P. Gasparis Schotti, regis curtani ... Physica curiosa, sive, Mirabilia naturæ et artis libris XII. comprehensa : quibus pleraq[ue], quæ de angelis, dæmonibus, hominibus, spectris, energumenis, monstris, portentis, animalibus, meteoris, &c. rara, arcana, curiosaq[ue] circumferuntur, ad veritatis trutinam expenduntur : variis ex historia ac philosophia petitis disquisitionibus excutiuntur, & innumeris exemplis illustrantur ..

Schott, Gaspar, 1608-1666, Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman), 1887-1984, former owner. DSI, Roper, Clyde F. E., 1937- , donor. DSI · 1662 · Herbipoli : Sumptibus Johannis Andreæ Endteri & Wolfgangi Jun. hæredum, excudebat Jobus Hertz ... · 45 pictures

A Latin compendium of natural marvels by the Jesuit scholar Gaspar Schott, printed at Würzburg in 1662 for learned readers of demonology, teratology and natural philosophy. Copperplate engravings show hairy wild men, conjoined and malformed infants, headless and reversed-footed human types, each numbered and captioned in Latin, offering fine-line anatomical oddities and figures standing on small tufted mounds.

Demonology · Abnormalities, Human · Monsters · Zoology

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