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Title
Homo sex brachiis refertus
Creator
Aldrovandi, Ulisse, 1522-1605?
Tebaldini, Nicolo, printer
Ferronius, Johannes Baptista, printer
Date Created and/or Issued
1658
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public domain
Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
USC Libraries Special Collections
specol@usc.edu
Description
Wood engraving of a nude, bearded man with six arms, scanned from page 494 in Aldrovandi's Monstrorum historia, printed in Bologna by Nicolai Tebaldini in 1642. Colophon is dated 1658 and indicates "Io. Baptistae Ferronij" as the printer.
Type
image
Format
1 plate, in book
art
Identifier
rbm-m50
rbm-aldrovandi-494
http://doi.org/10.25549/rbm-m50
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/rbm-aldrovandi-494.jpg
Language
Latin
Subject
Abnormalities, Human
Arm--Abnormalities
Source
QL991.A365 1642 [Call Number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation
Aldrovandi, Ulisse. Monstrorum historia. Bononiae: Typis Nicolai Tebaldini, 1642
Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection
Science
rbm-m36

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