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(ARDENTE ETEREO.) Il Tesoro delle Gioie. [40], 256 pages. 12mo, 17th-century vellum, old scrawls on covers; margins trimmed affecting some
(ARDENTE ETEREO.) Il Tesoro delle Gioie. [40], 256 pages. 12mo, 17th-century vellum, old scrawls on covers; margins trimmed affecting some sidenotes, minor worming through binding, endleaves, and title (not impairing legibility), lacks rear free endpaper. Venice: Gio. Battista Ciotti, 1602
- Notes: first edition, published under the pseudonym Cleandro Arnobio. "While this work principally treats mineral gemstones, it includes a bewildering variety of other substances"... Also treated are bezoars... coconut from the Maldive Islands, cachalong, fish bones, serpentine, fossils of various species, animal teeth, horns, tusks, skin and blood of the rhinoceros, pearls, balsams... and finally, a note on the hyacinth" --Sinkankas 184.
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