62 - CARDANO, Girolamo. *De Subtilitate Libri XXI*.

CARDANO, Girolamo. *De Subtilitate Libri XXI*. A rare Parisian edition of this famous humanist encyclopedic work. Paris, Published by Jacques Dupuys, under the sign of La Samaritaine, 1551. In-12 (106 x 169 mm), full cream vellum with overlaps, exposed seams at the fore-edges on leather straps, spine with raised bands accented with gilt fillets, brown leather title label, red edges. 24 unnumbered folios (title page, preface, index) and 312 numbered folios. Woodcut illustrations in the text. In Latin. Minor stains on the binding, rare foxing. A Parisian edition, published only one year after the original from Nuremberg. A brilliant mind of the Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576) brings together a multitude of concrete observations and beliefs across various fields such as astronomy, medicine, physics, technical inventions, natural history, and even esotericism and the occult sciences. A fine copy in a later imitation binding.