Claudii Aeliani, De animalium natura libri XVII. Petro Gillio Gallo & Conrado Gesnero Heluetio interpretibus. Accessit index locupletissimus.
Claudius Aelian (c.170 - c.235)
Category
Books
Date
1629
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031659
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 1018, [54] p. ; 16mo. Running number: 5535. Leaves [par.]2-4 mis-bound at rear between leaves zz8-AA1 and AA3-4. With the title page to a different edition of Aelian's De natura animalium bound-in at rear, with the imprint cut out: "Klaudiou Ailianou Peri zōōn idiotēos biblia 17. Claudii Aeliani, De animalium natura libri XVII. ...". Provenance: manuscript former shelfmark on inside front board: "F.6.29". Manuscript book or inventory number on front fly-leaf: "(64)". Binding: seventeenth-century blind-tooled calf (upper board detached); double fillet border with cornerpiece stamps; fillet on board edges; recessed cords; fillets on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Claudius Aelian (c.170 - c.235) Conrad Gessner (1516-1565), editor Pierre Gilles (1490-1555), editor