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OLMO, Marc Antonio. Physiologia barbae humanae. Bologna: Giovanni Battista Bellagamba, 1601.
2° (289 x 197mm). Title printed in red and black with red and black woodcut vignette, head- and tailpieces, woodcut initials, large woodcut illustration. (Some browning, scattered spotting and marginal dampstaining, a few faint creases towards the end, lacking the appendix as usual.) Contemporary vellum (lightly soiled). Provenance: ‘Domus Profes[sae] Rom[anae] Soc[ietatis] Jesu Cat[alogo] Inscrip[tus] Bibli[otec]ae Com[mun]is’ (inscription at head of title).
FIRST EDITION of Olmo's substantial work on the physiology of the human beard, preceded by a shorter account entitled Philosophia et medicina barbae humanae (Modena, 1599).
2° (289 x 197mm). Title printed in red and black with red and black woodcut vignette, head- and tailpieces, woodcut initials, large woodcut illustration. (Some browning, scattered spotting and marginal dampstaining, a few faint creases towards the end, lacking the appendix as usual.) Contemporary vellum (lightly soiled). Provenance: ‘Domus Profes[sae] Rom[anae] Soc[ietatis] Jesu Cat[alogo] Inscrip[tus] Bibli[otec]ae Com[mun]is’ (inscription at head of title).
FIRST EDITION of Olmo's substantial work on the physiology of the human beard, preceded by a shorter account entitled Philosophia et medicina barbae humanae (Modena, 1599).
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