[DCRM-L] Oddity of bound with/signatures

[Ted P Gemberling]

I am cataloging Marcello Malpighi’s Opera Omnia, published at Leiden by Pieter van der Aa in 1687. The OCLC record I am using is #4992775. I ran into an oddity that I wanted to run by people on the list. The last gathering in the 2-volume work is 3F(superscript 4). Immediately following leaf 3F4 in my copy is another work of his called De structurâ glandularum conglobatarum consiliúmque partium epistola, also published by van der Aa in 1690. The odd thing is that the signatures of this work are 3G-3H(superscript 4). Do you think it’s just a coincidence that the signatures are continuous though the date is later?

Thanks for any enlightenment.

Ted P. Gemberling
Historical Collections Cataloger
UAB Lister Hill Library, rm. 234B
1720 Second Ave. South
Birmingham, Ala. 35294-0013
Phone: (205)934-2461
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