?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
CARDANO, GIROLAMO. De propria vita. [72], 288 pages, including blank last preliminary leaf. 12mo, 130x71 mm, contemporary vellum boards, somewhat soiled and worn, with later leather lettering piece; contents toned with occasional soiling. Amsterdam: Joannes Ravesteinius, 1654
Second edition of Cardano's autobiography, written in the year before his death in 1576 and first published posthumously by Gabriel Naudé in 1643, "a complex work that seeks to justify the trials and tribulations of his personal, religious, and professional life, and which betrays his belief in astral powers" (OCIL). DSB III, 65.
