Obseruationes circa viuentia, quæ in rebus non viuentibus reperiuntur
Subtitle: Cum micrographia curiosa siue Rerum minutissimarum obseruationibus, quæ ope microscopij recognitæ ad viuum exprimuntur : his accesserunt aliquot animalium testaceorum icones non antea in lucem editæ : omnia curiosorum naturæ exploratorum vtilitati & iucunditati expressa & oblata
By: illustrissimo Domino D. Leoni Strozzæ ... a Patre Philippo Bonanni Societ. Iesu sacerdote
Contributors: Hedio, Andreas, former owner; Pergande, Theodore, d. 1916, former owner; Bibliotheca Seminarii Plocensis
Publisher: Typis Dominici Antonij Herculis
Published: 1691
Place of publication: Romæ
Language: lat
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Microscopes; Spontaneous generation; Early works to 1800; Mollusks; Pre-Linnean works; Natural history; Microscopy
Other titles: Supplementum Recreationis mentis et oculi in obseruatione testaceorum.; Micrographia curiosa siue Rerum minutissimarum obseruationibus, quae ope microscopij recognitae ad viuum exprimuntur.; Rerum minutissimarum obseruationibus, quae ope microscopij recognitae ad viuum exprimuntur.
Work titles: Observationes circa viventia, quae in rebus non viventibus reperiuntur
Notes: First edition.

The first part of the book deals with the origin of life and is chiefly a defense of Aristotle's doctrine of spontaneous generation.

The second part has engraved t.p.: Pars secunda seu Supplementum Recreationis mentis et oculi in obseruatione testaceorum quorum aliqua exprimuntur non antea in lucem edita; the Recreatio mentis had been published in 1684.

The Micrographia curiosa was later published separately: Romae : Typis Antonii de Rubeis, MDCCIII. [1703]

The engraved frontispiece is dated 1692.

Woodcut initials, tail-pieces; side-notes.

"Errata benignus lector typographo condonabit": p. [1] of last group; p. [343] has same heading, but without the list of errors: it may be the recto side of a cancelled leaf.

Signatures: *2*A-2Va-mn.

Includes bibliographical references ("Index auctorum": p. 341-342) and indexes.

Nissen. Zoologische Buchillustration, 752

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB has two copies.

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088013481437) imperfect: lacking engraved t.p.

SCNHRB c. 1 has contemporary engraved armorial bookplate: Andreas Hedio.

SCNHRB c. 1 stamped on t.p. and pl. facing p. 234: Bibliotheca Seminarii Plocensis.

SCNHRB c. 1 has occasional ink ms notes and markings in text.

SCNHRB c. 1 in stiff vellum boards, blue edges.

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088013481478) inscribed in ink on front free endpaper: Theo. Pergande, Washington, D.C. 1883.

SCNHRB c. 2 stamped on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Jun 29, 1916 [ms. acc. no.] 236273.

SCNHRB c. 2 in stiff vellum boards, title in gilt within leather spine label, ms spine label.