Jun 07, 2012 - Sale 2280

Sale 2280 - Lot 270

Price Realized: $ 3,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(FISHES.) Salviani, Ippolito. Aquatilium animalium historiae, liber primus. 79 (of 81) full-page engravings. [8], 256 leaves, including engraved title with portrait of the author within historiated architectural border; lacks leaves 107 and 110, each with full-page illustration (replaced with leaves 235 and 238 from another copy). Folio, 410x272 mm, 18th-century red morocco gilt, rebacked retaining original backstrip; contents unobtrusively washed with scattered insignificant residual foxing and marginal dampstains. Rome: Ippolito Salviani, 1554 [colophon dated 1558]

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first edition of an important early illustrated ichthyological treatise, dealing mainly with the fishes of the Mediterranean. DSB XII, 89-90; Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 454; Nissen, ZBI 3555.