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BUONANNI, Filippo (1638-1725). Recreatio mentis et oculi in observatione animalium testaceorum curiosus naturae inspectoribus. Rome: 1684.
4 parts in one volume, 4 (223 x 156mm). Engraved additional title, title to part four, three section titles and 141 plates, 3 half-page, two woodcut diagrams. (Additional title just shaved into image area, occasional light browning.) Contemporary limp vellum. Provenance: College of St.Anthony (inscription lightly washed on flyleaf: "Aplicado a Livraria publica de Colo. de Ste. Antonio an.1692").
A FINE UNSOPHISTICATED COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION IN LATIN OF THE FIRST SHELL ICONOGRAPHY, enlarged from the 1681 first edition, in Italian, with the addition of a further one hundred shells. A Jesuit and student of Athanasius Kircher, Buonanni became the curator of the cabinet of curiosities at the Collegio Romano, which undoubtedly provided the specimens for many of the engraved figures. Buonanni, with Lister and Rumpf, is considered by Dance to be one of the 'founding fathers' of conchology. Cf. Peter Dance A History of Shell Collecting (Leiden: 1986) no.52 (and see pp.20-21); BM (NH) I, p.286; Nissen ZBI 754.
4 parts in one volume, 4 (223 x 156mm). Engraved additional title, title to part four, three section titles and 141 plates, 3 half-page, two woodcut diagrams. (Additional title just shaved into image area, occasional light browning.) Contemporary limp vellum. Provenance: College of St.Anthony (inscription lightly washed on flyleaf: "Aplicado a Livraria publica de Colo. de Ste. Antonio an.1692").
A FINE UNSOPHISTICATED COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION IN LATIN OF THE FIRST SHELL ICONOGRAPHY, enlarged from the 1681 first edition, in Italian, with the addition of a further one hundred shells. A Jesuit and student of Athanasius Kircher, Buonanni became the curator of the cabinet of curiosities at the Collegio Romano, which undoubtedly provided the specimens for many of the engraved figures. Buonanni, with Lister and Rumpf, is considered by Dance to be one of the 'founding fathers' of conchology. Cf. Peter Dance A History of Shell Collecting (Leiden: 1986) no.52 (and see pp.20-21); BM (NH) I, p.286; Nissen ZBI 754.