1605 ALDROVANDI TREATISE on MUSSELS SNAILS OCTOPUSES antique ILLUSTRATED FOLIO

De reliquis animalibus exanguibus libri quatuor, post mortem eius editi: nempe de mollibus, crustaceis, testaceis, et zoophytis.

by Ulisse Aldrovandi

Bologna, Bellagamba; 1605 (copper title: 1606)


Folio: 9.5 by 14 inches

With copper title, engraved portrait, ca. 600 woodcuts in the text and printer's mark.


2 leaves, 593 pp., 14 leaves.

Green-tinted suede binding (worn, upper spine repaired with piece ancient vellum manuscript).

-Nissen, ZBI 68. Ceresoli 40 (both erroneous collations). -


First edition of Aldrovandi's posthumous work on mussels, snails, crustaceans, and octopuses with magnificent woodcut illustrations.

The collation of the preface and afterword agrees with NUC (copper title and portrait attributed).


- Some wormholes along the edges, copperplate title with traces of old sealing wax.

Text in Latin

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Ulisse Aldrovandi (11 September 1522 – 4 May 1605) was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the first in Europe. Carl Linnaeus and the comte de Buffon reckoned him the father of natural history studies. He is usually referred to, especially in older scientific literature in Latin, as Aldrovandus; his name in Italian is equally given as Aldroandi.
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