Joachimi Camerarii Medici. V. Cl. Symbolorvm Et Emblematvm Centvriae Tres: I. Ex Herbis & Stirpibus; II. Ex Animalibus Quadrupedibus; III. Ex. Volatilibus & Insectis; Accessit Noviter Centvria; IV. Ex Aquatilibus & Reptilibus. Cvm Figvris Aenaeis
[Heidelberg]: Typis Voegelinianis, 1605. Second Edition. Hardcover. Covers missing; fully gilted textblock edges; marbled endpapers; unpaginated; [270] color plates. See description for a breakdown of plates. Poor (Covers are missing; spine strip is almost fully detriorated; textblock is broken in several locations); textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged; entire fourth part of this edition is not present; interior is toned, as expected with age, and occasionally foxed or smudged.) Fantastic color woodblocks are handcolored. Item #199622
Text in Latin. Contents as follows: Part (Ex herbis & stirpibus (Plants and trees)) -- lacking plates 20, 39, 46, 49, 51, 53, 55, 60, 61, 62, 66, 67, 69, 87, 88, 89 and text pages for plates 21, 40, 47, 50, 54, 56, 61, 62, 63, 67, 68, 70, 88, 89, 90 (Contains 84/100 plates); Part II (Ex animalibus quadrupedibus (Quadrupeds) is complete (100/100 plates), Part III (Ex volatilibus & insectis (Birds and insects) is lacking plates 2, 3, 20, and 84-100 (contains 83/100 plates and text pages for plates 3, 4, 21, and 84-100. Add three color title-pages to the color plates and there are 270 color plates withiin the remnants of the book. Part IV (Ex aquatilibus & reptilibus) is entirely missing. Very noteworthy because this book was not published with the hand-colored plates. They appear to have been colored shortly after publicvation, based on similarly colored editions of books I have seen. Quite scarce.
OCLC: 164936620
Price: $1,200.00