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PORTA, Giovanni Battista della (1535-1615). Ars reminiscendi. Naples: Giovanni Battista Subtilis, 1602.
4° (180 x 134mm). Printer's device on title, ornamental initials, 7 pages of woodcuts of mnemonic devices. (Browned and spotted, tears in four leaves with loss of a few letters in two, hinges expertly reinforced.) Later half vellum, new endpapers.
FIRST EDITION IN LATIN of Porta's work on memory and mnemonic devices, which reveals "his fascination with hidden and marvelous things" (DSB 11, p.97). First published in Italian in 1566, it, along with the rest of Porta's published works, was proscribed by the Inquisition. "Un des ouvrages les plus rares de l'auteur" -- Brunet IV, 826.
4° (180 x 134mm). Printer's device on title, ornamental initials, 7 pages of woodcuts of mnemonic devices. (Browned and spotted, tears in four leaves with loss of a few letters in two, hinges expertly reinforced.) Later half vellum, new endpapers.
FIRST EDITION IN LATIN of Porta's work on memory and mnemonic devices, which reveals "his fascination with hidden and marvelous things" (DSB 11, p.97). First published in Italian in 1566, it, along with the rest of Porta's published works, was proscribed by the Inquisition. "Un des ouvrages les plus rares de l'auteur" -- Brunet IV, 826.