Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia, in duo volumnia secundum cosmi differentiam divisa ...
Contributors: Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623, printer; Galler, Hieronymus, printer; Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650
Publisher: Aere Johan-Theodori de Bry typis Hieronymi Galleri
Published: 1617
Place of publication: Oppenhemii
Language: lat
Subjects: Occultism; Early works to 1900; Mysticism; Early works to 1800; Cosmology; Philosophy; Divination; Physiognomy; Palmistry; Early works to 1850; Geometry; Astrology; Machinery; Arithmetic
Notes: V. 1 & 2 t.-ps. are engraved and illustrated; illus. t.p.: v. 2 pt. [1-b]; title vignette on t.-p. to v. 2 pt, [2].

Volume 1, pt. 2 is bound as separate volume.

Each part of each volume separately paged.

Includes several folded leaves.

Indexes for v. 1, pt. 1 and pt. 2; v. 2, pt. 1a and b has combined index.

Vol. 1, pt. 2 has engr. pictorial general t.p., signed by M. Merian; special t.p. for each sub-part included in paging (pts. 2-6 with vignette).

Five fold. pl. include 4 double representing p. 409-412; only last numbered 412--Cf. NUC. Several leaves also folded, completing illustrations--Cf. LC.

Index, errata: [10] p. at end. One illus. hand col.

Page 785-788: Section-title, contents, "Typographus lectori;" titled: Volumen secundum, de naturali, artificiali, & praeter naturali ac contra naturali microcosmi historia" (in 4 pts.) Prospectus?

Signatures: A-Ggg[superscript]4, Hhh[superscript]2, Iii-Hhhhh[superscript]4. Final leaf is blank. Hhhl-2 cancels? No gap in paging. Cancel leaf at p. 276 (here p. 274) not included in paging or sigs--Cf. NUC. Several mispagings, misbindings.

Burke Library copy: No. 3 in a bound volume of titles.

Also available on microfilm.
Table of contents: title: v. 1, pt. [1]. De macrocosmi historia [metaphysica & physica] (1617). pt. [2]. Tractatus secundus de naturae simia seu technica macrocosmi historia (Oppenheimio, De Bry, 1618); title: v. 2, pt. [1-a]. Tomus secundus de supernaturali, naturali, praeternaturali et contranaturali microcosmi historia in tractatus tres distributa ; [First treatise, first section] (Oppenhemij, De Bry, 1619). pt. [1-b]. Tomi secundi, tractatus primi, sectio secunda, de technica microcosmi historia ([n.p., n.d.]). pt. [2]. Tomi secundi, tractatus secundus, de praeternaturali utriusque mundi historia (Francofurti, typis E. Kempfferi sumptibus J.T. de Bry, 1621) (The second volume ends with the first section of the second treatise. It was to have contained three treatises, but was never completed; title: LC).