[Fossils/Shells] SCILLA, Agostino. De Corporibus Marinis Lapidescentibus quae defossa reperiuntur. Roma, Monaldini, 1759.
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Description
In-4to, mm. 285x215; Binding in half calf and marble boards, gilded tiltes on the spine; pp. [6, incl. Half Title and Titlepage], 82, [6];
Pictorial Frontispiece, 30 copper plates out text, [numb. XXVIII, plate XI e XXIII are doubled], Vignette on Titlepage, illustrated Headpiece and Initial.
A total of 31 copper plates out text. Stamp of extinct library on Titlepage.
SECOND LATIN EDITION.
Important treatise of marine fossils, the inaugural work of sedimentology, accompanied by an original iconography.
Agostino Scilla, painter, naturalist, explorer of the seas and coastlines of Sicily, Calabria and the island of Malta, and collector of fossils and corals, was persuaded, thanks to his careful observations and laboratory research, that fossils were marine bodies and organic remains, and not grown formations inside the rocks, as claimed by many scholars of the time; She wrote this book to support his thesis and probably personally designed the tables depicting fossils, coral, teeth, sharks and fish skeletons.
Caprotti: “Importante opera poiché è una delle prime a dimostrare la vera natura dei fossili.” In aggiunta al testo dello Scilla è qui collocata la dissertazione di Fabio Colonna De Glossopetris, dedicata ai denti fossili, in cui il Colonna sostiene l'origine marina della glossopetra, da alcuni ritenuta ‘lingua di serpe’, allargandosi poi a campi più vasti, e ponendo così le basi della conchigliologia fossile e della zoologia marina, e dello studio delle sedimentazioni.
Ward & Carozzi, 2006; Ceresoli, 476; Nissen, 3780; Cole, 765; Mira, Bibl. Siciliana, II, p. 344; Gortani, Bibl. Geologica Ital., I, p. 229; Caprotti, p. 29.
Slight sign of foxing, good copy.
Pictorial Frontispiece, 30 copper plates out text, [numb. XXVIII, plate XI e XXIII are doubled], Vignette on Titlepage, illustrated Headpiece and Initial.
A total of 31 copper plates out text. Stamp of extinct library on Titlepage.
SECOND LATIN EDITION.
Important treatise of marine fossils, the inaugural work of sedimentology, accompanied by an original iconography.
Agostino Scilla, painter, naturalist, explorer of the seas and coastlines of Sicily, Calabria and the island of Malta, and collector of fossils and corals, was persuaded, thanks to his careful observations and laboratory research, that fossils were marine bodies and organic remains, and not grown formations inside the rocks, as claimed by many scholars of the time; She wrote this book to support his thesis and probably personally designed the tables depicting fossils, coral, teeth, sharks and fish skeletons.
Caprotti: “Importante opera poiché è una delle prime a dimostrare la vera natura dei fossili.” In aggiunta al testo dello Scilla è qui collocata la dissertazione di Fabio Colonna De Glossopetris, dedicata ai denti fossili, in cui il Colonna sostiene l'origine marina della glossopetra, da alcuni ritenuta ‘lingua di serpe’, allargandosi poi a campi più vasti, e ponendo così le basi della conchigliologia fossile e della zoologia marina, e dello studio delle sedimentazioni.
Ward & Carozzi, 2006; Ceresoli, 476; Nissen, 3780; Cole, 765; Mira, Bibl. Siciliana, II, p. 344; Gortani, Bibl. Geologica Ital., I, p. 229; Caprotti, p. 29.
Slight sign of foxing, good copy.
