Disputationum zoologicarum, publicè ante hac habitarum, de basilisco, unicornu, phoenice, behemoth
Subtitle: & leviathan, dracone, ac araneâ : hexas
By: autore M. Georg. Casp. Kirchmaiero, franco, Facultat. Philos. in Academia Witteberg. adjuncto.
Contributors: Maidment, James, 1795?-1879, former owner.; Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Sumptibus haered. Johannisbergeri, typis haered Melchioris Oelschlegelii
Published: 1661
Place of publication: Wittebergae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Animals, Mythical -- Philosophy -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: De basilisco, unicornu, phoenice, behemoth : & leviathan, dracone, ac araneâ
Notes: Author's argument and six responses.

Signatures: pi⁴ (-pi4) A-L⁸ pi4.

Some text printed in italics, some in columns; printed marginalia. Woodcut devices throughout.

LC copy with: Grube, Hermann. De ictu tarantulae & vi musices in ejus curatione, conjecturae physico-medicae. Francofurti : Ex bibliopolio Hafniensi, Danielis Paulli, Regii librarii, anno 1679. Bound together subsequent to publication.

Interpolations in German, Greek and Hebrew.

LC copy from the library of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. In leather binding with gold tooling and legend: concordia et sedulitate. Leather spine wanting; Edinburgh printer's waste revealed. Handmade endpapers are stamped or stencilled with gilded animals. Has armorial bookplate: James Maidment. Has inscriptions: Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes with love & gratitude from Geo. Barclay[?], April 1888; and: OW Holmes, Boston. On first (blank) page of textblock, has full-page inscription giving historical sources and beliefs about basilisks, signed: A.[J.?] Barth, 1712. Barth's inscription ends: In 1679 there was a general belief amongst the naturalists of Oxford that the basilisk could kill by a look.