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ALDROVANDI. Opera omnia. ALDROVANDI, Ulisse. Opera Omnia. Bologna 1599-1668; Frankfurt, 1610 13 volumes. Folio, 365x240 mm; Binding beginning of the eighteenth century, full brown leather, titles and ornaments in spines gilt. Engraved Title-pages with allegorical borders to each volume, engraved full-page portrait of Aldrovandi in 4 volumes and several thousand woodcut illustrations in text, mostly after designs by J. Ligozzi and many full-page. To the title pages, the signature of an ancient owner, not legible, and stamp of the 'Bibliotheque économique' of Charles-Philibert de Lasteyrie du Saillant. Excellent state of conservation. Work composed as follows: 1. Ornithologiae hoc est de avibus historiae libri XII, Bologna, Giovanni Battista Bellagamba a spese di Francesco de Franceschi, 1599, pp. (20, including engraved Title page and portrait), 893 [recte 883], (57). 2. Tomus alter, qui est de avibus. Frankfurt, Wolffgang Richter [-Caspar Rotelius], 1610. Pp. (6, including engraved Title page), 2 blank, 373, (15). Text on two columns. Bound with: Tomus tertius et vltimus, in quo aues acquaticae maiores minoresque describuntur. Frankfurt, Wolffgang Richter [-Caspar Rotelius], 1635. Pp. (8, including engraved Title page), 155, [11), 4 blank. Text on two columns. 3. Ornithologiae tomus tertius. Bologna, G.B. Bellagamba, 1603, pp. (12, including engraved Title page and portrait), 560, (24). 4. De animalibus insectis libri septem. Bologna, G.B. Bellagamba, 1602, pp. (12, including engraved Title page and portrait), 767, (45). 5. De reliquis animalibus exanguibus libri quatuor. Bologna, G.B. Bellagamba, 1606, in fine 1605. Pp. (8, including engraved Title page and portrait), 593 [i.e. 595], (29). 6. De piscibus libri V. Bologna, G.B. Bellagamba, 1613, in fine 1612. Pp. (8, including engraved Title page), 372 [i.e. 732], (28). 7. De quadrupedibus solidipedibus. Bologna, Vittorio Benacci, 1616. Pp. (8, including engraved Title page), 495, (33). 8. Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum historia. Bologna, Sebastiano Bonomi, 1621. Pp. (12, including engraved Title page), 1040, (12). 9. De quadrupedibus digitatis viviparis libri tres, et de quadrupedibus digitatis oviparis libri duo. Bologna, Niccolò Tebaldini, 1637. Pp. (8, including engraved Title page), 718 [i.e. 716], (16). 10. Serpentum, et draconum historiae libri duo. Bologna, Clemente Ferroni, 1640, in fine 1639, pp. (12, including engraved Title page), 427, (31), 2 blank. 11. Monstrorum historia cum Paralipomenis historiae omnium animalium. Bologna, N. Tebaldini, 1642. Pp. (8, including engraved Title page), 748, (28), pp. 159, (7), 2 blank. 12. Musaeum metallicum in libros IIII distributum. Bologna, Giovanni Battista Ferroni, 1648. Pp. (6, including engraved Title page), 2 blank, 979, (13). 13. Dendrologiae naturalis scilicet arborum historiae libri duo. Bologna, G.B. Ferroni, 1668, in fine 1667. Pp. (12, including engraved Title page), 660, (52).