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All auctions / Books, Maps & Manuscripts / LICETI (Fortunio). Two Books on the Causes, Nature, and Diff - Lot 98
LICETI (Fortunio). Two Books on the Causes, Nature, and Differences of Monsters. Padua, Paul Frambotti, 1634. In-4, soft vellum, traces of lacing, plain spine with title in ink (contemporary binding). A striking work on monsters, deformities, and genetic anomalies. (Caillet, no. 6668.) Frontispiece engraved by Jean-Baptiste Bisson and 58 copperplate engravings in the text, some of which are repeated and bear the monogram MDF; these depict deformities and genetic anomalies in plants, animals, and especially human beings (three-legged sheep, five-legged rooster, trunked man, faceless man, five-legged woman, hairy woman, human with two skin colors, man with an elephant’s head, etc.). An old handwritten ex-libris on the frontispiece: Ex Colleg. Biteo S. Ludovici Dono Ill. et R. D. D. de Bourlet de Roquefort. A tear in the margin of folio Ee1, with light foxing.
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