Additional, folded engraved title page reads: Iohan Sperlingi Zoologia Phys: posthuma, and has imprint: Wittebergae. Impensis haered: Iohann: Bergeri. Bibl: Anno M.D.CLXIX

First printed posthumously in Leipzig, 1661

"Georgii Casp. Kirch. Majeri, Eloqv. Prof. Publ. Wittenbergensis, De basilisco, unicornu, phoenice, behemoth, leviathan, dracone, araneo, tarantula et ave paradisi, dissertationes aliqvot. Editio altera locupletior correctiorqve", p. [1-8], 1-168, 3rd and 4th counts, has separate dated title page with imprint: Wittenbergae: Impensis haeredum Joh. Bergeri, in officina Finceliana excudebat Michael Meyer, Anno M D C LXIX (with roman numeral date made with reverse c's)

Georg Kaspar Kirchmayer's "De Leviathan", p. 95-104, 4th count, contains references to the West Indies, Greenland, and Iceland; "De draconum varietate", p. 116-124, 4th count, mentions Ferdinand Magellan and Pigafetta as well as the natural history of the West Indies and Brazil

Signatures: )o(⁸ (-)o(8)) b⁴ A-2D⁸ (D5 missigned D4; K5 missigned K3) )a(⁴ ²A-²K⁸ ²L⁴

Engraved head and tail pieces

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full vellum over boards; spine vellum is split along gutter

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund

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