CARDAN (Jérôme)

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CARDAN (Jérôme)
Metoposcopy, included in thirteen books, and eight hundred figures of the human race. Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1658. In-folio, marbled basane, fawn coin, red edges (Binding from the 18th century). Caillet, #2019. - Dorbon, number 622. - Krivatsy, number 2149. Original edition of this very rare treatise on metoposcopy and physiognomy, one of the best on the subject, by Jerome Cardan (1501-1576), a philosopher and scientific scholar of Italian origin. It is adorned with nearly 800 busts and faces engraved on wood in the text. The work was written around 1550 in Milan and published a century later in Paris by Thomas Jolly, under the care of Claude Martin de Laurendière. There are two editions printed in 1658, this one in French and another in Latin: Osler, n°2242, says that the French version predates the Latin one. The 8 preliminary pages are missing
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