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MONTANARI, Geminiano (1633-1687, contributor) -- ACCADEMIA DEI GELATI. Prose de' signori Accademici Gelati di Bologna distinte ne' seguenti trattati. Bologna: li Manolesi, 1671. Engraved frontispiece by Lorenzo Tinti after Agostino Carracci ++4v with dedicatory coat-of-arms, headpiece and emblem, 15 engraved devices within borders of varying design, woodcut emblems and portraits, 2 full-page cuts of the Pleiades, numerous head- and tail-pieces, ornamental initials. (Frontispiece with 23mm internal tear and further tears at foremargin, first few quires with waterstain at bottom margin, S2 with torn margin, some leaves partially detached from spine block, worming at inner margins from Gg to end occasionally running onto text, Ff4-Ii1 rehinged, Hh4 soiled at bottom margin.) [ Bound with
MONTANARI, Geminiano (1633-1687, contributor) -- ACCADEMIA DEI GELATI. Prose de' signori Accademici Gelati di Bologna distinte ne' seguenti trattati. Bologna: li Manolesi, 1671. Engraved frontispiece by Lorenzo Tinti after Agostino Carracci ++4v with dedicatory coat-of-arms, headpiece and emblem, 15 engraved devices within borders of varying design, woodcut emblems and portraits, 2 full-page cuts of the Pleiades, numerous head- and tail-pieces, ornamental initials. (Frontispiece with 23mm internal tear and further tears at foremargin, first few quires with waterstain at bottom margin, S2 with torn margin, some leaves partially detached from spine block, worming at inner margins from Gg to end occasionally running onto text, Ff4-Ii1 rehinged, Hh4 soiled at bottom margin.) [ Bound with :] Leggi dell'Accademia de' SS. ri Gelati di Bologna. Bologna: li Manolesi, 1671. Engraved arms of the Accademia on title. 2 works in one volume, 4º (207 x 155mm). Contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine. A collection of papers by Academy members, especially noted for Montanari’s first report ‘Spora la sparizione d’alcune stelle et alter novità celesti’ which catalogued many stars of variable brightness. Showing the mutability of the star Algol in particular, it struck ‘a fresh blow at the Aristotelian concept of the heavens’ immutability’ (see DSB IX, p.486). The two full-page woodcuts, the 'Pleiades Montanarij 1668' and the 'Pleiades Galilaei 1610' (pp. 391-92), compare the observations of Montanari and Galileo. The thick volume also contains 32 portraits, and 88 emblems which demonstrate, says Praz, 'the widespread interest of men of letters in the composition of their own devices' (2nd ed., p.77). A French edition followed in 1672. Cicognara 1830; Landwehr, Romanic 7; Riccardi I(ii) 172 (Montanari): ‘opusculo raro’; Vinciana, Aut. Ital. del '600 3509.