BUONANNI, Filippo (1638-1725). Ricreatione dell'occio e della mente nell'osseruation delle chiocciole . Rome: il Varese, a spese di Felice Cesaretti, 1681. 4 parts in one volume, 4°. Three engraved titles, the first by Giovanni Francesco Venturini and 3 engraved half-titles (part 4 has not half-title, 109 engraved plates of shells, 2 half-page engraved illustrations, 2 woodcut diagrams, metalcut ornamental headpieces and initials, devices on title and B1v. (Some light spotting affecting about 6 plates, some browning rarely affecting plates, light stains in 2 leaves, second title just shaved at bottom edge.) Contemporary vellum, speckled edges (slight wear at extremities, small stains). Provenance : Alphonsius Aloysius Magnaninus (inscription dated Ferrara 1812). FIRST EDITION of 'the first book of any size restricted to molluscs' (Dance, Shell Collecting , p.43). A Jesuit and student of Athanasius Kircher the author became curator of the cabinet of curiosities at the Collegio Romano, which undoubtedly provided the specimens for many of the 450 engraved figures. The book expresses Buonanni's belief in the spontaneous generation of molluscs -- based in part on his anatomical misunderstanding that molluscs have no heart --, and rekindled the controversy on the subject that had started between Kircher and Francesco Redi in 1671 (DSB p.591). BLNH I, 286; Nissen ZBI 753.
BUONANNI, Filippo (1638-1725). Ricreatione dell'occio e della mente nell'osseruation delle chiocciole . Rome: il Varese, a spese di Felice Cesaretti, 1681. 4 parts in one volume, 4°. Three engraved titles, the first by Giovanni Francesco Venturini and 3 engraved half-titles (part 4 has not half-title, 109 engraved plates of shells, 2 half-page engraved illustrations, 2 woodcut diagrams, metalcut ornamental headpieces and initials, devices on title and B1v. (Some light spotting affecting about 6 plates, some browning rarely affecting plates, light stains in 2 leaves, second title just shaved at bottom edge.) Contemporary vellum, speckled edges (slight wear at extremities, small stains). Provenance : Alphonsius Aloysius Magnaninus (inscription dated Ferrara 1812). FIRST EDITION of 'the first book of any size restricted to molluscs' (Dance, Shell Collecting , p.43). A Jesuit and student of Athanasius Kircher the author became curator of the cabinet of curiosities at the Collegio Romano, which undoubtedly provided the specimens for many of the 450 engraved figures. The book expresses Buonanni's belief in the spontaneous generation of molluscs -- based in part on his anatomical misunderstanding that molluscs have no heart --, and rekindled the controversy on the subject that had started between Kircher and Francesco Redi in 1671 (DSB p.591). BLNH I, 286; Nissen ZBI 753.
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