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- Frontispiece, dated 1692., Tail pieces; initials; side notes., Errata: p. [1] (5th group)., "Pars secunda; seu, supplementum recreationis mentis et oculi in observatione testaceorum quorum aliqua exprimuntur non antea in lucem edita": p. [308]-335 has engraved half-title page; "Micrographia curiosa ...": p. 1-103 at end., The Micrographia curiosa was later published separately: Romae : Typis Antonii de Rubeis, MDCCIII. [1703], Includes indexes., Backer. Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, v. 2, col. 377-378., Nissen. Zoologische Buchillustration, 752., Pritzel, no. 1374 (Micrographia curiosa only)., Copy [1]: DeGolyer Collection book plate; wanting frontispiece (torn out)., Copy 2: Pages xv-xvj bound in before pages xiij-xiv; p. 35 misnumbered 53 (first group); wanting [4] p. (5th group); illegible bookstamps on t.p.
- Leaf [1a] (t.-p.): Avreus hic liber est: non est preciosior ulia.--Gema kalendario: quod docet istud opus ... Hoc Ioannes opus Regio de Monte probatum Composuit: tota notus in Italia.sd Quod Ueneta impressum fuit in tellure per illos Inferius quorum nomina picta loco. 1476. Bernardus Picor de Augusta, Petrus Loslein de Langeneen, Erhardus Ratdolt de Augusta., Printed in black and red. Leaves [19] and [32], containing diagrs. of instruments, are each made up of 2 leaves pasted together., Hain. Repertorium (with Copinger's Supplement) *13776. Brit. Mus. Cat. (XV cent) v, p. 243 (IB.20481), Diagrs. of eclipses painted yellow.
- William Harvey ; with the preface of Zachariah Wood ; to which is added James de Back his Discourse of the heart., Discourse of the heart has separate pagination and t.p.: The discourse of James De Back, in which he handles the nullitie of spirits, sanguification, the heat of living things ; there is premis'd a speech to the reader ; and annex'd an addition in defence of Harvey's Circulation. London : Printed by Francis Leach, 1653., With: Harvey, William. Two anatomical exercitations concerning the circulation of the blood. 1653.
- Avthore Roberto Flud aliàs de Fluctibus ..., Engraved title-pages; only the first treatise of v. 1 has general t.p.; the other parts have special title pages: Tractatus secundus De natvræ simia seu technica macrocosmi historia. Oppenheimio, ære Iohan-Theodori de Bry, typis Hieronymi Galleri, 1618 (788 p., 5 l.); Tomvs secvndvs De svpernatvrali, naturali, præternaturali et contranaturali microcosmi historia, in tractatus tres distributa. Oppenhemij, in tractatus tres distributa. Oppenhemij, impensis Iohannis Theodori de Bry, typis Hieronymi Galleri, 1619 (1 p.l., 277 p.); Tomi secvndi, tractatus primi, sectio secunda, De technica microcosmi historia [n.p., n.d.] (191, [1] p., 5 l.); Tomi secundi, tractatus secundus, De præternaturali utriusque mundi historia. Francofurti, typis Erasmi Kempfferi, sumptibus Joan. Theodori de Bry, 1621 (6 p.l., 199 p.), The second volume ends with the first section of the second treatise. It was to have contained three treatises, but was never completed., Includes several folded leaves., Head and tail pieces; initials., Errata: last page., Hist. of Sci. Coll. wanting v. 2., In ms. on t.p. and p. 1 (v. 1): "Bernard Bernard".