Author: SCILLA.- COLUMNAE.- Marine Biology.-
Title: De Corporibus Marinis lapidescentibus Quae de Fossa Reperiuntur Auctore Augustino Scilla Addita Dissertatione Fabii Columnae De Glossopetris. Editio altera emendiator.
Description: Romae, Sumptibus Venantii Monaldini Bibliopolae in Via cursus. Ex Typographia Joannis Zempel Prope Montem Jordanum, 1759. 4to. [Meas. 21.5 x 27.5 cm]. Printed title in red and black. W. engr. front. (headed by a banner reading 'Vanae Speculationis sensus moderator'[=...], lower left signed w. place, date and impressum), engr. vign. (unsigned), initials, head- and tailpieces, & 30 [numbered 1 - XI, XI bis, XII - XXIII, XXIII bis, XXIV - XXVIII] engr. pls. in the Scilla. Part indication of Columnae on p. 73 [K1recto], this thesis w. a single full page engr. plate outside collation at p. 74, depicting shark's teeth. Contemp. full marbled clf., spine in 6 compartments, elaborate floral gilttooling. W. 1 red titleshield, giltlett. (leather some crackling and some acidification). [n4, A - L4]. (VIII (incl. half title and front), 1-72 Scilla; 73-82 Columnae, V ('Index Tabularum'), pp, (I), imprimatur p.). (High quality paper, ample blank margins, large paper.). Last amended edition, following the 1752 second edition. Originally published in Italian in 1670, in Latin in 1747. DSB vol. XII, p. 1256, Agostino Scilla [1629 - 1700 ????] ... : Nissen, Zool. Buchill. 3780: Ward & Carozzi, 2006: Caprotti, p. 29: Ceresoli, 476: Cole, comp. anatomy of 'theories'?, p. 765:

Keywords: behandelen W77 fishes sharks ichthyology