Beschreibung:

[Opera omnia], 13 vol., comprising: (i) Ornithologiae hoc est de avibus hisoriae libri xii [vol. 1], engraved portrait, Uu6 torn without loss, Bologna, Francisus de Francisci [colophon: Giovanni Battista Bellagamba], 1599; Ornithologiae tomus tertius ac postremus, Bologna, G.B. Bellagamba, 1603; Ornithologiae tomus alter [-Tomus tertius et ultimus], 2 vol. in 1., 36 engraved plates with old vellum tabs attached, Frankfurt, Wolffgang Richter [-Caspar Rotelius], 1610-1635, [cf. Nissen IVB 18]; (ii) De animalibus insectis libri septe, engraved portrait, some dampstaining and old ink smudging [Nissen ZBI 66], Bologna, G.B. Bellagamba, 1602; (iii) De reliquis animalibus, engraved portrait by Caracci [Nissen ZBI 68], Bologna, G.B. Bellagamba, 1606; (iv) De piscibus libri v et de cetis lib. Unus, small wormtril affecting 2 or 3 leaves, [Nissen ZBI 70], Bologna, G.B. Bellagamba, 1613; (v) De quadrupedibus solidi pedibus, [Nissen ZBI 72], Bologna, Victori Benatius, 1616; (vi) De quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum historia, [Nissen ZBI 76], Bologna, Sebastiano Bonomi, 1621; (vii) De quadrupedib' digitatis viviparis libri tres, et de quadrupedib' digitatis oviparis libri duo, some worming to first few gatherings (mostly marginal) [Nissen ZBI 77], Bologna, M.A. Bernia (for Nicola Tebaldini), 1637; (viii) Serpentum et draconum historiae libri duo, [Nissen ZBI 78], Bologna, M.A. Bernia (apud Clementem Ferronium), 1640; (ix) Monstrorum historia...cum paralipomensis histriae omnium animalium, 2 parts in 1 vol., engraved title shaved at head [Nissen ZBI 74], Bologna, Nicola Tebaldini, 1642; (x) Musaeum metallicum in libros iiii distributum, [Nissen ZBI 75], Bologna, G.B. Ferroni for M.A. Bernia, 1648; (xi) Dendrologiae naturalis scilicet arborum historiae libri ii, [Hunt 306; Nissen BBI 14], Bologna, G.B. Ferroni, [1667]-1668, together 11 works in 13 vol., all but the second volume FIRST EDITIONS, engraved title-pages with allegorical borders, woodcut illustrations throughout (many full-page), some foxing and browning, occasional light dampstaining, contemporary calf (all but 'Ornithologia tomus alter' and 'Dendrologia' uniform), worn, joints split, some covers detached, folio (13)