De unicornu observationes novae. Secunda editione auctiores & emendatiores editae a filio Casparo Bartholino.

12mo: [16 incl. engr. title]-381-[15] pp.; 1 pl. (very few spots, outer edge of fold. pl. sl. soiled).

Contemp. overl. vellum, ink-titled flat spine (some light soiling).

Second, but 1st illustrated, edition (1st 1645), revised by his son Caspar, examining the history and mythology of the unicorn and a study on other one-horned animals. The Danish physician and theologian Bartholin (1616-1680) is mostly known for his discovery of the lymphatic system. Ill. with a nicely engraved front. by Romeyn de Hooghe, 1 folding pl. of the Golden Horn of Christian V of Denmark, 20 full-page in-text engr., depicting humans and animals (snakes, narwhals, dragons, …), incl. one of a rhinoceros after Dürer's famous engr. and some smaller in-text engr.
Ref. Wellcome II:107. Krivatsy 822. - STCN. - Cp. Nissen (ZBI) 244 (1st ed.).
Prov. Rudolf Ludwig Decker (1804-1877), Prussian printer and publisher (bookpl.). - The Polish and Lithuanian aristocratic family Sanguszko, most likely Roman Sanguszko (1800-1881), last Polish owner of the Pidhirtsi Castle (Ukraine) (bookpl.). - Library stamp.