Musaeum Historicum et Physicum

Venice: Juntas, c. 1640. Binding: Full 19th-century vellum, spine in 6 compartments of gilt-tooled bands with gilt floral motifs, gilt black morocco labels on 2 and 4, edges speckled red. , Notes: Text in Latin.
Giovanni Imperiale was a Venetian physician who, in the first part of this work, used the biographies of 45 celebrated men to advance his theory that great people use their physical attributes to develop their talents and capacities. The second volume is dedicated to the history of physics.
, Size: 8vo., Illustration: With the engraved title, full-page printer’s device, and 56 in-text wood-engraved portraits of famous men., Volume: Two parts in one volume., Pages: P. (4), engr. title, blank, dedication (5), To the reader (4), list of plates (4), Frontis portrait, half-title, 2-212; half-title, blank, dedication (4), contents (2), 1-219, blank, index (20), errata, printer’s device, (4)., Category: Book History; Book Science & Technology;. Labels chipped, age-toning throughout, occasional minor waterstains, marginal fore-edge repairs from 177 through 212 and first 4 leaves of second part; otherwise in very good condition. Item #B3633

Binding: Full 19th-century vellum, spine in 6 compartments of gilt-tooled bands with gilt floral motifs, gilt black morocco labels on 2 and 4, edges speckled red. , Notes: Text in Latin.
Giovanni Imperiale was a Venetian physician who, in the first part of this work, used the biographies of 45 celebrated men to advance his theory that great people use their physical attributes to develop their talents and capacities. The second volume is dedicated to the history of physics.
, Size: 8vo., Illustration: With the engraved title, full-page printer’s device, and 56 in-text wood-engraved portraits of famous men., Volume: Two parts in one volume., Pages: P. (4), engr. title, blank, dedication (5), To the reader (4), list of plates (4), Frontis portrait, half-title, 2-212; half-title, blank, dedication (4), contents (2), 1-219, blank, index (20), errata, printer’s device, (4)., Category: Book History; Book Science & Technology;.

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