Vccelliera, overo, Discorso della natvra, e proprieta di diversi vccelli : e in particolare di qve'che cantano : con il modo di prendergli, conoscergli, alleuargli, e mantenergli : e con le figure cauate dal vero, e diligentemente intagliate in rame dal Tempesta, e dal Villamena

Title Variants

Alternative: Discorso della natura, e proprieta di diversi uccelli
Alternative: Discorso della natvra, e proprieta di diversi vccelli
Alternative: Uccelliera

By

Olina, Giovanni Pietro, active 1622-

Tempesta, Antonio, 1555-1630 , ill
Villamena, Francesco, 1566-1624 , ill

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

In Roma, Appresso Andrea Fei, MDCXXI. [1622]

Notes

"Con privilegio del sommo pontefice." "Con licenza de' Superiori." Text of privilege and imprimatur: prelim. p. [5]-[6].

Engraved title vignette (coat of arms); woodcut head- and tail-pieces; initials.

5th prelim. leaf and leaves 2-60, 62-67 have full-page engravings on verso, described in text on recto. Tempesta's illustrations the same as those in "Il Canto degl'augelli" (Rome, Muti, 160l)--Cf. Nissen, no. 955.

Illustrations in different copies vary; "Auuiso à chi legge" (prelim. p. [8]) describes some of the changes.

"Dell' vccelliera" (caption title), p. 68-81, has text without illustrations.

Signatures: A-K⁸, 2A⁶.

Errata: final p.

Includes index.

Leaf numbers 6, 50 misprinted 9, 46.

Nissen, C. Illustrierte Vogelbücher, | 693

Anker, J. Bird books, | 380

Subjects

Bird trapping , Birds , Captive wild birds , Early works to 1800 , Italy

Call Number

QL673 .O4

Language

Italian

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.125511
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/06030963
OCLC: 3881636