Cardano, Girolamo.

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Description

Les livres... intitulés de la subtilité, & subtiles inventions, ensemble les causes occultes, & raisons d'icelles, traduis de latin en françois, par Richard Le Blanc. Paris: Charles l'Angelier, 1556

4to (230 x 159mm.), woodcut device on title-page. woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, woodcut initials, a few early manuscript notes in margins, modern vellum, sides ruled in red, tear in text of Qqq4 repaired with minimal loss, a few small repairs in margins of first few leaves

Provenance

bookplates of Berhru, J.G. Desjardins and Stanislas Guaita; Robert Lenkiewicz (1941-2002), artist

Literature

Caillet 2014

Catalogue Note

first edition in french. Cardano (1501-1576) taught medicine and mathematics at Milan, Pavia and Bologna. De subtilitate, first published in 1550, is an encyclopedia of natural science, "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). The edition was divided between L'Angelier, Le Noir and Foucher.