Lettere di philosophia naturale, di Camilla Herculiana, speciala alle Tre stelle in Padoua
Subtitle: indrizzate alla serenissima Regina di Polonia : nella quale si tratta la natural causa delli Diluuij, & il natural temperamento dell'huomo, et la natural formatione dell'arco celeste
Publisher: Nella stamperia di Lazaro [Jan Januszowski
Published: 1584
Place of publication: In Cracouia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Philosophy of nature; Early works to 1800; Deluge
Other titles: Lettere di philosophia natvrale, di Camilla Hercvliana, speciala alle Tre stelle in Padoua
Notes: Dedication signed: Camilla Herculiana è Gregetta.

Signatures: a-f⁴.

Armorial title vignette (arms of Anna Jagiellonka, Queen of Poland); initials.

Universal short title catalogue, entry 242500

EDIT 16, entry CNCE 64046

Purchase; *73-910; George L. Lincoln Fund

Former owner's armorial book label: Ex libris Jacobi Manzoni. Listed as lot 5858 in the auction catalog,  "Bibliotheca Manzoniana, 2e ptie.", for the sale of 8 May-7 June 1893 by G. Sangiorgi.

Bookplate with portrait: "Royal Meteorological Society Symons Bequest 1900. Compartment 15 [struck through] 36. Shelf B." Compartment numbers and shelf letter written in pencil. George James Symons bequest to the Royal Meteorological Society included all the bound volumes, pamphlets, maps, and photographs from his collection not already part of the Society's library (to be selected from his library by the president of the Society). William Marriott's account of the bequest, selection, and highlights of notable items obtained from Symons' library was published in the Society's "Quarterly journal" vol. XXVII, no. 120 (October, 1901), pp. 211-260.

Underscoring in pen on page [4] and minor corrections to the text on pages [19] and [20].

Manuscript "6" in upper corner of title page in red ink; potential indication that this copy was, at one point, part of a bound with volume.

Rebound and conserved in 1984; note by binder bound in: "Original binding: brown paste paper over boards. Binding: Title page dry cleaned. Acid free endsheets sewn on linen support, linen headbands sewn over alum tawed goat and laced into non adhesive paper covers. Nancy Southworth, binder 8/84"; contemporary manuscript title on tail-edge; in prefab case, 28 cm.
Table of contents: title: A studiosi di philosophia [verse]; title: Alla serenissima Regina Anna, regina di Polonia, gran duchessa di Lithuania &c.; title: A lettori; title: Andreae Eumorphi Glogouicen. Carmen encomiasticon [verse]; title: Lettere di philosophia naturale ... all'eccelle[n]tis. Sig. Giorgio Garnero, nell laquale si tratta la natural causa del Diluuio ...; title: Lettera dell'eccellentissimo Sig. Giorgio Garnero, a D. Camilla Herculiana, nella quale si tratta la negatione del Diluuio; title: Lettera di Camilla Herculiana all'eccellentis. Sig. Giorgio Garnero, nellaqual si tratta della verità del Diluuio, e della natural formatione & apparitione dell'arco celeste; title: Al magnifico et eccellentissimo Sig. caualiero, il Sig. Martino di Berzevicze cancelliere Transiluano della Sacra Maesta dell'inuitissimo Stephano re di Polonia.