[Rarebooks] FS: Scilla's 1752 paleontological study of ancient shells w/31 engraved plates

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(CONCHOLOGY) Scilla, Augustino. DE CORPORIBUS MARINIIS LAPIDESCENTIBUS... Editio Altera Emendatior. Rome: Venantii Mondaldini. 1752. 4to. viii,84,(6)pp. plus a copper engraved frontispiece and 31 plates (30 at back, and 1 inserted at p. 75). Without the final blank leaf L6. 19th century calf over marbled boards. Hinges cracked but holding soundly. Title a bit foxed.    $1,250.00 (trade discount allowed)
The revised and corrected second edition, after the first of 1747. Appended to Scilla's text (p. 75-84) is the essay "De Glossopetris" by Fabio Colonna. A paleontological study of ancient shells.

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