Lot 167
Capella, Galeazzo Flavio
Auction: 16 May 2008 at 12:00 BST
£624
Description
L'anthropologia di Galeazzo Capella secretario dell' illustrissimo signor Duca de Milano. Venice: heredi d'Aldo Romano & d'Andrea d'Asola, 1533. Small 8vo, Aldine device on title and at end, late eighteenth century green morocco, spine gilt, olive morocco label, very light marginal dampstain to last few leaves
Footnote
Note: Adams C578.
First edition of a scholarly treatise on the nature of men based on famous characters in history, from classical till contemporary times, by the celebrated Italian historian Galeazzo Capella (1487-1537).