Lot n° 215

PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro. La prima parte della filosofia naturale.Venezia, Giovanmaria Bonelli, 1552.

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Description
Small 8vo, mm. 150x100; Contemporary full vellum binding, title written on the spine; leaves 187, 1 bl; Registro A-Z⁸2A⁴; Printer’s device, woodcut initials, Round and Italic type.

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The Sienese writer, man of refined culture and vast interests, translator of classical Greek and Latin authors, composed sonnets and wrote works of moral philosophy and astronomy. In this work, divided into four books, it is proposed to exhibit in Italian scientific thought of ancient and medieval philosophers.

Restoration to the back cover, trace of dampstain to the bottom edge of the last leaves.
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