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CARDANO (GIROLAMO) De causis, signis, ac locis morborum, liber unus, FIRST EDITION, Bologna, Alessandro Benacci, 1569
14 November 2023, 14:00 GMT
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CARDANO (GIROLAMO)
De causis, signis, ac locis morborum, liber unus, FIRST EDITION, woodcut initials and tailpieces, 7pp. table and errata at end, some sections with light damp-stain in upper margin, but text generally clean, 3 crossed through early ownership signatures on title, some staining on verso, H8 with piece torn from blank margin, contemporary limp vellum, stained, old ink scribbled sketch with on upper cover, small 8vo, Bologna, Alessandro Benacci, 1569
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Rare first edition of this work on the etiology of diseases by the Italian polymath Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance, and specifically the first treatise on how water and the environment influence the development of certain diseases.

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