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PORTA, Giovanni Battista della (1538-1615). Magiae naturalis libri XX. Naples: Orazio Salviani, 1589.
2o (332 x 225 mm). Woodcut title border, author's portrait on verso, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text. (Some occasional light spotting and soiling.) 18th-century Italian sheep-backed boards (worn).
FIRST EDITION of the complete text in twenty books. Harvard/Mortimer Italian 400; Riccardi I(2):307; see Honeyman VI:2519 ("An expanded version of the 1558 edition, and one of the most popular sixteenth-century books on science").
2o (332 x 225 mm). Woodcut title border, author's portrait on verso, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text. (Some occasional light spotting and soiling.) 18th-century Italian sheep-backed boards (worn).
FIRST EDITION of the complete text in twenty books. Harvard/Mortimer Italian 400; Riccardi I(2):307; see Honeyman VI:2519 ("An expanded version of the 1558 edition, and one of the most popular sixteenth-century books on science").