Lot 424

Contarini, Gasparo, Cardinal

Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 11 July 2006 at 12:00 BST
£311
Description
De elementis & eorum mixtionibus libri quinque... Scipionis Capitii de principiis rerum poema. Paris: Nicolas le Riche, [1548], 8vo (152 x 95mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page, later vellum, slight damp-staining, annotations on title and final recto pasted over (also covering date of imprint), lower hinge breaking, lower cover slightly soiled
Footnote
Note: First edition of Contarini's Aristotelian treatise on the elements. Contarini studied philosophy in Padua and became the Vatican's ambassador to the Emperor Charles V.
IA 143.938
