CARDANUS OFFENBARUNG DER NATURE UNND NATÜRLICHER DINGEN... 1559.

CARDANUS, HIERONYMUS. Offenbarung der Natur und Naturlicher dingen auch mancherley subtler würckungen... Durch Heinrich Pantaleon... the vertebra slide. Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1559.

Folio (text about 315x205 mm., binding330x215 mm.). (26) ll, pp. i-mddddxxxiiii (irregular pagination, but complete), (1) l.Title with woodcut portrait vignette, woodcuts in text, last leaf verso with woodcut printer's device
Contemporary blindtooled brown calf over wooden boards, very worn with damages, brass clasp (one missing) and fittings, cracked in the joints, blank spine in five compartments, damages at head and foot. Lacks the first endpaper. Partly foxed and spotted, one leaf harder, last 10 leaves steamed in lower margin. Annotation on title.

VD 16 C937; Ferguson i:P 142.

First German edition of a compilation of Cardanus famous works De rerum variety and De subtiliate.
Gerolamo Cardano or Girolamo Cardan (1501-76), famous Italian mathematician, physician and astrologist, Professor in Mathematics in Milan 1534 and later in Medicine in Pavia.

Provenance: Sven Borgström was born in Malmö in 1927 and worked as a chemist in Stockholm, Malmö and Lund. His fine library, which was built up over many years, consists mainly of older books dated from the 16th century to the late 18th century.
His book-collecting began, as it perhaps should, with an incunabula. Borgström's interests included printers, book bindings, book illustrations, and he was interested in history, travel and maps. As a result of previous coin collecting, the subject of numismatics was also of interest in his library. Sven Borgström died 95 years old.Show more

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