![MIRAMI, Rafael. Compendiosa introduttione alla prima parte della specularia, cioè della scienza de gli specchi. Ferrara: heirs of Francesco de’Rossi and Paolo Tortorino, 1582. Woodcut title device and opening initials. (Title browned, slightly stained and with repair to blank area, waterstaining at upper margins of early quires, light browning to quire C, some light marginal spotting.) [Bound with:]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14298_0154_001(micalori_giacomo_della_sfera_mondiale_libri_quattro_urbino_antonio_maz023208).jpg?w=1)
![MIRAMI, Rafael. Compendiosa introduttione alla prima parte della specularia, cioè della scienza de gli specchi. Ferrara: heirs of Francesco de’Rossi and Paolo Tortorino, 1582. Woodcut title device and opening initials. (Title browned, slightly stained and with repair to blank area, waterstaining at upper margins of early quires, light browning to quire C, some light marginal spotting.) [Bound with:]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14298_0154_002(micalori_giacomo_della_sfera_mondiale_libri_quattro_urbino_antonio_maz023220).jpg?w=1)
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MIRAMI, Rafael. Compendiosa introduttione alla prima parte della specularia, cioè della scienza de gli specchi. Ferrara: heirs of Francesco de’Rossi and Paolo Tortorino, 1582. Woodcut title device and opening initials. (Title browned, slightly stained and with repair to blank area, waterstaining at upper margins of early quires, light browning to quire C, some light marginal spotting.) [Bound with:]
MIRAMI, R. Tavole della prima parte della specularia, cioe’ della scienza de gli specchi. Ferrara: heirs of Francesco de’Rossi and Paolo Tortorino, 1582. Woodcut devices on title and colophon, woodcut opening initials. (Light spotting.)
Together 2 works (or alternatively 2 parts) in one volume, 4º (198 x 1147mm). Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine (crinkled, ties lacking). Provenance: Carolus [?]Gelerani, chemist at the sign of the leopard (contemporary inscription on front free endpaper) – Pierpaolo Vaccarin (stamp on front free endpaper) – Il Polifilo, Milan (bookseller’s label).
THE ONLY KNOWN PUBLICATIONS OF RAFAEL MIRAMI, who identifies himself as a Jewish physician and mathematician from Ferrara. However, the lack of documentation about his life suggests that the name may be a pseudonym. The two pages illustrated (32-33) show the differences in reflection between flat, concave, and convex mirrors. In the way it combined a scientific interest in mirrors and optics with poetry, his Compendiosa is both unusual and intriguing. Verses from Dante, Petrarch, and Horace, intended to support his arguments, are interspersed in the text, which even ends with his own sonnet ‘Alla bellissima et gentilissima Signora Perla A.’ The second work has its own title-page and independent collation; unlike the first, it has no page numbering. Treated as a separate work by SBN though not so by Wellcome, it is for all practical purposes a dependant part. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. BL/STC Italian Books p.440; Riccardi I(ii) 162; Wellcome I, 44341.
MIRAMI, R. Tavole della prima parte della specularia, cioe’ della scienza de gli specchi. Ferrara: heirs of Francesco de’Rossi and Paolo Tortorino, 1582. Woodcut devices on title and colophon, woodcut opening initials. (Light spotting.)
Together 2 works (or alternatively 2 parts) in one volume, 4º (198 x 1147mm). Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine (crinkled, ties lacking). Provenance: Carolus [?]Gelerani, chemist at the sign of the leopard (contemporary inscription on front free endpaper) – Pierpaolo Vaccarin (stamp on front free endpaper) – Il Polifilo, Milan (bookseller’s label).
THE ONLY KNOWN PUBLICATIONS OF RAFAEL MIRAMI, who identifies himself as a Jewish physician and mathematician from Ferrara. However, the lack of documentation about his life suggests that the name may be a pseudonym. The two pages illustrated (32-33) show the differences in reflection between flat, concave, and convex mirrors. In the way it combined a scientific interest in mirrors and optics with poetry, his Compendiosa is both unusual and intriguing. Verses from Dante, Petrarch, and Horace, intended to support his arguments, are interspersed in the text, which even ends with his own sonnet ‘Alla bellissima et gentilissima Signora Perla A.’ The second work has its own title-page and independent collation; unlike the first, it has no page numbering. Treated as a separate work by SBN though not so by Wellcome, it is for all practical purposes a dependant part. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. BL/STC Italian Books p.440; Riccardi I(ii) 162; Wellcome I, 44341.
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