[Phytobasanos] siue Plantarum aliquot historia : in qua describuntur diuersi generis plantae veriores, ac magis facie, viribúsque respondentes antiquorum Theophrasti, Dioscoridis, Plinij, Galeni, aliorúmque delineationibus, ab alijs hucusque non animaduersae / Fabio Columna auctore ; accessit etiam Piscium aliquot, plantarúmque nouarum historia eodem auctore ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colonna, Fabio, 1567-1650, author.

Contributor:

Salviani, Orazio, printer.

Carlino, Giovanni Giacomo, bookseller.

Pace, Antonio, active 1590-1599, bookseller.

Language:

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Botany--Pre-Linnean works.

Botany.

Fishes--Early works to 1800.

Fishes.

Genre:

Early works.

Herbals.

Penn Provenance:

Fuegi, John (donor) (Kislak Center copy)

Francis, Joanne (donor) (Kislak Center copy)

Hunger, F. W. T. (Friedrich Wilhelm Tobias), 1874-1952 (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

[16], 120, 32, [8] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Phytobasanos

Plantarum aliquot historia

Phytobasanos sive plantarvm aliqvot historia

Plantarum aliquot antiquorum delineationibus magis respondentium historia

Plantarvm aliqvot antiqvorvm delineationibvs magis respondentivm historia

Fingerprint:

uru- a-r- adus a-y- (3) 1592 (R)

Place of Publication:

Neapoli : Ex officina Horatij Saluiani : Apud Io. Iacobum Carlinum, & Antonium Pacem, MDXCII [1592]

Language Note:

Latin with some Greek; illustrations labelled in both Latin and Greek.

Notes:

First word of title printed in Greek characters.

Signatures: [par.]-2[par.]⁴ A-P⁴ a-d⁴, ²a⁴.

Engraved illustrations within type ornament borders.

Woodcut title vignette (printer's device) and initials.

Type ornament tail-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Errata on leaf ²a4v.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy has manuscript bibliographical note in pencil on front pastedown; manuscript bibliographical notes on blank leaf preceding title leaf.

Kislak Center copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by John Fuegi and Joanne Francis.

Kislak Center copy has bookplate ("Ex Libris F.W.T. HUNGER geb. 3 April 1874 Amsterdam") on front pastedown.

Kislak Center copy: binding partially detached from textblock.

Cited in:

EDIT 16 CNCE 12822

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration, 386

OCLC:

4810965