Mar 11, 2004 - Sale 2000

Sale 2000 - Lot 171

Price Realized: $ 316
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
PORTA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELLA. La Fisonomia dell'Huomo et la Celeste. Woodcut text illustrations through, including full-page portrait of Porta on a4r. [8], 528 (of 591) pages; lacks the Metoposcopia of Ciro Spontone and the 5 following anonymous tracts. 4to, old flexible boards, book block loose in binding; genitalia in several woodcuts of male and female nudes concealed or obliterated, with hole in C8, crude pen-and-ink drawings pasted in spaces left blank for illustrations on pages 160, 266, 290, and 439. Krivatsy 9190. Venice: Niccolò Pezzana, 1668

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