Vlyssis Aldrouandi philosophi et medici Bononiensis Historiam naturalem in Gymnasio Bononiensi profitentis. Ornithologiae hoc est De auibus historiae libri XII. ... Cum indice septendecim linguarum copiosissimo.
Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522 - 1605)
Category
Books
Date
1637 - 1646
Materials
Place of origin
Bologna
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3202682
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. : ill. (woodcut) ; fol. Running number: 5701. Imperfect: vols. 2-3 only. Shelved and uniform with vol. 1 of an earlier edition dated 1599. This set is shelved as vols. 9-11 and uniform as a set with vols. 1-8 and 12 of other works by Aldrovandi. Provenance: manuscript former Newbattle Abbey shelfmark, crossed-out, on front pastedown: "K 5 2". Manuscript former Newbattle Abbey shelfmark on front fly-leaf: "C.5.10." (vol. 2) and "C.5.11." (vol. 3). This set of 12 volumes was moved to Blickling Hall in 1832 from the great library at Newbattle Abbey, the principal Scottish seat of the Marquesses of Lothian. Early armorial bookplate (Franks 17069 or *558) on verso of front fly-leaf facing title page: 'The Most Honble. William Marquiss of Lothian' [i.e. William Kerr, 2nd Marquess of Lothian (1661-1722)]. Binding: seventeenth-century full calf (rubbed, very worn); sewn on six supports; gilt double fillet border, with dashed roll pattern between the fillets in some parts; seven panels on spine, five with gilt fillet panel with gilt stamp in the centre, one panel with gilt title 'Aldrovandi Hist. nat.' on brown calf label, and one panel with gilt vol. number 'Vol. X.' (vol. 2) and 'Vol. XI.' (vol. 3) on gold-tooled brown calf label. Spines repaired in calf. Red edges.
Makers and roles
Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522 - 1605), author Giovanni Battista Coriolano (d. Bologna 1649), artist Giovanni Battista Coriolano (d. Bologna 1649), engraver (inciser)