Regnum Congo hoc est vera descriptio regni Africani : quod tam ab incolis quam Lusitanis Congus
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Geographic):
Africa --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Africa --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800, Kongo Kingdom --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, and Kongo Kingdom --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800
Ill. are woodcuts, comprising 22 half-page cuts of demons in books 1-2 (7 repeated once and 2 twice: 33 total); 2 half-page and 8 smaller cuts of sacraments, etc., within type-flower borders in book 3; publisher's device on t. p. and dedicatee's coat-of-arms on verso; floriated initials., Imperfect: Quire P (p. 225-240 wanting)., Imprint from colophon: Medolani, apud Bernardinum Lantonum, M. DC. VIII., Includes index., and Signatures: a⁸ A-P⁸ Q⁴(-Q4).
Publisher:
Apud haredes August. Tradati,
Subject (Topic):
Demonology--Early works to 1800., Exorcism--Early works to 1800., Occultism--Early works to 1800., and Wood-engraving, Italian--Specimens--17th century.
Contra falsas litteras Francorum pro defensione honoris Serenissimi Romanorum Regis.
Description:
Binding: France? xix/xx c. Sewn into an xviiith century French curl marlbed paper wrapper., Imprint from Goff M-388., Pages [2] and [12] blank., and Sometimes attributed to Emperor Maximilian I.
Publisher:
Erhard Ratdolt,
Subject (Geographic):
France--Foreign relations--Holy Roman Empire, Germany, West. Augsburg. Ratdolt, Erhard. 1492, and Holy Roman Empire--Foreign relations--France
[Utopia], De optimo reip. statu, deque noua insula Vtopia, and De optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia
Description:
Colophon: [Printer’s mark] Basileae apvd Io. Frobenlvm mense decembri an M.D.XVIII., Each of the three parts has its own colophon, that of first part, the Utopia, being dated November, 1518. The "Epigrammata" of More and of Erasmus have also special title pages., Initials. Some title page borders and the illustrations on p. [12] and p. [25] are from designs by Ambrosius Holbein., and Irregularities in paging: 8 pages between p. 162 and p. 167 counted in numbering as 4 numbered leaves; several typographical errors.
Achondroplasia, Bones --Diseases --Early works to 1800, Medicine --Research --Great Britain, Rickets --Early works to 1800, Scurvy --Early works to 1800, and Scurvy, Infantile