1639 ALDROVANDI TREATISE on DRAGONS & SNAKES antique ILLUSTRATED FOLIO

Serpentum, et draconum historiae libri duo.


Bologna, Ferronio ; 1639 (copper title: 1640)

by Ulisse Aldrovandi

Bologna, Bellagamba; 1605 (copper title: 1606)

With copper title by Coriolano, 61 partly full-page woodcuts and some woodcut initiations.

2 leaves, 427 pp., 14 leaves.


Green-tinted suede binding , spine with raised bands and title label

-Nissen, ZBI 78. Eales I, 340. Ceresoli 44. First edition. -


The woodcuts depict snakes and winged dragons. 


Some leaves with dampstained  corners,  copper title with wax seal residue.

Folio: 9.5 by 14 inches

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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