Micrographia Curiosa sive Rerum minutissimarum Observationes, quae ope Microscopii recognitæ & expressæ curiosorum Naturæ Exploratorum...
Added engraved title & 40 engraved plates (three are folding). 1 p.l., 106 pp., one blank leaf. Small 4to, cont. English panelled calf (corners renewed, rebacked, some dampstaining in gutter at foot to first ten leaves). Rome: A. de Rubeis, 1703.
First separate edition, originally published as the second part of the author’s Observationes circa viventia (1691). Our edition — which is actually the original printing of the second part with a new title-page — is very rare with only one copy located by WorldCat.
Buonanni (1738-1725), one of the most learned Jesuits of his time, was a pupil of Athanasius Kircher, and succeeded his master... More