| Record ID | marc_loc_updates/v36.i27.records.utf8:16186988:2316 |
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001 2008570691
003 DLC
005 20080703142933.0
008 080701s1661 gw 000 0 lat
010 $a 2008570691
040 $aDLC$cDLC$edcrmb
050 00 $aGR825$b.K57 1661
100 1 $aKirchmayer, Georg Kaspar,$d1635-1700.
245 10 $aDisputationum zoologicarum, publicè ante hac habitarum, de basilisco, unicornu, phoenice, behemoth :$b& leviathan, dracone, ac araneâ : hexas /$cautore M. Georg. Casp. Kirchmaiero, franco, Facultat. Philos. in Academia Witteberg. adjuncto.
246 30 $aDe basilisco, unicornu, phoenice, behemoth : & leviathan, dracone, ac araneâ
260 $aWittebergae :$bSumptibus haered. Johannisbergeri, typis haered Melchioris Oelschlegelii,$canno MDCLXI [1661]
300 $a[184] p. :$c16 cm (8vo)
546 $aInterpolations in German, Greek and Hebrew.
500 $aAuthor's argument and six responses.
500 $aSignatures: pi⁴ (-pi4) A-L⁸ pi4.
500 $aSome text printed in italics, some in columns; printed marginalia. Woodcut devices throughout.
561 $aLC copy from the library of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. In leather binding with gold tooling and legend: concordia et sedulitate. Leather spine wanting; Edinburgh printer's waste revealed. Handmade endpapers are stamped or stencilled with gilded animals. Has armorial bookplate: James Maidment. Has inscriptions: Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes with love & gratitude from Geo. Barclay[?], April 1888; and: OW Holmes, Boston. On first (blank) page of textblock, has full-page inscription giving historical sources and beliefs about basilisks, signed: A.[J.?] Barth, 1712. Barth's inscription ends: In 1679 there was a general belief amongst the naturalists of Oxford that the basilisk could kill by a look.$5DLC
501 $aLC copy with: Grube, Hermann. De ictu tarantulae & vi musices in ejus curatione, conjecturae physico-medicae. Francofurti : Ex bibliopolio Hafniensi, Danielis Paulli, Regii librarii, anno 1679. Bound together subsequent to publication.$5DLC
650 0 $aAnimals, Mythical$xPhilosophy$vEarly works to 1800.
700 1 $aMaidment, James,$d1795?-1879,$eformer owner.
710 2 $aOliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC
752 $aGermany$dWittenberg