Johannis Sperlingii, Scient. Natural. quondam Prof. P. celeberrimi, Zoologiam physicam
By: recensuit Georg. Casp. Kirchmajer, Eloqv. P.P. Witteb. Addiditque dissertationes de basilisco, unicornu, phoenice, behemoth, leviathan, dracone, araneo & ave paradisi
Contributors: Kirchmayer, Georg Kaspar, 1635-1700
Edition: Editio altera, priori longè emendatior.
Publisher: Impensis haeredum Joh. Bergeri, literis Joh. Haken
Published: 1669
Place of publication: Wittebergae [Wittenberg (Saxony-Anhalt)]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Natural history; Whales
Other titles: Zoologiam physicam.; Iohan Sperlingi Zoologia Phys: posthuma.
Notes: Additional, folded engraved title page reads: Iohan Sperlingi Zoologia Phys: posthuma, and has imprint: Wittebergae. Impensis haered: Iohann: Bergeri. Bibl: Anno M.D.CLXIX.

First printed posthumously in Leipzig, 1661.

"Georgii Casp. Kirch. Majeri, Eloqv. Prof. Publ. Wittenbergensis, De basilisco, unicornu, phoenice, behemoth, leviathan, dracone, araneo, tarantula et ave paradisi, dissertationes aliqvot. Editio altera locupletior correctiorqve", p. [1-8], 1-168, 3rd and 4th counts, has separate dated title page with imprint: Wittenbergae: Impensis haeredum Joh. Bergeri, in officina Finceliana excudebat Michael Meyer, Anno M D C LXIX (with roman numeral date made with reverse c's)

Georg Kaspar Kirchmayer's "De Leviathan", p. 95-104, 4th count, contains references to the West Indies, Greenland, and Iceland; "De draconum varietate", p. 116-124, 4th count, mentions Ferdinand Magellan and Pigafetta as well as the natural history of the West Indies and Brazil.

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Engraved head and tail pieces.