ALDROVANDUS (ULYSSES): MONSTRORUM HISTORIA, cum paralipomensis historiae omnium animalium Batholomaeus Ambrosinus, Marcus Antonius Bernia in lucem edidit, Bologna, typis Nicolai Tebaldini, 1642, 2 vols. in one, folio, engraved title, woodcut illustrations of Siamese twins, androgynous figures, dwarfs, and imagined human and animal freaks, with 2ll. dedication to Ferdinand II ([?] lacking a preliminary, title torn at outer margin with slight loss of border, D1-2 stained at lower margin, E2 cleanly-torn and repaired, index leaves slightly soiled), contemporary vellum (spine worn), ownership inscription of S. Appolinar d. Ravena on front blank. [Brunet I, 155]