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<dl><dd>[6], 495, [29] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 36 cm (fol.)</dd>
<dd>Engraved t.p. signed: Io. Bapt. Coriolanus inu. incid</dd>
<dd>Colophon: Bononiae, Typis Io. Baptista Ferronij MDCXXXXVIII [1648] ... Sumptibus Marci Antonij Berniae</dd>
<dd>Earlier ed. published 1623</dd>
<dd>Printer's device at colophon: Hercules slaying the Lernaean Hydra with a club, palm tree in background, motto: "Invidia virtute superatur"; register above printer's device</dd>
<dd>Title within historiated border; head- and tail-pieces; initials; side notes</dd>
<dd>McGill University, Rare Books and Special Collections copy: only t.p. leaf precedes p. 1 of main text</dd>
<dd>BL Italian, 17th cent.</dd>
<dd>Osler</dd>
<dd>Copy in Rare Books and Special Collections with armorial bookplate: Ex libris Marchionis Salsae; viscount's armorial bookplate [of Ward family], with motto "Comme je fus," depicting two angels with shield between</dd>
<dd>Copy in Blacker Wood Rare Books early vellum with black leather spine label, joints starting; bound uniformly with other of the author's titles of the Bologna printings from the same former owner; only t.p. leaf precedes p. 1 of main text</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works.; Mammals -- Early works to 1800.; Ungulates -- Early works to 1800.; Zoology.; Mammals.; McGill University Library Digitized Title; Zoology; Mammals; Ungulates</div>
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<dl><dd>Aldrovandi, Ulisse, 1522-1605?</dd>
<dd>Uterverius, Joannes Cornelius, editor</dd>
<dd>Bernia, Marco Antonio, active 1638-1661, editor</dd>
<dd>Coriolano, Giovanni Battista, -1649, engraver</dd>
<dd>Tebaldini, Nicolò, printer</dd>
<dd>Ferroni, Giovanni Battista, 1628?-1678?, printer</dd></dl></div>
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