Dialogo sopra la generatione de venti, baleni, tuoni, fulgori, laghi, valle, & montagne.

4to: 47 (= 46) pp. (lacking final blank).

19th-c. half cloth, marbled paper boards, gilt flat spine (smaller work taken out of binding at the end?). Very good copy.

Agrippa (1535-1589), a native of Milan, was a mathematician, engineer, and writer on military science and navigation. He is particulary famous for having found means to move the obelisk at the Piazza di San Pietro in Rome in 1583. This work, the 1st ed. of one of the great rarities of the meteorogical literature of the 16th c., includes a commentary on winds, the origin of sounds, thunder, rivers, valleys and mountains. Woodcut mark on title. Ref. Edit16 537. - Ascarelli 3. - Ind. Aurel. 101.826. - Riccardi 11:4. - STC Italian (BL) 11. - Not in Adams. Prov. Old ownership entry on title partly deleted.