Lot 12
Cardano (Girolamo) De Propria vita liber, first edition, Paris, Jacques Villery, 1643.
Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000
Description
Cardano (Girolamo) De Propria vita liber, first edition, woodcut title ornament, head- & tail-pieces and initials, 18th century ownership inscription to title, some browning, foxing, contemporary limp vellum, spine painted brown to mimic leather and with paper label titled in manuscript (chipped), little rubbed and soiled, 8vo, Paris, Jacques Villery, 1643.
⁂ Rare first edition of the autobiography of influential Italian humanist and natural philosopher Cardano, written in 1575 but first published posthumously by Gabriel Naudé.
Description
Cardano (Girolamo) De Propria vita liber, first edition, woodcut title ornament, head- & tail-pieces and initials, 18th century ownership inscription to title, some browning, foxing, contemporary limp vellum, spine painted brown to mimic leather and with paper label titled in manuscript (chipped), little rubbed and soiled, 8vo, Paris, Jacques Villery, 1643.
⁂ Rare first edition of the autobiography of influential Italian humanist and natural philosopher Cardano, written in 1575 but first published posthumously by Gabriel Naudé.
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