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Asset ID K14256

Title Frontispiece of Schott's Physica Curiosa

Agent (Role) Photo Studio (Copy photographer), Schott, Gaspar, 1608-1666 (Author)

Date 1667

Artwork/Object Type Illustrations

Is Part Of Physica Curiosa

Collection/Work Relation AMNH Library, C-3: Schott, Gaspar, and McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress). 1667. P. Gasparis Schotti Regis Curiani E Societate Jesu ... Physica Curiosa, Sive, Mirabilia Naturae Et Artis : Libris Xii Comprehensa, Quibus Pleraque, Quae De Angelis, Daemonibus, Hominibus, Spectris, Energumenis, Monstris, Portentis, Animalibus, Meteoris, &c. Rara, Arcana, Curiosaq́[Ue] Circumferuntur, Ad Veritatis Trutinam Expenduntur : Variis Ex Historia Ac Philosophia Petitis Disquisitionibus Excuriuntur, & Innumeris Exemplis Illustrantur Editio altera auctior ed. Herbipoli Würzburg: Sumptibus Johannis Andreae Endteri & Wolfgangi jun. haeredum, excudebat Jobus Hertz., AMNH Special Collections, Photographic Transparency Collection, 35mm: K14256

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