Details

Subject(s)

• Persius—Translations into Italian [Browse]
• Verse satire, Latin—Translations into Italian [Browse]
• Microscopy—Pictorial works—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Translator

• Stelluti, Francesco, 1577-1653 [Browse]

Illustrator

• Greuter, Mathieu, 1564?-1638 [Browse]

Printer

• Mascardi, Giacomo, active 1605-1634 [Browse]

Former owner

• Horblit, Harrison D. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Engravings [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Bookplates [Browse]
• Vellum bindings [Browse]

Notes

• Latin text with Italian translation of the six books of the satires.
• Title page engraved by Mathaeus Greuter. Engraved illus. include 12 figures, depicting the anatomy of the bee (p. 52) and one of the weevil (p. 127) which are "the first illustrations prepared with a microscope that were set forth in a printed book." (Charles Singer, Hist. of biology, New York, 1950, p. 148)
• Date printed as 'MDCXXX.'
• "Vita di Persio": p. [11-16]
• Includes indexes.
• Princeton copy 1 lacking final blank.

Binding note

Princeton copy 1 Vellum over boards, covers gilt ruled.

Language note

Latin text with Italian translation of the six books of the satires.

Provenance

Princeton copy 1 Bookplate of Harrison David Horblit to front pastedown.

References

Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1348

Place name(s)

Italy Rome.

LCCN

55050524

OCLC

7753466

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