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STELLUTI, FRANCESCO. 1577-1652.:Trattato del legno fossile minerale. Rome: Vitale Mascardi, 1637.
Folio (312 x 210 mm). Woodcut printer\’s device and woodcut border on title page, 13 engraved plates (2 double-page). Modern quarter green morocco and marbled boards. Light foxing, some ink underlining in text.
Stelluti\’s examination of petrified wood and other fossils follows his earlier works Apiarium (1625, with Federico Cesi) and Persio tradotto in verso sciolto e dichiarato (1630), among the first published works containing illustrations of organisms as viewed through the microscope. Brunet V, 529; Nissen ZBI 3989.
