Marine Life.- Battarra (Giovanni Antonio) Epistola selectas de re

Marine Life.- Battarra (Giovanni Antonio) Epistola selectas de re naturali observationes complectens, engraved title vignette depicting a lynx, owl, and fungi, 4 engraved folding plates, contemporary vellum, faded title in manuscript to spine, worming to spine and lower cover, 4to, Rimini, ex Typa Albertiniana, 1774. *** Rare work on marine life and plants. Battara (1714-89) was a monk at Rimini, physician and mycologist, best known for his study of fungi in the area, Fungorum Agri Ariminensis historia. He was also the editor of the second edition of Buonanni's Rerum Naturalium Historia, describing the collection assembled by Athanasius Kircher.

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