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CARDANO, GIROLAMO. De subtilitate libri XXI. Woodcut portrait of Cardano on title; illustrations and diagrams in text. [24], 626, [2] pages, including final leaf with colophon and printer's device. Folio, modern vellum; contents browned and dampstained, repaired clean tear in lower outer corner of a number of leaves, woodcut initial excised from n4, 2D3, and 2F1 and replaced in facsimile with text on verso supplied in ink, hole through 2F2-3 repaired with text loss. Basel: Sebastianus Henricpetri, 1582
Encyclopedic work on natural philosophy first published in 1550, "the most advanced presentation of physical knowledge up to its time"--Norman 401 (original edition). Adams C676 (this edition).
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