Live auction - Lot 970
[Science]
Dello specchio di scientia universale [...]. Nuovamente ristampato, con molte cose agionte.
Venice, A. Ravenoldo, 1567
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
8vo: [16]-315-[1 bl.] ff. (marg. stains in begin. & end of the vol., quire Mm browned).
Cont. limp vellum, flat spine (sm. wormholes).
Second edition (1st ed.: 1564) of this book giving a good overview of the scholarly knowledge of that time (alchemy, medicine and surgery, the philosopher's stone, gardening, military issues and politics, etc.). Doctor Fioravanti from Bologna (1517-1588), is remembered a.o. for the "Alcoolat of Fioravanti", against rheumatisms and neuralgias. Printer's marks on title and at the colophon. Ref. Edit16 19102. - STC Italian 252. - Not in Adams (other ed.), Ferguson (id.), Duveen, Caillet, Dorbon.