Search Results: de rerum varietate libri xvii by cardano girolamo

1580. Lugduni, Apud Bartholomaeum Honoratum. relié, plein vélin de l'époque,. Constatées absentes, les pages 563 à 575, soit 6 feuillets et 2 planches dépliantes, ont été remplacées par les copies en recto/verso de l'exemplaire de la BN (prix adapté à cet état), rendant l'ouvrage bien complet ; on constate quelques petits défauts sans conséquence : coin supérieur déchiré en marge au feuillet 443/444, très faibles mouillures éparses, ainsi que légères traces d'usage ; papier modérément bruni, travail de vers en marges inférieures des pages 725 à 748 ainsi que quelques erreurs typographiques de numérotation ; vélin quelque peu ondulé et taches brunes sur le premier plat ; bonne reliure et état général mieux que correct.. format : 17/10,5 cm.. avec de nombreux dessins dans le texte, quelques planches dont 2 et un tableau dépliants ; avec aussi quelques lettrines et une vignette en page de titres ; dos lisse avec titres écrits à l'encre d'époque.

Basel: Henricus Petri, 1557. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (161 x 113 mm). [30], 1194, [64] pp. Woodcut portrait of the author on title verso, two folding plates, folding table, woodcut initials, and several woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text (2 full page). 19th century half calf over marbled boards, plain spine with gilt-lettered label (rubbing to spine and extremities). Internally little browned throughout, occasional spotting an dampstaining, up to 7 mm of upper blank corner of book block lost by animal bites affecting about half of the gathering affecting page numbering on 4 leaves, first 28 leaves of gatherings aa-bb8 and a-b8 with paper defect at gutter due to paper embrittlement with loss of letters at inner margin of 8 leaves and with several lines obscured by old paper reinforcements, larger paper repair at inner margin of title-leaf, leaves A1-4 glued at gutter just into text field, upper margin trimmed close… Read More

Fine medallion woodcut port. of the author on verso of title, numerous woodcut illus. in the text, one folding woodcut plate (pp. 769-70) with the woodcut volvelle unassembled on a separate slip bound-in, & one folding printed table (pp. 790-91). 16 p.l. (the last a blank), 1194 (i.e. 1204), [64] pp. Thick 8vo, cont. blind-stamped panelled pigskin over wooden boards (some light dampstaining) by Hans Bopp of Nuremberg, orig. clasps & catches. Basel: [H. Petri], 1557. Second edition (the first edition was published earlier in the same year) of Cardano's second great encyclopedia of natural science; it is a continuation of and supplement to his De Rerum Subtilitate (1st ed.: 1550). These two works contain his important ideas on physics and metaphysics. In this book, Cardano made notable contributions to mechanics, hydrodynamics, and geology and there are interesting chapters on astronomy, botany, zoology, chemistry, metallurgy, etc. "Of special chemical interest is Book X,… Read More