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Cardano, Girolamo (1501-1576) De Rerum Varietate Libri XVII.
Basel: Henricus Petrus, 1557.
First octavo edition, two volumes, woodcut author's portrait within a medallion on verso of title; illustrated with text woodcuts throughout, a few full-paged; with one folding typographical table at page 791/792; lacking a similar table at 769/770; bound in uniform contemporary German parchment over thin wooden boards, contemporary signature on the fist title and first leaf of second volume, contents good, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in. (2)
Cardano was the prototypical Renaissance polymath, with interests in palm-reading, biology, physics, demonology, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and gambling. This lifetime edition of his book on "a variety of things" was published in the same year as the first folio edition.
