[Rarebooks] FS: Cardano, 1547, with the horoscope of Versalius

[Michael John Thompson]

Offering:

Girolamo Cardano [Gerolamo Cardano; Jerome Cardan, Latin: Hieronymus 
Cardanus or Hieronymi Cardani] [1501-1576].

Hieronymi Cardani Medici Mediolanensis, Libelli quinq[ue] : quorum 
duo priores, iam denuo sunt emendati, duo sequentes iam primum in 
lucem editi, & quintus magna parte auctus est, I. De suppleme[n]to 
almanach. II. De restitutione temporu[m] & motuum coelestium. III. De 
Iudicijs genituraru[m]. IIII. De reuolutionibus. V. De exemplis 
centum geniturarum : additis insuper tabulis ascensionu[m] rectaru[m] 
& obliquaru[m] eclipticae & stellaru[m] & radiorum, us[que] ad 
latitudinem octo partium, eiusdem, antea non edita, aphorismorum 
astronomicorum segmenta VII. opusculum incomparabile.

Norimbergae : Apud Iohan. Petreium, 1547. [Nuremburg: J. Petreius. 1547]

First edition, Quarto [150 x 202 mm], bound in modern plain buckram 
with raised bands on spine, antique style. Portrait of Cardano on 
verso of title leaf, numerous engravings within the text, decorative 
initials. Collation: pi4 aa-zz4  AA-ZZ4 aaa-ggg4 hhh-hhh6. Pagination 
[4], [1]-309, [1]. Notes: Pagination is for each leaf, last page of 
text is [310] plus Errata leaf [311]. Complete. Text browned on a 
number of leaves, Marginalia or small notes in an ancient hand on 
leaf A, B, Miii & Miv, Qii, & HH; corner tear leaf Oiv, old 
dampstains to about 30 percent of the leaves. A complete copy.

Astronomical and astrological writings of Giromalo Cardano 
[1501-1576], including a horoscope of Vesalius, "the founder of 
modern, human anatomy". The horoscope appears on leaf 178 - "Andreae 
Versalii,  1514 die 30 Decembris hora 17 mi. 45 post meridiem". 
Cardano - Mathematician, Scientist, Physician, Scholar, & Gambler 
-  "perhaps the sixteenth century's greatest enthusiast for the 
pursuit of marvelous phenomena" (Clark, p. 278), He was imprisoned by 
the inquisition for heresy in 1570. Wellcome 1286; Bibliotheca 
Osleriana. Not in Caillet, not in Bibliotheca Esoterica, Not in 
Ferguson I (1906) or II (1943),  not in Duveen. Three copies only 
appear at auction in the last 30 years, none since 1977. Extremely rare.

$3,750.00 USD. Trade discount allowed. Scans below:

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