CARDANO, Girolamo (1501-1576). Liber de libris propriis. Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1557. Small 8 o (159 x 98 mm). Printer's device on title. 20th-century marbled-paper covered boards, red morocco lettering-piece to spine. FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND VERSION OF THE AUTOBIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT RENAISSANCE PHYSICIAN AND SCHOLAR. Cardan consciously followed Galen's and Erasmus's example producing one of the earliest works of its kind; it is also, together with his De propria Vita (posthumously published by Gabriel Naudé in 1643) his most important work of autobiography. This is the second of three versions: the very brief first one was appended to De Sapientia (Nuremberg, 1544) only occupying pp. 418-431 (cf. Besterman Beginnings ). In the present edition (the only one to be published separately), Cardan enumerates 190 books 'which have either been published or are ready for publication' (cf. pp), but this figure may include single books that were issued as composite works. The third and final version was appended to his Somniorum Synesiorum libri (Basel, 1562). Adams C-686; not in Baudrier.
CARDANO, Girolamo (1501-1576). Liber de libris propriis. Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1557. Small 8 o (159 x 98 mm). Printer's device on title. 20th-century marbled-paper covered boards, red morocco lettering-piece to spine. FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND VERSION OF THE AUTOBIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT RENAISSANCE PHYSICIAN AND SCHOLAR. Cardan consciously followed Galen's and Erasmus's example producing one of the earliest works of its kind; it is also, together with his De propria Vita (posthumously published by Gabriel Naudé in 1643) his most important work of autobiography. This is the second of three versions: the very brief first one was appended to De Sapientia (Nuremberg, 1544) only occupying pp. 418-431 (cf. Besterman Beginnings ). In the present edition (the only one to be published separately), Cardan enumerates 190 books 'which have either been published or are ready for publication' (cf. pp), but this figure may include single books that were issued as composite works. The third and final version was appended to his Somniorum Synesiorum libri (Basel, 1562). Adams C-686; not in Baudrier.
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