Vccelliera, overo, Discorso della natvra, e proprieta di diversi vccelli
Subtitle: e in particolare di qve'che cantano : con il modo di prendergli, conoscergli, alleuargli, e mantenergli : e con le figure cauate dal vero, e diligentemente intagliate in rame dal Tempesta, e dal Villamena
By: opera di Gio. Pietro Olina Novarese dottor di legge ; dedicata al Sig. Cavalier dal Pozzo
Contributors: Tempesta, Antonio, 1555-1630, ill; Villamena, Francesco, ca. 1566-1624, ill
Publisher: Appresso Andrea Fei
Published: 1622
Place of publication: In Roma
Language: ita
Number of pages: 81
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Captive wild birds; Birds; Bird trapping
Other titles: Uccelliera; Discorso della natvra, e proprieta di diversi vccelli; Discorso della natura, e proprieta di diversi uccelli
Notes: "Con privilegio del sommo pontefice." "Con licenza de' Superiori." Text of privilege and imprimatur: prelim. p. [5]-[6].

Engraved title vignette (coat of arms); woodcut head- and tail-pieces; initials.

5th prelim. leaf and leaves 2-60, 62-67 have full-page engravings on verso, described in text on recto. Tempesta's illustrations the same as those in "Il Canto degl'augelli" (Rome, Muti, 160l)--Cf. Nissen, no. 955.

Illustrations in different copies vary; "Auuiso à chi legge" (prelim. p. [8]) describes some of the changes.

"Dell' vccelliera" (caption title), p. 68-81, has text without illustrations.

Signatures: A-K⁸, 2A⁶.

Errata: final p.

Includes index.

Leaf numbers 6, 50 misprinted 9, 46.

Nissen, C. Illustrierte Vogelbücher, 693

Anker, J. Bird books, 380

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB copy 39088015707086 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Adopt-a-Book, Gift of John Furth.

SCNHRB copy incomplete, lacking two preliminary leaves, including privilege and imprimatur.

SCNHRB copy bound in later plain calf binding, title in gilt on spine.