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TORRE, Alfonso de la (c.1410-60). Sommario di tutte le scientie. Venice: Gabriel Giolito Ferrari, 1556.
8° (207 x 150mm). Large woodcut on title, woodcut initials and headpieces. (Gathering O lightly browned.) Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title and paper label on spine, ink annotation on front cover (lacking ties, lightly stained).
FIRST ITALIAN EDITION. The work discusses medical sciences, philosophy, liberal arts, economics, magic and arithmetic. It was once attributed to Domenico Delfino who translated the Spanish text Vision delectable de la philosophia y artes liberales into Italian. Adams D-228; Brunet V 887; Honeyman 847; Palau 335327; Riccardi I(ii) 402: ‘Bella e rara edizione’; Wellcome 1730, Cf. Smith p. 275 (not in Pimpton Collection);
8° (207 x 150mm). Large woodcut on title, woodcut initials and headpieces. (Gathering O lightly browned.) Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title and paper label on spine, ink annotation on front cover (lacking ties, lightly stained).
FIRST ITALIAN EDITION. The work discusses medical sciences, philosophy, liberal arts, economics, magic and arithmetic. It was once attributed to Domenico Delfino who translated the Spanish text Vision delectable de la philosophia y artes liberales into Italian. Adams D-228; Brunet V 887; Honeyman 847; Palau 335327; Riccardi I(ii) 402: ‘Bella e rara edizione’; Wellcome 1730, Cf. Smith p. 275 (not in Pimpton Collection);
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