De Lucernis Antiquorum Reconditis Libb. Sex: In Quibus Earum Recens Inventarum adhuc ardentium observationes multæ primum afferuntur: Aliorum opiniones omnes de ipsarum attributis dein expenduntur: Earum causæ, proprietates, differenti, æque singulæ deinceps ex rei natura deteguntur: Pluresque dubitationes e traditiis emergentes demum eluuniur. Explicatis diligenter abditissimis Quæstionibus De Ignium causis, origine, vaietate, duratione, motu, & extinctu: De Antiperistasi, Fumo, Cinere, Lentore, Mistis incombustibilibus, Brutorum Funeribus, & aliis Naturæ Arcanis. Declaratisque plurimis Antiquitatis ritibus Lychnos supra centum effigiantibus: Cum Indicibus locupletissimis. Autore Fortunio Liceto Genuense Ex L. Com. Phil. Medico in Academia Patau. Theorico supremo.
Utini,: Ex Typographia Nicolai Schiratti., MDCLIII. Annuentibus Superioribus., Prostant Patavii: apud Franciscum Bolzettam., [1653]
Physical Description
[14], 4 p., columns 5-1280, [28] p., 3 pl. (fold.): illus.; 325 mm. (Folio)
General Note
The three plates do not carry numbers; but each carries the number of the column next to which it is to be bound (cols. 667, 697, 713).
Contents
[T.p.] - Index Librorum, Et capitum In hoc volumine contentorum - [Imprimaturs; Epigram of L. Nerius] - Ad lectorem - Fortunii Liceti ... Præfatio - [Text] - Addenda - Nomenclatura - Elenchus Rerum, Ac Verborum Memorabilium; Errata graviora Autore absente commissa - Regestum; [colophon].
Responsibility Note
The first folding plate is signed as engraved by Jo. Georg.; the second, as by 'J.G.'; the third is unsigned.
Most in-text illustrations are signed as engraved by Io. Georg.
The printer is named again in the colophon.
Summary Note
The publication-date is given in the colophon as 'MDCLII'. The date 'MDCLIII' printed on the title-page appears to be a revision of an earlier 'MDCLII'.
Provenance
Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
Binding Note
19th-century half calf, brown cloth-covered boards; black morocco spine-label lettered 'Lucernis Antiquovum Reconditis', spine lettered 'R.A.' and '1653'.
Subject
Lamps, Greek - Lamps, Roman - History
Fire - Luminescence
Pictorial works - Italy - 17th century