Dell'historia naturale di Ferrante Imperato Napoletano. Libri XXVIII, : nella quale ordinatamente si tratta della diversa condition di minere, e pietre. Con alcune historie di piante, & animali ; sin'hora non date in luce.

Where to find it

Authors, etc.

Names:

• Imperato, Ferrante, 1550-1625
• Vitale, Costantino, active 16th century-17th century, printer
• Imperato, Francesco, active 16th century-17th century, editor
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dialectic Society
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Philanthropic Society

Subjects

Subject Headings A:

• Natural historyNatural history
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  Pre-Linnean works
• Natural historyNatural history
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  ItalyNatural history
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  Italy
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  Pre-Linnean works

Other details

Description:

24 unnumbered pages, 791 pages : illustrations, plate ; 31 cm

Variant Title:

Later published with title: Historia naturale

Published:

In Napoli : Nella Stamparia à Porta Reale per Costantino Vitale, 1599.

Language:

Italian

Cited In:

Findlen, P. Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early-Modern Italy, p. 226

Notes:

[Edited by] Francesco Imperato--Verso a₂.
Printer's device on t.p. (a crocodile) assigned by Zappella to Felice Stigliola, rather than Costantino Vitale (Marche dei tipografi, fig. 353). The double-page plate depicts Imperato's natural history cabinet.
Colphon: "Imprimatur. Ludouicus Boidus ... "
Initials and tail-pieces.
Signatures: a² b⁶ c⁴ A-3V⁶ [$3 signed (B₂ as 'B₃')]
[24], 1-228, 235-245, 248, 241-244, 251-254, 249-791.

Local Notes:

RBC copy: Double-page plate wanting. Bound in brown calf; rebacked using original boards; marbled endpapers; all edges marbled; Dialectic Society bookplate on front pastedown; Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies bookplate on front pastedown; Ex Libris in manuscript at top edge of title page; textile bookmark.

Genre or Form:

Pre-Linnean works
Bookplates
Inscriptions
Printers' devices

OCLC Number:

14303228