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8vo (155x111 mm). LXVI leaves. Collation: A-P4 Q6. Title-page printed in red and black within an elaborated woodcut frame. Half-page woodcut vignette on l. II (showing Berta and Milone), the same used in the 1526 editions of De Gregori and Da Sabbio with some retouching. On the front pastedown bookplate of the booksellers from Barcelona "La Anticuaria Libreria de Llordachs Hermanos". 19th-century stiff vellum, red edges. Title-page soiled, some foxing and browning, ink and damp stains on a few leaves, tear on l. XIX with no loss, round worm hole in the outer margin of the first thirty leaves not affecting the text, pin worm hole in the first twenty leaves that slightly affects the title-page border, the frame of the woodcut on the following page and a few letters. All in all a good copy. On last leaf recto ownership's entry by a certain Eliezer bar Silomo Debauzo (?); at the verso two notes in Hebrew.
THE PRESENT is the last edition printed by Soncino in Italy before moving to Constantinople. It is… Read More

4to. [4] leaves. Collation: A4. Printer's device on title page (an eagle with spread wings above a vase containing three lilies supported by a hand coming out of the clouds, in a figurative frame). Woodcut initial and headpiece. On l. A3r full-page engraving by Giacomo Pecini (c. 1617-1669) containing six numbered figures. Some light foxing, traces of folding as the pamphlet was presumably sent as a letter, a very good, wide-margined copy.
EXCEEDINGLY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION (first issue) of the most accurate description of the ear up to its time.
The work, sent as a letter - the dedication is dated Venice, May 10, 1645 - to the a Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680), became immediately sought-after and rare. Its fame and importance are due to the engraved plate containing six figures that offer an extremely accurate and analytical description of the middle and inner ear. Folli describes some structures of the hearing organ never previously observed and, among the… Read More