Shelfmark
Gg.4.11(02)
Author
Telesio, Bernardino, 1509 - 1588 author.
Title
Bernardini Telesii Consentini, Varii de naturalibus rebus libelli ab Antonio Persio editi. Quorum alij nunquàm antea excusi, alij meliores facti prodeunt. Sunt autem hi De cometis, & lacteo circulo. De his, quæ in aere fiunt. De iride. De mari. Quod animal vniuersum. De vsu respirationis. De coloribus. De saporibus. De somno. Vnicuique libello appostitus est capitum index. De somno libellus.
Varying form of title
Varii de naturalibus rebus libelli
Varying form of title
Varii de natvralibvs rebvs libelli
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Bernardini Telesii Constentini, De somo libellus
Publication, distribution, etc.
Venetiis : Apud Felicem Valgrisium., M. D. XC. [1590]
Physical description
8 parts ([4]; [2], 25, [1]; 18, [2]; 17, [1]; 45, [1]; 8; 15, [1]; 13, [1], 13, [5] leaves) : ill. ; 22 cm. (4to)
Note
Each part with separate title-page, pagination and register.
Note
Signatures: part 1: A⁴ A² ²A-E⁴ F⁶; part 2: A-E⁴ (E4 blank); part 3: A-C⁴ D⁶; part 4: A-K⁴ L⁶; part 5: A-B⁴; part 6: A-D⁴ (D4 blank); part 7: A-B⁴ C⁶; part 8: A-C⁴ D² E⁴.
Note
Woodcut illustrations throughout.
Note
Device on title page is that of Felice Valgrisi's father, Vincenzo Valgrisi, featuring two disembodied arms emerging from clouds to grasp a tau cross, entwined with a serpent; printer's name "VIN" and "CENT" on either side of the cross; ornamental initials; "De iride" illustrated with astronomical diagrams of the Sun and the planets.
Note
Errata: leaves [2]-[5] at end (leaves E1-E4).
Citation/references note
Adams, T294
Citation/references note
BM Italian, 1465-1600, p.662
Provenance
Booklabel recording donation to Eton College by John Reynolds in 1751.
Binding
18th century calf skin binding with blind tooled double fillet borders and ornaments; red and gilt morocco spinelabel.
Copy-specific note
ECL posessing only "De somno" bound in volume with "In C. Plinii Maioris capita aliquot, vt difficilima, ita pulcherrima, et vtilissima commentarius, varia & non vulgari eruditione refertus," 1576 and "Antiqui rhetores latini," 1599.
Copy-specific note
Pagination of "De somno:" 13 leaves, [5]; this section does not contain illustrations.
Subject
Nature Early works to 1800.
Subject
Astronomy Early works to 1800.
Subject
Comets Early works to 1800.
Subject
Rainbows Early works to 1800.
Subject
Respiration Early works to 1800.
Subject
Sleep Early works to 1800.
Subject
Milky Way Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Persio, Antonio, 1542 - 1597 editor.
Added entry--name
Valgrisi, Felice, active 1574 - 1597 printer.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
Italy Venice.
Identifier
B49627