De lucernis antiquorum reconditis libb. sex: in quibus earum recens inuentarum adhuc ardentium obseruationes multae primum afferuntur: aliorum opiniones omnes de ipsarum attributis dein expenduntur: earum causae, proprietates, differentiaeque singulae deinceps ex rei natura deteguntur: pluresque dubitationes e traditis emergentes demum eluuntur. Explicatis diligenter abditissimis quaestionibus de ignium causis, origine, varietate, duratione, motu, & extinctu: de antiperistasi, fumo, cinere, lentore, mistis incombustibilibus, brutorum funeribus, & alijs naturae arcanis. Declaratisque plurimis antiquitatis ritibus lychnos supra centum effigiantibus: cum indicibus locupletissimis. Autore Fortunio Liceto ...
Fortunio Liceti (1577-1657)
Category
Books
Date
1652 - 1653
Materials
Place of origin
Udine
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3211299
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 3-4 p., 5-1280 columns, [28] p., [4] folded leaves of plates (1 double, 2 single leaves) : ill. ; fol. Running number: 6126. Imprint date altered in print to M DC LIII, thus is a reissue with new title page of the 1652 edition. Provenance: manuscript inscription at foot of front pastedown: "C. & P. /" [i.e. the "collated and perfect" mark of the bibliophile Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725)]. Manuscript initial on recto of front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript price[?] in pencil on recto of front fly-leaf: "7s"[?]. Top right corner of front fly-leaf torn off, probably to remove an inscription. Smudged pencil number on verso of front fly-leaf. Pencil letter and ink number on verso of front fly-leaf: "q" and "10". Manuscript inscription at head of title page: "T Hanbury". Manuscript inscription (bookseller's code?) at head of rear pastedown: "P.G.N.B. Cn.s [underlined]". Binding: seventeenth-century full plain vellum over boards; sewn onto five tawed leather sewing supports; spine cracked, partially missing at head and tail; faded gold-tooling (floral stamps, roll pattern) and gilt title within gilt fillet panels on spine; strips of vellum manuscript waste line the spine, visible at head and tail.
Makers and roles
Fortunio Liceti (1577-1657) Giovanni Georgi (1617-1656)