Io. Baptistae Portae De aeris transmvtationibvs libri IIII ...
Publisher: Apud I. Mascardum
Published: 1614
Place of publication: Romae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Meteorology; Early works to 1800; Physical geography; Hydrology; Earthquakes
Other titles: De aeris transmutationibus.
Notes: 2d ed., or rather, with the exception of the new t. p., a re-issue of the 1st ed., the imprint of which appears at the end: Romae, Apud Bartholomaeum Zannettum, M. DC. X.

On t. p., coat of arms (probably of Federico Cesi, Marchese di Monticelli, to whom the work is dedicated).

Folded synoptic table preceding p. 1.

The woodcut illus. include a map of the Nile (p. 177).

Due to the author's wide interpretation of his subject, the work includes lengthy treatment of hydrological matters, and of earthquakes.