26th Oct, 2022 9:30

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  Lot 17
 

Physiognomy.- Baldi, or Baldo (Camillo)

Physiognomy.- Baldi, or Baldo (Camillo)

In physiognomica Aristotelis commentarii, FIRST EDITION, engraved title page by Giovanni Battista Coriolano, woodcut head- & tail-pieces and initials, woodcut schematic illustration, large woodcut printer’s device on last page, early ownership signature on title page, contemporary limp vellum, handwritten title on spine, later endpapers, [Krivatsy, 615; Wellcome, I, 650; Thorndike, VIII, p. 451], 4to, Sebastiano Bonomio, Bologna, 1621.

*** First edition of this treatise on physiognomics. Camillo Baldi taught philosophy and medicine in Bologna.

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