statement of responsibility: Hippolyto Saluiano Typhernate Romae medicinam profitente auctore, Romae MDLIIII

Engraved title page with architectural border and a portrait of the author inset in a central cartouche

Imprint from colophon

No other parts were published for this edition

This is the second state of the first edition. The first state of this edition has a colophon dated October 1557

Leaves printed on both sides

Woodcut publisher's device on leaf 2I8 verso

With 98 numbered illustrations on 81 full pages, engraved in copperplate (the illustrations are misnumbered as 99; but 54 was omitted from the sequence)

The engravings are attributed to the illustrator Bernardus Aretinus and the engravers Lafrery and Beatrizet

Each illustration provides the animal's name in Greek, Latin and Italian

The first part of the book is composed of double-page synoptic tables of fish species, giving their names in Greek, Latin, and Italian (sometimes distinguishing between the different regional variants, for example names used in Rome, Veneto, or Liguria), the most distinctive properties of each species, and references to the works of classical authors in which the animals are described. The main part of the volume contains the illustrations and in-depth descriptions of aquatic animals (mostly fishes, plus a few cephalopods). Each chapter begins with an illustration of a fish, and a description of its physical appearance and habitat, as well as its nutritional value and culinary preparation, frequently referring to Aristotle, Pliny and Galen, and, in the gastronomic parts, to Athenaeus, Oppianus, and Giovio. Salviani deals with cephalopods at length and distinguishes among five species of octopus. He also describes cuttlefish, the way they procreate, and how to catch them

Initials; side-notes

Signatures: [cross]⁸, A-2I⁸

citation/reference: Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent., 454

citation/reference: Wood, C.A. Lit. of vertebrate zoology, p. 549

citation/reference: Nissen, C. Schöne Fischbücher, 112

citation/reference: Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, Bd. 1, no. 3555

citation/reference: Adams S190

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Natural History Books (Iowa City, IA) / Noriko Ciochon; purchase; 05/2013; 500.00

In Latin, with some Greek

Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent

Wood, C.A. Lit. of vertebrate zoology

Nissen, C. Schöne Fischbücher

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration

Adams

Natural History Books (Iowa City, IA) / Noriko Ciochon;

SCNHRB copy 39088017216821 is imperfect: The title and dedicatory leaves have been reattached. Leaves 107 and 110 are wanting, and have been replaced with different leaves from another copy of the same work (leaf 107 has been replaced with a duplicate of leaf 235; leaf 110 has been replaced with a duplicate of leaf 238). Photocopies of the missing leaves, made from the Linda Hall Library copy, are on file at the Cullman Library

SCNHRB copy has contemporary letterpress-printed correction labels mounted on the following illustrations: leaf 112 (numbered illustration 32); leaf 130 (numbered illustration 41); leaf 137 (2 labels, on numbered illustrations 45 and 46); leaf 149 (numbered illustration 52); leaf 194 (numbered illustration 71); and leaf 206 (numbered illustration 76)

SCNHRB copy has ink stamps: 1. (on front free endpaper) Library of Robert Rofen; 2. (on t.p.) unidentified cursive initial ("S"?). There are a few handwritten brief annotations or corrections in ink

SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Endowment

SCNHRB copy has a contemporary gilt-tooled red leather binding with raised bands and blue edges; re-backed

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