Narcissus ad fontem
Subtitle: videlicet homo sub illius specie adumbratus, in insitae miseriae speculo ad unguem sese explorans. Opus per singulos personarum status digestum; moralium documentorum sublimitate, conceptuum praedicabilium delectu, eruditionum ubertate quàm inclytissimum; in duas partes divisum
By: a P.D. Hippolyto Falcone Syracusano, C.R. vulgò Theatino. Quod vernaculo idiomate tertiò recusum, Latinitate donavit P. don Ludovicus Voltolini Trident. memoratae sodalitatis theologus
Edition: Editio nova.
Publisher: Sumptibus fratrum de Tournes.
Published: 1743
Place of publication: Coloniae Allobrogum [Geneva]
Language: lat
Translated from: ita
Subjects: Conduct of life; Moral education; Botany; Medical Botany; Discovery and exploration; Italian; Description and travel
Work titles: Narciso al fonte
Notes: Translation, by Lodovico Voltolini, of: Narciso al fonte, first printed in Palermo, 1665-1668.

Part 2 includes references to Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vesupucci's voyages to the Americas on page 182, Ferdiand Magellan's circumnavigation of the world on page 185, exploration of Arctic and Anarctic on page 186, and Spanish colonies in Mexico with the rare botanicals found there on pages 196-197.

Pagination: volume 1: [16], 236 pages; volume 2: [6], 165, 155-240, [2] pages.

Signatures: volume 1: pi1 (pi1 recto blank) A⁴ (-A4) (A1 verso blank) b⁴ ²A B-2F⁴ 2G²; volume 2: a⁴ (-a4) (a1 verso blank) A-2G⁴ (2G4 blank)

Includes index.

Includes added engraved title page depicting Narcissus staring into a pool of water reading: Narcissus ad fontem.

Title page printed in red and black; engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

See: Verzeichnis Deutscher Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts (VD 18), 13689584.

Purchase; 2018; 19-127.