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STELLUTI, Francesco (1577-1653, editor and translator) -- PERSIUS FLACCUS, Aulus (34-62). Persio tradotto in verso sciolto e dichiarato. Rome: G. Mascardi, 1630.
4° (209 x 152mm). Latin and Italian text, engraved allegorical title by Matthäus Greuter, engraved portrait of Persius, one full-page engraved plate depicting a bee as seen under a microscope, and 5 smaller engravings, woodcut initials and tailpieces, with final blank. (Margins of title closely shaved, some browning and spotting throughout.) Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine.
THE FIRST BOOK TO CONTAIN ILLUSTRATIONS OF NATURAL OBJECTS SEEN THROUGH THE MICROSCOPE. 'The work includes the Latin text of the Satyrae VI of Aulus Persius Flaccus together with an Italian translation and notes by Stelluti' (Garrison-Morton). Stelluti was a friend of Galileo, and a founding member of the renowned Accademia dei Lincei. Galileo was also a member of the academy, and it was his microscope that Stelluti used for his observations. His microscopic illustrations of the honey bee appeared in an extremely rare broadside by Federigo Cesi in 1625 (two copies recorded by Wellcome), but the Persio contains the first such illustrations to appear in a book. FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION. Carli-Favaro 121; Cinti 86; Cole 403; Garrison and Morton 259; Nissen ZBI 3988; Krivatsy 8806; Wellcome I, 4917.
4° (209 x 152mm). Latin and Italian text, engraved allegorical title by Matthäus Greuter, engraved portrait of Persius, one full-page engraved plate depicting a bee as seen under a microscope, and 5 smaller engravings, woodcut initials and tailpieces, with final blank. (Margins of title closely shaved, some browning and spotting throughout.) Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine.
THE FIRST BOOK TO CONTAIN ILLUSTRATIONS OF NATURAL OBJECTS SEEN THROUGH THE MICROSCOPE. 'The work includes the Latin text of the Satyrae VI of Aulus Persius Flaccus together with an Italian translation and notes by Stelluti' (Garrison-Morton). Stelluti was a friend of Galileo, and a founding member of the renowned Accademia dei Lincei. Galileo was also a member of the academy, and it was his microscope that Stelluti used for his observations. His microscopic illustrations of the honey bee appeared in an extremely rare broadside by Federigo Cesi in 1625 (two copies recorded by Wellcome), but the Persio contains the first such illustrations to appear in a book. FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION. Carli-Favaro 121; Cinti 86; Cole 403; Garrison and Morton 259; Nissen ZBI 3988; Krivatsy 8806; Wellcome I, 4917.
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