Musaeum historicum et physicum Ioannis Imperialis phil: et med: Vicentini. In primo illustrium literis uiror[um] imagines ad uiuum express[a]e continentur additas elogijs eorundem uitas, et mores notantibus. In secundo animorum imagines, siue ingeniorum natur[a]e, differenti[a]e, caus[a]e, ac signa physicè perpenduntur. Adeo vt artis exactissim[a]e loco possit esse, dignoscendi ad quam quisq[ue], artem, ac scientiam sit habilis.
Giovanni Imperiali (1596-1670)
Category
Books
Date
1640
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3109211
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 122 [i.e. 212]; [8], 219, [23] p. : ports. ; 4to. Running number: 6066. Provenance: manuscript price in pencil on front pastedown: "0-10-0". Binding: seventeenth-century English full sprinkled calf; sewn onto four sewing supports; triple blind fillet border, with additional triple blind fillet running parallel to spine-edge; single gilt fillet along board edges; four raised bands; gold-tolled spine; gilt title label on spine. Red stained edges.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Imperiali (1596-1670) Andrea Salmincio (1626-1664), engraver (printmaker)