CARDANO, Girolamo (1501-76) De subtilitate libri XXI... - Basel, Ludovicus Lucius, 1554
Small folio. 18th century vellum, recased, leather label on spine. Printer's mark on title, medallion portrait, several historiated initials and numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text. (24), 561, (1) pp.
Early edition of Cardano's most celebrated work (1st edn.: 1550). «(This) encyclopaedia... is a mine of facts, both real and imaginary of notes on the state of the sciences; of superstition, technology, alchemy and various branches of the occult» (DSB III, 66). Riccardi I, 252. Adams C-670. Wellcome I, 1291. Cf. Norman 401.
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