WUNDERKAMMER & FOSSILS Bezoar Recherches et observations naturelles touchant le corail,
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Seller: Konstantinopel ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS., ENSCHEDE, NetherlandsKonstantinopel ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS.
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Recherches et observations naturelles touchant le corail, la pierre étoilée, les pierres de figure de coquilles, la corne d'Ammon, l'astroïte Undulatus, les dents de poissons pétrifiées, les hérissons altérés, l'embrasement du Mont Etna, la sangsue du Xiphias, l'alcyonium stupposum, le bezoar mineral, & les plantes qu'on trouve dans la Sicile, avec quelques réflexions sur la végétation des plantes. Amsterdam 1674. Small 8vo. (15 x 9.5 cm). Contemporary full calf, with raised bands. A nice copy. With frontispiece and 16 plates. CompletePaolo Boccone was a Sicilian botanist and naturalist. He became botanist to the Grand Duke of Tuscany in Florence and seems to have retained that position throughout his life, although he spent much of his time elsewhere, especially in Paris, where he introduced noble families to the joys of amassing a Wunderkammer. This lovely book opens with an allegorical frontispiece, showing naked Truth being revealed by experimental Inquiry (wearing a cloak covered with ants and wielding a magnifying glass). Boccone firmly believed that fossils such as ammonites, which previously had been characterized as productions of the earth, were in fact the remains of living creatures. The plates show the eruption of Mount Etna, fish, plants, shells, fossils, the bezoar, corals, and more.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- WUNDERKAMMER & FOSSILS Bezoar Recherches et observations naturelles touchant le corail,
- Author
- . BOCCONE, P.
- Publication year
- 1674
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
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