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ALDROVANDI, Ulisse (1522-1605). [ Opera omnia ]. Bologna: 1638-1681. Comprising: (i) De animalibus insectis . Bologna: Clemente Ferroni, 1638. Engraved title. Woodcut illustrations, 24 full-page. (Lacking [?blank] +6.) BM(NH) I, p.26; Nissen ZBI 66. (ii) Dendrologiae . Ed. Ovidio Montalbani. Bologna: Giovanni Battista Ferroni for Girolamo Bernia, 1667-[1668]. Engraved title. Woodcut illustrations, 44 full-page. (Some marginal worming, early gatherings dampstained, causing tears and small losses in +, lacking [?blank] +6.) FIRST EDITION, second state of gathering +. Arnold Arboretum p.33; BM(NH) I, p.27; Hunt 306; Nissen BBI 14. (iii) Monstrorum historia. Cum paralipomenis historiae omnium animalium . Ed. Bartolomeo Ambrosini. Bologna: G.B. Ferroni for Marco Antonio Bernia, '1642' [colophon dated 1658]. Engraved title. Woodcut illustrations, 323 full-page. (Slight worming affecting first and last gatherings, lacking [?final blank] O6.) BM(NH) I, p.27; Nissen ZBI 74. (iv) Museum metallicum . Ed. B. Ambrosini. Bologna: G.B. Ferroni for M.A. Bernia, 1648. Engraved title. Woodcut illustrations, 99 full-page. (Marginal worming affecting gathering \\h.) FIRST EDITION. BM(NH) I, p.27; Nissen ZBI 75. (v) Ornithologiae . Bologna: Typographia Manolessi, 1681 [vol. I] and G.B. Ferroni for M.A. Bernia, '1645' [colophon dated 1652] [vols II-III]. 3 vols. Vol. I with half-title, title printed in red and black, and engraved additional title, vols II-III with engraved titles. Woodcut illustrations, 243 full-page. (Gatherings II/+ and 4G-4H and III/π and 3B-3c lightly wormed.) (vi) De piscibus ... et de cetis . Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini for M.A. Bernia, '1638' [colophon dated 1661]. Engraved title. Woodcut illustrations, 141 full-page. (Minor marginal worming affecting gatherings +, 3Q and 3R.) (vii) De quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum historia . G.B. Ferroni for M.A. Bernia, 1653. Woodcut illustrations, 20 full-page. (Some minor worming, lacking engraved title.) Nissen ZBI 76. (viii) De quadrupedibus solidipedibus . Ed. by Giovanni Cornelio Uterverio. Bologna: G.B. Ferroni for M.A. Bernia, '1639' [colophon dated 1648]. Engraved title. Woodcut illustrations, 5 full-page. (Minor marginal worming in gatherings +-I, affecting title.) BM(NH) I, p.26. (ix) De quadrupedib[us] digitatis viviparis ... et de quadrupedib[us] digitatis oviparis . Ed. B. Ambrosini. Bologna: G.B. Ferroni for M.A. Bernia, '1645' [colophon dated 1663]. Engraved frontispiece. Woodcut illustrations, 72 full-page. (Worming on margins of gatherings +-A and text of a-b and title.) Nissen ZBI 77. (x) De reliquibus animalibus exanguibus ... Nempe de mollibus, crustaceis, testaceis, et zoophytis . Ed. Francesco Aldrovandi. Bologna: G.B. Ferroni for M.A. Bernia, '1642' [colophon dated 1654]. Engraved title. Woodcut illustrations, 91 full-page. (Minor marginal worming, lacking +2-5.) BM(NH) I, p.26; Nissen ZBI 68. (xi) Serpentum, et Draconu[m] historiae . Bologna: C. Ferroni for M.A. Bernia, 1640. Engraved title. Woodcut illustrations, 42 full-page. (Slight marginal worming affecting first and last gatherings.) BM(NH) I, p.27; Nissen ZBI 78. 13 volumes, 2° (363 x 242mm). Woodcut illustrations, head- and tailpieces and initials. (Some variable, generally light, spotting, marking and browning, occasional dampstaining or tears.) Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments and lettered in one, gilt edges (some scuffing and wear causing losses on spines). Provenance : F. Bauermeister, Glasgow (bookseller's tickets) -- Library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow (bookplates dated 9 March 1898). A COMPLETE SET OF THE BOLOGNA-PUBLISHED WORKS OF ALDROVANDI, ENCOMPASSING HIS 'TRULY PRODIGIOUS STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY' (DSB I, p.109). This set is a mixed edition, which includes the first editions of Dendrologiae and Museum metallicum . (13)