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<dl><dd>2 volumes in 1 : 36 cm (folio)</dd>
<dd>Engraved title page, with historiated border, signed: Io. Bapta. Coriolanus F. Bonon</dd>
<dd>"Paralipomena accuratissma [sic] historiae omnium animalium ..." (part 2) has separate title page with imprint: Bononae : Typis Nicolai Tebaldini, 1642 (leaf A1 recto); as well as separate paging and signatures</dd>
<dd>Colophon: Impensis Marci Antonij Berniae</dd>
<dd>Head- and tail-pieces; initials; side-notes</dd>
<dd>Printer's device on colophon, with motto: Ferro et igne</dd>
<dd>Part 1: [8], 748, [28] pages (the last page is blank); part 2: 159, [9] pages (the last 2 pages are blank)</dd>
<dd>Errors in paging in part 1: page 48 is misnumbered as 40; page 98 is misnumbered as 108; page 107 is misnumbered as 97; and page 427 is misnumbered as 527</dd>
<dd>Includes indexes</dd>
<dd>Errata: page [27] (3rd group) of part 1; and page [6] (2nd group) of part 2</dd>
<dd>Signatures: part 1: [cross]⁴ A-3P⁶ 3Q⁸ 3R⁶ 3S⁸; part 2: A-O⁶ (leaf O6 is blank)</dd>
<dd>Leaf I2 is mis-signed as H2; leaf 3R1 is signed as Rrrrr</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Teratology; Monsters; Human anatomy; Abnormalities, Human; Animals; Abnormalities; Plants; Natural history; Fetal presentation; Conjoined twins; Teratology -- Early works to 1800; Monsters -- Early works to 1800; Human anatomy -- Early works to 1800; Abnormalities, Human -- Early works to 1800; Animals -- Abnormalities -- Early works to 1800; Plants -- Abnormalities -- Early works to 1800; Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works; Fetal presentation -- Early works to 1800; Conjoined twins -- Early works to 1800</div>
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<dl><dd>Aldrovandi, Ulisse, 1522-1605?, author</dd>
<dd>Bernia, Marco Antonio, active 1638-1661, publisher</dd>
<dd>Tebaldini, Nicolò, active 1602-1649, printer</dd>
<dd>Coriolano, Giovanni Battista, -1649, engraver</dd>
<dd>Ambrosini, Bartolommeo, 1588-1657. Paralipomena accuratissima historiae omnium animalium</dd>
<dd>Hoeven, J. van der, (Physician), active 1923, former owner</dd>
<dd>Beckwith, J. Bruce, 1933-, donor</dd>
<dd>Browning, Nancy Gay, donor</dd>
<dd>Saintyves, P. (Pierre), 1870-1935, bookseller</dd>
<dd>Jeremy Norman &amp; Co., bookseller</dd>
<dd>Beckwith-Browning-Peterson Teratology Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)</dd></dl></div>
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