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DELLA PORTA, Giovan Battista (c.1538-1615). De aeris transmutationibus libri IV. Rome: Bartholomeo Zannetti, 1610.
4º (215 x 160mm). Laudatory verses in Greek and Arabic. Woodcut arms on title, woodcut diagrams and maps. (Lacks folding table, title with two semi-erased stamps, one with several holes, some spotting and browning, marginal soiling and waterstaining, quire N with light worm track at bottom margin, hole at margin of N2, a few ink spots.) Contemporary limp vellum (spotted and crinkled). Provenance: two manuscript notes, dated 1646 and 1648 (on rear free endpaper) – Maschile Torti…. (indistinct stamp on title).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, the second having a 1614 date. Della Porta’s treatise on the atmosphere led him to a broad discussion of the sea, tides, formation of rivers, rain, snow, and of earthquakes which he believed to result from certain atmospheric conditions. A highly interesting section, illustrated with a woodcut map, is devoted to the river Nile and its then mysterious origin. Riccardi I(ii) 311.
4º (215 x 160mm). Laudatory verses in Greek and Arabic. Woodcut arms on title, woodcut diagrams and maps. (Lacks folding table, title with two semi-erased stamps, one with several holes, some spotting and browning, marginal soiling and waterstaining, quire N with light worm track at bottom margin, hole at margin of N2, a few ink spots.) Contemporary limp vellum (spotted and crinkled). Provenance: two manuscript notes, dated 1646 and 1648 (on rear free endpaper) – Maschile Torti…. (indistinct stamp on title).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, the second having a 1614 date. Della Porta’s treatise on the atmosphere led him to a broad discussion of the sea, tides, formation of rivers, rain, snow, and of earthquakes which he believed to result from certain atmospheric conditions. A highly interesting section, illustrated with a woodcut map, is devoted to the river Nile and its then mysterious origin. Riccardi I(ii) 311.
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