Les livres de Hierosme Cardanus médecin milannois, intitulez de la subtilité, & subtiles inventions, ensemble les causes occultes, & raisons d'icelles. Traduits de latin en françois, par Richard Le Blanc. Nouvellement reveus, corrigez, & augmentez sur le dernier exemplaire latin de l'auteur, & enrichy de plusieurs figures nécessaires.

8vo: [36]-478 ff. (light and sm. dampstain to the upper corner of first ff.).

Mod. tree calf, gilt ruled covers with roll-stamps and fillets, gilt orn. spine on raised bands, gilt roll-stamp on the borders, gilt inside dentelles, a.e.g. (joints split, leather to spine unstuck, some ff. cut short). Good condition.

Rare Rouen ed. of the French trsl. of a major work on occult science by the Italian physician and philosopher Cardano (1501-1576). On bees, magnets, colours, comets, astronomy, distillation, fire, gemstones, etc. Some woodcuts and diagrams in text. Woodcut ornament on title.
Ref. Caillet 2016 ("construit ésotériquement sur les XXI clefs du Tarot"). - BN Paris (1). - Not in Goldsmith (BL London), Krivatsy, Wellcome, Dorbon, cf. Cushing C84.
Prov. Serain, surgeon (ms. entry).