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Buonaventura, Federico (1555-1602) Anemologiae Pars Prior. Id est Affectionibus, Signis, Cavsisque Ventorum ex Aristotle, Theophrasto, ac Ptolomeo Tractatus.
Urbino: Apud Bartholomaeum, & Simonem Ragusios Fratres, 1593.
First edition, quarto, part one only, (part two published with its own title page dated 1592); engraved vignette to title, bound in full contemporary parchment over boards, some spotting to contents, 8 x 5 3/4 in.
This work contains Buonaventure's translation and annotations on Theophrastus's De Ventis; the same on Ptolemy's Innerrantium Stellarum Apparitiones (including excerpts from Columella and Pliny on the same subject).
