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Illustrated page from a book of monsters
Fortunio Liceti, Gerardus Leonardus Blasius, and Paolo Frambotto1668
University of Sydney Library
Camperdown, Australia
An illustrated page from Fortunio Liceti's De Monstris. It is considered one of the most influential book of the time about "monsters". While the first edition did not have illustrations, the following editions, including this one, included copperplate engravings by Giovanni Battista Bissoni.
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- Title: Illustrated page from a book of monsters
- Creator: Fortunio Liceti, Gerardus Leonardus Blasius, Paolo Frambotto
- Date Created: 1668
- Physical Dimensions: 21cm
- Original Language: Latin
- Provenance: Gift of H.N. MacLaurin to the University of Sydney Library
- Publisher: Printed by Haeredes Pauli Frambotti
- Original Source: University of Sydney Library, RB 5168.1
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