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OLINA (Pietro)
Uccelliera overo discorso della natura, e proprieta di diversi uccelli. Rome, Angelo de Rossi, 1684. In-4, full vellum, red speckled edges (contemporary binding).
Second edition of this beautiful ornithology book, illustrated with a title-frontispiece and about sixty copper engravings by Antonio Tempesta and Francesco Villamena depicting bird figures, traps
, hunting
scenes
, etc.
Some colored boards
.
From Billy's Robert de Billy library, with ex-libris
.
Frontispiece lined and cut on the edges, with repeated wet seal. Restoration on the edge of a sheet and at the lower corner of the O2 sheet. A few spots and freckles. Missing the table leaf.
Uccelliera overo discorso della natura, e proprieta di diversi uccelli. Rome, Angelo de Rossi, 1684. In-4, full vellum, red speckled edges (contemporary binding).
Second edition of this beautiful ornithology book, illustrated with a title-frontispiece and about sixty copper engravings by Antonio Tempesta and Francesco Villamena depicting bird figures, traps
, hunting
scenes
, etc.
Some colored boards
.
From Billy's Robert de Billy library, with ex-libris
.
Frontispiece lined and cut on the edges, with repeated wet seal. Restoration on the edge of a sheet and at the lower corner of the O2 sheet. A few spots and freckles. Missing the table leaf.