PANCIROLLUS, Guido. Rerum Memorabilium Libri Duo. Ambergae, Michaelis Forsteri, 1612.
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2 tomes in 1 vol. small 8vo, mm. 155x100; Contemporary full vellum binding with squares, title written on the spine; pp. [16], 751 [i. e. 749], [31], errors numbering p. 145-148, repeated p. 291-292; pp. [24], 740, [20]. Printer’s device at the end of the first part. Manuscripted note on Titlepage.
RARE work that brings curious and noteworthy aspects of the ancient world and the modern world, on issues such as the homes and buildings of the Romans, their clothes, some of their uses and, in parallel, some discoveries of modern technique.
Wheeler Gift: “Work of the Italian jurist and antiquary on ancient arts and inventions. Vol. I references to amber as tears shed by trees and often enclosing insects. Vol. II. the mariner's compass... the sympathetic compasses...”
In the first book there are chapters devoted to color, to purple, to gems and precious stones; in the second chapters on porcelain, alchemy, distilling, watches, typography, paper.
The FIRST EDITION appeared in Amberg in 1599-1602, reprinted in 1607, and this figure as a third, even if it is always the same edition.
Mottelay, p. 81; Nicéron, vol. IX, pp. 183-193. Bigmore & Wyman, p. 113, per il capitolo sulla tipografia; Wheeler Gift, n. 98, edizione del 1628.
Fresco esemplare a pieni margini in barbe.
RARE work that brings curious and noteworthy aspects of the ancient world and the modern world, on issues such as the homes and buildings of the Romans, their clothes, some of their uses and, in parallel, some discoveries of modern technique.
Wheeler Gift: “Work of the Italian jurist and antiquary on ancient arts and inventions. Vol. I references to amber as tears shed by trees and often enclosing insects. Vol. II. the mariner's compass... the sympathetic compasses...”
In the first book there are chapters devoted to color, to purple, to gems and precious stones; in the second chapters on porcelain, alchemy, distilling, watches, typography, paper.
The FIRST EDITION appeared in Amberg in 1599-1602, reprinted in 1607, and this figure as a third, even if it is always the same edition.
Mottelay, p. 81; Nicéron, vol. IX, pp. 183-193. Bigmore & Wyman, p. 113, per il capitolo sulla tipografia; Wheeler Gift, n. 98, edizione del 1628.
Fresco esemplare a pieni margini in barbe.
