Recreatio mentis, et ocvli in obseruatione animalium testaceorum
By: curiosis naturae inspectoribus Italico sermone primùm proposita a P. Philippo Bonanno Sociatatis Iesu, nunc denuò ab eodem Latinè oblata, centum additis testaceorum iconibus, circa quae varia problemata proponuntur
Publisher: Ex Typographia Varesij
Published: 1684
Place of publication: Romae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Mollusks; Shells
Work titles: Ricreatione dell'occhio e della mente nell'osservation' delle chiocciole
Notes: Rare Book copy: Each plate has distinctive letterpress in manuscript.

The plates have four half-titles not included in the paging.

" Catalogus authorum quorum mentio facta est" : p. [279]-[280].

Signatures: [dagger]⁸ A-Z⁴ Aa-Mm⁴ [chi]² ([chi]1 blank) a-z⁴ aa-cc⁴ dd⁶ ee-ll⁴ (ll4 blank)

Title vignette (Jesuit device)

Added engraved title page, 7 engraved plates in text, plus 138 plates at end, with separate title page: Icones testaceorum quae in parte secunda describuntur.

Translation of: Ricreatione dell'occhio e della mente nell'osservation' delle chiocciole.

Includes index.

Backer-Sommervogel, II, col. 377, no. 2