Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680)

Caspar Bartholin ml. (1655-1738)

DE UNICORNU OBSERVATIONES NOVAE

Amsterdam, Henricus Wetstein, 1678
Secunda editione Auctiores & emendatiores editae a Filio Casparo Bartholino. Amstelaedami, Apud JHenr. Wetstenium, 1678. Book format 16°, 13,2x7,5 cm. [12], 381, [16], [28] p., in Latin. Frontispiece: copper engraving by Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708), 24 copperplate engravings, mostly full-page, 1 of them fold-out, mostly by the same author; initials, ornaments, vignettes. The title page printed in black, with a woodcut emblem of the printer and publisher Henric Wetstein. Binded with: Henri Louis Habert de Montmor: Dissertatio physico-medica de febre: secundum principia Dni. Cartesii; praelecta in conventu clarissimorum D. D. Naturae Curiosorum singulis hebdomadis Lutetiae Parisiorum (...). Apud Abrahamum Gaasbeekium. 1678. 31 numbered pages, in Latin. Younger hardcover full-leather binding with gold embossing, spine with 5 raised bands and gold letters, gold edge. Front endpaper "Ex Libris Doct. Arwed Smichowski Pragensis" (Jiří Arvéd Smíchovský, 1898-1951). Cardboard case. Very good condition, binding slightly scratched, book block almost without signs of wear, only few bent corners, markings in the text. The publication "De Unicornu observationes novae" was first published in Padua in 1645, including historical, mythological, and religious texts, an exploration of known animals with one horn, and an essay on the probability of the existence of unicorns. Thomas Bartholin was a professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen, and Caspar Bartholin the Younger was one of his sons and a significant Danish anatomist.