210 mm) 136 pp. and 24 folding plates. Old marbled boards (spine reinforced).
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Nissen ZBI, 356.
Second edition, enlarged.
The naturalist G.P. Bianchi (1693-1775), who wrote under the pseudonym Janus Plancus, was one of the founding members of the Accademia dei Lincei.
[BOUND WITH 2 other works by Bianchi :]
1) Breve storia ragionata de’ mali, che afflissero l’eminentissimo Sig. Cardinale Enea Silvio Piccolomini… E che furono cagione della quasi sua repentina morte colta Sezzione del suo Cadavero. Rimini, Casa Albertini, 1768. 4to, VIII pp.
2) De monstris ac monstrosis… Epistola. Venetiis, Typ. Pasqualis, 1749. 4to, 18 nn.ll., 3 plates.
Nissen, ZBI, 357.
First edition of “son ouvrage le plus important qui offre des cas curieux de monstruosités” (Le Grand Larousse du XIXe siècle).
A good, untrimmed copy.
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